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01/24/2010
The Environment Ministry is planning to declare the Krivoklát region, south-east of Prague, a protected nature reserve. The process will involve a ninety-day period in the course of which towns and municipalities in the region may voice their objections. After that the proposal will be officially presented to Parliament for approval. The Krivoklát region is one of 38 areas that are included in the NATURA 2,000 network which affords biodiversity-rich areas special protection. The ministry expects to meet with some degree of public opposition since the status of a protected nature reserve would bring a number of disadvantages for regional development, business and construction.
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01/24/2010
The Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Michael Kocáb is to present the cabinet with a proposed amendment to the labour code aimed at curbing unauthorized breach of privacy at the workplace. The proposal, to be discussed at Monday’s cabinet meeting, would make it possible for the Labour Ministry to send out inspectors to companies and fine employers for unwarranted breach of privacy. While unwarranted spying on employees is already banned by current laws, there are no effective law-enforcement mechanisms in place.
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01/24/2010
The Czech Republic is experiencing a bout of severe cold with nighttime lows dropping to minus 25 degrees Celsius, and day temperatures hovering around minus 10 degrees. The cold snap is due to a cold front moving across Europe from Siberia, which is expected to influence the weather in central Europe for at least another week. The sub-zero temperatures have claimed three more victims -two homeless people froze to death overnight in Prague and a sixty-three year old man is reported to have died of cold in his unheated home in Ostrava.
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01/24/2010
President Vaclav Klaus is scheduled to meet with his one-time rival and former prime minister Miloš Zeman at Prague Castle on Tuesday. Mr. Zeman, who left the Social Democrats in 2007, established a new political party late last year and announced his decision to run in the spring general elections. Mr. Zeman’s Party of Citizen’s Rights is being presented as a viable alternative to the Social Democrats, which its former leader has increasingly criticized. Commentators note that it is most unusual for President Klaus to receive heads of small, non-parliamentary parties and view the meeting as a mark of respect for his one-time rival.
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01/24/2010
The 3rd annual Znojmo Jazz Fest wound to a close in the second biggest south Moravian city on Sunday, with a record attendance of over 2,300 visitors. The 5-day event featured a string of eleven concerts, among others by American gospel singer Lee Andrew Davison.
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01/24/2010
Four Czechs escaped unscathed from a fire that ravaged a mountain chalet in the Austrian ski resort of Gerlosberg. The fire is reported to have spread from a stove on the ground floor and the chalet was completely destroyed despite the fact that sixty firefighters fought the blaze. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
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01/24/2010
Czech meteorologists have acquired new software which should allow them to predict the weather with far greater accuracy in future, Saturday’s Mladá fronta Dnes daily wrote. The advanced software is expected to prove particularly useful in predicting flash floods such as those that devastated parts of Moravia in June of last year. According to experts the new software is able to predict rainfall and storms with great accuracy enabling the authorities to issue advance warnings to the respective communities.
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01/23/2010
Three Czech officers are to take part in the EU’s Operation Atalanta which protects vessels against pirates off the coast of Somalia, the Czech Defense Ministry reported. Atalanta is the European Union’s first naval operation and is being conducted in the framework of the EU’s security and defence policy. It was launched at the start of 2009 and scheduled for an initial period of twelve months, but has now been extended by the Security Council until December 2010. During this period up to 12 EU ships and a number Maritime Patrol Aircraft will operate off the Somali coast. The three Czech officers are starting their mission in London next week.
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01/23/2010
A nineteen-year-old youth who murdered his classmate six years ago has been released from a home for juvenile delinquents. He is reportedly looking for work as a waiter and has a clean criminal record. News of his release caused unease in his home town where the parents of the girl he murdered still live. When the case was in court, psychologists and sex therapists reported that the boy suffered from a serious sexual deviation and had a number of psychological problems. He remains on medication and is obliged to see his therapist at regular intervals. The townspeople want to petition Parliament for a change of legislation which would lower the age of criminal responsibility and protect the public better against perpetrators of serious crimes no matter what their age.
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01/23/2010
In 2009 state-owned Czech Railways transported 162.9 passengers, the lowest number in its history, the internet news site idnes reported. The figure represents a 7 percent drop on the preceding year. The information is said to have come from a report that Czech Railways sent the Transport Ministry. Until now, Czech Railway’s passenger numbers were at their lowest in 2003 when the company transported 172 million people. Czech Railways has refused to comment saying its annual report would be made public in mid-February.
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