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10/15/2006
Social Democrat leader and former Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has admitted that his party and the Civic Democrats could start discussing a grand coalition but he said he himself would not take part in it. Speaking in a lunchtime discussion programme on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr Paroubek said he would only remain chairman of the Social Democratic Party. Prime Minister and head of the Civic Democrats Mirek Topolanek dismissed such an option.
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10/15/2006
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek also said that a proposed US anti-missile defence site will most probably not be built in the Czech Republic. Speaking on Czech TV on Sunday, Mr Topolanek said that a radar site might be built in the country instead. The United States plans to build a base in Central Europe which would house defensive missiles, and be under the administrative control of the United States. US military experts have visited potential locations in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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10/15/2006
A new poll by the STEM agency suggests that over 50 percent of Czechs are planning to cast their votes in the upcoming Senate elections next Friday and Saturday, while up to 70 percent are planning to take part in the local elections on the same days. A different poll by the Factum Invenio agency suggests over 50 percent of Czechs believe that the Senate, the upper house of the Czech Parliament, is a useless institution and should be abolished. The trend has been visible ever since 1996 when the Senate was established but the number of those believing that it is a useful and beneficial institution has slightly increased.
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10/15/2006
Chelsea's goalkeeper Petr Cech has undergone surgery for a depressed fracture of the skull after he was knocked unconscious in the champions' 1-0 win at Reading on Saturday. The 24-year-old Czech keeper Cech was caught by a challenge from Reading midfielder Stephen Hunt in the first minute and was carried off. Coach Jose Mourinho said he thought Cech was lucky to be alive after being caught in the head by Hunt's knee, branding the Reading man's challenge "a disgrace".
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10/14/2006
A Prague court on Friday remanded in custody a senior aide to two former Social Democrat prime ministers on charges of pocketing EU funds and blackmail. The charges against Zdenek Dolezel and also Ladislav Peta, mayor of the town of Budisov, and Miloslav Rehulka, an Agriculture Ministry employee, were brought on Wednesday. The three men were accused of having siphoned off tens of millions of Czech crowns of EU and state funds from a project to renovate Budisov castle. They are also accused of blackmailing a Czech architect, Marek Ricar, who alerted police to the alleged fraud. According to media reports, the three were preparing to hire a killer to assassinate Jan Kubice, head of the special police squad for uncovering organised crime. Mr. Rehulka was also taken into custody while Mr. Peta was taken to a hospital for medical attention; his lawyer told reporters that Mr. Peta has cancer, and was due to start treatment in hospital on Friday.
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10/14/2006
In the same case, police on Friday charged former deputy local development minister Vera Jourova with corruption. Ms Jourova was arrested shortly after her plane landed at Prague-Ruzyne airport on Friday afternoon. Ms Jourova was a member of the Social Democratic Party for three years. She voluntarily ended her membership on June 5 after she left the post of deputy local development minister. According to former PM and party chairman Jiri Paroubek, Jourova used her membership as a "lift" for her career.
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10/14/2006
A new poll by the Factum Invenio agency suggests over 50 percent of Czechs believe that the Senate, the upper house of the Czech Parliament, is quite a useless institution and should be abolished. The trend has been visible ever since 1996 when the Senate was established. However, the number of those believing that it is a useful and beneficial institution has slightly increased. The first round of Senate elections in one third of the constituencies will be held next weekend.
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10/14/2006
The foundation stone of a new headquarters for Prague-based US-funded radio station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was laid in the Czech capital on Friday. The broadcaster's current headquarters is in the centre of Prague and the station together with the city authorities have been discussing its moving since the September 11 attacks on the US. The Congress-funded radio station broadcasts in 28 languages to some 20 countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia. Founded in the 1950s at the height of the Cold War, the broadcaster moved to Prague from Munich, Germany, in 1995 to take advantage of an offer to house it in the former Czechoslovak parliament building in the city centre.
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10/14/2006
Czech teenager Nicole Vaidisova was beaten by fifth-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova 0-6 6-4 6-7 at the Kremlin Cup Women's Singles semi-finals on Saturday. Nadia Petrova will face her compatriot Anna Chakvetadze in the final match on Sunday.
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10/13/2006
A court in Prague 1 has sent all three men—Zdenek Dolezel, Ladislav Peta, and Miloslav Rehulka—accused of high-profile blackmail and corruption behind bars. Mr. Dolezel is the former head of the prime minister's office. The charges against Mr. Dolezel, Mr. Peta, mayor of the small south Moravian town of Budisov, and Mr. Rehulka, an Agriculture Ministry employee, were brought on Wednesday in connection with suspected corruption in the handling of EU structural funds channeled via the Local Development Ministry, and the blackmail of architect Marek Ricar who reported the planned fraud to the police. Both Mr. Dolezel and Mr. Rehulka have been taken into custody and transported to a holding cell, while Mr. Peta was taken to a hospital for medical attention; his lawyer told reporters that Mr. Peta has cancer, and was due to start treatment in hospital on Friday.
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