Its head Olga Zubova and deputy head Matej Stropnicky, who both belong to internal party opponents of Greens chairman Bursik and the party deputy group's head Katerina Jacques, informed reporters about the council's decision. According to unofficial information, only one Green cabinet member, Education Minister Ondrej Liska, abstained from the vote on the radar base. Other ministers voted for the project, along with the senior ruling Civic EU to open anti-dumping probe into US biodiesel ...
Slovakia to join the euro next year ...
Ink dried on conservative-Green coalition ...
Czech Greens stay in government ... Democrats (ODS) and the other junior party, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL). Foreign Minister for Greens Karel Schwarzenberg has also supported the U.S.
radar base in the long run. Schwarzenberg, (unaffiliated) has apologised for not attending the Greens national council's meeting in Kolin today. The United States wants to build the radar base on the Brdy military grounds, 90 km southwest of Prague, and a base with ten interceptor missiles in Poland within its missile shield. The Central European elements are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch. The government has completed its talks with the USA on the main radar treaty, while the negotiations on the complementary SOFA treaty, dealing with U.S. soldiers' status on Czech territory still continue. The Czech-U.S. radar treaties are to be signed in early July. They must be ratified by Czech parliament and signed by President Vaclav Klaus to take effect. Schwarzenberg confirmed in Washington on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Ricewould arrive in the Czech Republic in early July. He also said he would offer his resignation if Czech parliament did not pass the bilateral treaty on the U.S. radar base.
(Ceske Noviny)
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