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03/26/2007
Czech farmers held a protest at a border crossing with Austria on Monday against the import of Austrian pork. Around 200 farmers took part in the demonstration, which lasted from around 11 am to noon. They say pig farming in the Czech Republic is under serious threat as supermarket chains buy meat from abroad, driving down prices in this country.
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03/26/2007
Former Social Democrat health minister David Rath has been cleared of falsely accusing Civic Democrat MEP Miroslav Ouzky of asset-stripping the VZP public health insurer. Mr Ouzky had been seeking half a million crowns in damages and an apology from Mr Rath. He said he would appeal the verdict. Previously Mr Rath had lost a similar case taken by Milan Cabrnoch, also an MEP and a former business partner of Mr Ouzky's. Mr Rath has appealed that verdict.
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03/26/2007
An electrician committed suicide by electrocution at the time he was due to go to prison for killing his wife by the same method, TV Nova reported. Cheb man Karel Hanza had received a 12-year sentence for killing his wife, reportedly after an argument about a television programme she was watching.
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03/26/2007
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel and the speaker of the British House of Commons, Michael Martin, unveiled a monument to the 17th-century Czech artist Vaclav Hollar in London on Monday. Known in the UK as Wenceslas Hollar or Wenzel, the renowned etcher moved to the city after his family were ruined during the Thirty Years' War. Mr Havel said Hollar linked Prague and London, adding that he found it interesting to compare today's London with that portrayed by the artist.
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03/26/2007
The manufacture of bicycles in the Czech Republic is on the rise after several years of decline, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. While in 2002 50,000 bicycles were made in this country, last year six times as many were produced. The paper said the upturn had followed the introduction of a European Union customs levy aimed at protecting EU firms from cheap imports from Asia.
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03/25/2007
Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said he was thankful for the criticism he received during the party's annual conference in Brno, which ended on Sunday, and added that he was definitely "not without certain faults." One of the criticisms aimed at Mr Paroubek during the conference was poor communication in the party. Mr Paroubek also welcomed the fact that the party's leadership, which was elected on Saturday evening, represented all strands of opinion within the Social Democrats. Besides being re-elected as leader at the conference, Mr Paroubek also succeeded in having a resolution passed, which called on the Social Democrat deputies and senators not to vote for Mr Klaus in the next presidential elections. He failed, however, to introduce quotas for women on the party's list of candidates, which he sees as a sign of the Social Democrats' commitment to modernisation
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03/25/2007
The election of a new party leadership has been completed at the Social Democrats' annual conference in Brno. As expected, its composition is exactly that which was desired by party chairman Jiri Paroubek. Zdenek Skromach, Petr Vicha and Jana Vanhova were re-elected as party vice-chairman while Bohuslav Sobotka had earlier been elected as first vice-chairman and deputy leader of the party. The only new member in the party leadership is former industry and trade minister Milan Urban, who defeated Petr Hulinsky, the chairman of the party's Prague branch and a well-known critic of Jiri Paroubek. Mr Paroubek himself was re-elected as party leader on Friday evening.
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03/25/2007
Green Party leader Martin Bursik has said that the Czech Republic's response to an American request to build an anti-missile radar base in the country should contain a proviso that the facility will become part of NATO's common defence system in the future. Speaking during a discussion programme on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr Bursik said that his party's support for the base was contingent on its being implemented within a NATO framework. The government is to send an official response to Washington's request to build a radar base in the Czech Republic by the end of March.
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03/25/2007
Former police chief Vladislav Husak has denied that he had any specific information about the murder of entrepreneur Frantisek Mrazek. Speaking on Czech TV on Sunday, Mr Husak described media reports that he had been informed of the threat to Mr Mrazek's life three months before he was murdered as "rubbish". He did not rule out that the reports were part of a wider plot to discredit him. Mr Husak resigned on Friday after weeks of intense media pressure following accusations that he warned key suspects in a number of corruption cases ahead of their planned arrest. This included the so-called "bio-fuel" case, in which many public officials are said to have offered or accepted bribes to influence the outcome of public bio-fuel tenders. Controversial businessman Frantisek Mrazek had been one of the people implicated in the case. He was murdered in January 2006 by a gunman using a telescopic sight.
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03/25/2007
President Vaclav Klaus attended a ceremony during an EU summit in the German capital on Saturday evening for the ratification of the so-called "Declaration of Berlin." The declaration is intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome - the document that paved the way for the establishment of the European Union.
Speaking in Berlin, President Klaus said that European integration had brought many benefits and he would not be opposing the declaration. Nevertheless, he did warn that the EU should not evolve in the wrong direction. Shortly before the summit Mr Klaus had criticised the "secretive" way in which the text of the document had been prepared, saying it was a "classic example of the democratic deficit" that existed in the EU. After reservations were expressed by the Czech Republic, Britain and Poland the declaration itself makes no specific reference to divisive issues like the Union's future enlargement or the EU constitution, but instead emphasises the idea of European unity.
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