Experts recall 'The Czech Miracle'
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Twenty years ago the transition from a command to market economy began.
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Twenty years ago the transition from a command to market economy began.
We The Free (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
clipped from mjperry.blogspot.com Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama’s decision to respond a written questionnaire Sánchez submitted to the White House. Still recovering from bruises left by a recent vicious attack by state security agents, she told CPJ from her home in Havana: “This is the best way to get better.” When the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
For the past two decades, 17 November has been a national holiday in the Czech Republic. It is the day that marks the beginning of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that brought down the Communist dictatorship which for 40 years had run Czechoslovakia, the country that then comprised today's Czech and Slovak republics.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Peruvian President Alan Garcia Friday met his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus in Lima to promote bilateral ties. During a ceremony at the Government Palace, Klaus expressed his hope that his visit would be a boost for the ties. Klaus, the first Czech president visiting Peru, said "we are convinced that Peru is a stable and functional country of South America." He said his country would like...
mAss Backwards (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Vaclav Klaus : I agree with Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who said: “future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections...
Globo Diplo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Consider this strong independent view from the Czech President Vaclav Klaus who likens the case for universal action on greenhouse gasses to totalitarianism–something he knows about. FORA.tv – Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THOUSANDS OF Czechs took to the streets of Prague yesterday to commemorate the start of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, six weeks of protests that toppled one of eastern Europe's most hardline communist regimes and carried dissidents into power.
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
eu reform treaty Italy calls for a European armyGulf TimesItaly 's foreign minister called for the creation of a European Union army following ratification of a landmark EU reform treaty, in a newspaper interview ...See all stories on this topic FACTBOX: Main points of EU's Lisbon reform treatyReuters(Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty on
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Great interview with the Czech President: In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Czech Republic president Václav Klaus offers his views on what students...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
HONG KONG — With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, the leaders of the 27 countries of the disunity known as the European Union are now free to take an important step backward on the tortuous road to give Europe global relevance that matches the size of its combined economies. They will go into an unholy huddle to choose someone who will bear the grandiloquent...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
When the cowardly Vaclav Klaus, who finally succumbed to the sort of pressure one usually associates with 'sweeteners', such as extraordinarily large payments made into secret Swiss bank accounts, went down on his knees in Rome and accepted the illegal and undemocratic Lisbon Treaty without allowing his people the right to a referendum, a whole new Soviet Communist Super-State came into being. The...
Australian Climate Madness (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
People of Higgins: this is the Greens candidate for your electorate. Read the following, frankly astonishing, extract carefully, and then decide whether these are the words of a responsible politician, or a hysterical alarmist who has lost all touch with reality, and more importantly, decency: If the David Irvings of the world were to succeed, and [...] Related posts: Alarmists are the new deniers...
Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer brought to the Italian Foreign Ministry the text of the document that Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed on November 3.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Тhe journalists and chess players scored 39 goals in the first day of tournament "Football for the sake of equal opportunity''.