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10/11/2010
The company that owns the chateau that houses the Slav Epic, Incheba Praha, will not prevent the City of Prague from relocating the paintings after reaching an agreement with the City Gallery Prague. The gallery apologised to Incheba on Monday for using a security agency to prohibit representatives of Moravský Krumlov from entering the premises while the paintings were being packaged on Friday and promised to provide the company with detailed information on the relocation in the future. Incheba says it still wants an apology for the arrogant attitude taken by the City of Prague in the situation. The two municipalities have been fighting through the courts for possession of the masterpiece for months, with a restraining order against their relocation being overturned last week.
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10/11/2010
A survey carried out by the polling agency STEM suggests that 70% of Czechs are opposed to adopting the common European currency, the lowest level of support in the last five years. STEM says it believes the numbers are influenced by recent reports that the stability of the euro has been jeopardised by the indebtedness of certain EU states. 48% of respondents said they believed the European Union itself was going in the right direction, and 51% of those were in favour of adopting the euro.
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10/11/2010
Police have arrested a man for possession of depleted uranium near the east Bohemian town of Svitavy. The material was discovered on Friday in a home the man used in the village of Bělá nad Svitavou. The 45-year-old suspect’s mother told reporters he had a history of mental health problems and was interested in chemical experiments using freely available substances. He is also under investigation in Germany, where a search of his flat in the town of Koblenz uncovered chemicals of unknown origin, fuses and firearms.
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10/11/2010
The Velká Pardubická, the Czech Republic’s premiere steeplechase, was won on Sunday by 57-year-old jockey Josef Váňa on Tiumen in a photo-finish. It is the seventh time Mr Váňa has won the event and the second win for 9-year-old Tiumen. The victory was contested by second place Marek Stromský on Amant Gris, who found himself momentarily hemmed in between Tiumen and the fence in the homestretch. Váňa was fined 500 crowns for the infraction but it was found to have no impact on the result. Third place was taken by two-time winner Sixteen jockeyed by Josef Bartoš.
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10/10/2010
Authorities in north-eastern Moravia have warned companies they will be asked to scale down production on Monday if the smog-situation does not improve in the coming hours. Excessive pollution levels are registered in nine cities with toxic substances in the air twice exceeding set norms. People have been warned to stay indoors as much as possible and keep their windows closed. The situation is worst in the town of Bohumín where the concentration of dangerous substances per cubic meter has reached 131 micrograms; 150 would allow the authorities to call a smog alert and order restrictive measures.
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10/10/2010
Hundreds of people gathered on Prague’s Old Town Square on Saturday night to celebrate the Astronomical Clock’s 600th birthday. Prague City Hall prepared a special audio-visual programme video-mapping the clock’s history on the clock tower itself. (Part of the show can be viewed on you Tube.) The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. Later, presumably around 1490, a calendar dial was added and the clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
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10/10/2010
The leaders of the Civic and Social Democratic parties have agreed on the need to limit parties in the amount of money they spend on election campaigns. In a panel debate on Czech public television the leader of the Civic Democrats Petr Nečas said the matter would be easily negotiable on condition that all parties would agree to make public the amounts they had spent on previous campaigns. He also stressed the need to set down guarantees that would prevent parties from circumventing the set limit through what he called “anonymous campaigning” and other means.
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10/10/2010
A full sixty percent of Czechs fear losing their jobs, according to the results of a poll by the job portal Onlineprace. The poll conducted in mid-September indicates that only 16 percent of Czechs have no reason for concern in this respect, saying they are certain of their job. Nine percent said they felt very uncertain about their future prospects because of recent lay-off in their company. The exceptionally high degree of concern is attributed to the government’s cost-cutting measures which has led many public institutions and state-owned companies to lay off staff.
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10/10/2010
Interior Minister Radek John has come under fire from opposition parties for making a trip to Moravia by helicopter at a time when money is tight. Acting Social Democrat leader Bohuslav Sobotka said it was shameful of the interior minister to order a helicopter at a time when the police force is seeing its petrol rationed. Prime Minister Nečas said on Sunday he would inquire into the matter since at a time of austerity measures any indulgence on the part of the government sent the wrong signal to the public.
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10/10/2010
A seven-year-old Czech girl who got lost in the Austrian city of Linc is safe home. The girl, whose parents were in Linz visiting relatives, wandered away from a playground in search of adventure and was unable to find her way back. Police combed the vicinity and the nearby river but in the end the girl herself found the courage to ring someone’s bell at 3am and ask for help.
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