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Václav Klaus

Type: Person

Name: Václav Klaus (Vaclav Klaus)

Title: President

Organization: Czech Republic

Date of Birth: 19/06/1941

Place of Birth: Vinohrady district of Prague

Nationality: Czech Republic

Fact Sheet: Biography for Vaclav Klaus

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Czechs Mark 20th Anniversary Of Fall Of Communism

add comment ()The Czech Republic is marking the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which led to the end of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia.Former Czech President Vaclav Havel (background center) helps commemorate the 20th anniversary ... [Turkish Weekly - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic, Prague

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Klaus-Havel rivalry plays out on city streets

Old rivalries die hard.From that fact comes one of many questions raised by posters that popped up Nov. 9 paying tribute to President Václav Klaus. Among the queries: Who is behind the poster campaign? And why do they appear now, just as the Czech Republic ... [Prague Post - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Václav Klaus, Proliferation, Czech Republic

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Economy)

Klaus signs law raising 2009 budget deficit by CZK 14bn

Prague, Nov 18 (CTK) - The Czech state budget deficit for 2009 will be raised by some 14 billion crowns to 52 billion under a bill the Chamber of Deputies passed last week, which President Vaclav Klaus signed into a lawWednesday, Klaus's spokesman Radim ... [Prague Monitor - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Václav Klaus, Budget Deficit, Prague

First Reported 15 mins ago - Updated 15 mins ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Czech Leader Links Global Warming Alarmists to Communism

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 during WW II, Vaclav Klaus grew up during the Cold War. After earning a doctorate in economics, he pursued a career in academia and at the Czechoslovak State Bank. Immediately after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, ... [FORA.tv - 15 mins ago]

Entities: Václav Klaus, Global Warming/Climate Change, Czech Republic, Civic Democratic Party (CZ)

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Peruvian, Czech presidents meet on ties

LIMA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian President Alan Garcia Friday met his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus here 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, ... [Xinhua News Agency - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Peru, Alan Garcia, Václav Klaus, Czech Republic

First Reported 59 mins ago - Updated 59 mins ago - 1 Documents

Alan Garcia

Peru and Czech Republic sign cooperation agreements

LivinginPeru.comIsabel GuerraPeru and the Czech Republic government in culture, education, science and sports.Both governments commited to do an intensive work in controlling the drug trade.The signing countries also agreed to exchange information on ... [LivinginPeru - 59 mins ago]

Entities: Peru, Czech Republic, Alan Garcia, Václav Klaus

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 6 Documents

Neo-Nazis held after Prague rally

Prague - Czech police on Tuesday detained 48 neo-Nazis at a rally marking the 20th anniversary of a student protest that triggered the fall of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia.More than 300 neo-Nazis denouncing the 'corrupt liberal regime' ... [IOL - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Prague, Neo-Nazism, Vaclav Havel, Joan Baez

First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 2 Documents

TREATY OF LISBON RATIFIED IN ROME

The ratification process of the Treaty of Lisbon officially ended in Rome on Friday. 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. The ceremony ... [Armtown.com - 11/14/2009]

Entities: Rome, Italian Foreign Ministry, Treaty of Lisbon, Jan Fischer

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents

1989 Velvet Revolution celebrated in Prague

First it was Berlin, now it is Prague marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe.Singers serenaded some of those who played a crucial role in the so-called Velvet Revolution that transformed what was then Czechoslovakia.The current ... [EuroNews - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Prague, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Václav Klaus

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Velvet Revolution: 20 years

A trailer for a CNN program. The square between 0:18 and 0:20 is our Pilsen's Square of the Republic. Twenty years ago, I was a high school sophomore and a young dissident of a sort. With a few colleagues, we didn't join the Socialist Youth ... [The Reference Frame - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Civic Forum, Václav Klaus, Slovakia, Jan Opletal

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Czech President remits Kyrgyzstani

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic has remitted 43 convicts, including four foreigners - citizens of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia and Mongolia, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Prague Express on-line edition ... [Trend News Agency - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Kyrgyzstan, Conviction, Mongolia, Václav Klaus

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Europe as Weltmacht

European leaders are giddy like school children before Christmas. The European Union is about to install a president and foreign minister. Then, the European elite insist, the continent can act as a true counterweight to the U.S.The European Union began ... [American Spectator - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Weltmacht, European Union, Lisbon, Europeans

Quotes

"People were afraid of what could happen next," said Petr Janis. "nobody knew what the government might do. i remember a classmate of mine crying because she was so afraid. she thought that people would die." In a speech on the eve of the anniversary, Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, said that communism would never return but warned the Czech public of other...

Vaclav Havel attacks Russia on anniversary of Velvet Revolution [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]

...filed by a group of Civic Democratic Party (ODS) senators, making the controversial accord law throughout the 27-member-state European Union. "i signed the treaty at 3 p.m." Klaus told journalists

Court, Klaus approve Lisbon [Prague Post - 11/05/2009]

...He was awaiting the court's ruling before deciding whether to endorse the treaty. "i expected the decision of the constitutional court and respect it" Klaus said yesterday afternoon, but he added that he vehemently disagreed with the verdict

Treaty to strengthen the EU gets its final endorsement [Philadelphia Inquirer - 11/04/2009]

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Two Czechs to be deported from Cuba [Prague Post - 11/19/2009]
Caretaker gov't won't tackle Czech-Vatican Treaty [Prague Post - 11/19/2009]
Klaus-Havel rivalry plays out on city streets [Prague Post - 11/19/2009]
The Velvet Revolution: 20 years on [New York Review of Books - 11/19/2009]
Decision time looms for EU top jobs [EUobserver - 11/19/2009]
ODS congress not to replace leader despite crit... [Prague Monitor - 11/19/2009]
Labour and Tories have let us all down on Europe [Belfast Telegraph - 11/19/2009]
Czechs Mark 20th Anniversary Of Fall Of Communism [Turkish Weekly - 11/19/2009]
Dont eulogise greatness: it is not dead yet [Abu Dhabi National - 11/18/2009]
Klaus considered resigning over Lisbon [Prague Monitor - 11/18/2009]
Czechs take to the streets to celebrate 20 year... [Mail Online UK - 11/18/2009]
Czechs mark key day in communist rule's collapse [Philadelphia Inquirer - 11/18/2009]
Velvet Revolution remembered as thousands march... [Drogheda Independent - 11/18/2009]
Velvet Revolution remembered as thousands march... [Irish Independent - 11/18/2009]
Klaus: Havel's Velvet Revolution celebration jo... [Prague Monitor - 11/18/2009]
Neo-Nazis held after Prague rally [IOL - 11/18/2009]
Velvet Revolutions Roots Obscure 20 Years Later [New York Times - 11/17/2009]
Czech Republic celebrates fall of Communism [SmartBrief - 11/17/2009]
Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus [FORA.tv - 11/17/2009]
Havel attacks Russia on Velvet Revolution anniv... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]

Blogs

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Global Warfare, U.S. Military Operations in All... [The Market Oracle - 11/17/2009] "Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable ...
Velvet Revolution: 20 years [The Reference Frame - 11/17/2009] A trailer for a CNN program. The square between 0:18 and 0:20 is our Pilsen's Square of the Republic. Twenty years ago, I was a high school sophomore ...
Politically Incorrect with Vaclav Klaus -- By: ... [The Corner on National Review Online - 11/13/2009] Today on Uncommon Knowledge, President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic reflects on the twenty years since the fall of Communism. The first post-communist ...
The Road To Hell is Paved With Cap and Trade Le... [YID With LID - 11/13/2009] One of Europe's solutions to the perceived global warming threat is trying to regulate carbon emissions through Carbon Credits The way it works is the government ...
The Free-Marketeer -- By: Peter Robinson [The Corner on National Review Online - 11/12/2009] Today on Uncommon Knowledge, President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic. Although he earned his doctorate in economics under a Communist regime, he became a ...

Audio/Video

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Czech President seals EU treaty [Reuters - YouTube - 11/03/2009]
Czech President seals EU treaty [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/03/2009]

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