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NEWS FROM THE VISEGRAD GROUP:
11/11/2009
Shanghai---On 24 September 2009 during the fourth Participants' Meeting of EXPO 2010, Mr. Pavel Stehlík was elected member of the Steering Committee for EXPO 2010. Mr. Stehlík, the Commissioner General of the Czech Republic for EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, whose candidature was supported by the Czech Government, became also the common candidate of the Visegrad Group countries as his candidature was supported by all V4 memberstates. This considerably contributed to the final success of this candudature and became another success case of V4 cooperation.
The Steering Committee of EXPO represents the common interests of all official participants and ensures that the Regulation of EXPO are fully implemented. The Steering Committee acts also in a consultative role to the Commissioner General of the EXPO as necessary and exercises authority when disputes arise. The Steering Committee is composed of 20 to 22 elected members and 1 to 3 elected Vice Chairmen.
06/10/2009
Foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group countries met in Budapest at a special ministerial meeting dedicated to the Western Balkans on Tuesday, 6 October 2009. The ministers acknowledged the crucial role European and Euro-Atlantic integration played in the transformation of Central Europe and wish to see the enlargement policy fostering stability and prosperity in the same manner in the Western Balkan region... [read further]
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30/09/2009
Acquiring ten new documentary film trailers presenting films made by young documentarists in the Visegrad Group countries, the collection now consists of more than 40 clips (by authors such as E. Hníková, R. Lakatos, M. Šulík, M. Škop or M. Dembiński). See films some of which will only be released in 2010!
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21/09/2009
 The Visegrad Countries Special is a supplement to The Slovak Spectator weekly published on 31 August 2009 as part of a cooperation of the Spectator with the Villa Decius Foundation; the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; the Institute of Slavonic and East-European Studies of Charles University, Prague; the Slovak Foreign Policy Association; Pontis Foundation, Bratislava; and the Theatre Institute, Prague, as part of a Small Grant No. 10920088 from the International Visegrad Fund.
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 The unique quintlingual book project called Visegrád 1335 presents in a single publication the collection of the 14th-century charters following the royal summit in Visegrád which inspired the modern cooperation in Central Europe--the Visegrad Group. The book is a result of cooperation of historians (medievalists) and archivists from V4 countries and was published by the International Visegrad Fund in Bratislava in 2009 and contains a historical background study. All texts are available in Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and English, charter transcriptions also in Latin.
:::: Visegrád 1335 overview
All public schools and libraries in the region can apply for a copy of the book using the Comments/Questions bar in the left column.
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CURRENT NEWS:
Hungary opposition offers funding for energy-saving households If Fidesz forms Hungary's next government, it will set up a "green bank" to finance the rehabilitation of pre-fab housing estates and improvements in the homes to facilitate more economical heating, Viktor Orban, head of the main opposition party, said on HirTV on Monday. Orban said his party had a detailed programme, and added that the scheme would not require any contributions from the families. 08/02/2010 PM Bajnai on Hungary-Egypt gas cooperation Egypt's contribution to the Nabucco gas pipeline project and its readiness to supply liquefied natural gas to Hungary offer strategic opportunities, Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai told reporters in Cairo on Monday. Bajnai spoke following talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. The two prime ministers said at a joint press conference that technical details of the Hungary-Egypt gas cooperation were being discussed by representatives of both countries later in the day and on Tuesday. 08/02/2010 Hungarian Ecumenical Charity to rebuild schools in Haiti The Hungarian Ecumenical Charity will soon start rebuilding two schools in Haiti, the organisation said on Monday. The charity said the schools, in Leogan and Darbonne, were both near the epicentre of the earthquake that hit Haiti in mid-January. Many organisations have focused their rescue efforts on the capital Port-au-Prince, so the Hungarian Ecumenical Charity has chosen locations that are receiving less support. The schools are currently operating in temporary tents. 08/02/2010 Hungarian, Romanian universities launch joint ecology research A Hungarian and a Romanian university is to launch a joint ecology research programme with European Union funding, head of the Ecology Department at the Hungarian University of Szeged (SE) told the press on Monday. The 170,000 euro project will examine the ecological status of the Maros (Mures in Romanian) and Koros valleys, said Laszlo Kormoczi. The Romanian partner is the Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad. 08/02/2010 Hungarian metal foam passes test in space The testing of a new advanced technology for producing metal foam carried out on the International Space Station last week was successful, Nepszabadsag daily said on Monday. The foam casting hardware developed by Admatis in Miskolc, NE Hungary, was successful in producing the shaped metal foam in space. The foam is composed of silicate nano particles dissolved in water and it can be used for producing forms of shaped metal. 08/02/2010 Poland open to cooperation with new Ukrainian president Poland is ready to cooperate with every democratically elected president of Ukraine, presidential Minister Mariusz Handzlik told PAP on Monday. "Grounds of our strategic partnership do not depend on who is currently in power, but are based on a strong foundation of common principles, interests and vision of the future of our countries and nations," Handzlik said. The minister stressed that for the Polish president Ukraine is a strategic partner in bilateral relations as well as in the international dimension. 08/02/2010 Polish ecologists against amendments to GMO law Polish ecologists believe that the government's draft amendment to a law on GMO should be rejected in its entirety as incompatible with the Constitution. The Sejm will hear the draft on Tuesday. The ecologists say that the draft violates the Constitution's article which bans involving people in scientific experiments without their consent. In their opinion GMO must not be grown without the approval of the whole of society. 08/02/2010 Poland's steel output will grow after steep fall in 2009 After a 30 pc decline in 2009, Poland's steel production and consumption is expected to steadily increase and reach the peak levels of 2007 in 3 years' time, the HIPH steel industry association predicts. Metallurgy was among the branches worst hit by the international economic crisis last year, with production in Poland falling to an unprecedented level of 7.1 m tons (27 pc down on 2008), HIPH's analysis shows. 08/02/2010 Polish Sejm to debate SOFA, smoking ban During its four-day session, that started on Tuesday, Poland's Lower House of Parliament will debate the Status of Forces (SOFA) agreement regulating deployment of US troops in Poland. The SOFA agreement may also regulate other undertakings related to the stationing of US troops in Poland in the future. The Sejm will also discuss a bill banning smoking in public places, including work, means of transport, sports and recreation facilities. 08/02/2010 Polish Foreign Ministry summons Belarus ambassador Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer met Belarusian ambassador to Warsaw Viktar Gaisyonak on Monday and voiced serious reservations concerning actions by Belarus security forces, foreign ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski told PAP. Earlier on Monday the Belarus police entered the Polish House in Iwieniec, owned by the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB) led by Andzelika Borys. 08/02/2010 Czech NGO promotes Fair Trade flowers from Zimbabwe The Ecumenical Academy Prague NGO launched a campaign promoting flowers with the Fair Trade certificates in the Czech Republic in order to help improve the work conditions of labourers at flower farms in Zimbabwe, the NGO´s head Jiri Silny, told journalists on Mondaytoday. The promotion campaign is to last nearly two years. If farm owners improve the work conditions, their products may be given the Fair Trade certificate, Silny said. 08/02/2010 Supreme Court turns down recourse of Czech gangsters The Czech Supreme Court (NS) dismissed the recourse lodged by Berdych gang members Tomas Puta and Maros Sulej against ten and six years in prison at a closed hearing at the end of January, court spokesman Petr Knoetig said on Monday. Lower instance courts sentenced them to ten and six years in prison for a number of crimes committed in 1999 to 2001. 08/02/2010 Czech police detain Tibetans wanting to illegally enter Austria The Czech police detained three women from Tibet who wanted to illegally travel from Poland via the Czech Republic to Austria last week, foreigner police spokesman Roman Pittner said on Monday. They claimed they want to join their relatives in the celebrations of the forthcoming Buddhist New Year falling on Sunday, Pittner said, adding that the Tibetans have been the first foreigners detained in south Moravia this year. 08/02/2010 Vaclav Havel has respiratory passages inflammation Former Czech president Vaclav Havel has respiratory passages inflammation and is on antibiotics, his spokeswoman Sabina Tancevova said on Monday, adding that he has cancelled his programme for the next two or three days for the time being. The antibiotics have been effective, but it depends on the further course of the illness how long he will be treated, Tancevova quoted Havel´s doctors as saying. 08/02/2010 Czech, Egyptian presidents talk about Egyptological exhibition Czech President Vaclav Klaus and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak talked about a large Egyptological exhibition that will probably be held in Prague in two years. The exhibition is to feature finds by Czech Egyptologists as well as loans from Egyptian collections. Czech scientists have made a number of unique discoveries since the Czechoslovak Egyptological Institute was founded at Prague's Charles University in Prague 52 years ago. 08/02/2010 Survey: two-thirds of Slovaks against ban on crosses in schools As many as 39 percent of Slovaks think that there certainly shouldn't be any law in Slovakia forbidding schools from putting crosses on classroom walls, according to a survey carried out by the Focus agency that was published on Monday. Another 28 percent would prefer not to see such legislation approved in the country. Conversely, around 10 percent of the 1,057 respondents would definitely welcome such a law, while another 15 percent would tend to support such a prohibition. 08/02/2010 OSCE official Vollebaek arrives in Slovakia to discuss minority law Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) High Commissioner for Minorities Knut Vollebaek arrived in Slovakia on Monday to help resolve the controversy over a state language amendment adopted late last year that representatives of the Hungarian minority view as curtailing their language rights. In the morning Vollebaek met one of the Hungarian representative parties Most-Hid, which hopes to enter parliament after the general election in June 2010. 08/02/2010 Slovak government scraps certain restrictions in second pillar due to EC The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry on Monday submitted an amendment to the Old-age Pension Savings Act - a move made in response to reservations expressed by the European Commission (EC) towards certain investment restrictions applied to pension funds in the so-called private second pillar of the pension system. "The criticised shortcomings have been corrected and the discriminatory factors removed by the proposed changes," the ministry said. 08/02/2010 Slovak PM: we decline any additional criteria for eurozone candidates Slovakia supports the aim of European Union's member state Estonia to introduce the common European currency in January 2011, Slovak Premier Robert Fico said at a press briefing on Monday marking the visit of Estonian Premier Andrus Ansip to Slovakia. "The Slovak Government fully supports this Estonian ambition," said Fico. Fico said that Slovakia will decline any efforts to pass new "political" criteria on candidates. to block new countries from entering the eurozone. 08/02/2010 Slovak communists organise petition for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan The Slovak Communist Party (KSS) has organised a petition for withdrawing the Slovak guard unit from military operations in Afghanistan, KSS Chairman Jozef Hrdlicka said on Monday. The petition has begun on the same day (February 8), and will last until about the autumn, said Hrdlicka. According to him, the petition is the party's response to "the Government's decision to increase Slovakia's military presence in Afghanistan by some 50 soldiers. 08/02/2010
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