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03/11/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus has announced the creation of an international grouping of institutions aimed at countering panic connected with global warming. The president, an outspoken global warming sceptic, said the new grouping will be called The Prague Network. The initial steps towards the launch of the grouping were taken in New York during his recent US tour, Mr Klaus said. He was speaking in Prague at the presentation of the new head of the Centre for Economics and Politics, a think-tank which propagates his free market views.
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03/11/2009
Changes transforming state-owned brewery Budějovický Budvar into a shareholder company should be tabled for government discussion in May, Minister of Agriculture Petr Gandalovič announced on Wednesday. The closely followed changes in the brewery’s current status of national corporation are seen as a signal that the brewery is being prepared for privatisation. The minister, who has in the past raised the prospects of bringing in a new shareholder, says the change is needed to update the company regardless of a sale. Gandalovič said the transformation was taking time because care had to be taken to protect Budějovický Budvar’s trademark rights. The Czech brewer is involved in a long-running and costly trademark dispute with US-based brewer Anheuser-Busch over rights to use the Budweiser name.
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03/11/2009
New finds by archaeologists under the floorboards of Prague Caste have helped to show the richness of life there during the renaissance and baroque periods. Finds at the imposing Vladislav Hall at the Old Palace include playing cards, remnants of letters and pages from books, buttons, safety pins, pipes, and beads. One of the biggest discoveries is a pocket sundial watch. Archaeologists worked at the hall from November until mid-February ahead of the reconstruction of the floor. They are expecting further discoveries from analysis of the timbers. The overall research is already painting a much fuller picture of place life in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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03/11/2009
English football club Chelsea, with Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech, have made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, beating opponents Juventus 3-2 on aggregate. Chelsea went into Tuesday’s match at the Stadio Olimpico with a slim advantage after beating Juventus in the first leg; Tuesday’s match ended in a 2:2 draw. The match was possibly the last in the Champions League for Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedvěd, who has said he will retire at the end of the season. Nedvěd suffered an injury in Tuesday’s game, which saw him replaced after just 13 minutes.
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03/10/2009
The National Reference Laboratory has denied media reports claiming that a Czech woman had been diagnosed with the human form of BSE, also known as mad cow disease. The laboratory said that in actual fact the 60-year-old woman had been diagnosed with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacobs Disease which appears in a random occurrence, and has no known genetic or environmental cause. Sporadic CJD chiefly affects people between 50 and 75 years of age and can be mistaken for senility.
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03/10/2009
Hundreds of town halls and institutions around the Czech Republic on Tuesday joined the Flag for Tibet initiative expressing support for Tibetan independence. The Flag for Tibet initiative traditionally takes place on March 10th marking the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Lhasa which was brutally suppressed by the Chinese regime. Deputies from the Green Party hung the Tibetan flag in a window of the Czech Parliament building despite warnings from diplomats ahead of a planned EU-China summit in Prague in May. Tibetan flags were also hoisted at the environment and education ministries.
Due to the Czech Republic’s communist past, many Czechs have a strong affinity for Tibet and the anniversary was marked by dozens of events around the country including Free Tibet concerts, exhibitions of Tibetan art and culture and meditation sessions with Tibetan lamas. A peaceful demonstration in support of Tibetan independence was held outside the Chinese Embassy in Prague on Tuesday evening.
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03/10/2009
The Czech EU presidency on Tuesday helped broker a long-sought deal on reduced sales tax on certain services in the EU, as Germany yielded to French pressure to allow less tax to be charged in restaurants. The issue of whether EU countries can apply reduced value added tax rates for specific labour-intensive industries has been one of the longest running unsettled dossiers in Brussels. In the latest effort to break the deadlock, the European Union's Czech presidency put a compromise proposal on the table for the finance ministers' meeting, which was then heavily revised before an agreement could be reached. In addition to including restaurants on the reduced VAT list, the deal dropped a 2010 deadline for the expiration of current exemptions on window-washing, hair-dressing, building renovations and bicycle and home repairs.
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03/10/2009
The future of the Czech energy industry must be linked with nuclear power, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said at a conference on the future of the Czech energy sector on Tuesday. The prime minister said nuclear power was essential for further development, although other low-emission technologies such as hydroelectric power stations should also get support. Mr. Topolánek has long advocated a growth in power production from nuclear sources on the grounds that it would help cut energy prices and would be the best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The question of the country’s long term energy policy has split the coalition government since the Green Party is strongly opposed to the further development of nuclear energy in the Czech Republic.
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03/10/2009
The Green Party of the Czech governing coalition is facing a wave of resignations by rank-and-file members who are dissatisfied with the party leadership. Close to half of the party’s registered members have left the Greens in the wake of a stormy confrontation between its leadership and an opposition fraction over the weekend. Four members were expelled for openly opposing the leadership, triggering calls for a new party which would be more active in support of Green issues. The Interior Ministry has confirmed that it received an official request for the registration of a new Green party with a thousand signatures from potential members. Dana Kuchtová, one of the four expelled rebels, has distanced herself from the initiative, saying there was not enough room for two Green parties on the Czech political scene.
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03/10/2009
A Czech police officer is running for the extreme-right National Party in the June elections to the European Parliament, the daily Lidové noviny reported on Tuesday. A spokesman for the police said that his superiors were aware of the fact and did not consider it a problem since the officer was not actually a member of the National Party. The officer, Jaroslav Bernásek, said he had been offered the chance to run and was not remotely interested in the party’s ideology. He denied that his candidacy was in conflict with his profession.
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