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06.08.2008 - Czech press survey
Ireland might change its "no" only if the European Union exerts adequate pressure on it, probably combined with some concessions, Hanak says.
However, the EU cannot press on Ireland unless all the remaining member countries ratify the treaty, he says.
According to Hanak, the Czech EU presidency, starting next January, French president to discuss EU crisis in Ireland ...
Czechs donate three more helicopters to Afghanistan ...
Czech press survey ...
CzechRep to again send a reserve company to Kosovo ... could a good opportunity for the country to contribute to the efforts to make Ireland reconsider its position.
But this would mean that the Czech Republic would "set excessive goals for its forthcoming EU presidency," which is exactly against which Sobotka and Klaus warned, Hanak concludes in Pravo.
The Olympic Games are a war that is merely waged with different means, Milan Vodicka writes in the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) in connection with the forthcoming Olympics in Beijing.
Elite sports have become display windows of states, and political systems and ideologies are compared with each other, he says.
He adds that the Olympic rivalry between the former Soviet Union and the United States, or between the former two German states, the socialist eastern part and the capitalist western part, were examples of this.
The victory of a particular state proves that it is more developed, has better economy, technology, research, and standard of living, Vodicka writes with irony.
The Chinese definitely are not the first country for which the Olympics are far more than sports games, he notes.
Czechs will have to endure many attempts by politicians to draw attention to themselves in the next two months before the autumn Senate and regional elections, Martin Weiss writes in Lidove noviny, referring to the Christian Democrat campaign against high bank charges.
All Czech parties could adopt the election slogan "We are dissatisfied with the same things as you," having nothing else to tell the public that would be generally understandable, Weiss says.
The finding that bank charges are high in the Czech Republic and that people don't like it has already been made by the previous government, particularly by former financial minister Bohumil Sobotka (CSSD), Weiss recalls.
But politicians should not deal with bank charges as this is a question for the Czech anti-monopoly office (UOHS), which has not revealed any fishy agreement between the banks in the country, Weiss writes.
(Ceske Noviny)
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