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03/11/2010
The Social Democrats have taken down snapshots of opponents at their political rallies that were posted on the party’s website, awaiting a decision by the Office for Personal Data Protection. The party posted the photos, it said earlier, to determine whether protestors appeared at different rallies across the country – an indication they might be professionally organised by a rival political party. In posting the photos, the Social Democrats, however, may have breached individuals’ right to privacy; the chairman of the Office for Private Data Protection, Igor Němec, said that no political party could post such pictures without individuals’ consent. An official decision on the case is expected to be reached by his bureau within a week.
Meanwhile, critics of the Social Democrats have hit back with a Face Book campaign, showing pictures of themselves with their middle finger raised. Last year on several occasions Social Democrat representatives at rallies were pelted with eggs.
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03/11/2010
The leader of the Social Democratic Party, Jiří Paroubek, announced on Thursday that he and his family will be relocating to the north Bohemian town of Teplice on Friday, where they have a newly-rented apartment. The party leader, an MP for the Ústí region, has until now not lived in the area, but only commuted. Mr Paroubek told journalists on Thursday that his family was looking forward to the move; the Social Democrat is married to Petra Paroubková, his second wife, with whom he has a baby daughter.
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03/11/2010
An unknown perpetrator brandishing a firearm held up a bank on Prague’s Vinohradská Street on Thursday morning, shortly before ten am. He forced a teller to give him an undisclosed amount of funds before escaping the scene. No one was seriously hurt in the incident but the teller in the hold-up was attended to by emergency services. The perpetrator is believed to be a young man of darker complexion, about one metre 70 in height. During the hold-up, he wore a long black jacket and large sunglasses. According to reports, he spoke Czech poorly.
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03/11/2010
Two passenger wagons of a “City Elefant” train were damaged by fire on Wednesday evening at a station in the suburbs of the Czech capital. The train was headed from the town of Beroun to Prague, with about 40 passengers aboard. All managed to safely exit the train and no one was hurt in the incident a spokeswoman for Czech Railways confirmed. Fire fighters from nearby units – professional and voluntary – intervened. It is thought that the fire – which caused more than 1 million crowns damage to the vehicle – was caused by a malfunction in the heating system.
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03/11/2010
The British press has reported that Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech, who plays for Chelsea, could return to the pitch earlier than previously expected – in ten days’ time. The footballer suffered a leg injury in late February in a Champions League game between Chelsea and Inter Milan. Doctors’ assessments suggested Čech would be out for at least a month, but the Guardian has reported the player is recovering qucikly. All the same, it is unlikely the goalkeeper will be able to return in time for the 2nd leg of the Champions League match up against Inter next Tuesday. He could return to the pitch in a Premier league game against Blackburn on March 21.
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03/11/2010
In the NHL on Wednesday, Czech hockey player Tomáš Fleischmann scored the overtime winner for the Washington capitals over Carolina. The goal came in the 64th minute and the final score was 4:3. The goal was Fleischmann’s 19th so far this season. The player, who was one of the more effective on the national team at the recent Winter Olympics, was benched the last game for Washington; after the match he expressed hope that the goal would help his place on the roster.
In other action, Radim Vrbata scored a penalty shot that helped Phoenix down Vancouver 4:3. The win is Phoenix’s 40th this season, a record the team has matched only once before, in the 2001/2002 season.
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03/10/2010
MPs from the Green Party hung a Tibetan flag from a window at the lower house of the Czech parliament on Wednesday morning in support of human rights in the disputed territory. The Greens also placed a Tibetan flag on their benches in the Chamber of Deputies as part of an international day of solidarity with the people of Tibet, which was annexed by China in 1959. Senator Vlastimil Sehnal of the Civic Democrats hung the flag from a window in the upper house. However, neither house of parliament took part in the protest as institutions. A motion to raise the Tibetan flag in the Chamber of Deputies itself was not even debated, after the left wing parties voted to reject including it on the agenda of a lower house session. Over 350 town halls around the Czech Republic also flew the flag on Wednesday, following a tradition of recent years.
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03/10/2010
The minister for human rights and minorities, Michael Kocáb, has offered to resign from the caretaker Czech government following allegations about his private life. Mr Kocáb handed a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Jan Fischer on Wednesday, hours after a tabloid newspaper reported that the minister was having an affair with his spokeswoman. However, Mr Fischer said he was not at the present time minded to accept the resignation; he said he wanted to speak to Mr Kocáb personally about the matter.
Michael Kocáb, who was nominated to the cabinet by the Green Party, also served as human rights minister in the previous Czech government. A rock musician by profession, in the early 1990s he headed the government commission that oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia following the fall of communism.
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03/10/2010
The American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic wants Czech politicians to commit to fighting corruption in the country, Hospodářské noviny reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said the business association would put forward a radical new law on public tenders ahead of general elections in May. The head of the US Chamber of Commerce, Weston Stacey, said it would call on Czech politicians to pledge to adopt the legislation within three months of the formation of the next government; Mr Stacey said that would prove they were serious in the fight against corruption. The American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic includes around 500 firms, including Microsoft, Philip Morris and IBM.
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03/10/2010
The Interior Ministry has received 21 complaints so far this year from Czech drivers who said they had been harassed by the police in other states during border controls. Most of the cases involved police in the German state of Bavaria and in Austria. The Czech minister of the interior, Martin Pecina, is planning to hold talks on the matter with his German and Austrian counterparts. Some Czech drivers say they have been subject to excessive controls by border police in neighbouring states since border posts were closed with the Czech Republic’s accession to the Schengen zone at the end of 2007. The number of checks reportedly increased at the start of this year after a change in Czech law which sets the amount of various drugs people can possess without facing criminal prosecution.
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