euro|topics - Martin Weiss

: 1. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 25/01/2012

Paris abuses Armenia issue

France's Senate passed a law on Monday evening making it a crime to deny the genocide of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Paris is unnecessarily provoking Ankara, writes ... » more

: 2. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 09/01/2012

Germany prone to megalomania

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has warned Germany not to succumb to megalomania in its defence of the euro. Small states react sensitively when Merkel ... » more

: 3. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 27/06/2011

China's help for Europe has its price

China is helping out Europe with money but the services demanded in return undermine Europe's sovereignty, writes the conservative daily Lidové noviny: "China doesn't want ... » more

: 4. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 02/02/2011

Voting rights for non-EU foreigners

Around 150,000 foreigners from non-EU states live in the Czech Republic. Ombudsman Pavel Varvařovský has now proposed to grant them active and passive voting rights ... » more

: 5. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 24/09/2010

Martin Weiss on the lack of understanding about Eastern Europe

The European Court of Human Rights has once again awarded beneficiaries of the former communist regime in Prague compensation. Czechs who purchased confiscated property as ... » more

: 6. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 17/08/2010

English not the measure of all things

Despite the lack of qualified teachers, the new Czech government wants to introduce mandatory English classes in schools to the detriment of German. Not a ... » more

: 7. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 12/08/2010

Slovakia revolts against help for Greece

Following a parliamentary decision, Slovakia will be the only country within the Eurozone not to provide any direct financial aid to Greece, but it will ... » more

: 8. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 15/06/2010

Czechs sceptical about the euro

According to a new survey the Czechs' scepticism about the advantages of joining the Eurozone is still on the increase. Currently only 54.2 percent of ... » more

: 9. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 07/05/2010

Czech Social Democrats boycott media

After several of its election rallies were violently disrupted the Czech Social Democratic Party - currently leading in the polls - wants to boycott several ... » more

: 10. Lidové noviny - Czech Republic | 07/01/2010

EU bureaucrats should be more modest

A dispute has broken out in Brussels over higher salaries for almost 50,000 EU civil servants. The EU Commission wants to up their salaries by ... » more

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