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03/31/2007
The town hall in Cesky Tesin, north Moravia is to give some social welfare recipients coupons for food and other goods instead of money. The move is part of a new Social Affairs Ministry pilot project to help families in which the parents spend their social welfare on alcohol or gambling machines. The authorities in Cesky Tesin are planning to begin giving the food stamps to around 50 families from the beginning of May. The government is planning to announce a package of social welfare and tax reforms next week.
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03/31/2007
Workers at the Skoda Auto plant in the central Bohemian town of Mlada Boleslav are threatening to go on a symbolic one-hour strike if their wage demands are not met. Talks between union leaders and employers ended in deadlock on Friday. Skoda Auto is believed to have offered workers a pay increase of 11 percent. A spokesman for the company said negotiations would continue on Monday.
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03/31/2007
Most of the Czech Republic's castles and chateaux have opened their doors to the public after the winter break, Pravo reported. Many have installed new collections and exhibitions ahead of the new season, the daily said. Preparations at Krivoklat castle included calling out the local police, after a pre-war pistol was found in a well. Among the chateaux which reopened on Saturday was the one in Telc, which was voted "most fairytale-like" in an internet poll.
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03/31/2007
The Febio Fest film festival came to a close in Prague on Friday night with the presentation of awards voted on by Czech film critics. The Kristian prize for Best Film went to Robert Sedlacek, director of Pravidla Lzi. Linda Jablonska took the Best Documentary award for Kupredu leva, kupredu prava, while Michaela Pavlatova won Best Animated Film for Karneval zvirat. Febio Fest, now in its 14th year, was attended by around 70,000 viewers in the capital. It now moves on to the regions.
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03/31/2007
The Czech international footballer Zdenek Grygera has probably played his last game for Ajax Amsterdam, a club he joined in 2003. The defender needs an operation on the knee he injured playing for the Czech Republic and the daily Sport reported that Grygera - who is moving to Italian giants Juventus in the summer - was unlikely to be fit by the end of the season. His agent said it was currently being decided whether the 26-year-old would undergo surgery in Holland or Italy.
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03/31/2007
Sparta Prague football club are opening a new sector at their Toyota Arena especially for children in what is a first in the Czech league. It will only be open to children under the age of 15 and their parents, club spokesman Lukas Pribyl told Mlada fronta Dnes. Mr Pribyl said Sparta were hoping to attract more children and youths; he said this segment of society was currently absent from football stadiums and had great potential.
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03/31/2007
The regional stations of Czech Radio will begin broadcasting around the clock on Monday. Between 9 pm and 5 am the stations, with the exception of Prague's Regina, will have common broadcasting, with news bulletins during those hours concentrating on news from the regions.
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03/30/2007
Representatives for the Office of the President and the Metropolitan chapter of the Catholic Church have reached an agreement on the joint-administration of Prague's landmark St Vitus's Cathedral. Following several weeks of negotiations, both sides have agreed that the Church will transfer St Vitus's back to the state on April 16th. The decision follows the Supreme Court's recent ruling returning the cathedral and related property to Prague Castle, the latest chapter in a long drawn-out legal battle. On Friday, spokesman for the President's Office Jiri Weigl indicated that while the state retained ownership for now, both sides agreed on the Church handling day-to-day administration of the site, namely overseeing the cathedral's interior.
As of April 5th visitors will not be required to pay an entrance fee to view the main site.
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03/30/2007
Police have confirmed that a suspicious item discovered by employees at City Hall in Brno, Moravia, on Friday was an explosive device. Workers uncovered the item in a briefcase at the city hall's "Lost & Found" shortly after 10 am. The authorities were then contacted. Four hundred people were evacuated while specialists and specially-trained sniffer dogs moved in. No one is reported to have been hurt in the incident. The bomb was removed safely and taken to a lab for investigation. Police are not yet certain about the exact contents of the device but have said they will release new information on Monday.
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03/30/2007
Sixteen Roma organisations have put forward an official protest calling on Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to distance himself from statements by his Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek published on Friday. Asked in the Friday edition of the Czech tabloid Blesk whether others could receive state subsidies similar to those received by the Roma, Mr Cunek replied they would "have to get a suntan somewhere, start trouble and light fires on town squares" to get some politicians to feel sorry for them. Roma activists say that Mr Cunek has crossed the limits of social acceptability through his statements, and have described his approach to Roma issues as "clerical fascism." Aside from being a deputy prime minister, Mr Cunek is also the head of the Christian Democratic Party.
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