Czechs to Plan Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence
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The Czech Cabinet was to meet today to begin discussing a state funeral for Vaclav Havel as citizens stood in line to pay their last respects to the anti-communist dissident playwright who became president.
Prime Minister Petr Necas’s government will meet in Prague at 4 p.m., as tributes to the former leader continued with EU sessions starting with a minute of silence to honor Havel as a freedom fighter and the first post-communist Czech head of state. Czechs also continued leaving candles and flowers on Wenceslas Square, the center of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.