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06/15/2010
The Czech Medical Chamber has joined a protest by the doctors’ trade unions and called on its members to quit their jobs in hospitals if their salaries do not increase by the end of the year. If successful, the campaign could result in many hospital departments around the country having to close down. Doctors want their salaries increased by around 40 percent; the appeal should also draw attention to the fact that Czech hospitals increasingly rely on foreign doctors. The head of the Czech Medical Chamber, Milan Kubek, said that some 2,100 foreign doctors were working in the country, while around 200 Czech doctors leave the Czech Republic each year to work in countries where salaries are higher.
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06/15/2010
Auxiliary bishop emeritus Jaroslav Škavrada died in Prague on Monday at the age of 85, a spokesman for the Prague Archbishopric said. The Prague-born cleric spent most of his time abroad; in Rome, he worked as a secretary to Cardinal Beran and also cooperated with the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Vatican Radio. Jaroslav Škavrada was ordained bishop in 1983, ten years before he returned to the Czech Republic.
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06/15/2010
Czech record holder Roman Šebrle withdrew from a decathlon meeting in Kladno, central Bohemia, on Tuesday, missing the last opportunity to qualify for the European Athletic Championships held in Barcelona in the summer. Šebrle, who pulled out due to a thigh injury after the first event, said he hoped he would be granted a wild card to be able to compete at the championships.
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06/14/2010
Czech President Václav Klaus says that the results of general elections in Slovakia, which took place on Saturday, are very different from the results of recent Czech lower house elections. In both countries, the two biggest left-wing parties came first, but both the Social Democrats in the Czech Republic and Smer in Slovakia appear likely to go into opposition. Mr Klaus said, however, that the results differed in a number of significant points. One was that Smer was able to improve upon its last election result, while the Social Democrats lost a large portion of their vote.
On Sunday, leaders of three Czech right-of-center parties currently in talks on forming a coalition commented on the results of the Slovak elections, drawing close parallels between the results in both countries.
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06/14/2010
The Ministry of Finance aims to increase its influence at the state-owned power giant ČEZ, Euro reported. The business magazine said ministry officials intend to push through changes to the company’s statutes at its next general meeting with the aim of giving the state more say in the choice of suppliers in the construction of two more reactors at the Temelín nuclear power station. Finance Minister Eduard Janota said the building of the nuclear plant was of strategic importance and the Czech state needed to have more ways of influencing it. France’s Arena, the American firm Westinghouse and Russian-Czech consortium Atomstrojexport are taking part in the large tender to build the two new reactors at Temelín, which is located in south Bohemia.
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06/14/2010
The director of the Ministry of Justice’s investment department has stepped down after public tenders that he was responsible for garnered criticism in recent days. A spokeswoman for the ministry said on Monday that the minister of justice, Daniela Kovářová, was not planning to fill the position again. On Friday, two Czech dailies reported that the Ministry of Justice had awarded two public tenders for a total of 266 million crowns just days after the lower house elections took place. This step was criticized as not being in line with Prime Minister Jan Fischer’s instructions. After the elections, the head of the caretaker cabinet called on all ministries to withhold from making any major decisions during the last weeks that the caretaker government is in office.
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06/14/2010
Ondřej Liška is to stand again for the post of chairman of the Green Party. Following the party’s failure to make it back into the lower house in recent general elections, Mr Liška resigned as leader. At a party meeting on Sunday, the leadership of the Green Party evaluated its defeat in the recent general elections and decided that a party congress would take place in November, after senatorial elections. At their congress, the Greens will elect a new leadership and discuss the party’s campaign strategy for the next lower house elections.
In May’s lower house elections, the Green Party did not gain the five percent of the vote that is necessary to win seats in the parliament. Following a poor election result of 2.44 percent of the vote, Mr Liška resigned from his post as party leader.
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06/14/2010
In the first quarter of 2010, the Czech population grew by 2,600, reaching just over 10.5 million. According to data that the Czech Statistical Office published on its website on Monday, a seven-year trend of population growth continues with 28,600 newborns in the first three months of 2010, 382 more than during the same period in the previous year. The number of marriages continues to be on the decline, with a drop of nearly 800 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. The average age of grooms and brides was 32 years and 28 years, respectively.
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06/14/2010
The most likely prime minister, the acting leader of the Civic Democrats Petr Nečas and Miroslav Kalousek, of the Civic Democrat’s coalition partner TOP 09 said on Sunday that this year’s state budget had to lowered by another ten billion Czech crowns or more to achieve a state budget deficit of 5.3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Mr Nečas said that the future government should take steps to actively create next year’s state budget. Last year, the state budget deficit reached a record sum of 192.4 billion Czech crowns. One of the conditions for the Czech Republic to join the Eurozone is that the state budget deficit be lowered to three percent of GDP by 2013.
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06/14/2010
Two men charged with human trafficking went on trial at a court in Ostrava on Monday. The two defendants, aged 32 and 24, face prison sentences of up to twelve years. They are suspected of having forced seven females, one of them underage, into prostitution between 2008 and 2009. The prostitutes operated out of private apartments that the two men rented. One of the two defendants attempted to commit suicide while under arrest prior to the trial.
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