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More on Klaus-Schwarzenberg

Check out today’s print edition of The Prague Post for details about how tensions between President Václav Klaus and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg could be working to divide the governing coalition. Here are a few excerpts from our interview with political analyst Bohumil Doležal (former chief political advisor to Klaus when he was prime minister) [...]

The EU and Middle East peace

  Back at the start of the Czech EU presidency in January 2009 the war in Gaza was raging and EU member states were rushing to the front of the line to help broker peace. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (in his first tour of duty) was heading up an EU “fact-finding” mission. At the same time [...]

Coalition sniping

Read about the growing list of disagreements between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and TOP 09 in the Sept. 1 edition of the Prague Post.  But since we went to print things have already gotten worse. The two parties will face off in local elections in October and are both fighting to the big prize: control [...]