Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Czechoslovakia" produced 13 items.
| 1. An incredible journey from stage-hand to president | December 21, 2011 |
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To a foreign journalist in Prague, Václav Havel was an inspiration – and for the Czechs he became a superb president. Newly arrived in Prague in early 1989, I spotted... | |
| 2. Slovakia's Havel | May 26, 2011 |
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Solavkia's prime minister faces many battles within her own party, but has a high-profile supporter. “To conquer Troy, they had to use a huge, eye-catching wooden horse.... |
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| 3. From Charter 77 to Charter 08, from Havel to Xiaobo | October 14, 2010 |
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China's Nobel prize-winner found inspiration in Czechoslovakia's history. The West too should learn lessons from that period. Read Charter 08, the central document of the... |
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| 4. Klaus gets his opt-out | November 5, 2009 |
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Czech president's deal at the summit. The summit cleared the way for the Czech President Václav Klaus to sign the Lisbon treaty by granting his country an opt-out from the... | |
| 5. Lost homes and legal battles: Beneš Decrees | November 5, 2009 |
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Why have the Beneš Decrees, which legitimated the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, surfaced so persistently as a political problem? A Czech president once... |
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| 6. EU ends sanctions on Cuba | June 20, 2008 |
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Czechs and Swedes win support for an annual review of the decision, with human rights the key criterion. EU leaders have agreed formally to drop sanctions against Cuba,... | |
| 7. Czech PM's spending exceeds Gross domestic product | February 17, 2005 |
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As I think about packing my bags for next week's Bush-Putin summit in Slovakia, I am grateful to the Prague Post for an article pinning down the distinction between the Czech... | |
| 8. Slovak accession | February 27, 2003 |
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We are writing at a time when the Slovak Republic is on the doorstep of the European Union. Together with the large majority of our fellow citizens, we have waited for this... | |
| 9. Slovak report turns up the heat in Benes decrees accession row | June 20, 2002 |
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POST-WAR decrees which led to the expulsion of millions of Hungarians and Sudeten Germans from the former Czechoslovakia run counter to EU law, according to Slovak legal... | |
| 10. Visegrad summit cancelled as Orbán salts war wounds | February 28, 2002 |
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HUNGARY'S claim that post-World War II edicts issued by the former Czechoslovakia are incompatible with EU membership could hinder cooperation among central European... | |
| 11. Tension over Slovak dual citizenship move | January 28, 1999 |
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THE strains created by the European Commission's decision to put the Czech and Slovak Republics at different stages on the road to EU accession could be exacerbated even... | |
| 12. Slovaks forge a modern society while clinging to the past | June 6, 1996 |
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FROM Bratislava Castle, the symbol of the Slovak state, you can see the seat of the United Nations in Vienna and the distant Alps. In the days of the Iron Curtain, this... | |
| 13. Czechs press ahead in race for accession | May 16, 1996 |
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IF EU politicians were asked secretly to pick their favourite amongst the Union's ten enlargement candidates in Central and Eastern Europe, their choice would almost... | |
