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05/02/2014
Ivo Schwarz, head of the Czech Foreign Intelligence Service, is to be the country’s new ambassador to Israel, the daily Lidové noviny reported on Friday. The paper said that the appointment still needed to get official approval from President Zeman and the Israeli authorities which, given his qualifications, should not present a problem, the paper said. Ivo Schwarz has worked for the Foreign Intelligence Service since 1999. His scope of duties involved cooperation with partner secret services abroad, and intelligence diplomacy. In 2003, he was appointed a deputy director responsible for logistics, later he held the post of security director and in 2007 he was appointed head of Foreign Intelligence. He has an education in economics.
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05/02/2014
Over three quarters of entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic would support the country’s accession to the euro zone, according to a survey made in connection with the tenth anniversary of the Czech Republic's entry in the EU. A quarter of those polled believe that the country should have adopted the euro already, nearly 30 percent support its adoption in 2018 to 2020 and some 22 percent think that the country should join the euro zone after 2020. Only 23 percent of the entrepreneurs are against euro adoption. Around three quarters of the entrepreneurs think that joining the EU was favourable for their company. They praise mostly free movement in the Schengen Area, EU subsidies and support instruments, the internal market and higher chances for trade. As for the main disadvantages of EU membership, domestic entrepreneurs cite higher bureaucracy and excessive regulation.
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05/01/2014
A memorial dedicated to the late Václav Havel was unveiled in Prague’s Maltézské square on May Day. The memorial –a seating area comprised of a circular table and two wooden seats is a symbolic invitation for reflection and debate on the former president’s legacy. At the dedication ceremony Mr. Havel’s close friend, and his one-time chancellor at Prague Castle, Karel Schwarzenberg said that today, when the centre-left government had traded human rights for business deals in China, it was more important than ever to reflect on Vaclav Havel’s principles. Similar memorials have been unveiled in Georgetown, US, and Dublin, Ireland.
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05/01/2014
Two left-wing radicals were arrested in the north Bohemian town of Ústi nad Labem on Thursday at a gathering of anarchists. A police spokeswoman said that a group of ten anarchists provoked a conflict with the police, which was out in force to maintain law and order. Special anti-conflict teams were on site to prevent trouble as anarchists and members of an ultra-right gathering demonstrated a few streets away from each other. No other incidents have been reported.
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05/01/2014
An outsize painting on cloth depicting the Russian president Vladimir Putin as a dictator was placed on the façade of the Church of St. Jacob in the west Bohemian town of Sokolov on Thursday. A group of local citizens thus protested against the annexation of Crimea by Russia and its aggressive policy in eastern Ukraine. They chose to place the painting on the main square at a time when the Communist Party was holding its May Day rally there. The picture had previously hung in public places in Mladá Boleslav, Liberec and Prague.
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05/01/2014
A four-seater plane crashed in the vicinity of Sulice, near Prague on Thursday afternoon. The plane was carrying a family of four, two of them small children, but no one was reported hurt in the accident thanks to the fact that it fell from a low altitude. The plane overturned, spilling fuel but did not catch fire. The cause of the accident in under investigation.
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05/01/2014
The Communist Party traditionally invited its supporters to the Holešovice fair grounds. Speakers at the gathering included the last Communist Party head of government Miloš Jakes, who said that over the past 20 years the masses had been impoverished, while the rich had grown richer. Politics is moulded according to the business in interests of a select, privileged group, the 91-year-old former leader said. Like other parties celebrating May Day, the Communists used the occasion to present their candidates for the European elections and urge voters to come to the polls.
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05/01/2014
Some 80 Greenpeace activists, among them two Czechs, on Thursday tried to prevent the delivery of the first oil from Russia's new Arctic drilling platform reaching port in Rotterdam. Their attempt to stop the oil-tanker Mikhail Ulyanov failed after Dutch police intervened giving the tanker clear passage to port. The activists were briefly detained aboard their own ship to allow the tanker to enter the port unhindered. Police said the activists had reneged on an agreement they had made with the harbour authorities not to interfere physically with the ship during their protest. Greenpeace is opposed to drilling in the Arctic Sea which it says risks causing a catastrophe in a fragile ecosystem.
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05/01/2014
The ruling Social Democratic Party organized a Labour Day happening on Prague’s Střelecký island on Thursday attended by close to a hundred party sympathizers. Prime Minister and party leader Bouhslav Sobotka highlighted the government’s achievements in its first 100 days in office, promised the public a lower, 10 percent VAT rate on medicines as of 2015, measures to create new jobs and urged them to go to the polls in European elections later this month. The Social Democrats used the opportunity to campaign in the European elections, handing out leaflets and outlining the party’s priorities.
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05/01/2014
The Czech Republic has pledged to introduce strict measures against drug crimes in areas near the border with Germany where the situation has been getting out of control. Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said after talks with his Bavarian counterpart Joachim Herrmann on Friday that the police would focus especially on Asian marketplaces in the border areas, where dealers sell crystal methamphetamine to tourists and smuggle it across the border. In recent years, Vietnamese gangs based in the country started producing crystal methamphetamine and growing marijuana. The drugs are not only exported, but they have become more easily available in the Czech Republic, at discos and elsewhere.
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