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09/15/2010
The government is committed to introducing legislation aimed at giving those who took part in the resistance to the Communist regime the same status as war veterans, Prime Minister Nečas told a conference organised by the Confederation of Political Prisoners on Wednesday. Previous efforts to bring in such a law have failed. However, given the new coalition government’s strong majority, the legislation now has a greater chance of succeeding. It would be up to the Ministry of Defence to decide who had been taken part in the resistance during four decades of Communist rule.
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09/15/2010
The quality of life in Hradec Králové is higher than in any other city in the Czech Republic, suggests a new survey. Prague came second in the study looking at 50 towns and cities, followed by Pardubice. Eleven factors were considered, including the rate of unemployment, property rental prices and life expectancy. Most in northern Bohemia came last in the survey.
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09/15/2010
A Czech company has come up with a novel method of protection against being overcharged by a taxi driver, an experience common to visitors to the Czech Republic. The firm Et netera has created a mobile phone application that uses a global positioning system to allow passengers to measure the distance travelled and calculate the correct fare. It is offering the system to the authorities in Prague, who have been taking measures to combat overcharging by the city’s taxi drivers for some years.
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09/15/2010
The Czech table tennis team have taken the bronze medal at the sport’s European championships being held in Ostrava in the northeast of the Czech Republic. The “home” team failed to reach the final after being beaten 3:1 by Belarus in Tuesday’s semi-finals. Belarus will now face Germany, who beat France in the other semi.
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09/15/2010
Midfielder Radek Šírl has left the Russian club Zenit St Petersburg for Mladá Bolesav in the Czech football league. The 29-year-old joined Zenit from Sparta Prague in 2002, helping the club win the Russian league title in 2007 and the UEFA Cup the following year. However, after problems with injuries he was recently released by Zenit. Šírl, who can also play as a full-back, has eight caps for the Czech national side.
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09/14/2010
Slovakia's refusal to contribute to the EU bailout package for Greece cannot be interpreted as a lack of solidarity but rather as a call for greater responsibility, representatives of the Visegrad group states concluded on Tuesday. Parliamentary committees for European Affairs of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia debated the issue at a meeting in Prague and fully accepted Slovakia’s stand that providing the aid would sanction the actions that led to the crisis, including providing misleading information about Greece’s financial circumstances. Slovakia, the poorest and newest member of the 16-nation euro zone, refused to contribute 700 million euro to the 80 billion euro EU rescue package, which was supplemented by30 billion euro from the International Monetary Fund.
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09/14/2010
The Civic Democratic Party has unanimously elected its candidate for the post of Prague mayor in the autumn local elections. The nominee is a former head of the Czech Medical Chamber, physician Bohuslav Svoboda, who has no party affiliation. He will be running against TOP 09 candidate Zdeněk Tuma, Markéta Reedová of Public Affairs and Jiří Dienstbier jr. representing the Social Democrats. A spokesman for the Civic Democrats said Mr. Svoboda had won the nomination hands down, on account of the fact that he was widely respected in his profession and was not linked to the Civic Democratic Party in any way. The party’s Prague leadership has come under severe criticism in recent months with allegations of money squandering and corruption.
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09/14/2010
The Czech Republic, Germany and Poland will ask jointly for EU funds to help cope with the damage caused by the August floods, Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas and Saxony's Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich said on Tuesday. EU aid money can be drawn if the damage is over 21 billion crowns. The damage estimate in the Czech lands falls short of that amount but a joint request by the three neighbouring states would fulfil the criteria. According to the latest data, the total flood damage in northern Bohemia in August crossed 10 billion crowns.
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09/14/2010
Transport Minister Vít Bárta on Tuesday lifted a ban on railway and road construction projects after receiving assurances of price cuts from building companies. Mr. Bárta said that building work would continue five percent cheaper, adding that this was not the end of the ministry’s efforts to cut costs. All rail and road construction projects were halted at the beginning of August as the ministry reviewed its spending. Road and motorway construction projects will continue with four exceptions. The transport minister said there was no money left for a bypass of the town of Česká Lípa, northern Bohemia, a motorway connecting Opava and Ostrava, northern Moravia, and two access roads to the D47 motorway in northern Moravia.
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09/14/2010
Czech data protection authorities have stopped Google collecting new images to update its Street View service. The Office for Personal Data Protection this week rejected for a second time Google's application to collect personal data on the grounds that the process could potentially break the law. Czechs can already request their images be blurred out, but there is still a question over car registration plates or facades of houses appearing on Street View, which covers the capital Prague and three other cities.
A spokeswoman for the office said the decision would not ban Google from using photographs already taken since the Czech launch of Street View in October 2009. She said talks over the use of data would continue.
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