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08/06/2010
The Chamber of Deputies aims to make savings this year by cutting the number of foreign trips taken by MPs, the chairwoman of the lower house, Miroslava Němcová, said on Friday. She said the number of domestic flights taken by deputies would also be reduced in future. One cost-cutting measure already introduced was reducing the number of lower house deputy chairs from five to three. Next week the Chamber of Deputies budget committee will vote on whether to freeze the institution’s own expenses, along with those of five other bodies, including the Senate and the Constitutional Court.
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08/06/2010
Plans to close some Czech embassies and consuls would spell the end of the country’s traditional diplomatic network and threaten exports to Africa, Asia and South America, the opposition Social Democrats’ foreign affairs spokesman Lubomír Zaorálek said on Friday. He said Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg ought to discuss the planned closures with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Mr Schwarzenberg said this week that around Czech 10 embassies and consuls would be shut down, mainly in South America and Africa, as part of cost-cutting measures.
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08/06/2010
Thieves made off with a complete ATM machine from a department store in the south Moravian town of Břeclav on Thursday night. The theft occurred while night shift workers were stacking shelves inside the shop at around 3 am. It took the thieves only a matter of minutes to remove the entrance doors and pull the free-standing cash machine away using chains attached to a car.
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08/06/2010
Over 80 percent of Czechs believe they will find state old age pensions inadequate, suggests a new study by the internet based polling agency SANEP. However, half of the 5000-plus respondents in July’s survey said they could not afford to save for their own retirement. Seventy-two percent said they expected to experience a drastic fall in their living standards once their working lives come to an end.
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08/06/2010
Three Czech clubs have been eliminated in qualification for the continent’s second tier football competition, the Europa League. Viktoria Plzeň had two men sent off as they went down 3:0 to Besiktas in Istanbul on Thursday, losing that tie 4:1 on aggregate. Baník Ostrava were beaten 2:1 at home by Dnepr Mogilev, giving the Belarusian side an aggregate 3:1 win, while Jablonec also failed to make home advantage pay, losing 3:0 on the night and 4:0 overall to APOEL Nicosia. The only Czech team in European competition this season will be Sparta Prague. The title holders have reached the final qualification round for the Champions League, and are guaranteed a Europa League spot if they don’t get past Slovakia’s Žilina.
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08/06/2010
Top seed Tomáš Berdych has reached the quarter finals at the Washington Classic. The Czech men’s number one beat Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3 5-7 7-5 to set up a clash with Belgium’s Xavier Malisse for a place in the last four. Klára Zakopalová, meanwhile, has reached her first WTA semi-final of the season at the Danish Open in Copenhagen, after overcoming the German player Angelique Kerber 6-1 7-5.
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08/05/2010
The Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has said that in all likelihood the Czech Republic will have to close down around ten diplomatic missions, above all in South America and Africa, as the result of budget cuts. He made the statement in Budapest on Thursday, adding concrete locations would be discussed by the government at its next meeting. In addition to the closing down of bureaux abroad, the foreign minister also stressed that some 100 employees would be let go by the Foreign Ministry. The planned cuts are directly related to the government’s austerity measures, requiring individual ministries to save ten percent of their annual budgets for next year.
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08/05/2010
The Interior Ministry has denied reports it will focus primarily on rank-and-file police officers in a wave of layoffs next year that could prove essential to meeting austerity measures agreed by the government. Under the government’s plan, all 14 ministries will be required to save 10 percent from their budget, meaning likely job cuts. In an interview for the newspaper Právo, the Interior Minister Radek John suggested that layoffs would be necessary to avoid blanket wage cuts for all police officers and fire fighters. Právo writes that the layoffs would begin in next year’s 2Q. By contrast, Interior Ministry spokesman Jiří Reichl told the ČTK news agency on Thursday that if layoffs proved essential, the ministry would first look to save among officers not serving on regular duty.
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08/05/2010
The government's economic advisory board NERV, reinstated on Wednesday, has met to outline priorities in the coming months, among them the creation of six teams focusing on specific areas of the Czech economy. The teams will deal with - and present recommendations - on issues including pension reform, transparency in public tenders, and EU economic policy. Members will now be assigned to specific groups with the prime minister saying an official announcement will be made in two weeks. NERV was first set up in January 2009 to focus on economic growth. The original council had ten members including Vladimír Dlouhý (an advisor to US investment bank Goldman Sachs), Martin Jahn (president of Automotive Industry Association and CEO of Volkswagen Group in Russia), and others. The renewed body will meet once per month.
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08/05/2010
The Omnipol group has said it is ready to meet contractual obligations over the exchange of five L-159 fighter jets for Spanish-made CASA transport planes. The statement is reaction to criticism by the prime minister earlier this week, centring on Omnipol as a mediator in the deal with EADS, the CASA manufacturer. The government says the reason that it signed a deal on the CASA planes was to be able to get a deal on the L-159s; it later came to light that Spain was not interested. In their joint press conference with Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra on Tuesday, Prime Minister Petr Nečas hit out at mediating firms, calling them as “parasitical” and saying that the days when the Defence Ministry had served as a kind of cash cow were over. According to controversial legislation from 1994, the defence ministry cannot buy arms directly from foreign producers – a law the current government wants to change.
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