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09/21/2010
Former president Václav Havel has called for the Nobel peace prize to be awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. In a letter to the New York Times, co-signed by former Czechoslovak dissidents Dana Nemcová and Václav Malý, Havel drew parallels between the challenge to Czechoslovak Communism presented by Charter 77 and the Charter 08 spearheaded by Liu and signed by 300 Chinese human rights activists. Liu was sentenced to 10 years in prison after the action. Mr. Havel said that Liu should be recognized for his 20 years struggle for peaceful reform.
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09/21/2010
Around 1,650 MW of solar power capacity could come on line in the Czech Republic by the end of the year according to head of renewables at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. That total is approaches the current capacity of the Temelín nuclear power plant. Mr Pavel Gebauer said at a conference on Tuesday that this represented a pessimistic scenario of developments. Deputy head of the state-controlled high voltage grid network operator ČEPS, Petr Zeman, said 1,650 MW capacity was the maximum limit it had set until 2012 for all renewables, including both wind power and solar, if they grid was to remain stable and secure. The government last week took fresh steps to curb the ongoing solar power boom in the country.
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09/21/2010
Czech eighth grade pupils of around 14 years old support minority rights and are interested in the environment but are less likely to be involved in public activities according to an international comparison. The survey of 4,600 Czech pupils was carried out in 144 schools last year as part of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study. Compared with pupils surveyed from another 37 countries, Czechs scored well on support for equal rights and environmental protection but lower than average on active participation. For example, 60 percent said they would vote in national elections but that figure dropped to 38 percent for European elections.
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09/21/2010
Police are investigating after a worker died after being buried by debris during road construction and repairs in the central town of Kladno on Tuesday. A second worker at the site was released after being temporarily trapped. Police say criminal charges could follow the accident and are seeking to establish whether safety rules were broken.
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09/21/2010
Sparta Prague came back from behind to win the derby game against Slavia on Monday night. Hosts Slavia took the lead on 22 minutes through Petr Trapp. Sparta come back soon after half time with a similar goal stemming from a free kick. They took the lead in the 89th minute through striker Bony Wilfried. Sparta trail league leaders Plzeň by seven points in third place with Slavia mid-table in ninth.
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09/20/2010
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg met with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman in Prague on Monday, and assured him of continued Czech support for Israel in the Middle-East peace talks. Mr Schwarzenberg said the Czech Republic had been, was and would be Israel’s ally on the international scene. For his part, the Israeli foreign minister said the Czech Republic was one of Israel’s “most reliable friends”. Mr Leiberman also met with Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas during his one-day visit to Prague; his trip marks the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between Czechoslovakia and Israel that were severed after the Six-Day War in 1967.
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09/20/2010
Supreme State Attorney Renáta Vesecká will most likely be fired, Prime Minister Petr Nečas told reporters on Monday. Mr Nečas said that her case had been “99.99 percent” resolved but that he first needed to discuss the issue with the other parties in the government; one of them, the Public Affairs party, has been pushing for Ms Vesecká to go over her alleged inability to cope with the reforms put forward by the centre-right cabinet. She has also been under pressure to resign due to her involvement in the scandal relating to a former deputy prime minister, Jiří Čunek. Renáta Vesecká was accused of interfering with the investigation of Mr Čunek’s alleged bribery case; she was labelled part of “judicial mafia” by her predecessor whom she took the court but lost.
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09/20/2010
A new bypass around the south-western outskirts of Prague opened to traffic on Monday. The 23-km-long stretch of motorway which will allow traffic between the east and the west of the country to bypass the Czech capital, took nearly four years to build, and cost around 20 billion crowns, or more than one billion US dollars. The new bypass is expected to significantly reduce congestion in the city, but it has been criticized for excessive costs.
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09/20/2010
Hollywood star Tom Cruise is in Prague filming the new thriller, Mission: Impossible 4, the daily Aha said on Monday. The filming should begin within a week; producers of Mission: Impossible 4 picked Prague, where the first film of the series was shot in 1995, due to tax incentives for film productions approved earlier this year by the Czech government. While in Prague, Mr Cruise will also shoot a commercial, the daily Aha reported.
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09/20/2010
President Václav Klaus, Prime Minister Petr Nečas and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg agreed on Monday on splitting the foreign affairs agenda. President Klaus will represent the country at EU summits that primarily focus on the union’s external relations, while PM Nečas will attend summits with internal EU agenda. However, the upcoming UN summit in New York as well as November’s NATO summit in Portugal will be attended by both the president and the foreign minister.
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