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03/07/2010
Miloš Zeman who was elected chairman of the newly established Citizens’ Rights Party over the weekend, lost no time in kicking off the party’s election campaign in Prague. The former prime minister, who came out of retirement to give dissatisfied left-wing voters an alternative in May’s general elections, told supporters he knew a way out of the crisis. The party’s policy programme includes cutting costs in state administration, progressive taxation and a tax on luxury goods. Mr. Zeman was out in fighting spirit on Sunday saying his party was being described as a party of dinosaurs and has-beens, but he would show them yet.
Miloš Zeman, who led the Social Democrats to power, served as prime minister between 1998 and 2002, retiring a year later after he lost a bid for the presidency to the current head of state Vaclav Klaus. He was increasingly critical of the Social Democrats in later years and officially left the party in 2007. Some of his former allies have left the Social Democrats to join his Citizens’ Rights Party.
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03/07/2010
Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek has suggested that companies with a turnover of over 5 billion crowns a year should contribute one percent of their taxable profits to the development of Czech sports and culture. The question of how sports and culture should be financed has divided Czech political parties, although there is general agreement that the present system of funding is inadequate and needs to be amended. The Sazka lottery company, which was established with the aim of funding sports associations from lottery profits, has proved an inadequate source. Some politicians now propose setting up a special sports fund to be financed from the state budget.
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03/07/2010
The Czech Academy of Design handed out its annual awards for 2009 on Saturday. The prestigious Grand Designer of the year award went to Petr Babák from the designer studio Laboratoř for his work on the interior design of the National Technical Library in Prague. Fashion designer of the year went to Jakub Polanka for his collections Stardust, Re-evolution and Simple. Lucie Koldová was elected newcomer of the year for her furniture collection Home Fitness, while Bára Prášilová picked up the photographer of the year award for a series called Quicksilver Women for Esprit magazine.
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03/07/2010
Firefighters in the Novojičínsko region in Moravia, have been called to a second fire in a hay storage facility within the space of 48 hours. On Saturday a blaze in a storage facility in Kateřinice destroyed 200 tons of hay, worth close to a million crowns. On Sunday afternoon firefighters were called to a fire in the village Rybí, just ten kilometers away from the first, also in a hay storage facility. Seven firefighter units are on site, trying to contain the blaze. Police in Novy Jicin say they have evidence of arson. An investigation is underway.
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03/07/2010
Two people were injured when a car crashed into a passing train on a crossing near the town of Okřísky, Moravia early on Sunday. The lights at the crossing were functional and it is not clear why the driver ignored them or even failed to see the approaching train. Both the driver and passenger sustained serious injuries. The accident stopped rail traffic between Brno and Jihlava for more than three hours. Accidents at rail crossings are a major cause for concern in the Czech Republic.
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03/07/2010
Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štepánek gave the Czech Republic a 3-0 victory over Belgium in Bree on Saturday, beating Steve Darcis and Olivier Rochus 7-6 (7/0), 6-0, 6-3. The Czechs, runners-up in 2009, will face the winners of the delayed Chile-Israel encounter in the quarter-finals.
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03/07/2010
Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic came a close second in the men's 30km nordic skiing World Cup race in Lahti, Finland on Saturday. He was beaten by France's Maurice Manificat who came home in one hour 11min 44.2seconds. Bauer, just 3.6 seconds behind him said later it had been a fantastic race. Ilia Chernousov of Russia was third.
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03/06/2010
Prime Minister Jan Fisher has demanded an apology from transport unions leader Jaromír Dušek over an interview in which he said that Czech Railways was run by a clique of homosexuals. In an interview for Saturday’s Lidové Noviny, Dušek alleged that homosexuals had a tight grip on decision-making and had people both in the cabinet and the office of the government. The interview provoked an angry reaction from Prime Minister Jan Fischer who described Mr. Dušek’s views as primitive and small-minded. He accused the trade union leader of homophobia and intolerance and said that if he failed to apologize he would not be considered a future partner for negotiation.
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03/06/2010
Miloš Zeman has been elected chairman of the newly established Citizens’ Rights Party. His election, at the party’s weekend conference, comes as no surprise since the party was established around the former Social Democrat prime minister as an alternative for dissatisfied left-wing voters. Mr. Zeman, who put the Social Democrats on the Czech political map, served as prime minister between 1998 and 2002, retiring a year later after he lost a bid for the presidency to the current head of state Vaclav Klaus. He was increasingly critical of the Social Democrats in later years and officially left the party in 2007. Some of his former allies have left the Social Democrats to join his Citizens’ Rights Party. The newly elected chairman is expected to set the course and mastermind the party’s election strategy in the upcoming general elections.
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03/06/2010
Czechs are marking the 160th anniversary of the birth of Czechoslovakia’s co-founder and first president T.G. Masaryk. On Saturday a crowd of several hundred people attended a commemorative ceremony at his graveside in Lany cemetery and later in the day a bronze equestrian statue of the country’s first president was unveiled outside the T.G. Masaryk Museum in Lany. Masaryk’s birthplace Hodonin, in south Moravia, is planning a whole day of events to celebrate the anniversary on Sunday. Earlier this week an exhibition dedicated to Masaryk’s life and work opened at Prague Castle.
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