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05/22/2013
The funeral has taken place in Prague of Valtr Komárek, who was one of the leaders of the Velvet Revolution and briefly served as deputy leader of Czechoslovakia’s first post-Communist government. Speaking at a memorial service for the left-wing politician and economist, who died last week at the age of 82, President Miloš Zeman said no party should abuse his name in order to promote themselves. Mr. Zeman said that while Mr. Komárek had been honorary chair of the Social Democrats, he had maintained his own views. The president was himself head of the Social Democrats and has mixed relations with its leaders today.
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05/22/2013
The Dalai Lama is due to appear at this year’s Forum 2000 conference in Prague in mid September, the event’s organisers said on Wednesday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has been to the Czech capital several times and was close to the late president Václav Havel, who co-founded Forum 2000 as a platform for debate on issues facing the world. The theme of this year’s conference, the 17th, will be social transformation. While he is in Prague, the Dalai Lama is also expected to deliver public lectures.
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05/22/2013
This year’s Prague Pride parade will not be able to follow its usual route, as opponents of the gay event March for the Family and the Young Christian Democrats have already won permission to hold their own gatherings on sections of the route leading through the centre of the Czech capital. Organisers say they are considering a number of alternative routes for the third Prague Pride, which is scheduled to take place on August 17.
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05/22/2013
An exhibition of clothing, photos and other items linked to screen legend Marilyn Monroe may not go ahead in Prague after one of the trucks carrying the materials from Italy was stolen on Tuesday night. While many of the stolen items were exhibition furniture such as display cases and pedestals, some original photographs were also taken. The lorry was found empty near Mělník in Central Bohemia on Wednesday morning. The travelling exhibition, simply entitled Marilyn, is scheduled to open its doors at Prague Castle’s Riding School next Wednesday.
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05/22/2013
Ten people were slightly injured when two trams collided in Prague on Tuesday evening. A spokesperson for the transport authority said human error was likely to blame for the collision, which occurred between the Červený vrch and Veleslavín station in Prague 6 shortly after 19:00. The injured, who included both drivers, mainly sustained cuts and bruises.
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05/21/2013
Civic Democrat councilors are holding an emergency meeting on the crisis at Prague City Hall. The future of the city’s administration lies in the balance after TOP 09 pulled out of the coalition and is demanding the lion’s share of powers in local government. TOP 09 is pushing for a new coalition agreement with the Civic Democrats under which it would get seven seats on the eleven member council and the post of mayor. The party has been increasingly critical of overpriced city projects such as the Blanka tunnel or Opencard and in future wants to oversee key areas such as public transport, property and financing. It has offered its right wing coalition partner just four council seats and made it clear that if the offer is rejected it would approach the Social Democrats or seek support for a broad coalition. The Civic Democrats have said they are not prepared to relinquish the post of mayor.
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05/21/2013
The police have uncovered close to one million liters of untaxed liquor in storage in a number of warehouses around the country. The tanks of alcohol had been cemented underground in order to escape inspections relating to the methanol scandal which broke out last year. Several people from an unspecified firm have been detained for questioning. The loss in taxes is estimated at 300 million crowns. The police’s organized crime squad is on the case.
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05/21/2013
There are growing protests against President Zeman’s decision not to name Martin C. Putna, a widely recognized Catholic intellectual, professor. Seven other professorial candidates are refusing to accept their decrees from the president’s hands and say they will boycott the ceremony in protest. Others have criticized the president’s decision and are awaiting the outcome of a meeting between President Zeman and the rector of Charles University Vaclav Hampl. Under growing public pressure President Zeman on Monday clarified the reason for refusing to name Mr. Putna professor. He said it was due to the wording of a banner that he carried at Prague’s Gay Pride parade two years ago which did not correspond to his notion of how a university professor should appear in public. The president is to give a press conference on the issue on Wednesday.
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05/21/2013
The Ombudsman has said he will look into complaints regarding how banks and insurance companies are treating older clients. Apparently some financial institutions are refusing to issue older people credit cards and asking them to pay higher health insurance on trips abroad purely on the grounds of age. The Ombudsman’s Office is planning a survey of 45 banks and 52 insurance companies to get an overview of the situation. The results should be known in August.
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05/21/2013
Prime Minister Petr Nečas defended the government’s pension reform on Tuesday urging more people to join the so-called second pillar, thereby putting part of their pension funds into private insurance companies. He said that in view of the aging population the only alternatives to a pension reform would be to increase taxes or cut pensions by a third. He said the second pillar of the government’s pension insurance scheme was advantageous to approximately half the working population, rather than just high income groups. Czechs have proved wary of putting their money into private insurance companies, with only 31,000 people joining the second pillar in the past four months. The government had hoped to see half a million people join by the end of June.
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