At five in the evening on September 16, Czech prime minister Vaclav Klaus gave a radio interview in which he poured scorn on the idea that a major Czech bank was on the brink of collapse.
A few hours later he sped to an urgently convened meeting with senior officials of the Czech National Bank (CNB) at the Strakova Akadamie government building in Prague. The meeting trailed on through the night, one of the longest in the short history of the republic.
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