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07/28/2010
The body of a woman who the police identified as one of their own officers was found on Wednesday morning in the town of Ostrava. The 22-year-old woman had apparently shot herself in a wooded area and was discovered by a passerby the next day. The report comes only one day after the announcement that another female police officer had shot and killed herself in her office at Prague police headquarters several weeks before. The woman in the latter case had left a letter in which she said she was being mobbed and humiliated by her superiors. Police in north Moravia said there was nothing to indicate that the Ostrava officer’s suicide was related to her work.
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07/28/2010
New companies established in the Czech Republic topped 12.600 in the first half of the year, showing year-on-year growth of 10%. Nearly a half of the new businesses were founded in Prague and more than 60% trade in wholesaling, real estate, services or construction. The ČEKIA information agency which released the results told the Czech Press Agency that 2010 could break records if the tempo continues for the rest of the year. The vast majority of the new entities (95.4%) were limited liability companies, while only 581 were joint-stock companies.
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07/28/2010
Football’s Sparta Prague edged Lech Poznan 1:0 on Tuesday evening in first-leg of their Champions League third-round qualifier. The win gives them a slender advantage when they face their opponents in the second-leg in Poland. Sparta’s Erich Brabec scored the game’s lone goal with 12 minutes remaining after Libor Sionko set up a cross leading to the strike. Ahead of the match, security was heightened to prevent any clashes between Sparta fans and visiting Polish rowdies; there were only a few minor incidents.
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07/27/2010
The new centre-right government is seeking the means to access money from state companies in order to boost public finances, according to Tuesday’s edition of Hospodarské noviny. The paper says that there are presently some 8 billion crowns in profits on company accounts that could be put to good use and that over the next four years the government could access another ten billion from state companies such as Budějovický Budvar, the state forestry company Lesy ČR or the country’s postal services. However accessing the funds would require a change of legislation.
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07/27/2010
Public Affairs, one of the three parties in government, has threatened to torpedo the finance minister’s proposed austerity package at Wednesday’s government meeting. Party leader Radek John, who heads the interior ministry, said the proposed measures placed an unfair burden on Public Affairs ministers who were expected to take the biggest cuts. The party leadership is set to debate the issue further on Tuesday evening. Public Affairs holds the interior, transport and education ministries. In an angry reaction to the public statement Prime Minister Nečas said all ministries were being asked to make cuts and any minister who couldn’t shoulder the burden had no place in government.
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07/27/2010
President Vaclav Klaus has said he wants to meet individually with the ministers of the new centre-right government in the coming weeks in order to get better acquainted with their work in office. The president received the new prime minister, Petr Nečas, for a working lunch at Prague Castle on Tuesday. The discussion focussed primarily on the government’s policy programme. The president has repeatedly stressed that he considers the government’s primary task reigning in the country’s excessive public finance deficit.
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07/27/2010
At a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said the time was not yet ripe for the EU to reassess its policy towards Cuba in connection with the recent release of political prisoners. Mr. Schwarzenberg said that although the move was a sign of progress, Cuba was still far from functioning as a democracy. Drawing a parallel to communist Czechoslovakia, the Czech foreign minister said Cuba had moved from the hardline 1950s to the 1970s in its development. He pointed out that in the 1970s the Czechoslovak communist regime also had an interest in expelling dissidents from the country and preventing them from returning. The EU has conditioned any dialogue with Havana on an observance of human rights and some member states, such as Spain, have suggested it may be time to revise its tough line.
The Czech Republic on Monday also supported an EU move to level tougher sanctions against Iran in a dispute over its nuclear programme. They include a block on oil and gas investment.
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07/27/2010
The city of Prague has said it wants to come to an amicable agreement with the city of Moravsk ý Krumlov over Alphonse Mucha’s Slav epic. The two city halls are at odds over the fate of the precious art collection after Prague city hall attempted to get it moved to Prague’s Veletržní Palác art gallery. However local authorities in Moravský Krumlov, where the Slav Epic has been housed for over half a century, have heeded a call from Mucha’s heirs to bar anybody from handling it. The ban will remain in place until uncertainties surrounding a 1913 contract granting the city of Prague ownership of the art work have been cleared up. Alfonse Mucha donated the 20-painting collection to Prague on the condition that the authorities built a dedicated home for his late masterpiece, a condition that remains unfulfilled. On Sunday around 1,000 people demonstrated against it being moved from Moravský Krumlov, where it is the biggest tourist attraction.
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07/27/2010
Two of the eleven Czech scouts who were injured in an accident in Lithuania over the weekend remain in intensive care with serious chest injuries, the ctk news agency reports. Six others remain hospitalized with fractures and concussion. The accident happened on Sunday when a group of 15 Czech scouts cycling around the country took shelter in a derelict building in a rainstorm which collapsed on them. The police is investigating the accident with regard to possible negligence on the part of the house-owner as well as the scout-master who allowed the group to enter a building which was clearly uninhabitable.
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07/27/2010
President Václav Klaus on Tuesday appointed Iva Ritschelová head of the Czech Statistical Office. Ms Ritschelová formerly headed the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. The 36-year-old former university director specializes in environmental policies. The Czech Statistical Office had an acting director since its former head Jan Fischer left his post after being appointed head of the caretaker cabinet in May of last year.
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