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04/13/2010
A special team of Czech and Austrian police officers, who have been collaborating in the border areas since 2009, has uncovered 130 cases of crime so far. A spokesman for the Czech police said on Tuesday that 20 perpetrators, who caused a total of 2.5 million Czech crowns in damages, were arrested by the team in 2009. Theft and burglary accounted for the majority of criminal acts committed by Czechs in Austria. Austrian citizens arrested in the Czech Republic most often were charged with drug crimes and fraud. The biggest success of the special police team was the arrest of two men who burgled a number houses and apartments in the Czech Republic and Austria, causing damages of about 1.5 million Czech crowns.
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04/13/2010
Czech Radio says it will no longer accept information for its traffic reports from a driver accused of deliberately causing a motorway accident. The motorist, who is 44, stands to go to jail for between five to 12 years after his Škoda Superb was recorded forcing another car off a Czech motorway last month. The second vehicle, a Mazda, turned over several times, though its driver escaped unhurt. The Superb driver then alerted the emergency services to the fact an accident had occurred. The man had contributed information on the situation on the roads to Czech Radio’s Green Wave traffic news; the station said that was particularly unfortunate as its service was based on solidarity and helping other drivers.
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04/13/2010
The Moravian Bzenec winery won a prestigious award at the international wine competition Vinitaly, held in the Italian city of Verona. The winery, which received a prize for best rosé at Vinitaly three years ago, received the Premio Speciale award for best overall collection submitted this year. A spokesman for the Czech National Wine Center said on Tuesday that the prize highlighted the superior quality of all wines produced by the Bzenec winery, not just of one individual product. A total of 56 wines from 22 wineries in the Czech Republic competed at Vinitaly this year, 16 took home awards.
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04/12/2010
The Czech government will meet on Tuesday to discuss the details of a day of national mourning in honour of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other Polish officials killed in Saturday’s plane crash. A spokesman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said the government is likely to agree that the day of mourning should coincide with day of Mr Kaczynski’s funeral; Czech national flags on official buildings will be drawn half-mast, and a minute of silence will be held at noon. Also, casinos and gambling bars will close for the day. The government will also suggest that organizers consider postponing any public events.
Czech President Václav Klaus agreed with the government on Sunday that a day of national mourning should be held in the Czech Republic. Similar measures were adopted in 2005 to honour the victims of the tsunami in south-east Asia, and the late Pope John Paul II.
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04/12/2010
Czech President Václav Klaus told the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita on Monday that Europe would be entirely different without his Polish colleague Lech Kaczynski. Mr Klaus said he was now single-handed in the struggle for greater sovereignty of EU nations. Václav Klaus, said he considered the late Polish president a close friend, with whom he also talked about many things including art. The Czech head of state said Mr Kaczynski had given him a copy of Andrzej Wajda’s film Katyn about the murder of around 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret service.
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04/12/2010
The Czech Republic will receive some 722 million crowns, or nearly 40 million US dollars, from EU funds to improve the education of Czech health care workers, Health Minister Dana Jurásková said on Monday. The funds will pay for the education of some 39,000 doctors, nurses and other medical staff, the minister added. The ministry will now determine the details of the project and organize individual courses that will be launched in May and finish in April 2013. The ministry also welcomed the fact that it will be able to use the funds to pay the doctors and other health workers attending the courses who until now had to cover much of the expenses themselves.
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04/12/2010
Prague City Hall unanimously rejected plans for an amendment to the gambling legislation that should limit the ability of cities and towns to regulate gambling in their municipalities. The amendment is to be debated this week by the lower house of the Czech Parliament, after it was approved last week by the house’s budget committee. According to the mayors of Prague municipalities, the amendment will make it impossible for local authorities to determine where gambling machines and video lottery terminals can be positioned. Prague Mayor Pavel Bém said that if approved, the amendment would dramatically increase the number of gambling bars in the capital as well as other cities and towns. The claims were rejected by the Czech sports betting firms association which believes the new law would in fact give municipalities more power in regulating gambling.
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04/12/2010
The two planned blocks of the Temelín nuclear power plant should be independent of the existing ones, the Czech energy giant ČEZ said in a statement on Monday. The plant will have the two existing, Soviet-developed reactors VVER-1000 working alongside the new reactors that will however rely on the same supplies of energy and water.
The Czech energy producer ČEZ announced plans last year to build two new blocks at its Temelín plant. According to the firm’s management, an independent functioning of the reactor blocks meets the requirements of all three competitors for the plant’s completion – the French firm Areva, Russia’s Atomstroyexport and Westinghouse from the United States. Historically the biggest ever Czech public contract, worth around 500 billion crowns, or nearly 27 billion US dollars, should be awarded by the end of next year.
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04/12/2010
Czech President Václav Klaus has blamed aggressive political campaign ahead of May’s general election on what he called a bad electoral law and sensationalist media. Speaking to secondary school students in Brno on Monday, Mr Klaus said that regularly televised election debates of political leaders were unique to the Czech Republic, as only top political leaders meet for high-profile debates in other countries. The Czech president also criticized the country’s legislation which in his view allows post-election stalemates. Mr Klaus also lashed out against what he called “media pop-culture” interfering with campaigning.
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04/12/2010
The Czech president’s office has offered an explanation for its failure to invite Václav Havel to last week’s signing of the US-Russia nuclear deal at Prague Castle. A spokesman for the Czech president said that at the time the guest list was being prepared Mr Havel had been ill. The former president himself told Czech TV that he did not think the mistake was that of President Václav Klaus but rather of some of his staff. Mr Havel’s former spokesman Ladislav Špaček had earlier called the Castle’s omission of Mr Havel “scandalous”. In his view, Mr Havel should have been present as a statesman who had raised the profile of the Czech Republic and had been one of the main architects of its foreign policy.
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