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02/03/2010
If elections were held right now, the Social Democrats would come first with 33 percent of the vote, suggests a new poll conducted by the internet-based agency SANEP. Twenty-four percent of respondents said they would vote for the right-of-centre Civic Democrats. The new party TOP 09 would enjoy 13.5 percent support, the poll indicates. The Communists placed fourth in the survey with just under 13 percent. Both the Christian Democrats and the new grouping Public Affairs (Věci veřejné) would just attain the 5 percent of the vote needed to make it into the lower house, the poll suggests.
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02/03/2010
CzechInvest says it mediated investments worth CZK 17 billion in 2009, a fall of CZK 10 billion on the previous year. The state agency, whose task it is to attract foreign companies to the Czech Republic, also said the total number of new investment projects last year was one tenth lower than in 2008. Of the 184 fresh investments in 2009, almost half were in the field of research and development, which the head of CzechInvest, Alexandra Rudyšarová, said was proof that overseas firms were coming to the country to launch ever more demanding businesses.
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02/03/2010
The Ministry of Health is planning to increase noise limits on motorways in the Czech Republic by five decibels, E15 reported. In 2006 the government decided on a highway noise limit of 60 decibels during the day and 50 decibels at night. The newspaper said the change would affect both limits. The World Health Organization considers noise of above 42 decibels to have negative effects on the health of nearby residents, while noise of 55 decibels and higher is believed to prevent healthy sleeping. E15 suggested one of the possible reasons for the change in the law was an attempt to avoid having to build anti-noise barriers.
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02/03/2010
Brno restaurant owner Richard Hošek has launched a new initiative aimed at feeding homeless people in the Moravian capital. From Wednesday, he will collect leftover lunches from restaurants around Brno and deliver them to the city’s homeless community, which numbers around 1500. The entrepreneur was inspired by a similar project in Germany. The leftover meals will be brought to a central location where Brno’s homeless can pick them up.
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02/03/2010
A series of concerts entitled Czech Festival 2010 was launched in London on Tuesday night with a performance by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at the city’s Cadogan Hall. The orchestra played pieces by Bohuslav Martinů and Antonín Dvořák and was conducted by Libor Pešek, who was head of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for over a decade. Czech Festival 2010 runs until February 20.
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02/02/2010
The Czech Republic’s chief hygiene officer, Michael Vít, says he has probably caught the swine flu virus, the news website novinky.cz reported on Tuesday. Mr Vít said he had several symptoms of flu and was convinced it was swine flu. He had been vaccinated against regular flu, but not the H1N1 virus, saying he had planned to get a jab against the latter this week. On Monday the Czech government said that if there is an epidemic of swine flu it will be up to the chief hygiene officer to decide whether to introduce mandatory vaccinations for around 200,000 workers regarded as key to the functioning of the state.
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02/02/2010
Meanwhile, the Czech president, Václav Klaus, who has described the whole issue of swine flu as overblown, has hit out at Michael Vít. Mr Klaus was quoted by novinky.cz as saying he wished Mr Vít a speedy recovery, but was “very surprised” that he had not himself been vaccinated against the disease considering that he had forced through mandatory inoculation. The Czech president last week came out strongly against a plan to vaccinate all Czech soldiers against the H1N1 virus; the idea was later dropped. To date 95 people have died in the Czech Republic after contracting swine flu.
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02/02/2010
A man in Loučovice, south Bohemia has become the first person in the Czech Republic to serve a sentence of “house arrest”, a new form of punishment introduced this year. The man, who is 46, will have to remain at home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. for a whole year and is forbidden from drinking alcohol. If he breaks the conditions of his punishment, he will have to serve an eight-month term in jail. His sentence followed a conviction for attacking his partner’s lover. Due to a failure to secure EU funds, electronic tags to monitor criminals at their homes will not arrive in the Czech Republic until 2011. Until then, probation officers have to visit those sentenced at home to make sure they are there.
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02/02/2010
Logica Czech Republic has won a 328-million-crown public tender to organise state secondary school leaving exams, which are due to be held for the first time in 2011. The company will provide logistical services for the exams for the following five years. Plans to bring in standardised school leaving exams have been put on ice several times in the past. The minister of education in the caretaker Czech government, Miroslava Kopicová, said on Tuesday that she would step down if Parliament does not approve their introduction.
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02/02/2010
The number of licensed taxi drivers in the Czech capital rose by 12 percent last year, with 5,900 registered by the end of 2009. Prague City Hall says its figures also show an improvement in the quality of taxi services in the city. Officials say checks revealed that drivers overcharged for 11 percent of rides in 2007; in 2009 similar checks uncovered overcharging in only 1 percent of cases. There was also a significant fall in the amount taxi companies were fined.
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