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02/26/2007
Over two thousand bridges that are used for traffic in the country are in very bad condition, the daily Pravo reports. The paper quotes the spokesperson for the Czech Directorate for Roads and Motorways as saying there is not enough money available for repair work as it has to be financed out of regional budgets. Some 44 percent of the country's 49,000 kilometres of secondary roads are in hazardous condition, Pravo warns.
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02/26/2007
Prague Municipal Court has decided to return the case of former health minister Marie Souckova, who was acquitted last year of breach of trust and abuse of public office by a lower court, for reappraisal. Ms Souckova is being prosecuted for signing a contract between the Health Ministry and lawyer Zdenek Novacek which concerned legal aid in the state's dispute with the Diag Human company. The contract was allegedly disadvantageous for the state. It promised Mr Novacek 10 million crowns for representing the state and another 170 million if he won the case. If found guilty, Marie Souckova faces three to ten years in prison.
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02/26/2007
Czech Minister without Portfolio Dzamila Stehlikova of the Green Party says discussion about child adoptions by homosexual couples should be launched in the Czech Republic. In an on-line interview for the Novinky.cz news server Ms Stehlikova said same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children in the future. She said one reason why a broad debate should be launched is the large number of children who are growing up in institutions. The Czech Republic legalised registered partnerships of homosexual couples in July last year.
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02/26/2007
Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer is due to meet Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on Tuesday to discuss the Czech Temelin nuclear power plant, the Czech Republic's presidency of the EU as well as economic issues. Mr Gusenbauer, who is coming to the Czech Republic for a one day official visit, is also due to meet President Vaclav Klaus and the chairmen of both houses of parliament. He is also going to meet Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek to talk about Czech-Austrian relations and the stationing of a US radar base on Czech territory.
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02/25/2007
The Czech police should work with information provided by Swedish television to resume an investigation into the circumstances behind the manner in which the state tried to acquire Gripen fighter jets, former finance minister Vlastimil Tlusty said on Sunday. In 2002, the police launched an investigation after a senator said he had been offered a bribe to support the country's acquisition of the jets from the British-Swedish consortium BAE Systems/SAAB. The investigation was shelved for lack of information. On Tuesday, the Swedish media reported that several politicians were bribed with the help of middle men. The report included specific names and sums.
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02/25/2007
The leader of the Communist Party, Vojtech Filip, has called on his party colleagues to modernise. Mr Filip says the party needs new voters and should find the courage to address different and even controversial issues. While the party also gets votes from non-Communist citizens who have cast their ballots as a form of protest, Mr Filip would like those votes to become more sincere through a change in the party programme. The first step towards modernisation should be taken at the party's next congress, he suggests.
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02/25/2007
The Czech Republic should secure its energy supply by making full use of its nuclear power plants and technology in other European countries, the National Security Council proposes in a report. The document was made public by Czech Radio Radiozurnal on Sunday. According to the council, the country's limited renewable energy sources would be used more efficiently if the Temelin and Dukovany nuclear power plants were developed further and if plans to stop uranium mining were reconsidered. Environment Minister Martin Bursik has criticised the report.
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02/25/2007
Fire fighters spent most of Saturday night removing sulphuric acid off a road in the Prague 10 district. The dangerous chemical leaked out of a truck that was transporting the substance. The 1000 litres were spilled over a 3 kilometre stretch. No-one was in danger as the road runs through an uninhabited area. The company for which the chemical was being transported is reportedly the same one that was responsible for a similar accident in another part of the same district on Thursday.
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02/25/2007
A woman who was stabbed in a bookmaker's office in the Moravian town of Frydek-Mistek has died from her injuries. The 32-year old employee was still alive when she was found in a pool of blood by a colleague. She was rushed to hospital but died on Saturday evening. The police are still investigating who was behind attack and whether the motive was personal or the attack occurred during an attempted robbery.
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02/25/2007
Hundreds of people have marked the fifty-ninth anniversary of the communist putsch in Czechoslovakia by gathering on Prague's Old Town Square to commemorate the victims of Communism. Speaking on the same balcony of the Kinsky Palace from where Communist leader Klement Gottwald gave his first address to the nation after taking power 59 years ago, the president of the Confederation of Political Prisoners, Nadezda Kavalirova, asked Czechs to call for a ban of the Communist Party. The Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia on February 25 1948, starting forty years of totalitarian rule.
Dozens of people, including Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka, also gathered on Sunday in Prague's Mala Strana district to commemorate a student march to Prague Castle, which took place on the same day as the communist putsch in 1948. The march was crushed by the police as it was in protest at Communist rule and in support of the then president Edvard Benes. Its participants were later persecuted by the regime.
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