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10/20/2010
The main opposition party in Ukraine has asked Czech officials to stay out of what it called the “settling of political scores” over former Ukrainian finance minister Bohdan Danylyshyn, who was arrested in Prague on Tuesday on an international warrant. The statement by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc that the accusations against Mr Danylyshyn were purely political and based on falsified information. A spokeswoman for the Municipal Court of Prague said that no proposal of extradition had yet been filed. Bogdan Danylyshyn was the minister of finance in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko until earlier this year. Ukraine accuses him of corruption and losing public funds through "inefficient and excessive expenditure.”
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10/20/2010
Prime Minister Nečas says his centre-right government has shown it is capable of pushing through planned key reforms in its first 100 days in office and done a good job even when taking certain unpopular steps. Mr. Nečas said that the economisation in each of the ministries was a clear sign that his is a government of budgetary responsibility. The opposition criticises the coalition’s planned reforms, saying they are socially insensitive, and blames the government for refusing to communicate with them.
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10/20/2010
The District Court in České Budějovice has sentenced six people to two to eight years for attempted drug and human trafficking. The court found on Wednesday that the group had organised the transfer of Czech prostitutes to a brothel in Switzerland in 2009, as well as a delivery of drugs of their own making. A woman who the group did bring to Switzerland was allegedly kept in a locked room by a Swiss man and was repeatedly raped and beaten. A decision in his trial is expected later this week.
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10/20/2010
While the search continues for a nine-year-old girl who went missing in Prague’s Troja district one week ago, police have filed missing persons announcements for two other young women. Both of the girls are sixteen years old and live in the region of Karlovy Vary. Lucie Kosnarová from the village of Stráž nad Ohří was last seen in her home at around midnight on Sunday. Petra Bubeníková of Karlovy Vary went missing after she left home for school on Monday morning. There has been no indication from the police that any of the cases may be related.
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10/19/2010
The Czech government has decided to postpone a tender on the completion of the Temelin nuclear power plant by a year. After Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Council Prime Minister Petr Nečas said the cabinet would issue the documents for bidders in 2011, receive bids in 2012 and pick the winner in 2013. He said the tender may also result in no one being picked. The Temelin nuclear plant in south Bohemia now runs two 1,000-megawatt units. Three potential bidders have expressed interest in building another two units at the plant: the US company Westinghouse, a grouping of Russia's Atomstroiexport and Gidropress with the Czech Skoda JS, and France's Areva.
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10/19/2010
The head of an NGO for children at risk has criticized the police for failing to alert the media about a missing child. Zuzana Baudyšová, head of the Prague-based foundation Our Child, said the police had bungled the search for an 11-year-old girl who failed to return home from school last Wednesday and has been missing since. She said the police had not activated the early warning system put in place last spring which would have involved radio and TV stations in the search and possibly provided valuable information from the public at a time when speed was essential. A police spokeswoman has rejected the accusation, saying everything possible had been done on a regional scale and a nationwide search had been launched early on Thursday. Police found the child’s schoolbag but her disappearance remains a mystery and no demands have been made on her parents.
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10/19/2010
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to arrive in Prague on Wednesday for a brief working visit. His talks with his Czech counterpart Petr Nečas are expected to focus on bilateral relations, Hungary’s upcoming EU presidency in the first half of 2011 and the two country’s positions regarding the proposed EU budgetary regulations aimed at increasing fiscal responsibility within the alliance. The Hungarian prime minister will hold talks in Prague just two days after a visit by the Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radičová, which covered similar ground.
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10/19/2010
TOP 09, the party which won the local elections in Prague last weekend, says it will not force the town of Moravský Krumlov to give up Alfonse Mucha’s Slav Epic until Prague has fulfilled the terms of the artist’s legacy and built a special pavilion for the collection of 25 paintings. The head of TOP 09’s Prague branch František Laudát said his party disapproved of the undignified tug of war over the paintings, in which the city’s former leadership ordered their forcible removal to the capital - a move that was thwarted by the local administration in cooperation with the company that owns the chateau where the collection was housed. The outgoing Civic Democrats say too much money has been spent on the collection’s relocation for the plans to be abandoned. Talks are expected to continue this week over the make-up of the next Prague city council.
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10/19/2010
The leader of the Civic Democrat’s Brno branch Robert Kotzian has said he is strongly opposed to the idea of a grand coalition with the Social Democrats, following his party’s defeat in last weekend’s local elections. Robert Kocian is pushing for centre-right coalition on the city council with TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats, a move that would push the Social Democrats who won the most votes in the country’s second biggest city into opposition. The Civic Democratic Party is to debate both alternatives on Wednesday.
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10/19/2010
President Václav Klaus has called for the dismantling or radical restructuring of the International Monetary Fund. Speaking at a conference in Prague, the Czech president, a former liberal economist, said the IMF was “a barbaric relic from the Keynesian and fixed-exchange rate era” and pointed out that it was not answerable to anyone for its activities. Mr. Klaus, who is perceived as a staunch Eurosceptic, also criticized the European single currency, saying that while the euro would survive its current crisis, Euro-zone members would inevitably pay a very high price for it.
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