Czechs qualified for EURO.

Meanwhile, the Czechs managed to elect a perfectly hung parliament.

Czechs have the reputation of being negative and euro sceptical

Currently about 100 thousand Czechs visit exotic countries every year!

The next day, thousands of Czechs turned out in the streets.

The Czechs and Slovaks already parted ways, as did the different nations of Yugoslavia.

Petr Jiracek cleared up any remaining doubt for the Czechs in the 81st minute.

Will they be able to feel European, like the Poles or the Czechs have always felt?

She also wants to use the EU environment better, and get more Czechs into European institutions.

Klaus, who thought that the economically less successful Slovakia was holding the Czechs back, did not object.

But, above all, there is a deep sense among Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, and others, that they are Europeans.

We Czechs are 100 European, and were even when the Iron Curtain cut us off from democratic Europe.

Czechs were dealing with the coming financial crisis they solved the as crisis and organised the East Partnership Summit.

The Slovaks, who had not experienced their own state and felt patronized by the Czechs, gradually eroded the common state.

But without Havel, the Czechs may well find that they no longer receive the same warm reception in the international arena.

Even as Barack Obama is worshipped in Western Europe, many Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians think he is some kind of socialist.

Unlike Cold War era East Germans, Czechs, and Poles, protesters in today s Middle East are not unified by opposition to foreign control.

The more that Russians, Poles, Czechs, and others saw of the life style in the Western democracies, the more they questioned their own system.

With no means of stemming election year fiscal expansion, the Czechs, too, have been forced to abandon their 2010 target date for euro adoption.

Over the past ten years President Havel has repeatedly asked the Czechs to be more active and to not let politicians control their lives.

The ambassadress says Czechs are said to be Euro sceptics as well as people noticing the negative rather than the positive sides of things.

Most often, Czechs spent their holiday at home, which resulted in great number of cottages and summer houses, a habit that survives until now.

After half time, the crossbar saved the Czechs already battered world class goalie after the forward from FC Seoul retreated in the 50th minute.

Easily understood, it conformed to patterns of behavior most Czechs acquired during the communist era, when public and private spheres of life were rigidly separated.

In August 1989, I proposed in the Polish Diet a draft resolution apologizing to the Czechs and Slovaks for Polish involvement in the 1968 invasion.

We Czechs are finally finding our courage, he said, as if sensing the people s new readiness to confront the guardians of their communist police state.

The Czechs only needed 1 0 (0 0) in the playoff second leg against outsider Montenegro after a clear win in the first leg (2 0).

To him, Jews, Germans, Czechs, or Hungarians were all his subjects, wherever they lived, from the smallest Galician shtetl to the grand capitals of Budapest or Vienna.

By the end of 1990s, Czechs did not need visa for visiting nearly all developed world countries, except for the USA. This made our travelling even easier.

The USSR fell apart because its monolithic institutions could not accommodate nations Czechs and Uzbeks, Hungarians and Siberians, Poles and Mongols whose histories, circumstances and aspirations were radically divergent.

While until 1989, a holiday in the GDR or Bulgaria was the climax of our travels, last year, Czechs spent 4.5 million holidays in countries all over the world.

Lacking such external threats, the ties between, say, Czechs and Slovaks (to say nothing of Serbs and Croats!) are too weak to warrant a common national level of government.

In the past, calls for active civic engagement and Havel s moralistic views left average Czechs cold and alienated political opponents, who accused him of promoting a nonpolitical form of politics.

We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

The Czechs, probably the people with the most vivid historical memory of the bad regionalism of the 1930 s, succeeded France, the European country that today is the least constrained in asserting its national interest.

Emotions flare among Czechs when, just as other countries in the Union, the CR must fight in Brussels for the right to particular labelling on its traditional products, in which it does not always succeed.

They joined forces with non Roma activists, which is also a major step in the history of the struggle for Roma rights, as the majority of ethnic Czechs want to have nothing to do with the Roma.

The Czechs fought for six years with the Germans and Austrians to protect the labelling of their Olomoucke tvaruzky, however the tuzemsky rum, whose tradition reaches back to the 19th century here, had to be renamed tuzemak by the manufacturers.

For the first time in history, in 2008 Czechs spent more than a half of their holidays abroad (50.3 ) and for the first time in history, they spent over 15 thousand Crowns per person per holiday abroad, including their costs at the destination.

Erika Steinbach, President of the Association of Deportees (from the East) and a member of Stoiber's CDU, argues that the issue of the deportation of German populations is one faced by Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes, thus taking in most of East Central Europe.

More to the point, the protests now roiling the Arab world have little to do with the Prague Spring of 1968 or the revolutions that swept through Eastern Europe in 1989. Unlike Cold War era East Germans, Czechs, and Poles, protesters in today s Middle East are not unified by opposition to foreign control.

In the past, calls for active civic engagement and Havel s moralistic views left average Czechs cold and alienated political opponents, who accused him of promoting a nonpolitical form of politics. Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.

The Czechs, probably the people with the most vivid historical memory of the bad regionalism of the 1930 s, succeeded France, the European country that today is the least constrained in asserting its national interest. The clash of two visions of Europe is eroding the political stability of an area that once represented the best model and greatest hope for benign regionalism.