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BEIJING Nike Air VaporMax UK , March 31 (Xinhua) -- Former Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved has signed a three-year deal to be ambassador for the Chinese top soccer league.
The 43-year-old replaced former England captain David Beckham for the role which he was handed to by Chinese Super League (CSL) company chairman Ma Chengquan in Prague on Wednesday.
"Before me it was David Beckham so it's a great honor for me and for the entire Czech Republic," the winner of the 2003 Ballon d'Or told reporters on the fringes of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Prague.
The CSL company said Nedved, dubbed "Czech Ironman" in China, has been a widely recognized figure in the most populous country.
"Nedved is known for his outstanding soccer skills and more importantly his never-say-die spirit. His fighting spirit fits well in what the Chinese Super League calls for," the CSL company said in a statement.
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The Brexit debate is echoed in mounting euroscepticism across much of the continent. This is fuelling a struggle which, crudely put, pits those who want a more integrated Union against self-styled "realists", who dismiss them as "utopian" dreamers disregarding democratic attachment to nation states.
Positions are more nuanced and few leaders are arguing for a big shift in power to Brussels.
But the confrontation can be seen in permanent tensions between the central institutions of the European Parliament and the executive European Commission on one hand and a majority of the 28 governments that wield ultimate power in the Council.
Nations' resistance to ceding rights surfaces in fury among some governments at the Commission's drive to force them to take in refugees or to accept more intrusive EU supervision of euro zone budgets. It puts any federalists on the weaker foot -- not least as France and Germany prepare elections next year with eurosceptics riding high in the polls.
Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair a summit on Tuesday and Wednesday to react to the British vote Nike Air Max 97 Undefeated UK , called on leaders to use the moment to reflect on where Europe has gone wrong. He has also argued that pushing for "more Europe" would only fuel popular hostility to the EU.
"Whatever its result is going to be, we must take a long, hard look on the future of the Union," Tusk said on Monday. "We would be foolish if we ignored such a warning signal."
The former Polish premier has denounced "utopian dreams" of a post-national Europe: "Promoting them only leads to the strengthening of eurosceptic moods," he said earlier this month.
NO "GREAT LEAP FORWARD"
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EU officials dismiss critics' suggestions that Juncker seeks a "great leap forward" in EU integration after the British vote. Whatever his ideals, he recognises there is no appetite for it among states.
His focus if Britain leaves, the officials said, would be to help keep the other 27 from disintegrating in its wake.
Juncker himself dismisses suggestions that he is a utopian. "I am no euro-fanatic," he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nike Air Max 97 Womens UK , though he stoutly defended his migration policy.
"The EU must not be constructed in opposition to the nations of Europe," he added. "Europe's future lies in a better Europe, not necessarily in 'more Europe'."
That view frustrates the most outspoken federalists such as Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian premier who leads the liberal bloc in the European Parliament, itself a bastion of left-right consensus on strengthening its own power.
"Europe will be totally different after June 23 Nike Air Max 97 UK , whether it’s a Yes or a No," he told reporters in Paris. "We must take advantage of Brexit to refound Europe. Political leaders have their backs to the wall. They don’t have any other choice."
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German and French officials do not see it that way.
French President Francois Hollande, who lags in polls ahead of next April's presidential election behind anti-EU populist Marine Le Pen and mainstream conservative rivals, will visit German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin next week to launch new EU initiatives.
But a senior French official, echoing EU officials Nike Air Max 2018 UK , told Reuters there was no prospect of big change. "We don't need either a great federal leap forward or to try to cuddle up to the most fanatical sceptics by deconstructing the EU," he said.
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