Jiri Paroubek

Poll: Hašek best regional governor, Rath worst

Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) - Michal Hasek is the most popular Czech regional governor and David Rath (both Social Democrats, CSSD) the least popular one, according to an Internet survey by SANEP released to CTK yesterday. The Social...

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PM to regularly meet ODS head for better communication

Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) - Czech caretaker cabinet head Jan Fischer will regularly meet Mirek Topolanek, the mainstream Civic Democratic Party (ODS) chairman, once in two to three weeks for the sake of his better communication with...

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Czech governor Rath remains CSSD election candidate

Prague - Central Bohemian regional governor and MP David Rath (Czech Social Democrats, CSSD) remains the candidate number two running in the early elections for the CSSD in Central Bohemia, CSSD leader Jiri Paroubek announced...

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Czech court to probably re-open Unipetrol corruption case

Prague - The Prague City Court will probably have to deal with the case of alleged corruption in the privatisation of the Czech Unipetrol petrochemical company in 2005 again as the acquittal of main pratagonist Zdenek Dolezel,...

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Former Czech govt rebel MP runs on promising position for CSSD

Prague - Olga Zubova, a rebel deputy for the former Czech centre-right government, will run in the general election for the Social Democrats (CSSD), the CSSD leadership decided today. Zubova will replace Petr Ibl (CSSD) on the...

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Czech CSSD wants crisis impact to be softened by higher spending

Ostrava - The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) want to soften the economic crisis' impact by raising state expenditures by 30 to 50 billion crowns, which would restart the economy in two years, CSSD head Jiri Paroubek said at a...

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Czechs to vote in early polls on October 9-10

Prague - Czech voters are to head to the polls, triggered by a recent government collapse, on October 9 and 10, the presidential office said Wednesday. The three-party centre-right government of former premier Mirek Topolanek...

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Slovak media say Czech EU presidency not very successful

Bratislava, June 30 (CTK) - The Czech Republic managed to fulfil only a small part of its proclaimed great plans for the EU presidency that ends Tuesday, Slovak daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) wrote on Tuesday. Slovakia praises...

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Same sex couples' interest in registered partnership drops

ČTK The Czech homosexual couples' interest in entering registered partnership has fallen slightly since March 2006 when the law on registered partnership of same-sex couples was passed in the Czech Republic.

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Czech press survey - July 1

Prague - The German Constitutional Court's "Lisbon verdict" on Tuesday was basically the same as the Czech court's last November, Tomas Nemecek writes in daily Hospodarske noviny today, adding that both courts say the EU has...

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