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04/08/2007
About forty people gathered in front of the United States Embassy in Prague on Saturday to demonstrate in support of the release of five Cubans sentenced for "conspiracy with the aim of espionage" in the United States. Three of them received life sentences from a Miami court and two were given 15 and 19 years in prison respectively. According to the Communist Youth Association which organised the protest the Cubans were convicted unjustly. Speakers at the demonstration also protested against the Czech government's long-term critical approach to Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba and against the US plan to build a missile defence base in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has been one of the sharpest critics of Fidel Castro's regime on the international scene in recent years.
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04/08/2007
The town of Pilsen says it is preparing an extensive information campaign to discourage teenage drinking. As part of the campaign, co-organised by the Pilsen town council along with the Czech Forum for the Responsible Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages, concerts will be held and music videos projected on screens in the town centre. The campaign will also take the form of billboards, posters and leaflets. The local town hall has lately been facing a rise in underage drinking. During a recent raid on the town's discos and night clubs, police found 13 inebriated teenagers within a few hours.
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04/08/2007
Only dozens of skiers took advantage one of the last occasions in ski resorts in the Krkonose Mountains, East Bohemia, on Easter Sunday as the ski season is coming to a close. Even though there are between 15 to 40 centimetres of snow on the slopes, Easter Monday will be the last day of operation this season in some resorts in that mountain range, but for example lifts in Spindleruv Mlyn are expected to run for another week. All ski lift were in operation on Sunday at the Ovcarna resort in the North Moravian mountains of Jeseniky- the only one still open to skiers in that area.
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04/08/2007
Ornithologists from the Plzen region report that the first swallows have begun returning from their wintering grounds to their nesting sites in the region. Male swallows are the first to arrive, while female birds will follow later. Experts say the return of migratory birds this year has been speeded up by warmer weather.
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04/07/2007
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has said that if parliament fails to pass the coalition government's new package of public finance reforms in the coming months, then his administration will collapse. Speaking in an interview with Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes on Saturday, Mr Topolanek told the paper that his government had promised reforms and could not continue governing if these reforms were not implemented. He added that if the government does fall then it would lead to early elections as he sees no point in further protracted negotiations to try and form a new administration. Mr Topolanek also announced that his government would present a major package of healthcare reforms next week.
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04/07/2007
Speaking in the same interview with Mlada fronta Dnes, Prime Minister Topolanek said that dismissing Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek is the least desirable option open to him. Mr Topolanek said that he would prefer if Mr Cunek's own Christian Democrat party would accept that his presence in government was destabilising the coalition administration and would persuade him to step down. The prime minister added, however, that if he was forced to choose between saving the government or retaining Mr Cunek, then he would choose the first option. Mr Cunek has been under pressure to resign for some time now over a corruption scandal and offensive remarks he made about Romanies.
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04/07/2007
Roma activists from the Athinganoi civic association have held a ceremony on Prague's Letna Pplain as part of the celebrations surrounding International Roma Day. With the Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Dzamila Stehlikova in attendance, they watered a lime tree that had been planted there three years ago as a symbol of the deep roots of minorities like the Roma in Czech society. The event was one of many organised for International Roma Day, which takes place on Sunday and is intended as a celebration of Romany history and culture.
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04/07/2007
Dutch Social Affairs Minister Piet Hein Donner has said that his government intends in May to begin allowing Czechs and other nationals from countries who joined the EU in 2004 to work in the Netherlands without a work permit. The move would also entitle Czechs and other EU nationals in Holland to receive the same pay as their Dutch counterparts. At the moment, many construction firms in Holland use east European workers as a source of cheap labour. Of the 15 EU states before the 2004 round of new accessions, only Germany, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Denmark continue to place restrictions on workers from states who joined the Union three years ago.
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04/07/2007
A former top officer from the Czech police's organised crime unit is now working for controversial entrepreneur Tomas Pitr, a man he previously investigated, Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Saturday. Previously, while working for the police, Ludek Zakovec had participated in the investigation of the murder of Tomas Pitr's former business partner Frantisek Mrazek and the paper points out that he could now have sensitive information relating to the case. Deputy police president Frantisek Snopek described the news as "serious" but declined to comment further. Tomas Pitr was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for serious tax fraud two years ago, but is currently appealing the decision.
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04/07/2007
The Opocno chateau in east Bohemia, which was previously awarded in a restitution process to Countess Kristina Colleredo-Mansfeld must be returned to the Czech state by Tuesday following a ruling by the Regional Court in Hradec Kralove, according to reports on the commercial Nova and Prima television stations. Countess Colleredo-Mansfeld's lawyer has already indicated that he will take the case to the European courts. The chateau, which is one of the most visited attractions in the Hradec Kralove region, was first confiscated in 1942 by the Nazis and was then subsequently transferred to the Czechoslovak state in 1945 under decrees issued by then president Edvard Benes. The Colleredo-Mansfeld family took the case to court, but then fled to Austria after the communist putsch in 1948. The chateau and its estate are valued at one billion Czech crowns or forty eight million US dollars
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