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Current AffairsGerman Chancellor Schroeder in Prague
The German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Prague for a one-day
official visit on Friday morning to hold talks with senior Czech
politicians. Topics of discussion throughout the day, during Mr
Schroeder's meetings with President Vaclav Klaus, Prime Minister Vladimir
Spidla and the leaders of both houses of parliament, were mainly expected
to focus on the European Union and trade relations. Mr Schroeder was
expected to visit the country eighteen months ago but cancelled the trip
after former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman called Sudeten Germans -
ethnic Germans who lived in Czechoslovakia during WWII - "Hitler's
fifth column". Now, Mr Schroeder and Mr Spidla stress that bilateral
relations are better than ever.
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Current AffairsFischer: draft EU Constitution can be amended, but not torn apart
The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer paid a brief to the Czech
Republic on Tuesday, for talks dominated by European integration. In the
morning Mr Fischer attended a gathering of Czech ambassadors at the
Foreign Ministry, the first ever German Foreign Minister to attend such an
event.
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The sweltering weather across Europe continues to make headlines in all
papers this Tuesday. Last-minute talks to save the failing Fischer travel
agency, discussion on salaries in the public sector, and the ever-growing
popularity of mobile phones are also the top stories today.
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Two first ladies grace the front page of Lidove Noviny. Livia Klaus and
Margot Loffler, the wife of visiting Austrian President Thomas Klestil are
shown arm in arm, wearing big smiles - a photo symbolic of the thaw in
Czech-Austrian relations. The Austrian President's one day visit to Prague
has been hailed as a success with both sides prepared to strengthen
cooperation and conduct "an open friendly and critical dialogue"
as President Klestil put it. More
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Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla's conciliatory statements in Austria on the
post-war expulsion of the Sudeten Germans receive a mixed reception in
today's papers: the story is headline news in PRAVO, but relegated to the
inside pages of both LIDOVE NOVINY and MLADA FRONTA DNES.
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Current AffairsFirst Czech conciliatory gesture to Sudeten Germans in Austria
Over the weekend, the Czech Republic apologised for the first time to
ethnic Germans living in Austria for their expulsion at the hands of the
Czechoslovak authorities in the years following WWII. At a European Forum
in the Austrian town of Goettweig over the weekend, Czech Prime Minister
Vladimir Spidla said Czechs regretted that these events and actions ever
happened.
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Current AffairsImplications of war for the Czech Republic
The affects of the war in Iraq on the Czech Republic could be widespread
across both the political and economic spectrums. By trying to appease
both those who support the war and those who are strictly against it the
Czech Republic is hoping to minimise the damage to its image on the
international stage.
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WitnessIndra Hildebrandt-Sochor - a tale of Czech-German relations with a romantic ending
Indra Hildebrandt-Sochor comes from the German city of Bochum. Her husband
Vaclav is a Czech journalist and they live with their two-year-old son in
Prague. There is nothing unusual in that, but the history of how they came
to meet is a very different story. The story has its roots in the tragic
events of the Second World War and the mass expulsion of Czechoslovakia's
German minority in the years that followed. But this is a tale with a
happy ending, as Indra now recalls.
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Current AffairsCzech court rules in favour of extraditing suspected IRA terrorist
A Czech municipal court ruled on Thursday that suspected IRA member Michael
Dickson should be extradited to Germany to face charges linked to a 1996
grenade attack on a British army barracks in the German town of
Osnabrueck. Dickson, who denies any ties to the IRA and says he was in the
Czech Republic as a tourist, has appealed to the country's High Court.
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