EMM News Explorer: Jiri Paroubek

[-said]: I believe that people will be surprised at his (Zeman's) character,

praguemonitor 28-JUN-10

[-said]: They must be transformed into the position of an acceptable left-wing party,

praguemonitor 28-JUN-10

[-said]: I will write memoirs within a year provided I have time and I am not much burdened with some posts in the Chamber of Deputies,

praguemonitor 28-JUN-10

[-said]: It will definitely agree on all major deals over which the two smaller parties were established,

praguemonitor 28-JUN-10

[ writes]: If the CSSD members act logically, they will keep to the [party's] strategy of defending the rights of broad groups of people, of the ordinary man. In internal terms, they will continue the process of the CSSD's modernisation. They must make the decision themselves, however,

praguemonitor 08-JUN-10

[-writes]: People will expect the CSSD to show initiative and activity in protecting their rights. One lost election, though unpleasant at the moment, does not mean an end. On the contrary, this may be a new beginning,

praguemonitor 08-JUN-10

[-said]: massaged from all sides,

praguemonitor 07-JUN-10

[-said]: We are sometimes generals, sometimes marshals without an army,

praguemonitor 07-JUN-10

[-said]: It is better to change the coach than the team,

praguemonitor 07-JUN-10

[-writes]: Even the rightist media were unable to call Necas' performance his victory. Tvrdik is now even going beyond what is claimed by the rightist media,

praguemonitor 03-JUN-10

[-said]: I feel sorry at the words of Tvrdik who has started looking for the reasons of the election defeat in my duels with Necas,

praguemonitor 03-JUN-10

[-writes]: If Wednesday's election result is a weak victory, the road of internal squabbles and blaming one another would be a real loss. Let us bear the win that is not giving us any political space in a manly and dignified way,

praguemonitor 03-JUN-10

[-said]: Obviously, the possible rightist coalition will try to implement general austerity measures that will hit most the middle and low-income classes as well as families with children, pensioners and employees,

praguemonitor 03-JUN-10

[-told]: This is my decision to prevent misinterpretation,

praguemonitor 31-MAY-10

[-told]: I expect his [Pecina's] victory and of course, the election result will also play a role in forming the cabinet...Mr Pecina was fielded as the CSSD's Prague election leader in an exceptional way and I expect an exceptional effort and also exceptional results from him,

praguemonitor 27-MAY-10

[-said]: Some, such as the ODS and other right-wing parties, are the parties of the upper 10,000, perhaps 100,000, but the Social Democrats are the party for the lower ten million, for ordinary people,

praguemonitor 27-MAY-10

[-added]: In general, we should find decent positions for former prime ministers,

praguemonitor 27-MAY-10

[-said]: People must be given work, this is our fundamental programme,

praguemonitor 24-MAY-10

[-criticised]: in spite of your Greek financial management.

praguemonitor 24-MAY-10

[-said]: The gentlemen worry unnecessarily. They should behave as cleanly and transparently as the CSSD,

praguemonitor 17-MAY-10

[-said]: We will not react to the questions and activities of MfD, LN and HN at all, not even at this press conference,

praguemonitor 07-MAY-10

[-said]: There are simply certain media that want to harm us. It is meaningless to deal with them. If you want to write about us, so write as you like it,

praguemonitor 07-MAY-10

[-said]: hateful campaign the ODS has waged under the baton of [its chief election manager] Ivan Langer and his Blue Team,

praguemonitor 06-MAY-10

[-said]: You can see here groups of troublemakers of the Blue Team who are trained in martial games,

ceskenoviny 05-MAY-10

[-said]: the ODS would be left completely without leadership, conservative TOP 09 would lose its first deputy chairman [Miroslav Kalousek, former finance minister] and Public Affairs [of popular journalist Radek John] could not exist at all,

praguemonitor 26-APR-10

[-said]: Of course, the whole case is expedient, prepared beforehand. The things have been known for a long time. They were used now that six weeks are left before the elections. By coincidence [they surfaced] shortly ahead of a television debate transmitted live from the Olomouc region,

praguemonitor 23-APR-10

[-said]: I'm convinced that he acted bona fide when breaching the law, as his partner was a lawyer who was obliged to warn him that he may be acting unlawfully,

praguemonitor 23-APR-10

[-said]: I believed that the...media's hostile campaign can be coped with. However, in view of the legal position Mr.Vlcek's aides prepared wrongly for him, he faces a difficult situation as he has to explain his violation of law,

praguemonitor 23-APR-10

[-said]: It shows that the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is directed personally by Mr (Ivan) Langer, the ODS's election campaign,

praguemonitor 21-APR-10

[-said]: We are closely tied with the Polish nation. We shared its victories and tragedies in the past....All of us should join Poland's mourning,

praguemonitor 11-APR-10

[-told]: I am not afraid that if the Social Democrats win these elections we would not find a coalition partner,

reuters 09-APR-10

[-said]: As far as the other ministerial seat (human rights) is concerned, it would be the best solution if it were taken over by [Fischer] himself,

ceskenoviny 02-APR-10

[-said]: If the ODS declines the offer I won´t understand it,

ceskenoviny 02-APR-10

[-said]: The ODS is in fact led by the Petr Necas-Ivan Langer duo, the former as a marketing instrument used by the latter,

praguemonitor 01-APR-10

[-said]: Our country needs certainty and responsibility, instead of the political games the ODS has performed within its internal struggle for the post of Topolanek's successor,

praguemonitor 01-APR-10

[-said]: If the ODS wants to return among decent democratic parties, the only way is the departure of chairman Topolanek and deputy chairman Langer from public life. The ODS must take action to distance from them and their ideas,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-10

[-today recalled that]: the church has got control of people by means of brainwashing.

praguemonitor 23-MAR-10

[-said]: The ODS does not evidently comprehend the essence of unemployment and ways of dealing with it. It (the solution) does not rest in miniature savings for the employers. The measures have no special importance for big and medium-sized businesspeople,

praguemonitor 18-MAR-10

[-said]: We want change in the leadership of the nation!

praguemonitor 15-MAR-10

[-said]: However, I cannot imagine it being formed under the leadership of Mirek Topolanek,

ceskenoviny 13-MAR-10

[-said]: We prefer cooperation with centrist parties, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) in the first place,

ceskenoviny 13-MAR-10

[-said]: No party has done as much for the promotion of women on the candidates' lists as the CSSD, at least theoretically,

praguemonitor 09-MAR-10

[-said]: We will gladly return to this discussion sometime in the autumn,

earthtimes 05-MAR-10

[-told]: We do not want to increase our contribution,

earthtimes 05-MAR-10

[-told]: We dismiss their challenging both at home and on international level,

praguemonitor 05-MAR-10

[-said]: a deplorable excess that can unnecessarily harm Czech-Austrian relations,

praguemonitor 05-MAR-10

[-said that]: I can imagine that we change the structure of our mission.

earthtimes 05-MAR-10

[-said]: The Crane company was preparing the election campaigns for my predecessors Vladimir Spidla and Stanislav Gross (former CSSD heads and PMs). The campaign was very successful in 2002. I was consulting it with a number of people, not only with this company. I do not know if we paid them something,

praguemonitor 02-MAR-10

[-said yesterday]: I can categorically rule out that the meeting concerned Steyr or Pandurs,

praguemonitor 02-MAR-10

[-said]: It is sad that the only concrete figures in the ODS document Vision 2020 are the page numbers,

praguemonitor 22-FEB-10

[ says]: I don’t know, I can’t remember,

zpravy 21-FEB-10

[-said]: At the same time it cannot be ruled out that this is a mere revenge taken by frustrated businesspeople or a tool in our rivals' political fight or just another case fabricated by the Czech media,

praguemonitor 19-FEB-10

[-said]: I believe that no member of the current Social Democrat leadership is involved in the case in any way,

praguemonitor 18-FEB-10

[-said]: The quality of the document that was sent to the Supreme Administrative Court is on an entirely different level than the one worked out under Langer,

praguemonitor 18-FEB-10

[-said]: Czech citizens have the right to know if there was corruption and if so, who participated in it,

praguemonitor 18-FEB-10

[claims:]: I am fighting for your pensions.

ceskenoviny 16-FEB-10

[-wrote]: with the ODS and to support the CSSD in its effort to increase the maternity leave and have anti-corruption bills passed,

praguemonitor 15-FEB-10

[-said]: the inhabitants of the Usti Region must make it,

praguemonitor 09-FEB-10

[-said]: If the referendum result is opposite to my private opinion, I will fully respect it,

praguemonitor 09-FEB-10

[-said]: This is simply a display of arrogance on the ODS's part. If you don't want to give in to us, nothing will be [approved],

praguemonitor 04-FEB-10

[-said]: We will seek a way to savings and economic growth. We reckon with state budget deficit below 3 percent of GDP in 2013. The Czech Republic could enter the European currency union in 2015 or 2016. In case of an economic revival it may occur even earlier,

praguemonitor 01-FEB-10

[-said]: Strangely enough, this is being highlighted eight years later. If it were so bad, why was it not highlighted for the [election] campaign at the time?

ceskenoviny 25-JAN-10

[-said]: an invisible ambassador,

ceskenoviny 24-JAN-10

[-told]: But I cannot know what will come in the next three months, whether somebody will decide not to run but it definitively is not the initiative of the CSSD leadership (to make changes),

ceskenoviny 21-JAN-10

[-said]: The grand coalition is only discussed by right-wing politicians and journalists when the Social Democrats are far ahead of the ODS in public opinion polls,

ceskenoviny 18-JAN-10

[-said]: Let´s economise on the state´s not citizens´ expenditures,

ceskenoviny 15-JAN-10

[-said]: It is a desperate effort to divert attention from opencards, [firm of former ODS transport minister Ales Rebicek] Viamonts and all those monuments that you have left over,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[-said]: This is a stalemate because if we form a coalition with small parties after the elections, they will not naturally want the election system to be changed into a majority one,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[-said]: We will not probably be able to reach agreement on a change in the foreseeable future,

praguemonitor 04-JAN-10

[-said]: We have proposals on decreasing the deficit,

ceskenoviny 03-JAN-10

[-said]: I firmly believe that people will make the right choice so that they and their families live in a state that cares for its citizens and that will help them in the most difficult times,

praguemonitor 30-DEC-09

[-said]: We believe it is immoral if managers have their pay many times higher in state companies, compared to the rest of the staff,

ceskenoviny 20-DEC-09

[-said]: We should not change the Fischer cabinet into a travel agency in its last four months in office,

ceskenoviny 20-DEC-09

[-said]: We want to take away up to tens of billions of crowns from large corporations, big construction companies that often form a cartel,

ceskenoviny 15-DEC-09

[-said]: It is good that we have met. It is the most appropriate time to consider what to do in the future,

ceskenoviny 07-DEC-09

[-said]: As a whole, we were not much successful in the elections to the European Parliament,

ceskenoviny 07-DEC-09

[-said]: We should not believe that it is enough for us to protect people's social rights. On the contrary, prosperity, certainties and the restoration of the healthy growth, accompanied with efforts at creating new jobs should be the basis of our future policy,

ceskenoviny 07-DEC-09

[-said]: The only thing we can do is to gradually decrease the number of our soldiers. The increase in the number of our soldiers is out of the question,

praguemonitor 03-DEC-09

[ said]: The nomination of Füle is the second-best choice,

euractiv 01-DEC-09

[-said]: Tens of millions of crowns have thus been paid in vain,

praguemonitor 30-NOV-09

[-said]: The less intellectual invention was displayed, the more invectives were addressed to the political rival,

praguemonitor 24-NOV-09

[-admitted]: If the ODS finds somebody more competent than Topolanek, it may not be good news for the Social Democrats,

praguemonitor 20-NOV-09

[-said]: This is one of our three programme priorities for regional elections and we will simply insist on its observance,

praguemonitor 13-NOV-09

[-said]: I want to point out that the Social Democrats won the elections on the basis of this promise. This means that the voters have defined the structure of the regional assemblies' budgets,

praguemonitor 13-NOV-09

[-told]: very good and acceptable choice for all.

ceskenoviny 03-NOV-09

[-said]: I will listen both to Fischer and Topolanek. However, I am afraid that the nominations will remain without changes,

ceskenoviny 03-NOV-09

[-said today]: Mr Dlouhy as industry minister in the 1990s participated in the privatisation robberies on an unbelievable scale and in the disintegration of Czech industry,

ceskenoviny 03-NOV-09

[-said]: I hope there will be majority support for some candidate and I hope that it will be Spidla,

ceskenoviny 03-NOV-09

[-said]: Prime Minister Jan Fischer should put it clearly whether a different form of opt-out can be admissible for the Swedish EU presidency. The CSSD is convinced that Klaus's demand could be met in a different form, acceptable for EU partners, only through an opt-out from the validity of the article 17, paragraph 1 of the Charter, relating to property rights,

ceskenoviny 31-OCT-09

[-said]: It contradicts the Constitution for the prime minister to order such following as only the government as a whole could do so,

praguemonitor 20-OCT-09

[-said]: whether the president will satisfy himself with a political declaration or whether he wants something, let's say, more resolute. In the latter case, the negotiations would have to become part of Croatia's [EU] accession talks, as would the things Ireland has achieved in [additional] negotiations,

CH 11-OCT-09

[-said]: The reality rests in the fact that the president considers this a tax paid in exchange for his signing Lisbon. We can come up with various legal positions, but this would not solve the problem,

CH 11-OCT-09

[-said]: I must admit that I see no big reasons for dismissal as regards the eight above-mentioned CSSD-nominated ministers. Maybe in one case and that is all,

CH 07-OCT-09

[-said]: to which I was allegedly invited, but rather summoned.

CH 06-OCT-09

[-said]: This (interim) government does not have the mandate to implement the programme of one political party, moreover the TOP 09 party which is party formed by five defectors from the Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL) and whom no one elected anywhere,

CH 05-OCT-09

[-said]: The plans of minister Janota harm ordinary people and the CSSD will not allow that they be implemented,

CH 05-OCT-09

[-said]: He have permanent reservations about the Health Ministry, for instance,

CH 02-OCT-09

[-said]: Our lawyers have said that we would have no chance at all to succeed with something like this. That is why we are not considering any complaint against the state,

CH 02-OCT-09

[-said]: We consider the ODS's demand for the dismissal of Pecina an expression of hysteria and ill thought because Pecina is only taking necessary reorganisational steps that are fully in his jurisdiction and that are logical,

CH 02-OCT-09

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