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07/27/2010
Three youths have been fined 3,000 crowns each for pelting the former Civic Democrat leader Mirek Toplánek with eggs and insults at an election rally. The incident happened in the town of Hustopeče in August of last year and there was speculation at the time that the attack may have been commissioned by a rival party. The former Civic Democrat leader was hit by eggs and gravel which resulted in light facial injuries. He refused to break off the election tour. The judge issued a relatively small fine in view of the fact that there was no evidence the three youths had actually thrown gravel or stones at the politician.
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07/27/2010
Police are out in force for a Champions League preliminary round match between Sparta Prague and Lech Poznan at Prague’s Letná stadium on Tuesday evening. Hundreds of Polish fans, among them notorious rowdies, have been arriving for the match in the course of the day. A police spokeswoman said the police had checked dozens of buses crossing the border, returning a number of fans without Ids who were suspected of having been extradited for causing trouble on previous occasions. Around three thousand Polish fans are expected to attend the match, gathering first on Prague’s Old Town Square and making their way to the stadium on foot. A similar event last year ended in street clashes with the police after Polish rowdies attempted to force their way into the football grounds without tickets and vandalized public property after failing to gain admission.
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07/27/2010
A police officer is reported to have committed suicide at Prague’s police headquarters. According to the daily Právo the officer, who worked for the fraud squad for three years, shot herself with her service weapon two weeks ago. According to a source close to the victim, the 29-year-old woman left a letter in which she said she was being mobbed and humiliated by her superiors. A spokeswoman told the daily that the police would look into the allegations but was unable to provide any further details at the moment.
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07/26/2010
Officials in Moravský Krumlov have blocked the planned move of Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic to Prague. Movers were on Monday due to start taking the first of the 20 paintings that make up the masterpiece to the capital for display at the Veletržni Palác modern 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.
The Mucha Foundation, which is run by the artist’s grandson, says moving the Slav Epic to Veletržni Palác would only be a temporary solution. The Art Nouveau pioneer donated it 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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07/26/2010
Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra has said he is planning to remove the head of the ministry’s acquisitions division Roman Hošta from his post by the end of this week. Mr Vondra told journalists on Monday that under Mr Hošta, contracts for public tenders to renovate army real estate had been signed that he finds suspicious and excessively expensive. He added that the ministry was also to undergo a rigorous audit by a respected international agency in an effort to uncover corruption. In recent days, the Czech daily Mladá fronta dnes alleged that the Prague firm H+V Praha had earned millions of crowns off the public tenders it received from the Ministry of Defense.
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07/26/2010
Vít Barta, the new minister of transport, has said that he is planning to examine all of his ministry’s contracts and tenders, some of which he considers outrageously wasteful. At a press conference on Monday, Mr Barta said that the ministry’s contract with the company Kapsch was particularly suspicious. The firm won a 22- billion-crown tender to build the country’s toll system years ago, but is still receiving money from the ministry thanks to certain clauses in the contract. Mr Barta has also put on hold any new public tenders, with the exception of two: the purchase of salt and vehicles needed for winter road maintenance.
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07/26/2010
President Václav Klaus is to receive the newly-appointed Prime Minister Petr Nečas at Prague Castle for a working lunch on Tuesday. Likely topics on the agenda are the appointment of a new Czech Ombudsman to replace Otakar Motejl, who died in May, and the priorities of the new government. The three-party government coalition is currently preparing its policy program, to be presented to the lower house on August 10 when the government plans to ask the house for a vote of confidence. Mr Nečas was appointed to the office of prime minister two weeks ago.
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07/26/2010
President Václav Klaus is to appoint the new head of the Czech Statistical Office on Tuesday. The post will be taken up by Iva Ritschelová, who is currently the director of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. She was recommended for the post by the former prime minister Jan Fischer, who himself headed the Czech Statistical Office before being named head of the caretaker cabinet. The 36-year-old university director specializes in environmental policies.
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07/26/2010
Czech beekeepers are to receive a total of 3.85 million Euro or about 97 million Czech crowns in funds from the European Union between 2011 and 2013. These funds could double if the Czech government decides to match them. The decision to support Czech beekeepers fell in Brussels last week. The Czech Ministry of Agriculture announced the news on Monday.
Scientific studies have revealed that the number of bees worldwide over the past years has been rapidly declining, in some EU countries by as much as 50 percent. According to the European Parliament, about three-quarters of all food produced in the EU depend on bee pollination.
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07/26/2010
Czech cinemas are showing record profits for a second year in succession. Movie houses saw profits of 747 million Czech crowns in the first half of 2010, a figure that is 195 million crowns higher than that for the first six months of 2009. According to statistics published on the website of the Czech union of film distributors, the number of visitors grew by about a million in the first half of 2010 compared to the same time period last year. Among Czech cinemas, multi-screen movie theaters dominate the market with a share of 87 percent of total profits.
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