Karel Dyba (21 October 1940 –22 July 2024) was a Czech economist,politician and diplomat. He served as a Czech Republic government minister during the 1990s under Prime Ministers Petr Pithart and Václav Klaus. He served the Czech Republic's first Minister of Economy from 1992 until 1996 with the First Cabinet of Václav Klaus and played a key role in the new nation's early economic development. [1] In 1994,he became the first Czech government minister to visit Taiwan. [1]
Dyba was a candidate for the Senate of the Czech Republic in the 1996 Czech parliamentary election for district No. 35 –Jablonec nad Nisou. He won the first round with more than 36 percent of the vote,but was defeated in the second round by František Vízek of the Social Democracy party. Dyba left politics following his election loss in 1996 and worked in the private sector as an investment banking and strategic economics consultant. [1]
In 2007,he was appointed Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),a position he held until 2012. [1]
Dyba died on 22 July 2024,at the age of 83. [1]
Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993,he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic,and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.
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The Civic Democratic Party is a conservative and Eurosceptic political party in the Czech Republic. The party sits centre-right on the political spectrum,and holds 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,and is the second strongest party by number of seats following the 2021 election. It is the only political party in the Czech Republic that has maintained an uninterrupted representation in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Freedom Union–Democratic Union was a small pro-European liberal political party in the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2011.
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Petr Pithart is a Czech politician,lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.
Jan Zahradil is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the Czech Republic entered the European Union in 2004. Zahradil also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 to 2004.
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Karel Schwarzenberg was a Czech politician,diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013. Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2010 to 2021 and in the Senate from 2004 until 2010.
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Czech-Iceland relations are foreign relations between the Czech Republic and Iceland. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 1 January 1993. The Czech Republic is represented in Iceland through an honorary consulate in Reykjavík. Iceland is represented in the Czech Republic through its embassy in Vienna (Austria) and through an honorary consulate in Prague.
Jan Fischer is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010,heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of JiříRusnok.
Czech Republic–Kosovo relations are foreign relations between the Czech Republic and the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and Czech Republic recognized it on 21 May 2008. The Czech Republic opened an embassy in Pristina on 16 July 2008.
Vladimír Dlouhý is a Czech economist and politician.
Indirect presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January and February 2003 to elect a new President. The Parliament of the Czech Republic failed to elect a candidate on the first two ballots on the 15 and 24 January. However,on the third round of the third ballot on 28 February,Václav Klaus was elected.
Presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January 2013,the country's first direct election for the presidency. No candidate received a majority of the votes in the first round on 11–12 January,so a second round runoff election was held on 25–26 January. Nine individuals secured enough signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the office. MilošZeman of the Party of Civic Rights (SPOZ) and Karel Schwarzenberg of TOP 09 qualified for the second round,which was won by Zeman with 54.8% of the vote,compared to Schwarzenberg's 45.2%. Zeman assumed office in March 2013 after being sworn in.
The Czech Republic and Taiwan maintain strong unofficial relations.
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