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06/04/2010
Senator and former European affairs minister Alexander Vondra has said he will run for one of the deputy posts in the Civic Democratic party at the party’s upcoming conference on June 19th. Lower house deputy chair Miroslava Nemcova and former justice minister Jiri Pospisil have also said they are seriously considering making a bid for one of the leadership posts. Acting party chairman Petr Necas, who took over after the resignation of Mirek Topolanek in March of this year, is expected to make a successful bid for the top party post.
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06/04/2010
The US restaurant chain Hooters will open its first location in Prague on Friday. The beach-style eatery will open in Vodičkova Street, off Wenceslas Square, as the first Hooters location in central and Eastern Europe. The franchise holder is planning to open another 11 Hooters restaurants in the Czech Republic. Prague’s Hooters location will also be the only one in the world to offer draught from a beer tank.
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06/04/2010
Sweden's Robin Soderling defeated Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3 3-6 5-7 6-3 6-3 on Friday to reach the final of the French Open for the second year in a row. Soderling broke serve in the sixth game of the first set when Berdych double-faulted and went on to win the opener. The Czech, playing in his first grand slam semi-final recovered, winning the second and third sets. He had a chance to break the Soderling serve right at the start of the fourth but the Swede pummelled down an ace. Soderling then struck in the sixth game, breaking when 15th seed Berdych netted a backhand, to set up a deciding set.
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06/03/2010
The Civic Democrat leader, Petr Nečas, on Thursday briefed President Václav Klaus about ongoing negotiations on forming a coalition government. Although President Klaus has sanctioned the Civic Democrat effort, he stopped short of appointing Mr Nečas prime minister designate. President Klaus will receive both the Civic and Social Democrat leaders at Prague Castle on Friday.
The Civic Democrat party, which emerged second strongest from the general elections on Saturday, is holding talks with the conservative party TOP 09 and the populist Public Affairs party; they have 118 seats in the 200-member lower house of Czech Parliament. The parties had vowed to form a centre-right coalition to stabilize public finances, reform the country’s health care and pensions systems, and curb corruption.
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06/03/2010
Water levels of Czech rivers have been going down but many areas remain on flood alert in view of more rain predicted on Friday. The highest, level three, flood alert applied at around a dozen sites across the country with one warning of extreme danger on the Morava River at Strážnice. Heavy rain, sometimes of around 5 centimetres in the last 24 hours, led to a flood alert in Šumava in the south-west of the country. The latest flooding has claimed at least three lives in Zlín and Brno. Some areas in northern Moravia and Silesia have been hit by flooding twice in the past two weeks.
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06/03/2010
President Václav Klaus vetoed on Thursday a bill on the Czech National Bank which would prepare the bank for the adoption of the euro. As the current Chamber of Deputies will not meet again, the respective legislation process will have to start from scratch. President Klaus said euro adoption by the Czech Republic was a political issue that had not been resolved, and the bill on the Czech central bank could be adopted at a later date. A spokesman for the bank said the veto would have no effect on the bank’s functioning as it would only apply after the country adopted the euro.
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06/03/2010
Police in Vienna, Austria have arrested the fugitive Czech businessman Roman Vaškůj, a Czech police spokeswoman said on Thursday. The arrest took place on Wednesday. Mr Vaškůj had been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison by Czech courts for tax evasion of around 500 million crowns. The controversial businessman was also involved in a corruption scandal related to the former Czech vice prime minister Jiří Čunek.
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06/03/2010
Most Czechs believe that keeping the Czech crown is better for the country than adopting the euro, according to a survey by the Ipsos Tambor polling agency released on Thursday. Some 88 percent of those polled said that having the koruna is an advantage, which represents an increase of 25 percentage points since the previous poll in November 2008; only four percent believe the crown can bring the country economic problems. Some 88 percent of Czechs who took part in the poll also trust banks, an increase of 6 percentage points.
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06/03/2010
Former Czech prime minister Mirek Topolánek married his long-term partner, MP Lucie Talmanová, in Prague on Thursday. Mr Topolánek, whose government fell in a vote of no-confidence last March, was ousted as the leader of Civic Democrats earlier this year. He and Ms Talmanová, whose term as a Civic Democrat MP has just expired, have been together for four years, and have a three-year-old son, Nicolas. Mirek Topolánek got divorced just three months ago.
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06/03/2010
Czech trade unions and employers criticized on Thursday the government’s national development plan, a part of the EU’s Europe 2020 strategy. Trade union leader Jaroslav Zavadil said the document was a total failure, while the head of the Industry and Trade Association, Jaroslav Míl, questioned the underlying idea of the Europe 2020 strategy. Mr Míl said the EU should instead focus on priorities and issues that would increase Europe’s competitiveness. In reaction to the criticism, Prime Minister Jan Ficher said the government would present only an abbreviated version of the national strategy at an EU summit in Brussels on June 17.
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