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04/22/2009
Iran has rebuked the Czech EU presidency for what it described as growing human rights violations in EU member states and insufficient action to combat racism. The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the Czech Republic’s chief envoy to Iran to inform him of a series of alleged EU “crimes” including the murder of human rights activists, the murder of foreigners by the police and the discrimination of Muslim minorities. The move came just a day after representatives of 23 EU member states walked out of the UN’s World Conference Against Racism in protest of an anti-Israel speech by the Iranian president. The Czech Republic and several other EU countries have refused to return to the conference which runs until April 24.
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04/22/2009
The two-year-old girl who was injured in an arson attack on her home in Vítkov, north Moravia over the weekend, remains in critical condition. She suffered second and third degree burns on eighty percent of her body and doctors say her chances of survival are slim. Money and offers of help have been pouring in both from the Czech Republic and abroad. The Romany family whose house was burnt to the ground in the attack have been given temporary shelter. The police have asked the public to come forward and give evidence in the case. They have not yet officially confirmed a racial motif, but it is considered highly probable. The family’s house was set on fire by a group of men who threw petrol bombs in through the windows in the middle of the night. There have been torchings of other Romany houses in north Moravia in the past few years. No culprit was ever found.
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04/22/2009
The discrimination of Romanies in the Czech Republic is more widespread than in any other EU country, according to the results of a comparative study on the rights of minorities across Europe. Two thirds of Czech Romanies said they had been subjected to some form of discrimination in the past 12 months. Eighty-three percent of Czech Romanies feel that they do not have equal opportunities when it comes to getting an education, finding work, getting medical attention, being served in a restaurant or getting a bank loan.
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04/22/2009
Czech police have launched a recruitment campaign for 20 million crowns in order to fill more than 4500 vacancies, Police President Oldřich Martinu said on Wednesday. The campaign will involve the use of television shots, Internet ads and billboards posted around the country. The most severe shortage is reported in Prague and central Bohemia where the police force lacks approximately 15 percent of the required staff.
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04/22/2009
As many as 41 percent of Czech companies have had to dismiss employees owing to the current economic crisis, according to a poll carried out by the Czech Business Chamber. More than one fifth of companies said they would have to consider winding up business unless the situation improved in the very near future. Almost 18 percent of firms said they had seen a decline in orders in a year-on-year comparison. Eight percent of companies have frozen their employees' wages, six percent have problems obtaining operating loans from banks and five percent have had to cut working hours temporarily.
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04/22/2009
Over sixty percent of Czechs are worried about loosing their job as a result of the crisis, according to the outcome of a poll conducted by the STEM agency. Eighty-eight percent of them say they would be willing to requalify or accept a worse paid job if they were laid off. Only thirty six-percent said they would be willing to move to a different part of the country where the chances of finding employment are higher.
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04/21/2009
The Czech delegation at the UN’s World Conference Against Racism walked out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s speech on Monday, when the Iranian leader described Israel as ‘totally racist’. Afterwards, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it, and its ‘democratic partners, both from EU and non-EU states’ could not legitimize these ‘totally unacceptable anti-Israeli attacks’ by hearing Mr Ahmedinejad out. The Czech delegation subsequently announced that it would join the US and several other European states by boycotting the conference. The UN conference runs until April 24.
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04/21/2009
A planned speech by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke at Prague’s Charles University has been cancelled by university authorities, Czech media reported on Tuesday. The university engagement was one of three planned speaking engagement by the former leader of the US racist movement in Prague and Brno on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Outgoing Czech minister for human rights and minorities Michael Kocáb described the speaking tour at the invitation of local neo nazis as alarming. The visit comes at a time of heightened tension following a petrol-bomb attack on a Roma family in the north-east of the country on Saturday night which has left a toddler with 80 percent burns fighting for her life in hospital.
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04/21/2009
Energy rich Kazakhstan is to take part in the EU’s ‘Southern Corridor Summit’ on power supplies which will be held in Prague next month, it was announced on Monday evening. The announcement was made by Kazakh Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin during a visit to Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg. One of the Czech Republic’s priorities at the helm of the EU has been diversifying the bloc’s sources of energy. Prague has been pushing to lower the EU’s dependence on gas supplies from Russia. On a visit to Kazakhstan in February, outgoing Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said that the EU was interested in purchasing direct deliveries of oil and gas from central Asia. The Prague energy summit focusing on that will be held on May 8.
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04/21/2009
Outgoing Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek predicted on Tuesday that the country will enjoy a modest growth of 0.5 percent next year. That will follow a decrease of not more than 2.0 percent this year, he added. Even so, Mr Kalousek predicted lower levels of tax income and increased government spending could mean that this year’s budget deficit will exceed 180 billion crowns. He said he would strive to curb the deficit at under 150 billion this year and next. The government originally aimed for the deficit this year to be around 115 billion crowns.
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