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03/07/2007
A Prague lawyer has demanded that the Social Democratic Party make their books of account public and prove that they are not giving preferential treatment to other creditors. Zdenek Altner suspects that the country's second biggest party paid a creditor almost one million crowns despite the fact that it still owes him 19 billion (close to 890 million US dollars) for his services almost seven years ago. On Wednesday, Mr Altner threatened to go ahead with plans to start bankruptcy proceedings against the Social Democrats.
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03/07/2007
Scientists at Prague's Organic Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry Institute have made a breakthrough in medical research into virology, Mlada fronta Dnes newspaper reports. In cooperation with colleagues from Belgium and the United States, they have come up with medical treatment that can facilitate and in some cases save the lives of people with serious viral diseases. The medication works with minimal side effects but the pharmaceutical company that is acquiring the licence is reluctant to introduce it on the market. Competition from less-effective but already established medication would be too strong, the paper writes.
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03/07/2007
Fire fighters have cordonned off a former brick factory in the Moravian town of Jesenik after dangerous chemicals were discovered in a deserted laboratory. Some of the substances had begun to leak and even threatened to explode. The chemicals were contained in the room and posed no threat to the environment. No charges will be filed against the owner of the building.
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03/07/2007
The average salary in the Czech Republic has risen by 6.5 percent, according to new figures released by the Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday. The monthly average salary now stands at 20,211 crowns (around 940 US dollars). However, economic analysts stress that the figure is influenced by the high salaries of a small minority; in reality, two thirds of the country's salaries are well below the 20,000 crown mark.
In Prague, the average salary rose by 6.2 percent to reach 25,282 crowns.
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03/07/2007
A little over half the population - some 55 percent - believe that confiscated property should not be restituted to the Church, results of an opinion poll suggest. The poll conducted by the STEM agency also indicates that 56 percent of Czechs do not consider the Church an important institution.
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03/07/2007
Czech ski-cross champion Tomas Kraus has defended his title at the Ski Cross World Championship in Italy. The silver medal went to Czech-Canadian Stanley Hayer and the bronze to Enak Gavaggia from France. Tomas Kraus has dominated European and world ski-cross events in the last few years. He won the European championship in 2003 and the world championship two years ago.
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03/06/2007
The Christian Democratic Party leadership has thrown its full weight behind party leader Jiri Cunek who is suspected of corruption. Mr. Cunek who serves as Local Development Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and senator, has refused to resign from his posts despite the growing scandal surrounding his past activities in regional politics. The police suspect Mr. Cunek of having accepted a half a million crown bribe from a private company while he was still mayor of Vsetin. The key witness in the case is his former secretary who is under police protection after three men allegedly attempted to bribe her to change her testimony in Mr. Cunek's favour. Calls for his resignation have intensified but Mr. Cunek says he sees no reason to comply.
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03/06/2007
Prague Castle Administration and Catholic Church dignitaries on Tuesday failed to agree on the hand-over of St. Vitus Cathedral back into state hands. The Church was expected to relinquish its rights to the Cathedral after the Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the Prague City Court last June which gave the Church ownership rights. Cardinal Miloslav Vlk argued however that the Supreme Court had not specifically ordered a transfer, merely invalidated all former rulings on the case. The Cardinal said that he did not consider this verdict final and was considering taking the battle to a European Court. Another round of talks is to be held on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's spokesman Petr Knotig said the Catholic Church was misinterpreting the ruling and that it should hand over St. Vitus to the Prague Castle Administration without further delay.
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03/06/2007
On a visit to the Czech Republic, Britain's Secretary for Europe Geoff Hoon said the EU Constitution should better reflect the needs of EU citizens. Following talks with the Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, Mr. Hoon said it was important to think about why Holland and France had rejected the treaty. The Czech Republic and Britain, along with five other EU states, halted efforts to ratify the treaty after the Dutch and French votes, and have called for the document to be simplified and made more transparent. However the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek assured officials in Brussels on Monday that the Czech Republic would not try to block a "reduced" version of the EU treaty.
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03/06/2007
US plans to deploy a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland could be discussed for the first time by European Union leaders at a two day summit in Brussels due to begin on Thursday, the AFP news agency reports. The topic shot onto the EU's agenda on Monday when Austria requested that EU foreign ministers hear from their Czech and Polish counterparts, where the missile defense shield is likely to be located. Although the Czech government looks set to open negotiations with the United States on the matter Prime Minister Topolanek said that no commitment had been made and that he welcomed debate on the subject within the EU and NATO.
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