EMM News Explorer: Mirek Topolánek

[-said]: I am worried about the project because Germans will not be able to fulfil the role of a cash cow and a kind of the EU's savings bank in a long run,

praguemonitor 25-OCT-10

[-said]: fifty fifty

praguemonitor 25-OCT-10

[ said]: Unless the European Union starts observing its own rules of game and unless it really toughens sanctions for stowaways in the system, its erosion will be much faster than it is at present,

praguemonitor 25-OCT-10

[-added]: In the end, the big players will decide. We are holding a number of talks at present. It is no secret that we have already been negotiating in London and Paris,

praguemonitor 25-OCT-10

[-said]: Under my leadership, the ODS won 11 elections, including the European polls and the presidential ones [in which Klaus was elected thanks to the support of the Topolanek-headed ODS], we started up the necessary reforms, we were successful in the government as well as within the European structures,

praguemonitor 21-OCT-10

[-said]: If someone were ever a symbol of business growing into politics in the Czech Republic, it was precisely Vaclav Klaus and the business clique that has surrounded him since the times of wild privatisation,

praguemonitor 21-OCT-10

[-told]: Vaclav Klaus's statement for MfD disgusted me, and though I do not normally do it, I must react to this false statement,

praguemonitor 21-OCT-10

[-said]: Klaus's calls for a return to the ideological roots of the ODS is false. ODS members know well what is correct and it has shown that voters also justly appreciated the work of many good Civic Democrat candidates. On the other hand, they punished internal squabbling, cowardice and closed-door politics,

praguemonitor 21-OCT-10

[-told]: It is a storm in a teacup. It was a courtesy letter that I answered with a letter of courtesy,

praguemonitor 27-SEP-10

[-said]: As a matter of fact, Vondra forced me into submitting a report to the government that would define a second contract as soon as possible,

praguemonitor 17-SEP-10

[-said]: Nothing that has so far been written about my possible work is true,

praguemonitor 02-SEP-10

[-told]: I am interested in entering the institution, but I think that my chances are not high, about 30 percent. I am negotiating about it with our diplomacy and some politicians since I need their coordination and support,

ceskenoviny 27-AUG-10

[-told]: but I am no politicians any more so I need not say this. I really do not know what will happen in 20 years... but I am not preparing my (political) comeback,

ceskenoviny 27-AUG-10

[ remarked]: It is sad when a party fails to settle their differences with their leader and has to execute him like certain primitive African tribes did,

praguemonitor 19-APR-10

[-said]: I definitely will not hurry,

praguemonitor 30-MAR-10

[said:]: it is impossible to simply hand the ODS to the godfathers [businessmen tied with it in regions]. The ODS must maintain its instinct of self-preservation, irrespective of the elections that are but an episode in the party's history. [It must] survive, gain strength and generate its new leadership which I would not seek to enter, of course,

praguemonitor 30-MAR-10

[said:]: Fischer who is a Jew,

praguemonitor 26-MAR-10

[-said]: Gustav Slamecka, when things get really heated, I feel that he gives up as a minister,

earthtimes 26-MAR-10

[ said]: I think that Gustav Slamecka gives way when the situation is really, really tough. That (PM Jan) Fischer is simply a Jew, he is not a gay, and he gives way even earlier. This has nothing to do with that he is a gay, it ensues from his character,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-10

[said that:]: the church has got control of people by means of brainwashing.

praguemonitor 23-MAR-10

[-said]: I expect it to discuss ways for the ODS to win the elections,

ceskenoviny 23-MAR-10

[-said]: It will be no presentation of populist promises, but of entirely concrete and feasible proposals for the particular fields,

praguemonitor 16-MAR-10

[-told]: I do not know what sort of Bolshevik conference it is. There is no reason to comment on it,

praguemonitor 15-MAR-10

[-said]: He should immediately resign. No one wants to have a red commissar at the Interior Ministry ahead of the elections,

praguemonitor 12-MAR-10

[-said]: I would not be surprised if even some Czech politicians took up this favourite election theme,

praguemonitor 05-MAR-10

[-said]: Jiri Paroubek can hardly be part of the solution as he is part of the problem,

praguemonitor 02-MAR-10

[-says]: when the increase in excise taxes and VAT mainly afflicts the poor. However, it is absurd to distort the tax system over it. It is much better to choose a form of property or another tax that applies to more well-off citizens,

praguemonitor 24-FEB-10

[-said]: There are few of us,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-said]: any decision was close to zero,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-said]: We could not have pushed for the purchase of the Pandurs as they had been bought long time ago,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-concluded]: I wished we were able to react to it in a systemic way since I fell no responsibility for either Pandurs or Gripens,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-said]: Military order are interesting as they are under a certain principle of classification. Big money is at stake,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-said]: We prevented an arbitration and a suspicious contract from being materialised and we saved six billion crowns for the Czech Republic. My pressure on Vlasta Parkanovo was fully apparent since I wanted to reach this,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[ said]: Military orders have never been subject to standard tenders and the law on public orders, which is the first problem. The other problem, the system of orders, which I was trying to solve during my government, is that the armament supplies is a state in a state that is basically acting arbitrarily,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[-said]: My government took over the already signed contract for the purchase of 199 Pandurs for over 20 billion crowns in 2006. We assessed the order as too costly, problematic and suspicious. We succeeded in changing it and primarily in reducing the price of the whole contract by more than six billion. We thereby averted the risk of another possible arbitration against the Czech Republic,

praguemonitor 19-FEB-10

[-said]: The budget stability is naturally a right goal but it must not be preached by those who have been steadily threatening it... Such an initiative looks rather like a failed artist's act, a clown's number,

praguemonitor 17-FEB-10

[-said]: If this is true and Vaclav Klaus wants to help the ODS before the elections, we will appreciate it,

praguemonitor 11-FEB-10

[-said]: I do not think that 90 percent of party members consider this a real problem and are really busy with it,

ceskenoviny 10-FEB-10

[-said]: The British office's suspicion that Czech politicians were corrupted in this case must not be swept under the carpet,

praguemonitor 04-FEB-10

[-told]: I congratulate the victors,

praguemonitor 19-JAN-10

[-said]: We have the only joint interest to win in the upcoming parliamentary elections,

praguemonitor 19-JAN-10

[said:]: Don´t believe tomorrow that I am telling today.

ceskenoviny 19-JAN-10

[-told]: Maybe other leaders would be willing to participate in it,

ceskenoviny 18-JAN-10

[-said]: Therefore we have rather tried to inspire one another in what else is possible to do in this respect,

ceskenoviny 14-JAN-10

[-said]: I find this [Pecina's draft package] a populist step before the [May 2010] elections, taken in a situation where no one deals with corruption and no systemic package is presented. This is no systemic package at all,

praguemonitor 12-JAN-10

[-said]: every week that will shorten the election term of this Chamber of Deputies, is a good week,

ceskenoviny 06-JAN-10

[-said]: It will clearly show, and it is good before the elections, who stands where. Who stands on the side of responsibility, who stands on the side of populism,

ceskenoviny 06-JAN-10

[-said]: The ODS, the president as well as the prime minister fully agree on that all available ways of preventing the deficit from further increasing must be used,

ceskenoviny 06-JAN-10

[-told]: (CSSD deputy head Bohuslav) Sobotka will secure it,

praguemonitor 05-JAN-10

[-said]: its contribution for Praguers is undoubtable.

praguemonitor 05-JAN-10

[ said]: This is simply how certain orders in Prague function,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[-said]: It is improbable that we will find agreement,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[ said]: The key word now is budget caution,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[-said]: The CSSD shows a total incompetence in the budget field,

ceskenoviny 03-JAN-10

[-said]: The problem is that much money is divided and that it is distributed in a non-transparent way,

ceskenoviny 03-JAN-10

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