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The Czech president doesn't care about anti-discrimination laws

(B2) Czech President Vaclav Klaus' latest find: vetoing an anti-discrimination law which transposes the European directives of 2000 (the Czech text had nevertheless been voted by a clear majority of deputies in April 2008: 111 votes out of 170 ). A law "poor","useless"And"counterproductive", and which "the consequences would be problematic“, estimates a press release from the presidency. In short, the notorious Eurosceptic that is Vaclav Klaus has decided to throw overboard the obligations that the Czech Republic had nevertheless taken on its accession in 2004: to transpose all the Community acquis! The Czech Republic is thus the last of the 27 EU members not to have adopted anti-discrimination measures. It is now necessary, according to the CTK agency, a new parliamentary vote in the Chamber of Deputies to circumvent the presidential veto. Note that the Czech Republic will preside on January 1, 2009, the European Union... This promises!

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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