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03/28/2007
President Vaclav Klaus and his German counterpart Horst Kohler met briefly in the north Bohemian town of Teplice. According to Mr Klaus, the two heads of state met for half and hour to discuss Czech-German relations as well as a number of European issues including the proposed EU constitution. Both agreed that the Czech Republic and Germany now enjoyed very good relations. They did not discuss the building of a proposed US radar base on Czech territory.
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03/28/2007
The Czech Minister for Defence Vlasta Parkanova has said that high-ranking defence ministry officials may be implicated in a corruption investigation concerning a number of public tenders. On Tuesday evening, police raided the premises of the Czech defence ministry to obtain evidence for the investigation, which also concerns a number of private firms. According to the head of the anti-corruption squad several defence ministry employees and a number of private companies are suspected of having been involved in large-scale fraud and corruption. One hundred and eighty officers are on the case. No one has yet been charged.
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03/28/2007
A number of doctors' surgeries around the Czech Republic did not open on Wednesday in protest at a reduction in the amount of money insurance companies give GPs per patient. Doctors complain that the financial restrictions are having an adverse effect on the quality of healthcare provided. Support for the strike was strongest in Moravia, especially in the Zlin region where ninety percent of doctors closed their doors to patients.
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03/28/2007
Austrian opponents of the Czech nuclear power plant in Temelin, south Bohemia have said that they will continue blockading Czech-Austrian borders, because they have been instrumental in forcing the Austrian government to take action on the matter. A spokesperson for the Atomstopp organisation, which blocked five border crossings for an hour on Wednesday, said that they would block six more in a fortnight's time. Critics of the Temelin power plant say that it uses outdated and dangerous Soviet-era technology, and Austrian anti-nuclear protesters have been holding border blockades in protest since the start of the year. Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik submitted an experts' report on Monday to her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg, which listed a number of shortcomings concerning the Temelin facility.
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03/28/2007
The High Court in Olomouc has fined a night club operator in the north Moravian town of Ostrava because his establishment refused to serve some Roma customers. Jiri Ozdinec must now pay 5000 Czech crowns and send a written apology to each of three Romanies whom his staff would not serve when they entered his club six years ago. Mr Ozdinec had originally been ordered by a lower court to apologise and pay 50,000 crowns compensation but he appealed the verdict.
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03/28/2007
Secondary school students from the towns of Jaromer and Sternberk have organised a protest march in Prague, which should conclude in front of the Ministry of Education. The students are angry at the introduction of a new standardised national school-leaving certificate while they were in the middle of their school cycle. The students want the national leaving certificate to only apply to pupils who have started secondary school this year. They have also begun organising a petition in support of their cause. So far they have collected 11,000 signatures from secondary school students. An internet petition has also collected 30,000 signatures from secondary pupils. The protest march is scheduled to take place on 4 May.
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03/27/2007
Coalition leaders are to meet later today to decide the fate of Deputy Prime Minister and Christian Democrat chairman Jiri Cunek who is charged with corruption. The case has dragged on for weeks now and despite growing pressure on him to resign Mr. Cunek has refused to do so. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Monday that Mr. Cunek's continued presence in government was untenable and that the door would be open for him to return if he was able to clear his name. The Green Party has also indicated that Jiri Cunek's presence in the cabinet is unwelcome. The Christian Democratic Party leadership, which has stood by its chairman throughout the crisis, said on Tuesday it would leave the decision in Mr. Cunek's hands. Mr Cunek is accused of taking a bribe when he was mayor of the town of Vsetin five years ago.
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03/27/2007
Police are searching the premises of the Czech Defense Ministry and several private firms on suspicion of corruption in a number of public tenders. According to the head of the anti-corruption squad several Defense Ministry employees and a number of private companies are suspected of having been involved in large-scale fraud and corruption. One hundred and eighty officers are on the case. No one has yet been charged.
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03/27/2007
The Czech government has called on Belarus to release some seventy protesters who were arrested during a demonstration against President Alexander Lukashenko's regime on Sunday. "We call for the immediate release of all political prisoners and for the respect of human rights and democratic values in Belarus," the Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Police and paratroopers on Sunday prevented up to 1,500 Lukashenko opponents from protesting in the same Minsk square where unprecedented rallies shook the former Soviet republic a year ago. The Czech Foreign Ministry said that Sunday's crack down on protesters in Minsk Square had once again confirmed the non-democratic nature of Alexander Lukashenko's regime. The Belarussian president has been in power since 1994. He was re-elected last year but international observers said the vote was rigged.
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03/27/2007
Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer said after talks in Portugal on Tuesday that he firmly believed that the Czech Republic would join the Schengen border free zone at the end of this year. At a meeting in Lisbon the interior ministers of the EU newcomer states received from Portuguese representatives a package of information technologies necessary for the planned expansion. The SISone4all package is a software solution proposed by Portugal that will allow the new EU members to join Schengen by extending the existing EU police data base. Technical problems with setting up a new base threatened to postpone the process of expansion.
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