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Czechs may appoint new commissioner

The Czech government might replace its current commissioner Pavel Telicka with outgoing Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla.

According to Czech media, Mr Telicka is being rejected as a member of the next EU executive by one of the Czech governing parties, the Christian Democrats, because of his former membership of the Czech communist party.

The Christian Democrats are now looking to Mr Spidla, a social democrat who resigned as Prime Minister in June following a major defeat of his p...

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