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06/10/2010
President Václav Klaus should declare the dates for Senate and local elections at the start of July, Senate leader Přemysl Sobotka said after a meeting with the head of state on Thursday. A third of the 81-seat upper house, the Senate, is renewed every two years. The next two-round Senate elections must take place at the latest in October. Mr. Sobotka said discussions with the president also centred on possible replacements for former ombudsman Otakar Motejl. Senators have until June 21 to make their recommendations to fill the vacant post.
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06/10/2010
Flash floods hit the north of the country on Thursday night. The body of one man was found five kilometres downstream after he was carried off by a surging river near the city of Liberec. Police announced later that the body of a drowned elderly woman was found in a lake near Železný Brod. Rivers and streams in the area rose by up to two metres following heavy storms. Houses were also flooded near the town of Děčín where a children’s camp also had to be evacuated.
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06/10/2010
In football, veteran midfielder Lukáš Jarolím is to return to Slavia Prague after three years with Italian league club Sienna. The 33-year-old announced his return to the club being managed by his father, Karel, on Thursday. A return to Slavia had first been mooted in February but the Italian club created obstacles to the move then. Lukáš Jarolím’s contract with the Tuscan club expires at the end of June.
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06/10/2010
The Czech ice hockey club Hradec Králové will not join the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League next season, the league said in a statement on its website. The KHL’s leadership said they were sorry that the Czech ice hockey union had expressed opposition to Hradec joining the league; the KHL had previously said it would not go against the wishes of the Czech organisation. The KHL’s president said that politics had again won out over new trends and developments in sports and business. There are 20 Russian clubs in the KHL, alongside one each from Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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06/09/2010
Civic Democrat leader Petr Nečas, whose party campaigned against higher taxes in the general elections, has acknowledged that tax hikes may prove inevitable if the country wants to reign in the public finance deficit and introduce health and pension reforms. Following several rounds of talks with his potential coalition partners, TOP09 and Public Affairs, Mr. Nečas said his party was ready to consider raising the lower VAT rate or introducing a unified 19 percent VAT rate. All three parties have stressed that higher taxes should be the last austerity measure considered, if cost-cutting measures in the public sector prove insufficient. The planned shake-up in the public sector will involve cutting both jobs and investments.
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06/09/2010
The caretaker finance minister, Eduard Janota, has rejected accusations that he had overstepped his mandate at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxembourg this week. Mr. Janota came under fire from President Klaus and the Civic Democratic party for having thrown his weight behind a proposal that the EU should have control over national budgets. Mr. Janota countered that while he had expressed an opinion on the subject there had been no vote on the issue and no decision had been taken. The proposal will now be discussed by heads of state and government of EU member states.
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06/09/2010
The three centre-right parties who are working to form the country’s next government have signaled an unwillingness to leave the post of speaker of the lower house to the Social Democrats. At a meeting in Prague on Wednesday the three parties argued that the top post in the lower house should go to the parties which have a majority there. This goes against established tradition according to which the post of lower house speaker goes to the strongest opposition party. The acting leader of the Social Democrats, Bohuslav Sobotka, said his party deserved to be given the post in view of the fact that it won the elections and had the largest group of deputies in the lower chamber.
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06/09/2010
The results of an analysis commissioned by the Social Democrats suggest that former party leader Jiří Paroubek is to blame for the party’s election failure in the recent general elections. Although the party technically won the elections, it did so only by a small margin which left it unable to form a government.
The analysis, commissioned by the acting party chairman, Bohuslav Sobotka, says that the former leader’s aggressive style of campaigning and his poor performance in one-on-one tv debates with his main rival Petr Necas of the Civic Democrats had put off many potential and undecided voters.
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06/09/2010
The Czech economy grew by 1.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2010, according to government figures released on Wednesday. The country’s gross domestic product grew by 0.5 percent between the start of January and the end of March. The recovery of the automotive industry is seen as the main driving force behind the surge. The finance ministry has forecast 1.5 percent growth this year and 2.4 percent in 2011.
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06/09/2010
President Vaclav Klaus on Wednesday vetoed a lottery bill that would make it possible for municipalities to have a say in the licensing process for lotteries and video lottery terminals on their territory. The president’s spokesman said Mr. Klaus viewed the proposed legislation as a populist move ahead of the general elections which, if implemented, would do more harm than good. The largest Czech lottery firm Sazka said it was considering leaving the country over the legislation. Since the term of the outgoing lower house has officially ended the legislation will fall under the table.
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