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04/14/2007
Residents of the Prague 1 district have voted against the erection of a statue of Sigmund Freud in the area. Prague City Hall wants to put up a statue of the famous psychoanalyst, who was born in the Moravia town of Pribor, on Kozi Placek or "Goat's Square" near the Prague's Jewish Quarter. Opponents say the project is inappropriate because Freud has little or no connection with the Czech capital. Three quarters of those who took part in the poll voted against the project. Only 5.8% of those who were entitled to participate in the referendum cast their vote. Prague 1's authorities are now expected to hold negotiations with Prague City Hall based on the result of the poll.
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04/14/2007
A painting by Czech cubist painter Emil Filla was sold at an auction in Prague on Saturday for 5.2 million Czech crowns or approximately 250,000 US dollars. The sale makes Filla's "Still Life with an Artichoke" the ninth-most expensive painting sold at auction in the Czech Republic since 1990. The biggest sum paid for a painting in the country was by another Cubist painter Josef Capek. His Bath was sold at an auction last year for 9.3 million crowns (450,000 USD).
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04/14/2007
The unseasonably mild weather has put pressure on temperature records in various parts of the country. A temperature of 25.9 degrees Celsius was recorded in Pilsen on Saturday, which smashed the regional record for this time of year of 23.5 degrees Celsius recorded in Klatovy in 1981. Meteorologists say that other regional temperature records could also fall over the coming weekend.
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04/13/2007
Car manufacturer Skoda Auto has withdrawn its offer of a salary increase of 13 percent for workers, ahead of a planned employee strike on Tuesday. The offer was originally rejected by workers' representatives pushing for a rise in wages that would be pegged to inflation and company profits. Skoda has now returned to an earlier proposal offering a 7.5 percent rise next year and an additional 3 percent the year after that. With the two sides failing to reach a deal, the strike now appears unavoidable. 26,000 people are employed at Skoda Auto.
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04/13/2007
A spokesman for the US Missile Defense Agency has said the construction of a radar system that the US hopes to station in the Brdy military zone southwest of Prague would cost about 260 million US dollars. But the total costs of the radar system are estimated as higher at 550 million, including 118 million for communications equipment and 45 million for the guarding of the area. The agency confirmed the information that the US would transfer its radar system from the Marshall Islands if agreement is reached with the Czech Republic. Negotiations were officially launched only recently and are expected to last until the end of the year. If deployed the radar base is intended to complement a rocket installation in Poland, part of a broader US missile defence shield.
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04/13/2007
In related news, a Communist MP, Alexandr Cerny, is one of two Czech parliamentarians who have been refused a visa by the US Embassy in Prague for a planned trip by legislators to view the United States' missile defence radar system on the Marshall Islands. The head of the Communist Party Vojtech Filip has said he has sent a written complaint to US Ambassador Richard Graber. But the US Embassy in Prague responded to the news on Friday with an official statement explaining that the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs had agreed to provide a final list of participants in time for processing, but that two legislators' names were put forward 24 hours late. Both are from different political parties. In its statement the US Embassy stressed that the processing of US diplomatic visas was "uniform" regardless of "country, nationality, or party affiliation".
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04/13/2007
Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek has said that while he does not prefer it as an option he has not ruled out the possibility of trying to form a grand coalition government if the current government falls. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has made clear his government will stake its political future on the passing of its fiscal and social reforms later this year. But his coalition, which won a narrow confidence vote in January, is not ensured a majority in the lower house. Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said a grand coalition was a "theoretical possibility" but he added such a coalition could be formed only with the aim of leading the country to early elections. Social Democrat deputy chairman Zdenek Skromach has meanwhile indicated he would not be in favour of such a solution.
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04/13/2007
In an interview for the Czech newspaper Lidove noviny, Civic Democrat MP and former finance minister Vlastmil Tlusty has said he is demanding that recently unveiled fiscal reforms planned by the government be called "a package of austerity measures" or the planned 15-percent flat tax to be removed. Otherwise, Mr Tlusty said, he will not support the bill in a parliamentary vote later this year. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek - heading the government which has no assured majority - has said he is not planning on making any such changes. Both the prime minister and the labour and social affairs minister, Petr Necas, have called Mr Tlusty's demands "bizarre".
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04/13/2007
Dozens of people gathered in Prague on Friday to pay their last respects to General Antonin Spacek who died just over a week ago at the age of 89. The former fighter pilot, who served in the RAF during World War II, was given a funeral with full military honours. It was attended by family and friends as well as state officials including Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova, Chief of the General Staff Vlastimil Picek and other political and military figures. A representative from the President's Office on Friday said that Mr Spacek was "a hero who had risked his life for his nation". Last year the general was given the Czech Republic's highest honour - the Order of the White Lion - for service to his country. Before that, on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Mr Spacek was given the Legion of Honour by French President Jacques Chirac.
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04/13/2007
Police statistics have revealed that crime dropped in the first quarter of 2007 in the Czech capital. Prague - one of the Czech Republic's fourteen official regions - is the only area it did so. Last year, the first three months saw 22,169 cases recorded, this year there have so far been around 70 less. Crime in the capital accounts for about a quarter of all cases in the country. The most common crimes include petty theft, pick-pocketing, car theft, and break-ins. Reportedly only about twenty percent of cases are ever solved.
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