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09/29/2014
The Czech government is seeking to speed up economic growth and create new jobs in 2015, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said at Monday’s meeting of the Association of Industry and Transport in Brno. He said the government was in the process of finalizing an action plan to support these goals which involved expanding the infrastructure and constructing new flats and schools. The prime minister likewise emphasized the role of economic diplomacy in boosting the growth of the export-oriented Czech economy. This year’s economic growth is expected to reach 2.6 percent, by far exceeding the most optimistic forecasts.
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09/29/2014
The Czech Republic’s nominee for EU commissioner Věra Jourová who was assigned the portfolio of justice, consumer policy and gender equality has moved to dispel concerns regarding a possible conflict of interests in the post. In response to written questions from MEPs Ms. Jourová stressed her dedication to independent decision-making and said she would not be influenced by any government or individual in working for the best interests of EU citizens. Doubts have been voiced in connection with Ms. Jourová’s current close working relationship with the Czech finance minister and influential Czech businessman Andrej Babiš. Ms. Jourová faces the traditional grilling before the respective EC commission on Wednesday.
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09/29/2014
Azerbaijani civil society activist Anar Mammadli is the winner of the 2014 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Mammadli, has actively defended the right to free elections and is the founder of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre in Azerbaijan. He was arrested in December 2013 on charges of tax evasion and illegal business and in the spring of this year was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. Mammadli’s father, who is to accept the prize in his name, said the honour would give his son and other political prisoners in the country even greater moral strength to pursue their convictions. The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charter 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond.
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09/29/2014
Czechs consume on average 130 kilograms of paper a year, which is just under the EU average, according to figures released by company Activa. In the past 25 years the amount of paper used in the country has tripled. The biggest consumers are public institutions, where every third document printed out is shredded or recycled within a matter of hours. One reason for this is that reading a text printed on paper is still considered more effective than reading a text from a computer screen, Activa says. The company sells 7,500 tons of paper a year, which amounts to 1.5 trillion sheets.
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09/29/2014
The Czech health authorities have launched a campaign to spread awareness about heart disease and stroke prevention, the number one killers in the Czech Republic. The awareness campaign held on World Heart Day, September 29, includes massive press coverage and information regarding prevention and tents set up in the big cities where passers-by are invited to get their blood pressure and cholesterol levels checked for free.
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09/29/2014
The regional court in Zlín is hearing the case of seven suspects implicated in the bootleg methanol scandal that killed close to 40 people in 2012-2013 and left dozens more with severe health problems. Three of the seven suspects of the so-called Ostrava branch of the bootleg mafia could face life sentences. So far ten people have been convicted in the case, with two men who mixed the spirits, containing lethal amounts of methanol, getting life sentences. The others got between ten and twenty years for putting the public health at risk. Many of those who suffered methanol poisoning either went blind or have since developed serious health problems.
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09/29/2014
Czech seniors spend more time chatting on their mobile telephones than the country’s teenagers, according to a study carried by the website Tarifomat. It found that while the average Czech aged 13 to 18 spent 80 minutes a month speaking on their mobiles, old aged pensioners spoke for 110 minutes on average. While the elderly tend to make calls or send SMSes, teens are more likely to communicate via social networks with some 87-percent owning phones with internet access.
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09/29/2014
A procession of Trabant cars is set to pass through Prague on Monday afternoon, marking the 25th anniversary of the passage of thousands of East German refugees through the then West German Embassy in the city. From September 30, 1989 many East Germans abandoned their Trabants near the embassy in the Malá Strana district as they sought asylum. Around 4,000 reached the West in this way. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was West German foreign minister at the time, and around 150 of the then refugees will visit Prague on Tuesday.
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09/28/2014
Former Czech president Václav Klaus says European Union and US “propaganda” against Russia is ridiculous and unacceptable. Speaking in an interview in the magazine The Spectator, Mr. Klaus said that though he had lived in communist Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination it was “stupid” to not differentiate the Soviet Union and Russia. In the interview, the former Czech head of state said he was receiving fewer invitations to speak at conferences as when organizers became aware of his views of the EU, same-sex marriage and the Ukraine crisis they said they had found somebody else; he said he had experienced this in the communist era but not in “so-called free Europe.”
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09/28/2014
The Czech women’s basketball team have reached the qualification for quarter finals stage at the World Championship in Turkey after a 71:57 win over Japan on Sunday. Pivot Petra Kulichová played a key role for the Czechs after returning from an ankle injury, scoring 19 points in the victory. The Czechs had defeated Brazil in their opening Group A game on Saturday and will now face Spain on Tuesday in a game to decide which country tops the group.
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