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02/27/2009
Czech farmers made some 9.7 billion crowns (435 million USD) last year, reported the Czech Statistical Office on Friday. This sum is around 30 percent less than the record amount generated by Czech farmers in 2007. The majority of Czech farmers’ revenue came from cereals, followed by milk products. Despite producing more cereals in 2008 than in previous years, profits from such crops were lower as the crops’ market value fell, the Statistical Office said.
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02/27/2009
Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursík would like to ban shops from distributing free plastic bags, he said on Friday. According to Mr Bursík, plastic shopping bags create nine tonnes of waste in the Czech Republic alone each year. Mr Bursík’s suggestions came as part of a plan to reform the country’s waste-disposal legislation. According to the environment minister, the distribution of free plastic bags in shops leads to consumers using far more of them than is required.
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02/27/2009
The Karel Gott Museum in Jevany, just outside Prague, is to close, it was announced on Friday. The museum dedicated to the life and career of the father of Czech pop is closing after three years of operation, in which time it has attracted over 30,000 visitors. ‘Gottland’ was housed in the singer’s former home, a lakeside villa in the forest outside Prague. The museum’s closure follows the closure of ‘Gott Gallery Restaurant’ formerly on Prague’s Spalená Street, in January this year.
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02/27/2009
In tennis, two Czechs are through to the semi-finals of the WTA tournament in Acapulco. The country’s number one women’s tennis player, Iveta Benešová, beat France’s Mathilde Johansson in straight sets on Friday and now goes on to meet the tournament’s number two seed, Flavia Penetta, in the semi-finals. The Czech Republic’s Barbora Záhlavová Strycová, meanwhile, is set to meet tournament favourite Venus Williams after beating Maret Ani 4:6, 7:5, 6:1. Fellow Czech Petra Cetkovská is out of the tournament, however, after losing to Italy’s Pennetta at the quarter-final stage.
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02/26/2009
President Barack Obama will probably visit Prague at the beginning of April for an EU-US summit, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, quoting a diplomatic source. The news website idnes.cz reported that Mr Obama would arrive in the Czech capital on April 4 or 5, though neither Prague’s US embassy nor the Czech president’s office have confirmed that the visit will occur. Czech officials have been pushing for some time to have the EU-US summit take place in Prague, as part of the Czech Republic’s presidency of the European Union.
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02/26/2009
The Czech minister of the interior, Ivan Langer, says it is possible European Union states will adopt a common position on accepting detainees from America’s Guantanamo Bay prison. Mr Langer made the comments in Brussels, where he was chairing a meeting of EU interior ministers as part of the Czech Republic’s six-month presidency of the bloc. He said the ministers first needed to know what the US expects and wants from EU states. President Obama has ordered the closing of the controversial prison, raising the question of what to do with its inmates. The subject will be on the agenda next month when the US secretary of state visits Brussels and Mr Langer and the EU justice commissioner visit Washington.
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02/26/2009
From next month the carmaker Škoda Auto will resume production of most models five days a week at its plant in Mladá Boleslav, a spokesperson told reporters. The move comes in response to an increase in orders as incentives to buy new cars begin to have an impact in other European countries. The current four-day week will continue at another Škoda plant in Vrchlabí.
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02/26/2009
The Ministry of Education is completing a proposal to give compensation to people thrown out of university for political reasons after the Communists took power in 1948. Mladá fronta Dnes reported that the plan should go before the government next month. A ministry representative told the newspaper it would apply to all cases until January 1 1990; it was previously suggested that only those expelled from higher education between 1948 and 1960 would receive compensation. It would amount to CZK 10,000 (USD 450).
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02/26/2009
Some jobs earmarked for foreigners under a green card scheme are now only open to Czechs and other EU citizens, the minister of labour, Petr Nečas, said on Thursday. The green card system, introduced at the start of this year, has 400 vacancies for foreigners. But 30 seamstresses positions in Česká Lípa in north Bohemia have had their status changed to exclude non-EU workers, Mr Nečas told reporters. Unemployment in the Czech Republic is on the rise, and stood at 6.8 percent last month.
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02/26/2009
The organisers of the Senate election campaign of Jiří Dienstbier have filed charges of fraud against him. The small Liberals.cz party say he conned them out of CZK150,000 when they financed his campaign on the understanding that he would work with the party if elected. However, he stood as a candidate for the Social Democrats, though he is not a member of the party. Liberals.cz say Mr Dienstbier breached an agreement with them when the Social Democrats provided him with an office. The former foreign minister has refused to comment on the matter.
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