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08/04/2010
Under the newly installed government’s austerity measures, the Czech Academy of Science’s budget for next year is to be cut by 1.4 billion Czech crowns. Its director, Jiří Drahoš, has said he is convinced that the cuts would have drastic consequences for the academy. He added that should the budget be reduced by that amount, he would be forced to close some research centers and staff would have to be cut dramatically. The academy’s 2010 budget is 5.1 billion Czech crowns, 12.5 percent less than in the previous year. Mr Drahoš believes that the only possible motivation behind such frequent budget cuts could be a long-term plan to close the academy down.
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08/04/2010
For the second time, Prague’s Supreme Court has overturned a Prague city court verdict regarding an ownership dispute over one half of the capital’s famous Lucerna palace between former president Václav Havel’s sister-in-law Dagmar Havlová and the real-estate firm Chemapol. According to the Supreme Court, the city court’s judge failed to properly determine the actual value of the Lucerna palace real estate. In the city court’s verdict, the ruling judge argued that when Mrs Havlová bought half of the palace from Chemapol, the firm was threatened by bankruptcy and sold it at a much lower price than the actual value of the real estate. The judge based her estimate of the real estate’s value on the price that Chemapol paid the former president when it bought the other half of the palace in 1997.
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08/04/2010
A Prague city court ruled on Wednesday that the Security Services Archive must remove the name of actor Jan Kanyza from its list of communist-era secret police (StB) collaborators. Mr Kanyza had sued the Security Services Archive, arguing that including his name on the list was not justified and that it should be removed. The interior ministry in the past has claimed that Mr Kanyza collaborated with the StB, citing the testimony of one of the StB’s former employees.
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08/04/2010
The new Czech thriller Kajínek will premiere in Prague’s Slovanský Dům on Wednesday night. The film’s male lead, Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko, will be in attendance. The film is based on the life story of Jiří Kajínek, a notorious Czech prisoner who is serving a life sentence for a double contract murder. Kajínek maintains that he is innocent and was framed by the police. His case was recently re-opened.
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08/04/2010
The Swedish textile retailer H&M Hennes and Mauritz has seen its sales drop by about 92 million crowns in the Czech Republic this year as compared to 2009, despite the fact that the company opened three new stores in the Czech Republic, bringing its total number to 19. This represents a continuing a trend from the previous year, when H&M Hennes and Mauritz’s sales dropped by about 19 million crowns. Experts say that this is part of a bigger trend in the textile industry, which is going through a severe crisis. The sales of the country’s 37 biggest textile retailers dropped by 600 million Czech crowns in 2009.
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08/04/2010
A Czech scout died in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on Wednesday, after being seriously injured while vacationing there in late July. The 19-year-old, who died on this birthday, was hit by building materials that fell from an unsupervised construction site. Another six members of the 22-member group of Czech tourists he was travelling with have already been released from the Kaunas hospital last week.
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08/03/2010
Work on the government’s policy statement has been concluded and it will be submitted to the cabinet for a vote on Wednesday, the news site Lidovky.cz reported on Tuesday. The statement, which will be put to the vote before being submitted to Parliament, outlines a number of priorities; primarily curbing the state budget deficit, reforming the health and pension systems and curbing corruption in the public sector. On the basis of this policy statement Prime Minister Necas’ centre-right government will ask Parliament for a vote of confidence on August 10th.
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08/03/2010
Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek’s proposed draft budget for 2011 aims for a deficit of 135 billion crowns, or 4.6 percent of GDP, taking cost-cutting measures further than expected, the daily Hospodářské Noviny wrote on Tuesday. According to the paper the proposed 58.8 billion crown cut in expenditures is four billion more than originally planned and would affect all ministries. The draft proposal is to be submitted to the government on Wednesday and is expected to spark a heated debate. Cabinet members are still at odds over this year’s cuts, with ministers from the Public Affairs party arguing that they were having to shoulder a heavier burden than their colleagues in government.
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08/03/2010
In one of the first reactions to the budget proposal, the Justice Ministry on Tuesday expressed serious doubts as to whether it could operate on the sum it had been earmarked for next year. Spokeswoman Veronika Ludvikova said the ministry had been earmarked 18,8 billion crowns which is approximately 12 percent less compared to 2010. Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil has asked a team of economic experts to assess the possibilities and say whether the cost-cutting measures are not in violation of the three party coalition agreement.
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08/03/2010
In anticipation of next year’s cost cutting measures, some ministries have started offering their employees part-time jobs. All ministries will have to implement a 10 percent cut in expenditures, including salaries, which means either laying off staff or introducing a job-sharing scheme where possible. Until now, Czech employers have been generally unwilling to hire people on a part time basis, despite interest from mothers on maternity leave. Consequently only 5.5 percent of Czechs currently work on a part time basis, as compared to an EU average of 18.7percent.
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