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07/20/2010
The new Czech government is planning to link increases in old age pensions to inflation alone from 2012, Hospodářské noviny reported. The move would mean pensions grew at a slower pace and would save the state CZK 5.5 billion a year, the newspaper said. Currently pension rises are calculated according to both inflation and growth in real wages. The minister for social affairs, Jaromír Drábek, said the government planned to introduce the change as part of broader reform of the pension system. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Petr Nečas said tying pension growth to inflation alone should be brought in gradually over several years.
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07/20/2010
The security firm ABL says it will sue Social Democrats leader Bohuslav Sobotka if he does not either apologise for comments he made about the company or prove their veracity. Mr Sobotka called on the prime minister to intervene over alleged ties between ABL and several ministries, and warned of possible corruption and conflict of interest. The firm was previously owned by Vít Barta, who is transport minister for Public Affairs, a party that received his strong financial backing. Education Minister Josef Dobeš of Public Affairs is a former ABL employee, as are deputy ministers of transport, education and the interior. An ABL representative said on Tuesday that its former employees who are now in government posts no longer had ties to the firm. For his part, Mr Sobotka says he has no intention of retracting his statements.
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07/20/2010
A 24-year-old Czech man has been sentenced to life in prison in Ireland for the murder of a young Czech woman in 2008. Jakub Fidler was found guilty of strangling Nicola Vonková (19) to death following a row at a house in Co. Galway about spying on his instant messaging and email accounts. The two had worked together at a supermarket. In a letter read out in court, the victim’s mother said she had survived her child and that was a situation no parent was prepared for.
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07/20/2010
The wife of former Czech prime minister Jiří Paroubek has lost a legal battle against the publisher of the magazine Reflex over a comic strip depicting the couple. The Supreme Court rejected Petra Paroubková’s argument that drawings of her and her husband in bed were pornographic. The judge handling the case said Mrs Paroubková had herself chosen to enter public life and the depictions did not have the nature of pornography; comics used exaggeration as a device, and this edition of the satirical strip Zelený Raoul was aimed more at her husband than her.
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07/20/2010
The state attorney’s office has shelved the case of a Czech soldier who wore a Nazi symbol while on a foreign mission, Czech Television reported. Jan Čermák was dismissed from the Czech army after newspaper reports that he wore the logo of the SS on his helmet while on duty in Afghanistan. Another soldier was drummed out for a similar offence. The state attorney said Čermák had committed a crime but said his demotion, dismissal and loss of benefits were sufficient punishment.
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07/20/2010
A popular toy from the communist era is set to soon make a return to shops in the Czech Republic. The toy company Efko bought the rights to produce Igráček figures and accessories a couple of years ago, but only recently succeeded in buying the rights to the brand name. A representative of Efko said the toy should be back on the market in about a month’s time. Igráček looks somewhat similar to a Lego man.
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07/20/2010
The American pop singer Pink is playing a concert at Prague’s Eden soccer stadium on Tuesday evening. It is the fourth time the star has visited the Czech capital, with her most recent appearance at the city’s O2 Arena in November last year. Organisers say Pink, who is promoting her album Funhouse, will put on her usual show, despite a recent fall from a stage in Germany.
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07/19/2010
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas travelled to the Slovak capital of Bratislava on Monday for his first official visit since taking office three weeks ago. The Czech prime minister met his Slovak counterpart, Iveta Radičová, for talks. The two discussed the economy, energy security and regional cooperation. The Czech prime minister underlined that the two newly formed coalition governments shared similar priorities of cutting their budget deficits and said that European rules to curb deficits should now be enforced. Mr. Nečas also met Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič.
The Czech and Slovak prime ministers will on Tuesday travel to Budapest for a meeting of the four strong Visegrad Group which also includes Poland and Hungary. In Hungary, Mr Nečas will hold bilateral meetings with his Polish and Hungarian counterparts.
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07/19/2010
Police said on Monday that 294 people had died on Czech roads during the first half of the year. That is the lowest figure for the first six months of the year for the last 21 years. During the same period in 2009 the number of victims was 86 higher. The latest figures follow on from a sharp rise in road deaths accompanying the start of the summer holidays. Overall, the death toll has been falling for several years now with last year’s total for the first half year under 400 for the first time. In the first six months of 1990 640 people died on the roads.
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07/19/2010
Around two-fifths of the people who voted for the Public Affairs party in May’s lower house elections did so not out of any great conviction but only because they saw the party as the lesser evil. That is one of the findings of a poll carried out by the STEM agency whose results were released on Monday. The results were not much better for the other newcomer party, TOP 09, with around half of those polled saying they had a weak or very weak relationship with the party. Most of the longer established parties fared better with over two-thirds saying they had a strong or very strong identification with them. Elections at the end of May were narrowly won by the Social Democrats but the second placed Civic Democrats formed a coalition with TOP 09 and Public Affairs.
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