AFP PRAGUECzechs answered with an overwhelming "yes" in a two-day referendum that ended June 14 to join the European Union, becoming the seventh of 10 candidate states to approve the EU's historic west-ward expansion.Some 77.3 percent of voters approved joining, with 22.7 against, according to final results from the Czech statistics office.Czech leaders greeted the results, a much higher "yes" percentage than had been predicted, as a historic final chapter in the former Soviet satellite country's return to life alongside Western Europe."For me, the Second World War and the division of Europ...
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