Daily news summary 26.8.2017

August 26, 2017

25 years since split agreement, Czech-Slovak relations praised, MPs read file

Zeman says he proposed looser union as alternative to split of Czechoslovakia

August 26, 2017

President Miloš Zeman says the Czech Republic and Slovakia have
extraordinarily great and fraternal relations a quarter century after the
breakup of their joint state. Communicating through a spokesperson, Mr.

Saturday marks quarter century since signature of dissolution of Czechoslovakia

August 26, 2017

Saturday is the 25th anniversary of the signing of an agreement on the
breakup of the federal state of Czechoslovakia. The leader of the Czech
government, Václav Klaus, and his Slovak counterpart, Vladimír Mečiar,

Sobotka: No European countries have better relations than Czechs and Slovaks

August 26, 2017

The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, says there are no two states in
Europe today that are closer than the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Mr.
Sobotka made the comment on a Czech Television programme marking 25 years

Paul Robeson in Czechoslovakia: all culture comes from the people

August 26, 2017

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States sent ripples around the
world, not least in the Soviet Union and its satellites. In Czechoslovakia,
events were followed closely, as the struggle for the rights of African

Czechs in favour of deeper integration, but shun the euro

August 25, 2017

The Czech Republic wants to be in the EU's core, but without the common currency. Prague wants to focus on common defence instead.

Pehe: Prague should beware of ending up marginalised in EU

August 25, 2017

The two-speed Europe project tends to split the Visegrad Four group, commentator Jiri Pehe wrote in Pravo on Thursday, adding that Slovakia might drift away from the V4 towards the EU's hard core, which would throw the Czech Republic under a stronger influence of Hungary and Poland.

French leader to press labor rules in central Europe tour

August 23, 2017

In this Thursday, July 27, 2017 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech during a citizenship ceremony in Orleans, central France.

Czechs cautiously back French ‘posted workers’ reform

August 24, 2017

The Czech Republic and Slovakia on one side and France and Austria have
agreed that new rules need to be sought over the thorny issue of workers
from low wage countries in Central Europe being sent to work in high wage

Macron in line for Czech visit in first half of 2018

August 24, 2017

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, looks set to come to Prague in the
spring of next year. The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, referred
to the visit after a meeting with Mr. Macron and the leaders of Austria and
Slovakia in Salzburg on Wednesday.

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