Examples of using Meciar in English and their translations into German
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Meciar is one thing, Kovacs quite another.
Mr President, President Meciar is playing with fire.
We must give Meciar an urgent warning that he is acting against the interests of his people.
The victorious opposition, the Slovak Democratic Coalition(SDK),has found its feet in the determination to oust Meciar.
There is not only Mr Meciar, but also five million Slovaks, who are worth our support.
We should please not forget that, however angry we are about what Mr Meciar does, does not do or fails to do.
The Slovak Prime Minister, Vladimir Meciar, is keen to show the world that he heads a determined and strong government, prior to the autumn ballot.
The Slovak population has demonstratedpolitical maturity by voting out Prime Minister Meciar and giving the Democratic Coalition a majority vote.
People hid behind Tudjman and Meciar because they saw this as the only guarantee for being treated as equals vis-à-vis their neighbours who used to rule over them.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Gyula Horn, and his Slovak counterpart, Vladimir Meciar, signed a good neighbour and cooperation treaty in Paris on 19 March.
So Meciar pounced, denouncing the"Hungarian menace," undoing in a stroke four years of hard work by Slovakia's current government to integrate representatives of the ethnic Hungarian minority into Slovakia's government.
It has been and still is my opinion that Slovakia is in the front line of candidates for access, but the chances are dwindling from day to day,and Mr Meciar is in the process of frittering them away for good.
I then discussed this question with Mr Meciar, the president of the republic, the opposition parties in the Slovakian parliament and some other Slovakian friends and colleagues.
Although such politicians often describe themselves as''rightist,''their real policies, such as, for, example,those of former Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar, are in fact demagogic populist or authoritarian.
The journalist Theodore Draper wrote,“It was as if Meciar pounded on Klaus's door without really wanting to knock it down; to Meciar's surprise, Klaus opened the door and Meciar fell in”.
I think quite honestly that this may achieve more than what we have been doing so far with our pressurizing of Slovakia,though this must of course continue otherwise Meciar will simply carry on as before.
Political leaders who have expressed a desire for ECmembership include the Slovak Prime Minister, Vladimir Meciar(visiting Brussels on 24 February), and the Hungarian Parliament, in a resolution adopted on 3 March.
Prime Minister Meciar's party suffered heavy losses at the elections to the National Council at the end of September, giving the Slovak opposition the unique opportunity to put right much of what had gone wrong under Meciar.
We also know that in the Slovak National Partyvery many people hold the same opinion as Meciar; we know that people have also been expressing anti-semitic opinions in the government parties, and we cannot accept that.
These countries, after some delay, are following in the footsteps of some postcommunist nations in Central Europe, where nationalist/populist parties,such as the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia of Vladimir Meciar, retarded democratization and market reform a decade ago.
But there are other instructive examples like Slovakia during the period of Meciar who took a critical position on both NATO and EU and thus was nearly put under sanctions, or today Lukashenkós Belarus as well as Moldavia.
Mikulas Dzurinda, whose reforms provided the country with growth and economic stability, was replaced by RobertFico, a leftist who, having forged an alliance with Meciar and a neo-fascist party, has also adopted a worrisomely populist tone.
Meetings will take place with President Kovac,Prime Minister Meciar, State Secretary Sestak, the President of the Slovak Parliament, and leaders of different political parties, including those representing the Hungarian minority and business leaders.
Mr Rübig, on the question of Mr Gaulider and all the other related questions which you have raised, I would like to tell you that I have discussed the questions which you have raised and related questions very intensively with the Slovakian Prime Minister,Mr Meciar.
Our responsibility is to see that the elections will be free and fair,and our main concern is that Meciar is now trying to manipulate access to the media in every possible way so that he will keep power.
Lech Walesa's behaviour against the Minister President Oleksy, that of Meciar against the President Kovac appear only as particularly evident precedents for this phenomenon, for the removal of the unwritten democracy and of the real behaviour is so spectacular in the power competition, that it already calls into question the reality of the whole democratic establishment 4.
But today it is not about us somehow being better jurists than the Slovaks,but it is up to us to find out from the President and Prime Minister Meciar if they still want to lead their country into the European Union or do they want to prevent Slovakia's accession for many years to come?
That worry was dented when Viktor Orban's Fidesz party lost in Hungary's recent parliamentary elections, but other politicians happy to demagogue national resentments- Vaclav Klaus in Prague, Edmund Stoiber in Germany,Vladimir Meciar in Slovakia- still see nationalism as an electoral plus despite Orban's defeat.
Only a few hours after the official functions were provisionally transferred to prime minister Meciar as an interim measure, he had two personal assistants sacked, recalled over half of Slovakia's ambassadors- or at least gave notice of his intention to do so- and suspended the trial of the suspected abductor of the former President's son.
The head of the Slovak government is also criticized for having undertaken a significant diplomatic shake up, but no-one has mentioned that the nomination of ambassadors is normally the role of any government andthat the difficult"cohabitation' between Prime Minister Meciar and President Kovac had blocked all ambassadorial nominations for two years, with the exception of a few posts such as Paris.