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02/15/2007
A former finance minister, Vlastimil Tlusty, turned down the opportunity to become the Czech Republic's next European commissioner. He told the daily Pravo he had been offered the post by Prime Minister and Civic Democrats chief Mirek Topolanek. But Mr Tlusty said he would not accept any post that would entail giving up his seat in the lower house. Mr Topolanek left Mr Tlusty out of his cabinet despite the latter's long experience as shadow finance minister. The mandate of the current Czech Euro commissioner, Vladimir Spidla, expires in 2009.
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02/15/2007
The governing Civic Democrats remain the most popular party in the Czech Republic, suggests a poll released by the STEM agency. The poll, conducted in February, indicated just over 31% of Czechs would vote for the party. The Social Democrats were second in the survey with 23%, followed by another opposition party the Communists on 12.7%.
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02/15/2007
The Austrian chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, is expected to discuss the Temelin nuclear power station in south Bohemia when he visits Prague in just under two weeks' time. While Mr Gusenbauer's office has not revealed particular details of his visit, the Czech foreign minister recently said a senior Austrian figure would discuss the power plant with Czech leaders soon. Opponents of Temelin say it is unsafe.
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02/15/2007
The number of counterfeit banknotes detected in the Czech Republic fell last year. Some 7,800 fake notes were discovered, down almost 1,500 on 2005. However, the total value of counterfeit money found in 2006 was up compared to the previous year, said the Czech National Bank. A spokesperson said there was one counterfeit note to every 200,000 real notes in circulation in the Czech Republic; the European Union average is one fake note to 20,000 genuine ones.
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02/15/2007
The partner of a professional fireman who was killed during the recent Kyrill wind storm has given birth to a baby girl. Members of the public have donated almost two million CZK (93,000 USD) in a collection for the family of Dusan Lipovsky, who was 38.
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02/15/2007
Ten Czech pop artists are to take part in a competition to become the country's first ever entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest. The country's representative will be chosen by viewers of Czech Television's national Euro Song competition between February 23 and March 10. The entrants are Kabat, Petr Kolar, Helena Vondrackova, Gipsy.cz, Samer Issa, Petr Bende, Vlastimil Horvath, Helena Zetova, Lili Marlen and LBP. Czech TV said a number of pop stars turned down the opportunity to take part.
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02/14/2007
Around twenty Austrian opponents of the Czech Temelin nuclear power plant blockaded the Czech-Austrian border crossing at Wullowitz and Dolni Dvoriste on Wednesday morning. The anti-nuclear activists from the Atomstopp organisation want to pressure their government into prosecuting the Czech Republic for failing to observe a Czech-Austrian treaty on nuclear safety. The controversial Temelín nuclear plant has been a sore point in Czech-Austrian relations since it began operating six years ago. Many in Austria claim that that the facility's Soviet design makes it more likely to experience a Chernobyl-style meltdown. Authorities say Wednesday's hour-long protest did not cause any major traffic problems as many drivers simply used nearby crossings at Halamky and Ceske Velenice.
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02/14/2007
A UNICEF report on the health and well being of the world's children indicates that Czech children are materially well off but suffer from emotional neglect. The Czech Republic ranked 11th in terms of material needs, 10th in terms of health care provided and 9th in terms of education. However broken homes, single parenthood and poor communication between children and parents put the Czech Republic 19th as far as emotional needs go and 17th according to the children's own subjective assessment. Overall the Czech Republic came 15th, ahead of countries such as Great Britain, France and the United States. 21 countries were covered in the survey.
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02/14/2007
The Czech Minister of Justice has sacked a senior state prosecutor in Prague. The state prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that Minister Jiri Pospisil had sacked Prague high state prosecutor Jiri Kulvejt. Press reports have indicated that supreme state attorney Renata Vesecka was not satisfied with the work of Mr Kulvejt's office. Mr Kulvejt has released a statement saying that he had his own opinion on the matter, but as a senior civil servant he did not think it was right for him to engage in polemics on the issue.
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02/14/2007
Dozens - possibly hundreds - of Czech GPs and paediatricians went on a one-day strike on Wednesday in protest at new regulations, which have reduced the amount of money insurance companies give them per patient. Jan Jelinek, deputy chairman of the Czech association of general practitioners, told the Czech news agency that the financial restrictions are having an adverse effect on the quality of health care provided. Support for the strike was strongest in Moravia but in some regions where there's currently a flu epidemic doctors reduced the strike to a symbolic 15-minute protest.
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