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09/19/2010
The Višegrad group states have signed a memorandum on closer cooperation between their air forces. The pledge was sealed at the 10th annual NATO days in Ostrava said to be the biggest air, military and security show in Central Europe. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary agreed to maximize interactions between their air forces and promote joint training opportunities for their pilots with an emphasis on more across-the-border training and shared know-how from foreign missions. The NATO days in Ostrava attracted close to a hundred thousand visitors. One of the biggest attractions this year is the legendary heavy strategic bomber B-52 Stratofortress of the United States Air Force.
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09/19/2010
Transport Minister Vít Bárta has banned four lobbyists from the premises of the transport ministry, the internet news site Tyden.cz reported on Sunday. It said the lobbyists in question all figured in past contracts to the tune of hundreds of millions of crowns which appear suspect or have been put to question. Minister Bárta said he was determined to reduce the influence of lobby groups on the transport sector.
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09/19/2010
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Jaromír Drábek is to meet with trade union representatives on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to reach agreement over a planned change of salary scales. The talks are scheduled a day after a massive anti-government protest in Prague and on the eve of a government session expected to push through the planned changes. Apart from a ten percent salary cut for all public sector employees next year the government wants to change the way employees are paid – reducing fixed wages and increasing bonuses for performance.
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09/19/2010
The car-maker Škoda is banking on its GreenLine ecological cars at the upcoming Paris Motor Show in October. Unlike previous years when Škoda presented brand new or radically altered models at international motor shows, this year it is showing a line bursting with eco-friendly innovations. The GreenLine offers tires with lowered rolling-resistance, changed aerodynamics, motors and gear-box, and a system whereby the car automatically shuts down its engine while waiting at traffic lights. According to Škoda's spokesman the start-stop system will save 10 percent or more on gas. In addition, the new GreenLine cars will have regenerative breaks which convert breaking energy into electric energy that can be used by the car.
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09/19/2010
Czech drivers are paying more for gas and diesel fuel that drivers in all neighbouring states and filling their tanks abroad whenever possible. While at Czech gas stations a liter of diesel fuel costs on average 30.49 crowns, in neignbouring Poland it is sold on average for 27.12 crowns –in Czech money. The price of gas is almost two crowns cheaper. Economists say fuel prices should stay fairly stable in the coming weeks.
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09/19/2010
Two people were injured during the felling of trees in the town of Prosetín. As one of the trees came down it broke in two and hit a married couple watching the felling. The forty-three-year old woman died of her injuries several hours after being transported to hospital, her husband remains in serious condition. It is not clear who let them watch the action close-up. Police are investigating the incident.
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09/18/2010
The governing coalition is determined to push ahead with a proposed 5 percent salary cut for all constitutional officials in 2011, despite the likelihood that the decision may be taken to court. The proposed cut would affect the incomes of MPs, senators, judges and the president. The Constitutional Court recently invalidated a 4 percent reduction in the salary of judges affected in 2010 on the grounds that it was un-constitutional and undermined judicial independence. The centre-right coalition government which has approved extensive austerity measures with the aim of a balancing the state budget by 2016, says it is unethical to exempt the country’s top officials from the cost-cutting measures.
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09/18/2010
Czech ministries are preparing to lay off some 6,000 employees by the end of the year within the government’s austerity package. The redundancies will affect not only administrative workers but police officers and fire-fighters. The biggest lay-offs should take place at the interior ministry, the ministry of social affairs and the ministry of finance, which are all cutting approximately twenty percent of their staff. Labor offices are preparing for the upsurge in job seekers.
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09/18/2010
The deputy mayor of Zlín, Martin Janeček, has filed a criminal complaint of slander against his critics on Facebook. Mr. Janeček who is third on the Social Democrats candidates list in the town of Zlín, is seeking re-election in the autumn. He says that the campaign against him on Faceboook –in which he is accused of corrupt practices – is no longer tolerable and has asked the police to file charges against an unknown culprit. Police have been questioning the author of the respective web site.
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09/18/2010
Austrian and German hospitals are seeking to recruit qualified Czech doctors who are dissatisfied with salaries and work conditions in their homeland, the news site novinky.cz reports. The news site claims that head hunters have intensified their efforts in the medical sphere and have even organized a job opportunities fair in Prague in October. The head of the Czech Medical Chamber Milan Kubek says Czech hospitals and clinics are currently short of some 700 qualified doctors and warns that the situation could significantly deteriorate in view of the government’s cost cutting measures for 2011. Hundreds of doctors have threatened to walk out and seek work abroad unless they get a salary increase next year.
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