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Human Rights and the Isolation Factor :: Just Recently (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:59:00 GMT

Latest news has it that Sarkozy will attend the Olympic'?opening ceremony after all. In the end, German chancellor Merkel may be one of rather few leaders who choose to stay away'?- possibly along with Canada???s prime minister Stephen Harper, Poland'??s prime minister Donald Tusk and the Czech Republic'??s president Vaclav Klaus. Their absence doesn'??t amount [...]

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Andrew Simms: The New Green Deal aims to cut fossil fuel use and create green-collar jobs (The Guardian)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:30:01 GMT

Wailing can be heard, from the bewildered outrage of , like a child caught and told "no, you cannot keep torturing the cat", to the calculated contrarianism of both far left and far right thinktanks. Odder is the free market Czech president, Václav Klaus. His book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, published by the ferociously conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, suggests, in effect,...

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Sarkozy: Poles won't block Lisbon (BBC News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:22:46 GMT

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has also said that the Czech Republic may delay signing the treaty until its future is clearer. Germany has also delayed ratification - until the country's highest court delivers a ruling on legal challenges.

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President Bush plans to attend opening of Beijing Olympics (Afriquenligne)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:46:05 GMT

... as evidence of human rights abuse. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus have said they will boycott the opening ceremony as a political protest. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that he will not attend the opening, but he will be at the closing.U.S. senator and former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was among a group of senators...

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Czech president hopes court will block Lisbon (The Irish Times)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:09:40 GMT

CZECH PRESIDENT Vaclav Klaus said yesterday that he hoped the EU's Lisbon Treaty would be blocked by his country's constitutional court or upper house of parliament, while the main opposition party said that a missile defence deal with the United States due to be signed next week clashed with the spirit of Lisbon.

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Czech president hopes court will block Lisbon (ziomal.biz)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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Czech president says he hopes Lisbon is blocked (ireland.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:54:12 GMT

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said today he hopes either the country's Constitutional Court or the upper house of parliament will block adoption of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.

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Sarkozy's timetable for EU to ratify Lisbon looks optimistic (The Irish Times)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:29:04 GMT

... legal challenges in Germany and the Czech Republic, while virulently Eurosceptic Czech president Václav Klaus has already pronounced the treaty "dead"."The Irish disease is spreading. Everyone feels they can speak out now since the referendum," says Piotr Maciej Kaczynski, a research fellow at the Brussels think tank Centre for European Policy Studies. "Ratification cannot be taken...

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Czech president says Lisbon 'impossible' (ireland.com)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:35:16 GMT

Czech President Vaclav Klaus agrees with his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski that there is no reason to ratify the Lisbon treaty after its defeat in Ireland’s referendum.

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A less than towering start for Sarkozy (News Scotsman)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:29:41 GMT

... said ratifying the EU's Lisbon treaty would be "pointless" after the Irish rejected it last month. Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, has already voiced similar sentiments.Officially, yesterday was a cause for celebration – the Eiffel Tower was illuminated in the blue and yellow of the EU flag – but there were glaring problems behind the scenes, principally Ireland's vote last month...

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Now Poles won't sign doomed EU Treaty (Daily Express)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... the Treaty.But Mr Kaczynski’s comments have added to the growing rebellion after Czech president Vaclav Klaus vowed not to sign.Sweden’s parliament may also reject the Treaty.France is threatening to retaliate by blocking Croatia’s entry to the EU.And Mr Sarkozy is backing efforts to force the Irish to hold a second referendum.Asked this week if Ireland should vote again, he said...

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Poland deals new blow to French EU presidency (Alertnet)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:32:33 GMT

... conference.A senior source in Sarkozy's office said France believed Kaczynski and Czech President Vaclav Klaus could be brought around to signing if they were told clearly there would be no further EU enlargement without the institutional reforms.Both Poland and the Czech Republic wanted the EU to admit new members in the Balkans, starting with Croatia, and eventually expand further...

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The New Communism.. (who's your nanny?)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:53:37 GMT

..is environmentalism, says Czech president Vaclav Klaus. "I understand that global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom," he told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "It is used to justify an enormous scope for government intervention...

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Lech Kaczynski - power over the EU without responsibility (Jon Worth)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:53:13 GMT

So the Polish President Lech Kaczynski is refusing to sign off the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. Czech President Vaclav Klaus may do the same this autumn, even if the Czech constitutional court gives the Treaty the OK. It seems that the No vote in Ireland has given these 2 populist politicians the opportunity [...]

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Poland President Refuses to Sign Lisbon Treaty (The Intelligence Daily)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:01:00 GMT

... the treaty is pointless," he said. Mr Kaczynski now appears to have joined his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus in openly opposing treaty ratification. "The union is functioning and will continue to function. Certainly it is not ideal, but a structure this complicated could not be ideal," he explained. German President Horst Koehler has also delayed ratification - until the country's...

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Polish president refuses to ratify Lisbon (ireland.com)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:04:47 GMT

... in the centre-right ruling coalition cool the treaty, starting with eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus. "It is difficult to say how all this will end. But on the other hand, to say that without the treaty there won't be a Union is not serious," said Mr Kaczynski. He noted the same argument was made by proponents of the EU constitution after French and Dutch voters rejected it in 2005....

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Czech government says EU Treaty not unconstitutional (Euractive)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:44:00 GMT

... The assessment comes in stark contrast to earlier statements by the eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus, who said earlier this month that "it is beyond any doubt that the Lisbon Treaty will significantly change the character of the EU as such and, consequently, the legal status of the Czech Republic within its framework". Meeting the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin last week...

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Czech court told Lisbon in accord with constitution (The Irish Times)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:23:16 GMT

... party members declaring it dead after Ireland's referendum. The co-founder of the party, president Vaclav Klaus, has long ridiculed the document.However, the ODS's coalition partners, the Greens and the Christian Democrats, support the treaty, putting the government under great strain and threatening its already wafer-thin majority in parliament.If the constitutional court does allow...

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Prague doesn't see constitutional issues with Lisbon treaty (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:32:00 GMT

... the treaty aimed at streamlining the bloc in a referendum earlier this month. Czech President Vaclav Klaus described the treaty as "failed" after the Irish no vote. The Czech Republic hasn't yet ratified the treaty. Topolanek has said the parliamentary ratification process would continue once the Czech Constitutional Court has ruled.

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Has the EU’s terminal crisis begun with a triple no vote? (TruthNews.us)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:30:48 GMT

... the Law of Treaties, unlike our own craven government. “The treaty is dead,” said Czech president Vaclav Klaus. “To pretend something else is undignified - if we live in a world where one plus one equals two.” It is fitting that the central Europeans should emerge as the champions of due process. Their own memories of Soviet methods are fresh. Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister,...

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