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10/13/2010
The Czech Republic’s footballers eased to a 2:0 away victory over tiny Liechtenstein on Tuesday night, notching up their second win in Euro 2012 qualifiers in five days. Tomáš Necid found the net for the visitors after 12 minutes, before 18-year-old debutant Václav Kadlec added a second just before the half hour mark, becoming the youngest player ever to score for the Czech Republic. The Czechs are now second in Group I behind Spain, who they visit in their next European Championship qualifier in March.
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10/13/2010
Meanwhile, the Czech Under 21 side have qualified for their age level’s European Championship. After beating Greece 3:0 at home in a play-off game the youngsters won 2:0 away on Tuesday to secure a 5:0 victory on aggregate. The Under 21 European Championship takes place in Denmark in June. A draw for four-team groups in the eight-nation tournament will be held next month.
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10/13/2010
Legendary Czech jockey Josef Váňa may be forced to quit racing due to injury, the newspaper Sport reported. Váňa, who is 58 next week, won the Grand Pardubice steeplechase for the seventh time on Sunday when his horse Tiumen came first in a photo finish. However, the jockey has been suffering from knee problems and requires surgery to replace a knee joint. He said if that happens, he cannot envisage taking part in the Czech Republic’s best known race again.
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10/12/2010
Trades unions in the Czech Republic have announced an indefinite “strike alert” in protest at government plans to cut the salaries of state employees. The leader of the main unions organisation, Jaroslav Zavadil, informed the Czech prime minister, Petr Nečas, of the decision on Tuesday morning. After that meeting, Mr Nečas said the government would not back down over its plan to cut the total amount spent on public sector pay by 10 percent next year. The prime minister called for more talks with union leaders.
The right-of-centre coalition has pledged to balance the Czech Republic’s budget by 2016. It plans extensive reforms of the pension, health and tertiary education systems.
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10/12/2010
Prime Minister Petr Nečas says talk of electricity prices being kept at current levels next year is “unrealistic and populist”, due to a steep rise in the number of subsidised solar power generators. He said measures being prepared by the government could keep hikes down to 5 percent for households, and 7 to 8 percent for firms. The Energy Regulatory Office says that because of the boom in solar power plants households could pay up to 12 percent more for electricity next year, with businesses set to pay up to 17 percent more. Mr Nečas’s comments came a day after the minister of finance, Miroslav Kalousek, said electricity prices could be kept at current levels using incomes raised from the sale of emissions permits. The prime minister’s Civic Democrats and Mr Kalousek’s TOP 09 will be competing for many of the same conservative votes in imminent local and Senate elections.
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10/12/2010
The government says it wants to give local authorities more powers to improve air quality. Under a new amendment outlined by the prime minister, Petr Nečas, municipalities would be able to create low emissions zones, barring vehicles which don’t meet emissions standards, and limit some sources of pollution. The cabinet is set to discuss the legislation on Wednesday. Mr Nečas said it was a very topical matter, as parts of the Moravia-Silesia Region had recently been suffering from serious problems with smog.
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10/12/2010
Czech army pilots will have very little time to get used to new aeroplanes before they are deployed in Afghanistan at the start of next year, Hospodářské noviny reported. The Casa aircraft will only be available for training in the Czech Republic for a few weeks before pilots will have to fly them in Afghanistan, the newspaper said. One expert said such preparations would actually need several months. If the plan is approved by the Czech parliament, it will be the first time the country has sent planes to a war zone.
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10/12/2010
The owner of the runner-up in Sunday’s Grand Pardubice steeplechase says he will not contest the awarding of first place to Tiumen ridden by Josef Váňa. The owner of Amant Gris, Josef Hájek, said he would not lodge an appeal with the Czech Jockey Club and now wanted to put the matter behind him. Stewards accepted the claim of Amant Gris’s jockey Marek Stromský that Váňa had pressed him into a fence in the final stretch of the race. However, they said the incident had not affected the result of the race, which ended in a photo finish, and only imposed a small fine. It was the seventh win in the Grand Pardubice for veteran jockey Josef Váňa, who turns 58 next week.
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10/12/2010
A Czech judge who refused to take a police breathalyser test has resigned, Právo reported. Jiri Englich, who served at the Prague 9 district court, would only proffer his judge’s ID when pulled over by police in the centre of Prague last month, the newspaper said. He could face a fine and a ban of up to two years for refusing to be breathalysed.
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10/12/2010
The Forum 2000 conference came to a close in Prague on Tuesday afternoon. The annual event, which is organised by the Forum 2000 foundation of former Czech president Václav Havel, was being held for the 14th time this year. The main theme of the 2010 conference was “the world we want to live in”. Among the guest speakers were Iranian human rights campaigner, Cuban dissident Jose Luis Garcia Paneque and conservative British philosopher Roger Scruton.
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