CZECH REPUBLIC:  Govt Shaken by Scenarios of U.S. Base
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BUDAPEST, Sep 15 (IPS) - Experts from the United States have recently - and  controversially -- visited several localities in the Czech  Republic and Poland to consider a military base for the National  Missile Defence (NMD) programme.
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PRAGUE, Dec 18 (IPS) - A report by U.S. intelligence services minimising  the Iranian threat has meant another embarrassment for Czech  politicians supportive of U.S. plans to set up a radar base in  Central-Eastern Europe.
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The new Czech government loses a confidence vote, prolonging the country's political stalemate.
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW -- Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a top Russian general ...Comment
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While the Washington debate on US Cuba policy remains stuck on the issue of trade sanctions, the world has not stood still. At a recent meeting sponsored by the Czech government in Prague, a
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Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a top Russian general warned Monday.Comment
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PRAGUE, Dec 20 (IPS) - The disputes within Slovakia's governing  coalition have almost caused the government's collapse.  Additional trouble can be expected, but the powerful Prime  Minister's extraordinary popularity and the weakness of the  opposition are holding the coalition together.
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"The worst situation would be for Poland to say yes, and then have to pay the political price, and afterwards the shield would not be built because of a change of government in the US"  Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview published Saturday said his country had still not given its approval for the planned US missile defence system in Poland. via Earth Times
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BUDAPEST, Jan 31 (IPS) - The new right-wing government of the Czech  Republic, eager to prove its "prestige" as a reliable  ally of the United States, last week started negotiations for the  setting up of a military base in the Czech Republic. It will not  be easy.
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A day after two Russian airliners fell from the sky, confusion over what happened reflected a country torn between skepticism that the government would
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The Czech Republic will probably close about twenty of its embassies and consulates because of cutsin the Foreign Ministry's budget next year, the ministry's spokesman Vit Kolar said on Friday.
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American expatriates in the Czech Republic have been gearing up to vote in the U.S. presidential elections in unprecedented numbers, spurred on by the closeness of the race for the White House, according to ...
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Poland is in no rush to decide on hosting a U.S. anti-missile base before American elections as a change of guard at the White House could scuttle the project, Poland's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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The Czech Republic's rightist minority  government is likely to lose a confidence vote in parliament  this week, nudging the EU member closer to an interim  administration followed by early elections.
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Iraqi Minister of Culture Mufid Jazairy and Minister of foreign affairs Cyril Svoboda, photo: CTK The Czech side is trying to help us with renewing of that, preparing new equipment for the library, helping us ...
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Senior Czech politicians are angry over  Washington's suggestion that Russians be allowed to staff a  radar station in the former Soviet satellite.
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The U.S. anti-missile system, a part of which is to be a radar to be stationed in the Czech Republic, will protect Europe, British Minister of State for Europe Geoff Hoon, said at a discussion organised staged ...Comment