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02/06/2010
A measure aimed at reducing the number of heavy trucks on Czech motorways on busy Friday evenings has seen its first results. Operators of an electronic tolling system on the motorway network said there had been a fall of 13 percent in truck numbers on Friday, following a price increase. From the start of this month lorries carrying 12 tonnes or more have to pay 50 percent more than the usual rate if they use motorways between 3 and 9 pm on Fridays.
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02/06/2010
There was an improvement in the air quality in the Moravia-Silesia region on Saturday following several days of extremely poor air. However, airborne dust levels were still above the maximum permitted 50 microgrammes per cubic metre in some places. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute recently announced a smog alert in the region; it was the first time it had declared such an alert since being given that power in November.
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02/06/2010
Work has been completed on an extensive new library at the humanities faculty of Prague’s Charles University. The new, three-floor library, which is located beneath the university building on náměstí Jana Palacha by Staroměstská metro station, has the capacity to hold a quarter of a million books. Students will be able to make use of it from April.
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02/06/2010
Nominations for the Český lev or Czech Lion national film awards will be made at Prague’s Lucerna cinema on Saturday night. The event, which will be shown live on public broadcaster Czech Television, precedes the actual awards ceremony, which takes place in exactly a month’s time. However, prizes will be given on Saturday for best foreign film and the critics’ choice of best Czech feature film and documentary.
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02/06/2010
The annual Opera Ball is being held at Prague’s State Opera on Saturday night. Among the guests expected at the Viennese-style event are Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer, Czech film director Miloš Forman, British actor Michael York and the French actress Michele Mercier.
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02/05/2010
Security was heightened at the office of the government on Friday after a man walked in trying to gain access to the prime minister. The news site Novinky.cz was the first to report the story, saying that the man, whose identity remains unknown, threatened he would kill Justice Minister Dana Kovářova, after he was turned away at the office of the government lobby. Neither the prime minister nor the justice minister were in the building at the time of the incident. The head of police security at the office of the government said that the individual slipped away before he could be arrested. But the police are confidant that the man will be apprehended as he was caught on security camera. Security at the justice ministry was also raised as a result of the incident; the justice minister - currently on holiday abroad - was informed of the developments.
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02/05/2010
President Václav Klaus has scheduled this year’s national election for May 28-29, the last possible date to hold elections for the next government’s four-year term. The document calling the election signed by Mr Klaus was also signed by the country’s prime minister, Jan Fischer, whose caretaker government has led the country since last year, after the centre-right coalition of the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and the Greens was toppled in a no-confidence vote. The next government will face tackling the increasing deficit as well as steering the Czech Republic to eventual adoption of the euro. Current polls put the Social Democrats as the front-runners ahead of the election, but no party is expected to win an outright majority.
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02/05/2010
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has reported a worsening of atmospheric conditions in parts of Moravia, roughly a week after it issued it’s first-ever smog alert, which required local industry to scale back production. On Friday poisonous emissions in areas reached more than five times the allowed limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre. One region the hardest hit is that of Karviná, home to steel giant ArcelorMittal Ostrava, one of the chief polluters in the region, the Czech news agency ČTK reported. The higher concentration of particulate in the air can lead to health complications, including a worsening of conditions such as asthma.
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02/05/2010
A new poll conducted in Brussels by the Czech news agency has suggested that a majority of the 22 Czech members of the European Parliament will not back the new European Commission next week. All nine MEPs for the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, and four Communist MEPs, suggested that the new commission and its policies would not gain their support; the Civic Democrats, Jan Zahradil said, are likely to abstain. Czech Christian and Social Democrats MEPs, meanwhile, have said they will vote in favour. The new commission, headed by Jose Manuel Barroso, is expected to pass easily overall. In the EC, the Czech Republic will be represented by Stefan Fuele in the post of EU Enlargement Commissioner.
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02/05/2010
The head of the Transport Union, Luboš Pomajbík, has warned that a number of branches of Czech industry could strike anytime after February 22. He made the announcement on Friday after a meeting between several of the country’s unions. Union leaders, including those at Czech Railways, are against new regulations subjecting benefits to the value-added tax. Mr Pomajbík called the new regulations an attack on the unions and suggested that a strike was inevitable, unless the new regulations were struck down. As of January 1 benefits – from employee discounts to the use of company cafeterias - are subject to VAT.
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