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11/06/2008
A new exhibition dedicated to Karel Čapek has been launched at the Czech National Library at Prague’s Clementinum, 70 years after the great Czech writer’s death. The show recreates aspects of the era in which Čapek lived, as well as offering an insight into his personal life. There is also a special section dedicated to his co-operation with the founder of Czechoslovakia, President T.G. Masaryk.
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11/06/2008
Karel Gott is marking 50 years in the music business with a tour around the Czech Republic. The hugely successful pop singer drew 4,000 people to the opening show in his hometown of Plzeň on Wednesday night. Gott, who is 69, denied rumours that it is a farewell tour, telling the audience he would sing for them until he fell down.
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11/06/2008
Temperature records were broken in a number of places in southern Moravia on Thursday. In both Holešov and Vsetín a temperature of 20.5 degrees Celsius was recorded, while it was 19.9 Centigrade in Vizovice. Records have also been broken at other weather stations this week.
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11/05/2008
Czech officials have congratulated Barack Obama on his election victory. Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said Barack Obama had run an inspirational campaign and raised the hopes of millions of people not just in the United States but around the world. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and climate change and it will be interesting to see how President-elect Obama and his team tackle these issues, the Czech prime minister said. Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek welcomed Barack Obama’s election victory saying America had made an historic choice and Mr Obama represented hope not just for the United States but for the whole world. Czech president Václav Klaus also congratulated Mr Obama on his election victory, and invited the President-elect on an official visit to Prague.
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11/05/2008
In related news, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Alexandr Vondra, has said he wants to stage Barack Obama’s first meeting with EU leaders in Prague in the spring. As of January 1, the Czechs take over at the head of the European Union, and so the first EU-American summit will fall during the Czechs’ presidency. On Wednesday, Mr Vondra did not specify when exactly he hoped to hold the meeting, but did suggest that it should coincide with the NATO summit to take place in Kehl and Strasbourg early next year.
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11/05/2008
The Czech Foreign Ministry has reacted to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s plan to deploy missiles in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad by calling the move ‘unfortunate’. On Wednesday, the Russian president said that he would deploy missiles on the territory bordering Poland in reaction to US plans to build an anti-missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Czech foreign ministry spokesperson Zuzana Opletalová said the step would not contribute to the dialogue that the Czech Republic wanted to lead with Moscow. Russia says that US plans for a missile defence shield threaten its security, dismissing America’s insistence that the shield is directed against ‘rogue states’ such as Iran.
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11/05/2008
Prague City Hall has rejected a report by the Czech Culture Ministry according to which the reconstruction of Charles Bridge had wrought irreparable damage to Prague’s most famous historical landmark. A team of heritage experts commissioned by the ministry criticized the ongoing reconstruction on several counts, including that stone cutters had failed to meet the hand-craft quality of the original 14th century blocks. Jan Kněžínek, head of the Cultural Heritage Department at Prague City Hall, said on Wednesday that he strongly disagreed with the ministry’s conclusions, saying that the reconstruction of Charles Bridge had been planned in great detail under the supervision of several expert commissions and was being fully adhered to. City Hall says it will post a formal response within 48 hours.
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11/05/2008
Top Czech carmaker Škoda Auto said on Tuesday that it would cut production again in November and December because of lower demand caused by the global financial crisis. Spokesman Jaroslav Černý said the shutdowns would reduce Škoda’s output by another 18,000 cars in addition to the 13,000 cut in September and October. Škoda Auto last week announced a 24.7 percent drop in net profit for January-September, with revenue down 2.2 percent.
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11/05/2008
The Interior Ministry is seeking to outlaw the far-right Workers’ Party, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Václav Henych confirmed that the Interior Ministry will ask the country’s Supreme Administrative Court to rule on the legality of the political party. The Workers’ Party has made headlines recently for forming its own vigilante groups to patrol areas predominantly populated by the Czech Republic’s Roma minority. A spokesperson for the party said that he had been aware of the ministry’s attempts to outlaw the organization for a while, and that he hoped the Supreme Administrative Court would rule in the party’s favour.
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11/05/2008
Civic Democrat Přemysl Sobotka has been reelected head of the Czech Senate. Following the recent Senate elections, the Czech Upper House was reshuffled on Wednesday. The Civic Democrats, who have maintained a slight majority in the Senate, came out of the restructuring holding onto five of the Senate’s nine committees. The Social Democrats, who made great gains in last fortnight’s Senate elections, were made head of the remaining four committees.
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