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04/11/2007
Management at the Skoda Auto car plant in Mlada Boleslav offered workers a pay-rise of 10 percent during discussions with trade union officials on Wednesday. The unions, who have been threatening to go on strike alert, have not made clear what the minimum increase they would accept is. They are set to respond to Skoda Auto's offer on Thursday.
Elsewhere, the company Skoda Steel is to stop using the Skoda name and logo from June. The company will be known as Pilsen Steel.
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04/11/2007
A group of non-governmental organisations have issued a statement condemning the fact that the Czech Republic has not signed up to the International Criminal Court. It is the only country in the European Union not to have done so. The Czech Foreign Ministry said it was working on a draft proposal on the issue which would be put to parliament. Prime Minister Topolanek has previously said the Czech Republic will ratify joining the court by the beginning of its presidency of the EU in 2009.
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04/11/2007
The world famous brewer Pilsner Urquell (Plzensky Prazdroj) has launched two new beers aimed at the Czech and international markets. Both will bear the name Master; one will be a semi-dark 13-degree lager, the other a dark 18-degree. The 13-degree version will cost one crown more than the brewery's flagship 12-degree lager.
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04/11/2007
The Czech women's tennis number one Nicole Vaidisova has made a surprise exit in the second round of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. On Wednesday the 17-year-old top seed was beaten 4-6 6-4 6-3 by Michaella Krajicek of Holland, ranked 54 in the world.
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04/11/2007
In other tennis news, the Czech men's team have drawn Switzerland in the Davis Cup World Group play-offs. The tie will take place in the Czech Republic on the second last weekend of September. World number one Roger Federer is a member of the Swiss team.
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04/11/2007
The Czech football goalkeeper Petr Cech has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with his club Chelsea, after they beat Valencia on Tuesday night. Cech has already won the English League Cup with Chelsea this season, while the club are also still in the running for the Premiership and the FA Cup. Only two Czechs have ever won the Champions League - Milan Baros and Vladimir Smicer, who took club football's most prestigious trophy with Liverpool two years ago.
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04/11/2007
Visitors to Milotice in south Moravia will be able to try on traditional folk costumes (kroj) from this June, say the organisers of a folk costume exhibition in former stables at the town's castle. There will be a mock-up of an old cottage on the site and tourists will be able to have their photographs taken in various different types of kroj.
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04/10/2007
A new round of screening at the Czech Interior Ministry has uncovered 150 collaborators with the former communist secret police, according to the weekly Respekt. The weekly claims that one in twelve employees of the Interior Ministry got a positive screening certificate and a number of them allegedly hold important posts. Interior minister Ivan Langer, who ordered the new round of screening, refused to confirm the outcome or disclose any names. He told the weekly that he had not launched a witch-hunt at the ministry, but had merely taken steps to ascertain the true state of affairs. Although all employees in public service are required to produce a negative screening certificate, some officers in high posts have been known to slip through the net. It came to light in February that the head of the Czech branch of Interpol Pavol Michal, had tricked the screening system by giving the Czech version of his Slovak first name.
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04/10/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has vowed to persuade Civic Democrat deputy Vlastimil Tlusty to back the government's reform package in the lower house. Mr. Tlusty, a senior member of the strongest governing party and a former finance minister, said he could not support the government's tax and spending reform package since it fell short of the Civic Democratic Party's election promises. Other right-wing lawmakers have joined in the criticism, though no other deputy has threatened to withdraw support for the reform package.
The prime minister said last week that his fragile coalition government would resign if the reform package failed to win approval. The centre right coalition government only managed to win a confidence vote in the lower house thanks to two left-wing defectors and it now needs collective backing from all coalition parties plus the vote of at least one of the defectors in order to push through a bill in the 200 seat lower house.
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04/10/2007
The opposition Social Democratic Party has slammed the health minister's plan to introduce health care fees for patients as of 2008, calling it anti-social and saying that it would make health care inaccessible to hundreds of thousands of elderly people. The plan envisages a 30 crown payment for every visit to one's GP, dentist or specialist, another 30 per each item on prescription, 60 crowns per day in hospital and 90 crowns for emergency care. Shadow health minister David Rath said on Tuesday that the plan goes beyond his darkest expectations of what the Civic Democrats would do in the health sector. He said chronic patients and elderly people would be especially hard hit and many would not be able to afford the medical care they need. The health minister said he hoped the plan would prevent what he called "unnecessary health care" and stop Czechs squandering medicine.
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