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09/17/2010
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is due to arrive in the Czech Republic on Monday for a one-day working visit. His talks with Prime Minister Petr Necas and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg are expected to focus on bilateral ties and the renewed Middle East peace talks. The visit takes place on the 20th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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09/17/2010
Twenty-two tons of butter imported from neighbouring Germany has had to be taken off the shelves after failing to meet quality control norms, the Czech Standards and Quality Control Office reported on Friday. According to the head of the office, Josef Duben, the butter does not present a health risk. It was taken off shelves because it contained significantly more water than EU norms permit.
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09/17/2010
The police on Friday charged a Prague bus driver who was caught driving a packed bus heavily intoxicated. A test revealed he had a blood alcohol content of 3,5 permille, which is a state on the brink of alcohol poisoning. The police was alerted to the problem by a passenger who said the driver was acting funny. The driver faces up to 3 years in jail.
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09/17/2010
The Cannabizz 2010 international hemp fair opened in Prague on Friday offering a wide variety of hemp products, from cosmetics and clothes to food and medicine. Several dozen companies from the Netherlands, Austria, France, Germany and the US are presenting their goods. The three-day event is taking place under the watchful eye of the police, but organizers say everything on sale is perfectly legal. Although the Czech Republic has not legalized soft drugs, possession of a small amount of marihuana for one’s own use is not illegal.
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09/17/2010
Novak Djokovic was forced to withdraw from the opening day of the Davis Cup World Group semi-final between Serbia and Czech Republic on Friday due to stomach problems, a statement said. Victor Troicki, world ranked 47, will replace Djokovic in the first rubber against Czech Radek Stepanek, ranked 35th, a statement on the Davis Cup website said.
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09/17/2010
The Czech title holders Sparta Prague had a great start in their Europa League on Thursday when they beat Italy’s Palermo 3:2 in the Czech capital. After a nervous start, Bony Wilfried scored the home side’s first goal in 17th minute. Palermo managed to draw before halftime, but Jiří Kladrubský and Václav Kadlec put Sparta back in the lead in the second half. Palermo’s Hernandez set the final score with some ten minutes left of the game. Sparta manager Josef Chovanec said the hosts owed the victory to their team spirit. The Czech champions will face CSKA Moscow on their turf at the end of the month, before hosting Lausanne in October.
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09/16/2010
In his first visit to Brussels since being appointed Czech prime minister, Petr Nečas became embroiled in the ongoing row over France’s repatriations of Roma. Ahead of an EU summit in Brussels, Mr Nečas backed France’s position saying that each EU member state should be able to enforce its own laws, and the EU should not interfere in what is to a certain extent a French internal political question. However, the Czech prime minister later said he had purposefully avoided any evaluation of the steps recently taken by the French government.
During a three-day visit to Brussels, the Czech prime minister is also taking part in a European Union summit on Thursday, and will meet the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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09/16/2010
Leaders of the Czech police and firefighters’ trade unions warned on Thursday that the austerity measures proposed by the government would decrease public safety. With the number of police officers dropping by 6,000, response to crime may take longer putting people’s lives at risk. With smaller budgets, firefighters will not be able to maintain their equipment, the trade unions said.
The Czech government has vowed to carry out significant spending cuts to bring down the state budget deficit. Czech trade unions are holding a major rally in Prague on Tuesday to protest the planned cuts.
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09/16/2010
The police on Thursday interrogated former Czech prime minister Miloš Zeman, along with several members of his cabinet, over the privatization of the country’s second biggest mining company Mostecká uhelná. In 1998, Mr Zeman’s government sold the state’s share in the firm for some 650 million crowns, or nearly 35 million US dollars. The interrogations were attended by representatives of Swiss prosecutors who are investigating the sale for suspicions that it could have been funded by billions of crowns which should have been set aside for re-cultivation of former mining sites but found its way into foreign bank accounts. The Czech police investigated the case for nearly a decade until it was shelved in 2008.
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09/16/2010
Closing speeches of the prosecution, defence counsels and defendants in the Vítkov case, in which four men stand accused of a firebomb attack on a Roma family, will be heard in the first week of October. A court in Ostrava on Thursday finished hearing evidence and adjourned the trial until October 5 and 6.
The men allegedly threw fire bombs into the Roma’s home in Vítkov, northern Moravia in April 2009. A two year-old girl suffered severe burns in the attack and doctors say it will permanently affect her health. If found guilty, the four men could be given life sentences.
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