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Czech president to appoint professor after gay rights row

Agence France-PresseMay 22, 2013 11:15

Czech President Milos Zeman said Wednesday he would bestow professorship on a critic and gay rights supporter after all, changing his stance after an uproar from fellow politicians and the academic community. The head of state agreed to endorse literary historian and Catholic Church scholar Martin C. Putna -- who had openly criticised him before his election in January -- after meeting with the education minister. But despite bowing to pressure, Zeman told reporters: "I will once again stress that... I have absolutely no respect for (Putna)".

Sceptical Czechs may be pushed to change tone on euro

Thomson ReutersApril 26, 2013 06:31

By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) - When Czech President Milos Zeman said last week his country could join the euro by 2018, he met with little more than a shrug from the country's other political leaders who have shied away from setting a date. Yet his strongly pro-European views - he made a show of hoisting the European Union's flag for the first time at Prague Castle when he took office last month - may be a first sign that one of the EU's most reluctant members will change its tune.

Sceptical Czechs may be pushed to change tone on euro

Thomson ReutersApril 26, 2013 06:30

Czech president-elect vows salary cut to lower debt

Agence France-PresseFebruary 12, 2013 11:46

Milos Zeman, the Czech Republic's outspoken leftist president-elect, has pledged to give up thirty percent of his salary to lower the public debt of the recession-struck EU member, local media said Tuesday. Zeman said he will create soon after his inauguration next month a special presidential fund to lower the public debt, the Dnes broadsheet daily reported. Zeman said he is ready to put into this fund over thirty percent of his monthly salary of 14,200 euros ($19,000), adding he hoped to serve as an example for other high income earners.

UPDATE 2-Leftist ex-PM Zeman wins Czech presidential election

Thomson ReutersJanuary 26, 2013 11:30

* Former PM Zeman beats Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg * Zeman to take Czechs closer to European mainstream * Critics note links with former communist officials (Adds quotes from Zeman, Schwarzenberg, updates results) By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Leftist former prime minister Milos Zeman won the Czech Republic's first direct presidential election on Saturday, beating a conservative opponent he had accused of favouring foreign interests in a bitter campaign.