Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla declared a state of emergency in Prague, Bohemia, Plzeň and Karlovy Vary.

This time, however, ODS was again defeated by the ČSSD under their new leader Vladimír Špidla, who previously rejected the Opposition Agreement.

Then Vladimír Špidla was appointed to the European Commission as Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

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Its chairman Vladimír Špidla became the prime minister heading a coalition with two small centre-right parties, the Christian and Democratic Union ( KDU – ČSL ) and the Freedom Union – Democratic Union ( US-DEU ) until his resignation in 2004.

Gross's predecessor Vladimír Špidla was forced to resign in 2004 after the ČSSD lost in the 2004 European Parliamentary elections.

He refused to enter the government both after his election and the government ’ s reconstruction after PM Vladimír Špidla ’ s resignation, and finally on 19 February 2005 asked for the resignation of PM Stanislav Gross after his finance scandal broke out.

He was replaced by Vladimír Špidla as party leader.

Debacle of his party was one of reasons for resignation of Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla.

After elections in 2002, Gross continued as interior minister and became deputy prime minister in the government of Vladimír Špidla.

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* Vladimír Špidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities, 4th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Vladimír Mečiar ( born 26 July 1942 ) is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia serving from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998.

* Vladimír Remek ( born 1948 ), cosmonaut ( first non-USSR, non-US citizen in space aboard Soyuz 28 in 1978 )

Vladimír Menšík ( 9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988 ) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

Vladimír Šmicer (, born 24 May 1973 in Děčín ) is a former Czech football midfielder and forward player.

Vladimír Remek ( born 26 September 1948 ) is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.

Vladimír Remek was born in České Budějovice to Czech mother and Slovak father.

Vladimír Železný ( born 3 March 1945 in Samara, Soviet Union ) is a media businessman, politician and convicted criminal in the Czech Republic.

* Vladimír Růžička ( born 1963 ), ice hockey player

Vladimír Maňka ( born on 19 September 1959 in Lučenec )

With his spouse Karolína, born Klecandová, Ladislav had six children, among them Vladimír Jiří Rott, who – as the last member of this known Prague family active as an entrepreneur in Czechoslovakia – had to flee together with his wife after the communist takeover in February 1948.

Mojsejová changed its name to Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová and entered the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election where she received 1. 22 % of votes, not winning any seats in the National Council but finishing ahead of long-time Slovak Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar's People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ).

He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off.

* Vladimír Binar: Čin a slovo -- Kniha o Jakubu Demlovi, Prague, 2010, ISBN 978-80-87256-12-1.

Vladimír Neff ( June 13, 1909, Prague – July 2, 1983, Prague ) was a popular Czech writer and translator.

* 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

* March 2 – Soyuz 28 ( Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimir Remek ) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a third country ( besides the Soviet Union and United States ) – Czechoslovak citizen Vladimír Remek.

Changes were apparent first in poetry: the new generation of poets ( Bohuslav Reynek, Vilém Závada, František Halas, Vladimír Holan, Jan Zahradníček ) began as poetists, but their work is much darker, full of images of death and fear.

Founded in 1991, its leader is Vladimír Mečiar, who, as Prime Minister, led Slovakia through the Velvet Divorce.

Vladimír Železný sold CET 21 to the financial group PPF of Petr Kellner and today, TV Nova is owned by CME.

As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU.

Vladimír Kotek is the university bursar.

The town is now home to a museum of the life of actor Vladimír Menšík.

Liberal Party (, LS ) is a political party in Slovakia founded on 28 March, 2003 by dissident parliamentarians who split from Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ).

In Czech and Slovak, the name is spelled Vladimír.

He is now a player-agent for Eurohockey Services, co-managing the agency with former Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Vladimír Vůjtek.

Czech voters returned a split verdict in the June 2002 parliamentary elections, giving Social Democrats ( ČSSD ) and Communists majority, without any possibility to form a functioning government together due to Vladimír Špidla's strong anticommunism.

* 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter ( Blue Effect, Flamengo )

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

* 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet ( d. 1980 )

The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia.

The building was first designed in 1902 by Jan Vladimír Hráský, and was later remodelled by a Czech architect from Vienna, Josip Hudetz.

* Vladimír Remek – the first Czech in space and the first cosmonaut who wasn't a citizen of USSR or USA

Awarded 31 times to some Czechoslovak war heroes, to the general and later president Ludvík Svoboda, to the Czechoslovak president Gustáv Husák, to the Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek, Soviet generals and marshals and to Leonid Brezhnev.

Between 1948 and 1968 Czech poet Vladimír Holan lived in the so-called " Dobrovský ´ s House " on Kampa, often saying that the Blue Abbé ( a nickname by which Dobrovský was known ) would sometimes visit him.

* 29 August – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter ( b. 1919 ).

On the evening during the Christmas holiday, viewers around the Czech Republic who had tuned into to the regular evening news broadcast watched the newscast broadcast by the news anchors they were used to being jammed and interrupted by Bobošíková, a former face at Czech TV sitting next to Jiří Hodač, who had been appointed general manager of Czech TV amid accusations by critics that he was close to Václav Klaus ' Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) and to the then director of private TV channel Nova, Vladimír Železný, and would undermine the editorial independence of the TV network.

Drobný defected from Czechoslovakia together with a fellow Czech Davis Cup player Vladimír Černík while playing at a tennis tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland in July of 1949.

* Vladimír Čech, Czech voice actor