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2013-04-13 - ČSSD adopted three resolutions on current political situation at today´s meeting of the Central Executive Committee.
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2013-04-10 - The governmental proposal of the law governing the financing of political parties is insufficient. If it is to increase transparency of funding and to limit corruption, then the law must be radically strengthened. ČSSD will seek an agreement of political parties, which should lead to adoption of the following rules:
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2013-04-03 - Social Democracy clearly welcomes the fact that the President Miloš Zeman completed the ratification of a document that allows establishing a European stabilization mechanism as an effective measure to assist vulnerable economies of the euro-zone.
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2013-03-01 - One of the long-term priorities of the Social Democrats is the quest for justice, equal rights and opportunities for all without distinction, including equality before the law. Therefore ČSSD from the very beginning clearly disagrees with the amnesty of President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Petr Nečas for fraudsters involved in bribery and perpetrators of serious crimes.
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2013-02-22 - ČSSD considers the Law on property settlement with churches, which narrowly passed in the Chamber of deputies thanks to the government of Petr Nečas, despite the rejection by the Senate, as unjust, costly and highly risky for state and the future role of churches and religious communities in the Czech society.
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2013-02-18 - From the beginning of the preparation and approval of the law on state settlement with churches ČSSD repeatedly pointed out the lack of transparency in preparation and possible negative effects of the act.
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2013-01-03 - Czech social democratic party firmly rejects the form and scope of amnesty on which agreed President Klaus and Prime Minister Nečas. We consider it scandalous that amnesty frees participants of large economic frauds, including tunnelling banks and companies, frauds during privatisation or tax evasion involving billions of CZK. According to the Attorney General this involves at least 13 serious cases of economic crime whose investigation was worth a great deal of effort of both the police and the judiciary. This long-term hard work, including related financial costs, is now completely useless. This amnesty will thus lead to great disillusionment not only among citizens but also in the Czech police and judiciary.
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2012-11-30 - CSSD welcomes the UN decision to give Palestine a non-member observer status. Clear vote of the majority of UN countries is a positive step towards a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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2012-11-27 - Social democracy has proposed abolition of 14 Laws that have been discussed by the governing coalition in the Chamber of Deputies in our opinion unconstitutionally.
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2012-11-04 - I want to congratulate Petr Necas, who was elected as chairman of ODS. I don´t feel the need to comment on the details of the internal condition of the ODS or on the position of the right-wing government, but still I consider it to be very weak and unstable.
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2012-11-03 - Czech social democratic party does not expect the ODS Congress in Brno to provide a solution to the current critical economic and social situation in the country. ODS is not even after the electoral debacle able to understand that the fault is not in the way they explain their policy, but in fact of government reforms themselves.
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2012-11-02 - Without a word of justification coalition government today suspended for a week meeting of the Chamber of Deputies. This occurred despite a clear objection of the opposition whose representatives could not even express their objections in the parliament. We consider such a course of action, when, without any previous agreement unexpectedly and unreasonably interrupted regular meeting of the House of Deputies as unfair and arrogant.
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2012-11-01 - Members of the Social Democratic Party will present a bill to delay the government's pension reform in the Chamber of Deputies next week. Intention of ČSSD is to stop privatization of the pensioner´s money by releasing of the second pillar of the pension reform. According to the current legislative chaos and errors that occur in approved laws, ČSSD proposes a draft law to delay start of the reform, so people could finally decide about the reform in the next elections that should be held no later than in the first half of 2014.
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2012-10-30 - In ČSSD we believe that the recent significant defeat of the governmental parties (ODS, TOP 09) in the recent regional elections is also a major defeat for the current right-wing government liquidation policies in social, health care and financial matters. The win of ČSSD is a clear proof that citizens want a fair and socially responsible policy instead of board cuts, tax increases and further privatization of state services.
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2012-10-30 - The government will consider a report of the Minister of the Interior about the possibility of the introduction of electronic voting in elections. ČSSD firmly rejects public spending on projects and studies during the economic crisis in the name of preparations of electronic voting, considering that is quite unlikely that there will be electronic voting within 10 years. Besides, under the rule of the current government, there is a risk of another „electronic tunnelling“.
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2012-09-24 - The reform proposals put forward by ČSSD are the outcome of thorough debates with experts and ordinary citizens. Our political programme is not being created against the will of society and we want and will debate it further. We want the reforms to lead to stabilisation of the state finances without lowering the citizens’ standard of living and social security but the contrary, to lead to growth. If we succeed in the next election we will do everything to put them through in accordance with the citizens’ will.
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2012-08-14 - ČSSD fundamentally rejects today’s statement by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk that it is allegedly “defending the crimes of communism”. The entire history of social democracy is integrally linked with defending and promoting democratic values, whether during the First Czechoslovak Republic, the fight against German Nazism, or the struggle to maintain democracy from 1945-1948.
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2012-06-20 - The Social Democrats adamantly oppose the plan of the Nečas government for property settlement with the churches which it is pushing through in spite of a substantial resistance of the majority of the citizens of the Czech Republic, and without agreement with the opposition, for its unfairness, lack of conception and high risks it poses for the state. In the current complicated economic situation we consider the release of property worth more than 80 billion crowns plus financial compensation in the amount of 60 billion crowns quite misplaced and grossly damaging to our country.
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2012-06-20 - The Social Democrats consider the collapse of the state maturita project a serious problem which may mean a serious threat to the standard of education in our country. The repeated failure of the state maturita together with the deep suspicion that the whole project which cost more than 1.5 billion crowns from the state coffers was overpriced, gives grounds for an immediate and consistent solution.
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2012-05-31 - ČSSD demands immediate resignation of minister of finance Miroslav Kalousek. It considers it inacceptable for the Nečas government and its minister of finance to pursue an ostrich-like policy and refuse to assume political responsibility for the fatal failure in drawing on tens of billions of crowns from EU structural funds and for what is clearly a badly configured system for auditing the EU structural funds.
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2012-05-10 - The Czech social democratic party heartily welcomes the news of today’s election of a new French president, socialist Francois Holland. After a long 17 years of alternating right-wing presidents, this marks an important change for both France and Europe as a whole.
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2012-05-09 - ČSSD bears in mind and respects the decision of Jan Švejnar not to take part in further Discussion Arenas, in which ČSSD leads a debate with the public regarding the formulation of its new platform and possible candidates for the office of President of the Czech Republic. It is a surprising decision for ČSSD, since Jan Švejnar originally confirmed his participation in the Discussion Arenas.
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2012-05-09 - ČSSD fully understands the reasons behind the deep dissatisfaction of seniors with the right-wing reformist government of Petr Nečas, the policies of which have resulted in record price increases in food and medicine, destruction of the current mandatory cost-of-living increases in pensions, across-the-board cuts in social benefits, skyrocketing increases in medical fees, and underfinancing of the network of social facilities for the sick and disabled.
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2011-11-23 - On Friday, October 21st, the Parliament of the Czech Republic held the first ever “EU Strategy for the Danube Region” conference, which focused on the benefits and challenges for this macro-region.
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2011-10-04 - The Social Democrats support a demonstration by civic initiatives and union representatives planned for Saturday 22 October. We regard the protest as a quite legitimate and appropriate expression of discontent with the strongly arrogant and unjust policy of the current government.
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2011-10-04 - Prime Minister Nečas and Minister of Finance Kalousek are often in dispute. For example about the super ecotender. Today, however, they finally found harmony and both rejected the European Commission’s proposal for a tax on financial transactions.
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2011-10-04 - As the shadow minister of human rights and equal opportunities, I agree with the proposal by TOP09 deputy Anna Putnová that higher education students who become pregnant during their studies should get an exception from the Higher Education Bill. Thanks to this exception they would not have to, due to their motherhood, formally suspend their studies, and the time spent caring for their child would not be counted in the standard study period.
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2011-10-04 - Information in today’s media about another of the never-ending series of corruption suspicions in the Czech army, this time concerning overpriced quad-bikes for the military police, highlights the unacceptable practice of removing the taxpayers’ money from the Ministry of Defence under the Topolánek government.
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2011-10-04 - For a long time the ČSSD has been of the opinion that tuition fees for public higher education institutions will mean a social barrier to access to higher education, and it therefore categorically rejects tuition fees as such.
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2013-04-13 ČSSD adopted three resolutions on current political situation at today´s...
