However, the proposal need not be seriously debated as the junior government VV leaders Radek John and Vit Barta did not seek a serious debate when presenting it at a press conference on Saturday, Sidlo writes.
The VV made the proposal as a condition for it to support the planned property settlement between the state and churches.
Sidlo emphasises that two billion crowns a year as financial compensation to churches cannot be a problem for any government, if it really wants to provide the compensation.
The VV simply does not want to do it, which is a legitimate position mainly reacting to [the VV´s poor] voter preferences and the "popularity" of churches with people, Sidlo writes.
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg takes a more reserved approach to the Berlin-promoted loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) than his "disciples" on the Czech scene, Martin Weiss writes in Lidove noviny in reaction to Schwarzenberg´s interview for the German weekly Der Spiegel.
The present euro zone crisis has shown how little Europe is united after half a century of integration. Instead of Europe without frontiers there is Europe orbiting Berlin, Weiss writes.
Financiers know that a solution can come from nowhere else. Other countries´ governments, which are theoretically equal partners, come to the limelight only if they challenge - temporarily, of course - solutions approved by Germany, Weiss writes.
This atmosphere has also influenced the Czechs who are disputing on whether to help German Chancellor Angela Merkel and provide a loan to the IMF, Weiss says.
Interestingly, and in contrast with his zealous [pro-EU] disciples at home, Schwarzenberg has told Der Spiegel that the euro is a mere instrument without which Europe could survive.
This is the opposite of what Merkel said recently. In addition, instead of voicing unconditional support to Merkel, Schwarzenberg reproached her for deciding on everything with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and for what he called her unclear long-term vision, Weiss writes.
Schwarzenberg is right. Berlin has not yet decided what should be done about the euro. It would be naive to declare now that Prague will side with Berlin forever and that it would not seek any other allies, Weiss writes.
Elsewhere in Hospodarske noviny, Julie Hrstkova notices a recent optimistic rhetoric of Czech officials responsible for the economy, who assert that the coming times will not be that bad, since no big crisis is approaching and the national economy might either slightly grow or stagnate.
This may happen if nothing especially horrible occurs with the euro zone, mainly with Germany owing to which the Czech industry still keeps afloat, Hrstkova writes.
However, the Czech National Bank governor, prime minister and finance minister also expressed similar optimism at the beginning of 2009, while the 2009 budget eventually ended with a gap twice as big as projected, Hrstkova says.
At present, the past three years of a debt crisis delete a chance of a markedly better future. The Czech economy is tightly tied with Europe and there are not many possibilities for Prague to defend itself against European infection. Optimism may be one of the ways, but not much reliable, as the developments in 2009 showed, Hrstkova concludes.
($1=20.232 crowns) Author: CTK
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