Flag of the Czech president

In May 2010, the Czech president Václav Klaus claimed that they " needn ’ t hurry to enter the Euro zone ".

** Jiri Petr, Czech university president

A ' Yes ' vote was urged by a massive campaign by the main parties and by civil society and the social partners, including campaigning through canvassing and all forms of media by respected pro-European figures like then EP president Pat Cox, former Czech president Václav Havel, former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and former Taoiseach ( prime minister ) Dr. Garret Fitzgerald.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

In March of that year Smetana was elected president of the music section of Umělecká Beseda, a society for Czech artists.

* In 1975, Czech playwright ( and future president ) Václav Havel created a non-musical adaptation.

* October 5-Václav Havel, dramatist and first president of the Czech Republic ( died 2011 )

Chamberlain, with France, told the Czech president that he must hand to Germany all territory with a German majority.

If indeed all agree that the Lisbon Treaty is a ' golden nut ' for Europe that must be, and that there is only one single person who would block it, and that person is the Czech president, so this is what I will not do.

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Vladimír Špidla () ( born 22 April 1951 in Prague ) is a Czech politician, currently president of Czech social democratic think-tank Masaryk Democratic Academy.

The president of the Czech Republic is the head of state of the Czech Republic.

Unlike his counterparts in Austria and Hungary, who are generally considered figureheads, the Czech president has a considerable role in political affairs.

The framers of the Constitution of the Czech Republic intended to set up a parliamentary system, with the prime minister as the country's leading political figure and de facto chief executive and the president as a ceremonial head of state.

Many of the duties of the Czech president can be said to be ceremonial to one degree or another, especially since he or she has relatively few powers independent of the will of the Prime Minister.

Until 2012, the office of president was filled following an indirect election by the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

Inasmuch as the president is the titular sole administrator of Prague Castle, the presidency may also be said to control the heraldry of that institution as well, including but not limited to the special designs worn by the Castle Guard, which is a special unit of the armed forces of the Czech Republic, organized under the Military Office of the President of the Czech Republic, directly subordinate to the president.

The official residence of the president of the Czech Republic is Prague Castle.

File: Ordinary bicycle01. jpg | A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle photographed in the Škoda Auto museum in the Czech Republic

Czech BMP-2 | BVP2 firing in Afghanistan

Czech BMP-2 | BVP-2 on a Military parade in Prague, 28 October 2008.

Image: Czech KFOR ( 1 ). jpg | Standard Czech camouflage uniform and vz.

Lecture at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague | CTU in Prague.

File: Czech easter eggs 2005-03-26 00. jpeg | Easter eggs from the Czech Republic

Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus from the 1834 Czech edition of Georges Cuvier | Cuvier's Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe.

19th century illustration: Mieszko, a former pagan, aided by his christian Czech wife Dobrawa of Bohemia | Dobrawa, daughter of Boleslav I of Bohemia | Boleslaus I, becomes an evangelism | evangelist of Christianity

Rear of a Škoda Popular Special on display at the Sportauto Museum, Lány ( Kladno District ) | Lány, Kladno District, Czech Republic

A spandrel from the Most Holy Trinity Church, Fulnek | Holy Trinity Church in Fulnek, Czech Republic.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Svitavy, Moravia ( present-day Czech Republic )

Fallow Deer | Fallow buck in the Czech Republic

Princely Family of Liechtenstein | Royal Liechtenstein trophy collection at Úsov Château, the Czech Republic

File: United Colors of Benetton in Prague. jpg | United Colors of Benetton in Prague, Czech Republic

Orthodox church in the Czech Republic antipendia | vested in liturgical colors | lenten colors.

File: Líšnice. svg | Arms of Líšnice, Czech Republic

Image: Great Synagogue Plzen CZ general view. JPG | The Great Synagogue of Plzeň, Czech Republic.

Image: Kutná hora cobblestones3. jpg | Old pavement with granite curb in Kutná Hora ( Czech Republic )

Image: Coati2008. JPG | Coati from zoo in Czech republic

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According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.

The few exceptions where the head of state is not even the nominal chief executive-and where supreme executive authority is according to the constitution explicitly vested in a cabinet-include the Czech Republic, Ireland, Japan and Sweden.

But Underhill's studies are situated in Czech and German, which allows him to demonstrate the ways individuals are both thinking ' within ', and resisting the modes by which ideologies seek to appropriate key concepts such as ' the people ', ' the state ', ' history ' and ' struggle '.

The Free State of Saxony ( ; ) is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

In the 10th century Silesia was incorporated into the early Polish state, but it later broke into independent duchies, coming under increasing Czech and German influence.

In 1918 the proclaimed rump state of German Austria comprised a Provinz Sudetenland in northern Moravia and Czech Silesia around the city of Opava.

As of June 2009, Cameron required a further four partners apart from the Polish and Czech supports to qualify for official fraction status in the parliament ; the rules state that a caucus needs at least 25 MEPs from at least seven of the 27 EU member states.

The Group originated in a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the Hungarian castle town of Visegrád on 15 February 1991 ( not to be mistaken with Vyšehrad, a castle in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, or with the town of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

His martyrdom, and the popularity of several biographies, quickly gave rise to a reputation for heroic goodness, resulting in his being elevated to Sainthood, posthumously declared king, and seen as the patron saint of the Czech state.

Czech literature is the literature written by Czechs or other inhabitants of the Czech state, mostly in the Czech language, although other languages like Old Church Slavonic, Latin or German have been also used, especially in the past.

The interwar period, coinciding with the First Republic, is one of the apogees of Czech literature — the new state brought with it a plurality of thinking, religion, and philosophy, leading to a great flowering of literature and culture.

Czech postwar literature is tightly intertwined with the political state of postwar Czechoslovakia ; as during the war, literature broke apart into three main branches: domestic published, domestic illegal, and exile literature.

* Article about current state of Czech culture and Western mis-perceptions of it, with readers ' polemic

The existence of the centuries-old Serb or Serbian diaspora in countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine, is the result of historical circumstances – the migrations to the North and the East, due to the Turkish conquests of the Balkans and as a result of politics, especially when the Communist Party came into power, but even more when the communist state of Yugoslavia collapsed into inter-ethnic conflict, resulting in mass expulsions of people as refugees of war.

Taking on board the Lakoff-Johnson paradigm of conceptual metaphor, he investgates the way in which Czech communists appropriated the concept of the people, the state and struggle.

Despite the fratricide, Boleslav is generally respected by Czech historians as an energetic ruler who significantly strengthened the Bohemian state and expanded its territory.

The strength or prominence of this policy within the Czech government may be uneven, however, and the state appears to have rebuffed dual citizenship overtures from ethnic Czechs living in the comparatively large diaspora of former Czechs in Western countries.