The bill, required by the European Union, is to help ensure an equal access to education, work, health care, social advantages, and others. The bill will now return to the Chamber of Deputies. Klaus writes in a letter he sent to Miloslav Vlcek, Chamber of Deputies chairman, that the fact that the bill was proposed and approved by the European Commission as obligatory for all member countries does not justify its existence. Klaus wrote in his stand on the bill that European directives are political-legal instruments that express interest Czech civilian intelligence to be reinforced by 46 new employees ...
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Klaus to commemorate Masaryk,St Wenceslas as new Czech president ... in reaching certain goals in the EU member countries. "They are binding only as regards the results, while the forms and methods of reaching the goals are up to the decision by individual member states," Klaus wrote. The anti-discrimination law aims to ensure an equal access to education, work, health care and social advantages, for instance, irrespective of age, race, nationality, sexual orientation, health handicap, sex, religion and world outlook. "The bill contains nothing that would be fundamentally new for Czech law," Klaus wrote. "This bill is in its essence rather an anti-discrimination manual that sums up the content of other laws and whose aim is mainly ideological, not legal.
This is not what laws should be like. They should precisely set the rights and duties, not to spread instructions and knowledge," Klaus wrote.
(Ceske Noviny)
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