German President coming on official visit to Czech Republic
Baku, October 11 (AZERTAC). Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas and German President Joachim Gauck agreed today that the stabilization of the debt-ridden euro zone is in the interest of both their countries.
According to a statement by the Czech government, Necas said the Czech government comprehends the need of the euro states to more coordinate their budget policies.
The government “will not prevent their greater integration. It will, however, see to it that the internal market be not frustrated,” says a statement Necas sent to CTK.
Gauck, on a state visit to the Czech Republic, heard in Prague two different opinions on the group of the euro countries, of which Germany, a key EU state, is a member. The Czech Republic still stands outside the zone.
At a lunch he hosted for Gauck today, Czech President Vaclav Klaus warned about the emergence of a European superstate and called for a loosening of the euro zone.
Gauck, for his part, placed emphasis on responsibility for the idea of a united Europe.
Necas also praised the visit Gauck paid to Lidice, a central Bohemian village that the Nazis razed to the ground in June 1942, to pay his respects to the victims of the massacre.
He also met survivors of the village where all 173 men were executed, women and children were sent to concentration camps, while some of the children underwent re-education in Germany.
After the war, only 143 women and 17 children returned to their country.
At the end of his visit to the Czech Republic, Gauck met at his request six representatives of the Czech public, dissidents and activists at the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague.
They spoke about the future of the European Union, the legacy of former president Vaclav Havel, their joint experience with communism and the Czechoslovak human rights platform Charter 77.
The meeting was attended by Czech Senate deputy chairman Petr Pithart (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) and activist Petr Uhl, both Charter 77 signatories, former Czechoslovak ambassador to Germany Frantisek Cerny, former MEP for German Greens Milan Horacek, Monika Pajerova, one of the leaders of the students’ revolt in 1989, which brought the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and Martin Palous, from the Vaclav Havel Library.
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