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	theparliament.com - Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social affairs and Equal opportunities
		Vladimir Spidla: My first priority is to increase the number of people in employment – starting with women and young people.
		Vladimir Spidla: People may be able to gain something in all systems.
		Vladimir Spidla: The new directive on working time came about because provisions in the old directive included a 10 year review clause – and that is what we are engaged in now.
	www.eupolitix.com /EN/Interviews/200502/7292f982-d3f7-4888-adaf-91ab2046b111.htm (1123 words)

	News: The Prague Post Online
		Spidla struck a defiant note in his acceptance speech, proclaiming his firm belief in "a socialist state" and attacking his enemies on the right, saying all they offered voters were "hazy notions of a society with sharp social differences and within which power is only for the powerful."
		Spidla said he is willing to consider negotiating with both the ODS and the Quads, although he suspects that won't be necessary.
		Spidla said working with the Communist Party, as some in the left wing of his party have suggested, is out of the question.
	www.praguepost.cz /news041801a.html (1631 words)

	Reflections on Vladimir Spidla's three months as European Commissioner - 23-02-2005 - Radio Prague
		Vladimir Spidla, has often been criticized in his home country for his inability to speak English.
		Mr Spidla's priorities are employment, fighting poverty, and equal opportunities, which he also incorporated in the Social Agenda presented by the Commission earlier this month.
		Whether Vladimir Spidla succeeds in his goals will depend not only on his determination to materialize his plans, but also on the cohesion and cooperation of the large 25-member European Commission which has most of its term still ahead.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/63709 (985 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Embattled Czech premier resigns
		Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla is standing down as the head of government and leader of his party.
		Mr Spidla's announcement came after a day of dramatic twists and turns at the meeting of the Social Democrats central executive committee, the BBC's Rob Cameron in Prague reports.
		Mr Spidla survived the confidence vote, but it was a pyrrhic victory as more than half of the delegates still voted against him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3842911.stm (366 words)

	News: The Prague Post Online
		Spidla is the new head of the Social Democrats, a party that has pinned its uneven fortunes on the often awkward, always outspoken charisma of Milos Zeman.
		The danger for Spidla, in Zeman's absence, is that both public and political focus will finally fall on the CSSD's policies, and on its shortcomings.
		But, Spidla must first pretty up his party, and himself, hoping he can do so in time to make a pitch to next year's electorate.
	www.praguepost.cz /opin041101b.html (571 words)

	Premier Spidla Visits the USA, Meets President Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Spidla, who led the Czech government delegation, was accompanied by three members of his cabinet, Minister of Foreign Affairs Cyril Svoboda, Minister of Defense Miroslav Kostelka, and Minister of Industry and Trade Milan Urban.
		Spidla gave a short speech and thanked them for remembering their roots and original homeland.
		Miroslav Kostelka, the new Minister of Defense and successor to Jaroslav Tvrdik, was appointed by President Vaclav Klaus on June 9, 2003, on nomination by Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla.
	www.mzv.cz /washington/newslet/2003/ctn7-803.htm (3967 words)

	Germans and Czechs Turn a New Page on Troubled Past \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 05.09.2003
		Spidla said Schröder’s initiative was an important contribution towards the development of good relations between the two countries.
		Spidla raised objections to the draft text of the EU constitution, which foresees reducing the European Commission from the current 20 representatives to 15 (whereby each country won't have a permanent representative) and proposes a longer-term EU president to replace the bloc’s six-month rotating presidency.
		Spidla urged the larger members of the EU to compromise on the sticking points.
	www.dw-world.com /dw/article/0,1564,963937,00.html (1005 words)

	Spidla seeks to form new Czech coalition govt.htm in Business Recorder on June 18, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PRAGUE: Czech President Vaclav Havel asked centre-left leader Vladimir Spidla on Monday to form a new government amid fears a weak coalition cabinet will not be able to enact the reforms needed in the drive toward EU accession.
		Spidla's ruling Social Democrats, strongly pro-Europe, won hard-fought weekend elections, with results from the two-day poll giving his leftist party just over 30 percent of the vote.
		The Czechs are among leading candidates to join the bloc, with their robust export-driven economy withstanding the global downturn and keeping growth well ahead of the EU average.
	www.paksearch.com /br2002/Jun/18/Spidla%20seeks%20to%20form%20new%20Czech%20coalition%20govt.htm (633 words)

	Vladimir News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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	news.daylightonline.com /2005-02/Vladimir.html (4741 words)

	Vladimir Spidla
		Being one of the key speakers at this two days forum, Commissioner Vladimir Spidla pointed out that this is one of the key aspects in the EU effort to accomplish much greater social cohesion.
		Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, today hailed the launch of the Europe-wide "Stop that Noise" campaign aimed at raising awareness of the risks of excessive noise at work.
		Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities, this week hailed a proposal for a directive laying down specific rules for working time, driving time and rest periods for railway staff who operate on the rail network of at least two Member States and cross borders during their working day.
	ec.europa.eu /employment_social/emplweb/news/news_spidla_en.cfm (3367 words)

	USATODAY.com - Czech prime minister quits after vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla said Saturday he will resign later this week after barely surviving a no-confidence vote by his party, which fared poorly in recent elections for the European Parliament.
		Spidla also stepped down as chief of the governing Social Democratic Party, which leads a three-party coalition that has a one-vote majority in the lower house of parliament.
		Spidla said he will formally tender his government's resignation to President Vaclav Klaus after a Cabinet meeting Wednesday.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-26-czech-pm-resigns_x.htm (407 words)

	Vladimir Spidla se dirige aux Etats-Unis, Vaclav Klaus en France - 14-07-2003 - Radio Prague
		Vladimir Spidla se dirige aux Etats-Unis, Vaclav Klaus en France
		Après s'être déclaré, en mars dernier, pas tout à fait sûr de l'intervention américaine en Irak, Vladimir Spidla a fini par être solidaire avec la coalition soutenant l'opération.
		Le quotidien Mlada fronta Dnes écrit que Spidla jouit à Washington d'une bonne réputation, et ce en dépit de quelques malentendus apparaissant de temps en temps sur l'axe Prague-Washington.
	www.radio.cz /fr/article/42965 (641 words)

	Czech president appoints Spidla as prime minister.htm in Business Recorder on July 13, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PRAGUE: Czech President Vaclav Havel on Friday appointed Social Democrat leader Vladimir Spidla as the country's fifth prime minister since the fall of Communism in 1989.
		Spidla, an old-style leftist aiming to build a welfare state, presented his 17-member administration to Havel, who will officially appoint the cabinet ministers on Monday.
		Both parties are strong EU advocates and have made the country's entrance to the wealthy 15-nation bloc, along with up to nine other mainly post-Communist countries, a priority for the government, which will have just a one seat majority.
	www.paksearch.com /br2002/Jul/13/Czech%20president%20appoints%20Spidla%20as%20prime%20minister.htm (339 words)

	Government may fall next weekend as Prime Minister Spidla goes for broke - 22-06-2004 - Radio Prague
		The embattled Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has decided to go for broke, and has delivered an ultimatum to his Social Democratic Party: keep me on as party leader or I bring down the whole government.
		Vladimir Spidla has been on the ropes since the Social Democrats' poor showing in recent elections to the European Parliament.
		The Social Democrats are due to vote on Saturday on whether to allow Vladimir Spidla to remain head of the party.
	design.radio.cz /en/article/55253 (675 words)

	CNN.com - Czech PM collapses in meeting - Feb. 20, 2004
		Czech Republic Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla returned home but canceled his schedule for the next three days after collapsing Friday morning during a meeting in parliament, according to the Czech News Agency (CTK).
		Spidla, 52, underwent tests at a military hospital in Prague, and was released to rest at home.
		Spidla is an avid jogger with no record of significant health problems.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/20/czech.collapse/index.html (234 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- Robot shows stiff Czech PM how to loosen up a bit
		Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla, right, welcomes Asimo, a 4-foot robot, as Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi applauds before a state dinner at Hrzansky Palace in Prague.
		Asimo began working the crowd as soon as he arrived at the dinner late on Thursday, telling jokes, greeting Spidla warmly, and even making a champagne toast before wisecracking that he couldn't drink himself because he is underage.
		Spidla smiled at the robot but seemed at a loss for witty conversation.
	www.uniontrib.com /news/computing/20030822-0319-odd-czech-robot.html (241 words)

	France-diplomatie [Diplomatic News] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vladimir Spidla, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, will visit France from October 10-12 during which time he will meet with the president, the prime minister and speakers of the National Assembly and Senate.
		Spidla will go to the Théâtre du Châtelet on October 11 for a benefit concert for the city of Prague which suffered in the flooding last August.
		Spidla will go to Lille in order to open with State Secretary for Sustainable Development Tokia Saïfi one of the major exhibitions of the Czech season, Bohemia Magica, devoted to Baroque art in Bohemia.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /actu/articletxt.gb.asp?ART=28261 (275 words)

	New Commission unveiled
		Under the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, the text of which was agreed in June 2004 (EU0406204F), from 1 November 2009, future Commissions will consist of a total of 15 members, selected on the basis of a system of equal rotation between the Member States.
		Mr Spidla is a former Czech minister of labour and social affairs and was appointed Czech Prime Minister on 12 July 2002.
		It is hoped that Mr Spidla 's experiences as employment and social affairs minister in the Czech government will help him to tackle the main challenges posed by the employment and social situation in the EU.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2004/08/feature/eu0408203f.html (902 words)

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		Mr Rusnok was one of the ring-leaders of a recent plot to defy the prime minister and ensure that opposition candidate Vaclav Klaus was elected president.
		Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla announced the first re-shuffle in his eight-month-old cabinet on Thursday, when he appeared at a news conference to announce he was dismissing Trade and Industry Minister Jiri Rusnok.
		Mr Spidla has tried to break away from the era of the "opposition agreement", but analysts say it was a mistake to include the agreement's supporters - Messrs Rusnok and Skromach among them - in his cabinet in the first place.
	archiv.radio.cz /php/parse.phtml?soubor=/english/cur-affrs/14-3-03.xml (1452 words)

	Luxembourg Presidency - Minister Biltgen meets Vladimir Spidla, Commissioner responsible for Employment and Social ...
		François Biltgen, Minister for Labour and Employment, has received Vladimir Spidla, Member of the European Commission responsible for dossiers on employment, social affairs and equal opportunities.
		During this meeting, François Biltgen and Vladimir Spidla went through the most important dossiers the Luxembourg Presidency will have to deal with, while touching on the specific cooperation and follow-up between the Commission and the Presidency.
		At the heart of the discussions, the emphasis was placed on the aspect of "labour and employment" of the Lisbon Strategy, the new guidelines for the employment policy to be adopted by the Member States under the Luxembourg Presidency, as well as the new Social Agenda.
	www.eu2005.lu /en/actualites/communiques/2005/01/26biltgenspidla/index.html (293 words)

	Czech Prime Minister Spidla resigns - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Prague, Czech Republic, Jun. 27 (UPI) -- Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has resigned, saying his position had become untenable after a poor showing in recent European elections.
		Spidla narrowly survived a Saturday no-confidence vote in his Social Democratic Party, but said the scale of party opposition to his leadership made it impossible for him to continue.
		Spidla's most likely successor is 34 year old Deputy Prime Minister Stanislav Gross, now the acting chairman of the Social Democrats.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040627-032028-1972r.htm (187 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Outgoing Czech PM offered EU job
		Vladimir Spidla resigned as prime minister in June
		Mr Spidla resigned last month after a disastrous showing by his party in the European elections.
		Mr Gross told a news conference that Mr Spidla was the joint candidate of the three centre-left parties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3920031.stm (314 words)

	Spidla Elected Czech Ruling Party New Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The ruling Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) elected Vladimir Spidla as its chairman on April 7, replacing Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman who resigned the post on April 6 after eight years.
		CSSD deputy chairman Spidla is the only candidate to run for the post.
		Meanwhile, Spidla noted that the entry of the European Union had a great economic importance for the Czech Republic and would create much better conditions for the development of small and medium-sized businesses.
	english.people.com.cn /english/200104/08/print20010408_67178.html (191 words)

	Czech Prime Minister Steps Down \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 26.06.2004
		Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla resigned Saturday from his posts as head of government and head of the Social Democratic party, which suffered a bruising defeat in EU elections earlier this month.
		Earlier on Saturday, Spidla only narrowly won a confidence vote within his party, which suffered a embarrassing rout in European Parliament elections earlier this month.
		Pressure had been mounting on Spidla from within the CSSD to step down as party chairman in favor of Stanislav Gross, the deputy prime minister and interior minister, as the party's popularity continues to plummet.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1433_A_1247602_1_A,00.html (393 words)

	CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL ASKED CENTER-LEFT LEADER VLADIMIR SPIDLA ...
		Czech President Vaclav Havel asked center-left leader Vladimir Spidla Monday to form a new government, a move which would bolster the small ex-Communist country's drive toward European Union membership.
		Spidla's ruling Social Democrats, strongly pro-EU, won hard-fought weekend elections, with results from the two-day poll giving his center-left party just over 30 percent of the vote.
		Havel met briefly with Spidla for the second time in two days before asking the 51-year-old historian to form a ruling alliance with the two-party centrist Coalition, which also strongly favors EU membership.
	www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=10868 (306 words)

	Spidla quits as Czech prime minister
		PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla says he will resign both as head of government and chairman of his Social Democrat Party.
		His statement on Saturday confirmed earlier news from sources in a Social Democrat party meeting who said he would quit because of weak support from his party.
		Spidla narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in the party earlier on Saturday but only because his critics fell just short of the required three-fifths majority needed to remove him.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/06/26/world/spidlaquitsasczechprimeminister.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html (130 words)

	Vladimir Spidla - le seul candidat à remplacer Milos Zeman - 04-12-2000 - Radio Prague
		Vladimir Spidla - le seul candidat à remplacer Milos Zeman
		C'est Vladimir Spidla, 49 ans, vice-président du parti social-démocrate et ministre du Travail et des Affaires sociales, qui se présente, pour l'instant, comme le seul candidat.
		Vladimir Spidla envisage, d'ores et déjà, de faire dans ce sens de premières démarches très concrètes : aucun député ou sénateur ne doit être membre de la présidence ou du conseil de gestion dans des sociétés de commerce.
	www.radio.cz /fr/article/14240 (787 words)

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		However the main focus of attention is on the possibility of a Roma exodus to the Czech Republic, should the Slovak government fail to resolve the problem.
		On the domestic scene, Mlada Fronta Dnes says the Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla spent eight hours in hospital over the weekend, getting a thorough medical examination, following his collapse in parliament a week ago.
		Doctors were worried in case there was a hidden heart problem, the paper says but the test allegedly ruled out any serious medical problem, confirming the earlier verdict that the Prime Minister was suffering from exhaustion.
	archiv.radio.cz /php/parse.phtml?soubor=/english/press/1-3-04.xml (608 words)

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