15 June 1998 Former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus and his Civic Democratic Party (ODS) have been trying hard to improve their images–shattered after a party financing scandal, including allegations of secret foreign accounts, brought down Klaus’s government last November and led to the defection of many of the party’s deputies. To make amends for the financial machinations, ODS decided recently […]

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