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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:15 AM

Published 11/07/2009 by Brisbane Courier-Mail


Prague: Leader rejects offer to join EU

CZECH Interim Prime Minister Jan Fischer has rejected an offer to step down and take a job as the Czech representative in the EU executive, the European Commission.

Mr Fischer, who holds no party affiliation, confirmed media reports that the main political parties had agreed to offer him...

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...due in mid-2010. "I cannot walk away from this responsibility from one day to the next" he said in a state...
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