If a Czech prime minister simply did not arrive at the Olympics as a form of protest, no one would notice it.
He is neither U.S. President George Bush nor French President Nicolas Sarkozy. No one would even notice it if he said anything about human rights, MfD writes. However, if he did not, he would be exposed to fierce criticism at home. A Tibetan flag or badge is the best solution. The Chinese will not like it, but it can be hardly officially attacked as Czech EU commissioner Spidla joins CSSD's campaign-press ...
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Berlin Hopeful Macedonian Poll Will Bring Stability ... Tibet had existed long ago, MfD writes. The affair has also a side-effect. If Czech athletes prove a failure, at least Topolanek will be spoken about, MfD concludes. The European situation in 1938, when Sudeten German sought secession from Czechoslovakia, is like the current situation with Kosovo Albanians, Jiri Hanak writes in Pravo. Although Albanians have their national state, a Kosovo nation was constructed on behalf of a misunderstood right to self-determination and the province was taken away from Serbia. It is not as dangerous as it was 70 years ago, but it is equally hideous. Evidently, the Czech Republic, afflicted by a loss of memory, has agreed with the hideous thing, Hanak concludes. The case of the new building of the National Library (NK) designed by renowned Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky that will not be built at Prague-Letna will harm the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), Antonin Rasek writes in Pravo. Christian Democrat Culture Minister Vaclav Jehlicka has decided so against the will of a large part of party members, Rasek writes. Besides, the case has revealed that Czech political elites are unable to make the right decision at crucial moments. In culture, the construction of the National Library is analogous to the construction of the National Theatre in the 19th century, Rasek writes. The other day, French writer Louis Aragon said about the state of Czech culture during the 1970s that it is the Biafra of the mind. Now it would be good to call it the Darfur of the mind, he adds.
(Ceske Noviny)
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