Czech press survey.

(From Czech News Agency)

PRAGUE, June 1 (CTK) - The style of Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber and Czech President Vaclav Klaus have one thing in common - they both use exalted rhetoric, trying to stir up emotions, which has so far proved successful in domestic politics, Pavel Masa writes in the daily Lidove noviny (LN) today.

He recalls that Stoiber recently supported the struggle of Sudeten Germans for the annulment of the post-war decrees of Czechoslovak president President Edvard Benes on the basis of which about 2.5 million ethnic Germans were deported from Czechoslovakia after the war and their property was confiscated.

Stoiber even threatened that he would not pay a visit to the Czech Republic if his demands were not met.

While Czech Premier Vladimir Spidla reacted to it calmly with "a detached point of view," saying that he does not reckon with Stoiber's visit since a possibility of his political advancement is "really very low," Klaus called Stoiber's statements scandalous and impertinent.

"Klaus has thereby risen Stoiber's ritual of courting German voters to the matter of Czech-German relations, arguing that Stoiber's party can enter the German federal government," Masa writes.

Though the political manoeuvring of both Klaus and Stoiber has been successful, in bilateral relations it can hardly belong to the methods which have ever helped solved any problems, Masa concludes.