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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9762

16 October 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/czech presidency

15/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus, whose country is to take up the Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2009, has no intention of raising the European flag over his official residence, Prague Castle, his spokesman said this week. Since taking office in 2003, Klaus, a former economist and a founder of the liberal ODS party, has been critical of European integration, which he sees as being to centralising and too bureaucratic. Klaus refused to fly the European flag...

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