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03/06/2010
Six films are in the running for the 17th annual Czech Lion Awards due to be announced on Saturday evening. Among the nominees selected by the Czech film and Television Academy are Three seasons in Hell directed by Tomas Mašín, Protector directed by Marek Najbrt and Jan Hřebejk’s Kawasaki’s Rose. The film academy has already selected actress Jana Brejchová for the prize given for lifelong-contribution to Czech cinematography. The Czech equivalent of the Oscars will take place at Prague’s Lucerna ballroom.
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03/06/2010
A night of heavy snow resulted in a pile up involving thirty cars on the R1 motorway near the town of Mladá Boleslav early on Saturday, in which six people were injured. Ten to fifteen centimeters of fresh snow fell around the Czech Republic overnight with more heavy snow lowering visibility in the course of the day. The police report a heightened number of accidents in all regions. A Polish mother driving two children crashed on an icy road near Jihlava late on Friday. One of the children was killed on impact, the mother and surviving child are both in critical condition in hospital. The police have warned drivers to slow down and exercise caution.
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03/06/2010
Environment Minister Jan Dusík says that a coordinated effort is needed to improve the quality of the air in the heavily industrialized city of Ostrava and its surroundings. The minister, who visited the region in February, has drafted a long-term strategy for improvement based on cooperation between the ministries of environment, transport, industry and local development. The government is to debate the proposal on Monday.
People living in Ostrava and nearby towns and villages are frequently exposed to a high concentration of harmful substances in the air far exceeding permitted levels. Studies show that the inhabitants of this region are more prone to asthma and allergies than the rest of the population.
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03/06/2010
The far-right Workers Social Justice Party has said it will make a request for international observers to be present at the upcoming general elections. The party, boosted by members of the former Workers’ party, banned for spreading racism and orchestrating violence in a landmark court ruling in February, is planning to run candidates and says it fears the elections may not be fair and that votes for the far-right will be secretly discarded. The Interior Ministry which was successful in its bid to get the far-right Workers Party outlawed, says it is watching the Workers Social Justice Party carefully and will not hesitate to take similar action if it breaches the law.
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03/06/2010
A Prague court has served exceptionally high two-to-three year sentences to a gang of highly organized Romanian nationals who pick-pocketed in the vicinity of Prague Castle. The gang all came from the same village in Romania and operated successfully in Prague for several years before the police had enough evidence to file charges. Their victims were mainly unsuspecting tourists. The police presented a vast amount of evidence against them in court, including phone conversations where they spoke openly about their activities and undercover policemen who had been posted around Prague Castle.
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03/06/2010
The Moravian town of Karviná is taking unprecedented action against noise pollution after receiving numerous complaints from the town’s inhabitants. The town’s council has approved a set of regulations according to which discos, pubs and restaurants located in the city centre or in the close vicinity of housing estates will have to keep down noise levels after 10pm. The new regulations will come into force as of March 17, and more officers will be out on the streets to enforce them. Repeat offenders could be fined up to 200,000 crowns.
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03/06/2010
A twenty-five-year old driver died early on Saturday morning when his car went into a skid on an icy road that sent it flying into a lake by the roadside. His chances of survival diminished when the ice cracked under the weight of the car and it was submerged by the icy water. Firemen and emergency crews found the young man still strapped in his seat.
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03/05/2010
The secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has asked for increased Czech involvement in Afghanistan. He made the appeal after meeting with Czech politicians on Friday, including the country’s prime minister, Jan Fischer, and the heads of the two largest political parties, the Civic and Social Democrats. In a statement on Friday afternoon, NATO’s secretary general asked for more military training specialists as well as aid in the form of two medical clinics, but also made clear those were only part of the equation, stressing that NATO required an increase in Czech troops to take part in missions. Currently, the country has more than 500 soldiers in Afghanistan, but the government has planned to send an additional 55 troops: 15 military police to train local personnel, and 40 soldiers and two artillery hunting radars to help defend Polish bases in the province of Ghazni. The increase in troop levels was backed by Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolánek on Friday, but Jiří Paroubek's Social Democrats remain opposed to the plan. It remains unclear whether the plan will be able to pass in Parliament.
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03/05/2010
The Czech Senate has rejected an amendment to the law on the taxation of employee benefits. The proposed amendment, which aimed to return benefits to 2009 levels, was rejected by the majority of right-wing senators who said it threatened to increase the already steep budget deficit. The amendment was the result of the government’s effort to avert a nation-wide transport strike this week. Prior to the vote, Christian Democrats in the lower house said they will help overturn both the rejection by the Senate and an eventual veto by President Václav Klaus.
In related news, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes wrote on Friday that the government had lied to politicians about the impact of the proposed amendment on the country’s finances: they said it would increase the deficit by tens of millions of crowns, while the paper’s analysts had arrived at a much higher figure – well over a billion.
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03/05/2010
A special commission investigating the scandal regarding so-called fast-track graduates at the University of West Bohemia’s Faculty of Law has outlined 53 cases in which individuals could be retroactively stripped of their degrees, unless they provide additional documentation requested by the university. The commission made the announcement on Friday, saying that of the 53 cases, 44 involved Masters Degrees, while nine were Bachelors. The special commission, which was put together in Plzeň after the scandal broke last year, reportedly found that many of the problems at the law faculty were largely related to the former dean of the school, Milan Kindl. Discrepancies uncovered by the commission often had to do with missing documentation, from professors’ assessments to proofs of previous study. The current rector at the school has said it is not possible to say whether all 53 people will be stripped of their degrees, saying final decisions will depend on whether missing documents are retrieved.
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