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07/06/2010
The lower house of the Czech Parliament will meet on Wednesday to elects its committees and to choose the new Czech ombudsman, a successor of Otakar Motejl who passed away in May. The deputies will be choosing from among four candidates for the new defender of human rights; these include former deputy ombudman Anna Šabatová, the chairwoman of the Supreme Court Iva Brožová, former Civic Democrat MP Eva Dundáčková and human rights activist John Bok.
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07/06/2010
More than 6.8 percent of electricity consumed in the Czech Republic in 2009 was made from renewable sources of energy, according to government data released on Monday. The share is 1.6 percent higher than in the previous year. The total production of electricity from renewable energy rose by nearly a quarter to 4.67 million Megawatt hours. Analysts say that a plunge in energy consumption by industrial producers is the main factor behind the increasing share of electricity from renewable energy.
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07/06/2010
The US singer Jello Biafra nearly missed his appearance at the Rock for People open air festival in Hradec Králové, eastern Bohemia, on Monday, organizers said. Apparently, the 52-year-old punk rock legend arrived at a wrong venue – instead of Hradec Králové, he drove to the town of Český Brod, where the festival was held four years ago. While his current band – The Guantanamo School of Medicine – was already on stage, the rock singer then made another stop at his hotel, and only performed for some 20 minutes at the festival.
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07/06/2010
The German Bundesliga club Hamburger SV signed a three-year deal with Czech goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobný on Monday. The 30-year-old Czech footballer comes from Hertha Berlin which was relegated to the second top division last season. Jaroslav Drobný told the Hamburg club website that he was extremely happy with the transfer, and was looking forward to competing for the league title.
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07/05/2010
Czech President Václav Klaus congratulated on Monday the newly elected president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski. Mr Klaus said he hoped that under the new head of state, the excellent Czech-Polish relations will further improve. The Czech president also invited his Polish counterpart to visit the Czech Republic.
The incoming Czech prime minister, Petr Nečas, also congratulated the newly elected Polish president, as did the chairwoman of the Czech parliament’s lower house Miroslava Němcová, and the head of Parliament’s upper house, Senator Přemysl Sobotka.
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07/05/2010
Some 40,000 Czech Catholics attended a mass in Velehrad, southern Moravia, on Monday, to commemorate Saints Cyril and Methodius. July 5 is a national holiday in the Czech Republic to honour the legacy of the Greek missionaries who brought Christianity to the Czech lands in 863. The open-air mass at Vehelehrad, once the seat of the Great Moravian Empire, was celebrated by the Archbishop of Prague, Dominik Duka. He masses at Velehrad had always attracted people longing for freedom.
Saints Cyril and Methodius arrived in Moravia in 863 on a mission from the Byzantine Empire. To spread the Gospel among the Slavs, they created the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the Bible and liturgical books into Slavonic, which at that time had no written form. The two brothers are considered the founders of Slavic literature.
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07/05/2010
In related news, some 70 town halls in Moravia flew Moravian flags on Monday to commemorate the arrival of Ss Cyril and Methodius in the Great Moravian Empire in the 9th century. The towns that have displayed the Moravian flag include Břeclav, Třebíč, Mikulov and others. The mayor of Mikulov, Rostislav Koštial, told the Czech news agency ČTK the flags are not meant to foster nationalism or separatism; they should rather remind people of their traditions and origins.
Moravia, today the eastern part of the Czech Republic, is besides Bohemia and Silesia one of three historic Czech lands. After the destruction of the Great Moravian Empire in the 10th century, it became united of the Kingdom of Bohemia. The Moravian flag, consisting two horizontal gold and of red stripes, was sanctioned in 1848 but has been rarely used since mid-20th century.
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07/05/2010
The biggest star among the guests of the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, British actor Jude Law, will receive the Festival President’s Award on Monday. Jude Law will also present his 1999 film, The Talented Mr Ripley, at the festival.
Mr Law arrived in the west Bohemian spa town late Sunday night. After partying away his first night at Karlovy Vary, Mr Law told reporters on Monday that he would join the cast of Martin Scorsese's latest movie, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Among the guests of this year’s festival, which kicked off on Friday, are Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, the Russian film director Nikita Michalkov, and others.
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07/05/2010
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Kohout, honoured the memory of WWII Czechoslovak armed forces in Cholmondeley, Cheshire, in the United Kingdom, on Monday. There the Czech and Slovak troops began forming on July 7, 1940 to fight against Nazi Germany along with the Allies. The event was attended by several veterans, including 92-year-old general Tomáš Sedláček. Minister Jan Kohout said that the formation of Czechoslovak troops in Great Britain 70 years ago laid the foundations of today’s great relations between the Czech Republic and the UK.
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07/05/2010
Welfare spending has risen nearly ten times since 1990, according to government figures released on Monday. In 1990, the Czech government spent around 76.5 billion crowns on unemployment benefits and health and social insurance payments, while in 2009 the figure reached nearly 748 billion crowns. In the same period, the nominal gross national product rose six times – from over 626 billion in 1990 to 3628 billion crowns last year.
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