The clearest but unkindest explanation for Mr Klaus's conduct is a desire to be noticed more than his predecessor, Vaclav Havel.
Mr Zeman effectively retired from politics in 2003, after failing to beat Mr Klaus in the election to succeed Vaclav Havel as president.
President Vaclav Havel has criticised Mr Zeman's announcement, warning it could make Czechs an unreliable ally in the eyes of the United States.
Vaclav Havel, Dame Ninette de Valois, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and Sir Isaiah Berlin are among the recipients of the past 45 years.
Vaclav Havel, the Czechs' non-executive president, is likely to appoint Mr Zeman prime minister soon after the new parliament convenes on July 14th.
Dubcek was elected chairman of the Federal Assembly (the national parliament) on 28 December, and Vaclav Havel became interim president on 29 December 1989.
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The veteran politician - who served as finance minister and prime minister before succeeding arch-rival Vaclav Havel as president in 2003 - arouses strong passions.
McCain met Tuesday morning in Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel.
Schwarzenberg was personally and professionally close to late President Vaclav Havel.
Within a year Germany was reunited, the dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was president of Czechoslovakia and a union activist named Lech Walesa was Poland's head of state.
This is why Czech President Vaclav Havel has been assiduously trying to tie his country to the West and the U.S. in any and every way he can.
And though the president, Vaclav Havel, has no executive (though plenty of moral) authority, it had become plain that he too wanted to see the back of Mr Klaus.
The agenda has not impressed a group of African and European writers, ranging from the South African, Nadine Gordimer, and the Nigerian Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, to the Czech president, Vaclav Havel.
But President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic is also fed up with the constraints of his largely symbolic office, and with living in the shadow of his celebrity predecessor, Vaclav Havel.
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Karel Schwarzenberg is a titled prince, 75 years of age but wildly popularly amongst young, urban voters - and closely linked to the country's first president, the late Vaclav Havel, he adds.
As the Commission report notes, Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel have made it clear that RFE still has an important role to play in the political life and information needs of their countries.
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Czech politicians, including a former prime minister, Vaclav Klaus, complained that President Havel had damaged relations with a friendly neighbour.
And Mr Havel has little love for the leader of the right-wing opposition, Vaclav Klaus, a former prime minister who might get the job back again.
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