17-10-2009, 06:08 AM
Interesting and moving personal story Jan. The Czechs quite agree with you and I that the Germans don't deserve to be able to buy-back or just win for free their homes in the old Sudetenland territory. They had collectively removed half of Europe's population [and killed/enslaved much of it] and collectively should bear the responsibility.
A new poll conducted by the Median agency for the Czech daily Lidove
noviny has suggested that 65 percent of Czechs support the country's
president, Vaclav Klaus, in his refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. The
survey questioned 500 respondents, 63 percent of whom expressed worry
over ratification, unless the country received an opt-out on the EU's
Charter of Fundamental Rights. The president has said that without an
exemption, the treaty could allow for ethnic Germans expelled from
Bohemia and Moravia after World War II to reopen property claims cases.
The Czech Republic is the only country in the EU's 27-member bloc to
not yet have completed ratification.
A new poll conducted by the Median agency for the Czech daily Lidove
noviny has suggested that 65 percent of Czechs support the country's
president, Vaclav Klaus, in his refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. The
survey questioned 500 respondents, 63 percent of whom expressed worry
over ratification, unless the country received an opt-out on the EU's
Charter of Fundamental Rights. The president has said that without an
exemption, the treaty could allow for ethnic Germans expelled from
Bohemia and Moravia after World War II to reopen property claims cases.
The Czech Republic is the only country in the EU's 27-member bloc to
not yet have completed ratification.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass