Press Advisories

14. 9. 2009

Prime Minister today held discussions with Deputy Prime Minister Žukov of the Russian Federation

Prime Minister Jan Fischer today met Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Dmitrijevič Žukov in the Kramář Villa.

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10. 9. 2009

Prime Minister: I will not speculate on today’s verdict by the Constitutional Court

Prime Minister Jan Fischer met President Václav Klaus today.

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1. 9. 2009

Premier: “Science Reform Shall Not Be Exchanged For Crisis Management“

A round table on the future of Czech science was held in Prague’s Lichtenštejnský Palace yesterday.

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25. 8. 2009

The European Mobility Week starts in September

The European Mobility Week, an all-European event organized with the purpose to promote alternative ways of municipal transport, preferable in terms of safety, public health and environment protection, will traditionally start in Czech and Moravian towns and cities on Wednesday 16th September, to be concluded on 22nd September by „The Car Free Day“.

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21. 8. 2009

Czech Prime Minister honoured the memory of the victims of the August 1968 invasion

At a ceremony held this afternoon outside the building of Czech Radio in Prague on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s occupation by the Warsaw Treaty armies on 21st August, 1968.

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17. 8. 2009

21st August, 1968: Black day of Czechoslovak history

The events of August 1968 were a tragic outcome of the Prague Spring, as the short-lived political relaxation in communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s is referred to.

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14. 8. 2009

The Czech Republic was the first country to ratify the Carpathian Biodiversity Protocol

In July, the Czech Republic ratified the Protocol on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological and Landscape Diversity in the Carpathians.

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11. 8. 2009

Statement by Deputy Prime Minister concerning the verdict passed over Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

I consider it unacceptable that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to 18 months of house arrest.

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3. 8. 2009

Music against poverty contest 2009

The ‘Music against poverty’ contest 2009 aims to offer young European Union citizens an opportunity to consider the EU’s fundamental role in fighting world poverty by submitting a song which reflects this theme.

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30. 7. 2009

Government poised to increase the Academy of Sciences budget by half a billion

After meeting Jiří Drahoš, the President of the Academy of Sciences, Prime Minister Jan Fischer said that the Government would pour more funds into the Academy’s budget for next year.

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