EMM News Explorer: Alexandr Vondra

[-said]: The EC´s reservations about the way the planes were acquired without a tender persist. By halting the proceedings, the EC appreciated the measures we´ve taken in our system of public orders placing,

ceskenoviny 28-NOV-11

[-said]: The EC's reservations about the way the planes were acquired without a tender persist. By halting the proceedings, the EC appreciated the measures we've taken in our system of public orders placing,

praguemonitor 25-NOV-11

[-said]: I am not sure at all whether the Interior Ministry has fulfilled the task assigned to it by the government. I have the suspicion that the Interior Ministry did not fulfil a government resolution,

praguemonitor 21-NOV-11

[-said]: Instead of one analysis we have four now. This is no way forward,

praguemonitor 21-NOV-11

[-said]: He was independent, working as a semaphore that only shows the red and green lights. There was no place for orange in him,

praguemonitor 21-NOV-11

[-said]: For all of us, he was a very important man. Without him, it would have been much more difficult for us in the difficult times,

praguemonitor 21-NOV-11

[-said]: The interest was quite high now. This was also caused by the fact that recruitment had been suspended for almost three years,

praguemonitor 09-NOV-11

[-said]: It is definitely no substitution, it is a standard project,

ceskenoviny 27-OCT-11

[-told]: I assess my cooperation with Vlastimil Picek positively,

praguemonitor 24-OCT-11

[-said]: We are aware of our commitments, we meet them and we will meet them,

praguemonitor 08-SEP-11

[-said]: I think the soldiers are perfectly prepared for it. I'm proud of the Czech Republic being represented here by so outstanding soldiers,

praguemonitor 06-SEP-11

[-said]: I hope we'll establish closer cooperation in Afghanistan that will be bilaterally beneficial. I've also given the defence minister an offer of some military materiel we could sell to them,

praguemonitor 06-SEP-11

[-said]: We should not approach such anniversaries with resignation but we should draw a lesson from them. A state that gives up its own defence cannot exist as an independent state for long,

praguemonitor 22-AUG-11

[-said]: The reserves have been more or less used up. Any further cuts means that we must affect the capabilities and this would of course raise the question of to what extent are we able to meet our commitments to NATO,

praguemonitor 18-JUL-11

[-said]: It was difficult to imagine the materialisation of the great changes of which he was talking,

ceskenoviny 01-JUL-11

[-said]: Not even in my wildest dreams would I have been able to imagine that a street in my city will be named after Reagan one day,

ceskenoviny 01-JUL-11

[-recently wrote]: We haven't refused the early warning system terminal to spurn the United States or because the project would be too big. The opposite is true. We want our involvement to be far bigger and we want to confirm our alliance with the USA in concrete projects. As we are not sure that this project could develop promisingly, it would be imprudent to invest in it and create excessive expectations, which would finally result in unnecessary frustration in bilateral relations,

praguemonitor 01-JUL-11

[-noted]: Our first goal immediately after the revolution in November 1989 was a prompt departure od Soviet troops,

praguemonitor 28-JUN-11

[-said]: It is important to constantly remind of this anniversary. As there is a danger that our occupation will be forgotten,

praguemonitor 27-JUN-11

[-said]: Since it had been established in 1955, this military pact was above all an instrument of power with which Moscow held its satellites under control,

hurriyetdailynews 27-JUN-11

[-told]: Immediately after the Velvet Revolution, one of the first requirements was that those troops must go home,

kyivpost 20-JUN-11

[-said]: I do not shun political responsibility, but I categorically dismiss any claim about my participation in any intention to abuse public finances in connection with the EU presidency,

praguemonitor 17-JUN-11

[-repeated that]: certain financial transactions between the order sub-suppliers that arouse justified questions.

praguemonitor 17-JUN-11

[-said]: I am sorry about the Czech successful presidency being challenged...partial shortcomings can always be found, of course. However, I do not know about any more fundamental mistake,

praguemonitor 17-JUN-11

[-said]: We can return to it at some point but it's premature at the moment,

ChinaPost 16-JUN-11

[-said]: They gave us an offer and we assessed that,

ChinaPost 16-JUN-11

[-said]: Our ideas about the future cooperation are more colorful than just a room or two with some screens there,

news 15-JUN-11

[-said]: In this context we thanked (them) for the previous ... offer and noted that in light of further developments it will not really be needed,

reuters 15-JUN-11

[-said]: Specific talks are underway between the Czech Rail (CD) and the military,

praguemonitor 15-JUN-11

[-said]: Our ideas about the future cooperation are more colorful than just a room of two with some screens there,

newschannel5 15-JUN-11

[-said]: The Czech Republic will look for other options to participate in the project,

rian 15-JUN-11

[-said]: I don't want to make dramatic statements, but we are also looking for other possibilities than the question of whether it [cooperation] should focus directly on missile defence,

praguemonitor 09-JUN-11

[-said]: It will eventually be a political decision. The prime minister's words were quite clear. There is interest on the lower level and there is some political will on the upper level,

praguemonitor 24-MAY-11

[-explained]: The action was legal but mistakes were made in the way it was carried out,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[-told]: We stick to our rather reserved position. Our military forces definitely will not take part in this phase, but we are glad that it is under the NATO supervision and command. After all, we'll have more information, I suppose,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[-said]: The Alliance has relevant experience, capability and capacity. I hope that the embarrassing impression from the past days will dissipate, as then it was really not known who was in command in the given moment,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[-said]: The situation would have to require it and someone would have to ask us for it. Third, such a unit would have to operate within a formation enjoying a mandate. There is no such mandate, no one is calling for it, nor does the situation in Libya require it, fortunately,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[-told]: It was completely inappropriate, useless and unprofessional. The failure of several individuals throws a shadow on the whole organisation,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[-said]: Mainly transport capacities and supplies of necessary items would be provided, but neither in this case are we in a situation where this was required from us,

praguemonitor 23-MAR-11

[ said]: We are not a European power, it is a way for us to have more information and a possibility to influence things,

aktualne 22-MAR-11

[-added that]: Which means that more than anything else, it is about transport capabilities.

aktualne 22-MAR-11

[ said]: For us, it would be acceptable only when NATO steps in as a collective body, and this situation has not emerged,

aktualne 22-MAR-11

[-said]: No one has asked us for it, nor does the situation require it, fortunately. Let's hope it will not require it at all,

praguemonitor 21-MAR-11

[-added]: The question is whether the no-fly zone will really solve something,

praguemonitor 21-MAR-11

[-said]: cannot remain uninvestigated.

praguemonitor 14-MAR-11

[-said]: With view to how it looked, there is a justified suspicion, but practically certainty, that it was a version that leaked at a time when it was confidential,

praguemonitor 14-MAR-11

[-told]: That is why I sought a personality whose experience and competence will guarantee the necessary systemic changes in this area,

praguemonitor 03-MAR-11

[ said]: This is why I was looking for a personality whose experience and professional knowledge will guarantee the implementation of necessary systemic changes in this area,

praguemonitor 02-MAR-11

[-told]: >Alexandr Vondra decorated four late members of the resistance group of the Masin Brothers, Czech Television (CT) reported. The group tried to paralyse the communist regime by sabotages and three of its members managed to fight their way over the guarded border to West Germany. The remaining three members were caught and executed. Czech parliament is now discussing a bill on the resistance movement against the communist regime, under which the resistance fighters would have the status of war veterans. I bel

praguemonitor 25-FEB-11

[-said]: I am glad that the police have started investigating it,

praguemonitor 09-FEB-11

[-said]: I don't know what margins worth hundreds of millions of crowns he means. [Margins] for Omnipol? What margins does Miroslav Kalousek consider morally acceptable and what unacceptable? Are [the margins] for Omnipol acceptable and the rest unacceptable? I don't know and I even cannot know what margins the firms that assisted to the Czech EU presidency applied, but it is mathematically impossible for them to reach hundreds of millions,

praguemonitor 04-FEB-11

[-said]: I don´t know what margins worth hundreds of millions of crowns he means. [Margins] for Omnipol? What margins does Miroslav Kalousek consider morally acceptable and what unacceptable? Are [the margins] for Omnipol acceptable and the rest unacceptable? I don´t know and I even cannot know what margins the firms that assisted to the Czech EU presidency applied, but it is mathematically impossible for them to reach hundreds of millions,

ceskenoviny 03-FEB-11

[-said]: I personally neither negotiated nor signed any contracts and I was not acquainted with most of them either. This is also true about the contract with Promopro,

praguemonitor 28-JAN-11

[-said]: I did nothing bad. I resolutely and fundamentally dismiss any considerations about that I did something bad, not alone corruption, therefore I am by no means considering resigning,

praguemonitor 28-JAN-11

[-said]: We have to bear in mind this fact as this similarity is no coincidence, displayed by both totalitarian ideologies and regimes,

praguemonitor 27-JAN-11

[-said]: It is a clear example of years-long broad violation of the law on public orders,

praguemonitor 25-JAN-11

[-said]: This also happens due to a commander holding his post for an excessively long time. In the case of the Health Materiel Base commander it was unbelievable 17 years,

praguemonitor 25-JAN-11

[-said]: We've even uncovered unilateral setting of prices by the companies involved,

praguemonitor 25-JAN-11

[-told]: All of a sudden I have realised how everything in the world is interconnected and how awful it is when a regime committing the worst evil comes to power,

praguemonitor 24-JAN-11

[-said]: In six months in office I never before had a chance of welcoming such a huge family,

praguemonitor 24-JAN-11

[-said]: We have progressed much further than any time before. There is hope that we will manage to solve this great task this year,

praguemonitor 14-JAN-11

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