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04/09/2015
The Constitutional Court has rejected claims from the Jewish Community that land confiscated in Brno during WWII be returned under a Holocaust restitution claim. The claims centre on land that was later returned after the war but sold at a disadvantageous price in the 1950s. Police later built an exercise and recreational site on the land. Lower courts had previously found in favour of the Jewish Community and demanded that part of the land be returned. The Constitutional Court ruled however that the case did not come under the laws governing the restitution of property confiscated during the Holocaust because the land had been returned but was later sold. The Jewish Community said the sale had been forced and the price paid was eroded due to the currency devaluation that followed a few years later. The Municipal Court will now have to deal with the claim again after taking the Constitutional Court’s comments on board.
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04/09/2015
Unions at the Czech Republic’s biggest car maker Škoda Auto have given warning that they will be striking over the continued failure to agree a new pay deal with bosses. The first action will take place on April 15 with a meeting and employees working an hour less than usual. The action will cover all three of the carmaker’s main plants. Management have initially offered a wage increase of 3.0 percent while unions demanded 6.5 percent. They have since moderated their demands slightly. They pay deal for the previous 12 months ended in March.
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04/09/2015
Unemployment in March fell to 7.2 percent from February’s 7.5 percent. Just over 525,000 were still without jobs after 23,000 were taken off the lists over the month. Jobs opportunities have expanded with the start of seasonal work with vacancies up around 10 percent at around 76,000, the Labour Office said. That still means that there are on average seven jobless people for every vacancy. The drop in unemployment rates took place across the whole country.
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04/09/2015
A poll conducted by the Median Agency suggests that the Social Democrats are closing on the ANO party. According to the survey, both of the parties would win general elections with an equal support of 21.5 percent. The Communist Party would come third with 15 percent of the vote, followed by TOP 09 with 10.5 percent. The Civic Democrats and the Christian Democrats would also make it into the lower house, with 8 and 6 percent respectively.
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04/09/2015
Doctors from the Prague-based Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) have been the first in the world to use a special heart pump to save the life of a patient with an acute heart failure, IKEM spokesman Veronika Velčová told the Czech News Agency on Wednesday. Since January, four patients at IKEM were treated this way. The PHP HeartMate pump, induced directly into the heart through vessels in the groin, can replace the heart's function for 72 hours giving doctors a chance to decide about the best possible treatment.
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04/08/2015
The Supreme State Attorney Pavel Zeman has appealed the ruling of a Brno court that cleared the publishers of Adolf Hitler’s speeches free of charges of propagating Nazism. The regional court in Brno in January upheld an earlier verdict that found no evidence that the collection of Hitler’s speeches promoted the Nazi ideology. The book, which was released in 2012, consists of 18 addresses delivered by the Nazi dictator between 1939 and 1942. An editor and two co-owners of a Brno-based publishing house, Guidemedia, faced up to ten years in jail on charges of propagating Nazism. The case will now be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
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04/08/2015
Three bottles with beer believed to be over a hundred years old were found during a reconstruction of a brewery in the village of Záhlinice in the south Moravian region of Kroměříž. The brewery was closed down in 1926 but experts say the bottles probably date back to between 1900 and 1910, judging by the use of a specific type of stopper. The Research Institute of Brewing and Malting will now open the bottles and analyse their content, hoping to make some new discoveries about the ingredients.
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04/08/2015
The Constitutional Court will review a law banning gays and lesbians living in a registered partnership from adopting their partner’s child. A city court in Prague in March filed a proposal for abolishing the provision, which is included in the law on registered partnerships. According to the current legislation, gays and lesbians can adopt children only if they don’t live in a registered partnership. The law has been repeatedly criticised by a number of human rights organisations and initiatives. The Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Jiří Dienstbier has also been pushing for the abolition of the provision, calling it absurd and unconstitutional.
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04/08/2015
The number of Czechs working abroad has increased over the last year, according to data released by the European Employment Services network (EURES). Some 110,400 Czechs worked abroad in 2014, i.e. 55,000 more than in 2006. Among the most popular destinations for Czechs are Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Scandinavia. Czechs mostly work in healthcare, gastronomy, services and technical fields. According to Miroslav Chytil of EURES, foreign employers are currently seeking mainly qualified craftsmen, such as electricians, bakers and carpenters.
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04/08/2015
The trial run of Prague’s Blanka tunnel could be launched on September 15, according to the spokesman for ČKD Praha DIZ, company which supplied the cables destroyed during flooding last year. The date has been agreed by representatives of Prague City Hall and the construction company. The 37-billion crown tunnel was due to open after numerous delays in April. However, the opening had to be postponed again due to the faulty cables. It was originally estimated that their replacement might take several months and cost an additional one billion crowns, but now it seems their replacement will be less extensive.
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