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06/02/2009
The Interior Ministry has promised to have a manual on how to tackle extremism ready within a week’s time. The manual will be available online and will offer town halls and municipalities advice on how to go about banning or dissolving marches and demonstrations by far-right groups. It should also contain a list of banned symbols and dates relating to Nazi anniversaries. The manual is being put together by lawyers and experts on extremism at the request of town mayors who say they need help to counter growing extremism in the country.
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06/02/2009
The police has accused eight people of tax fraud in connection with fuel imports to the Czech Republic, which deprived the state of one billion crowns, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. The suspects, a network of company managers and salesmen, bought fuel in neighbouring Austria and Germany, doctoring purchasing contracts and their accounting books to make huge profits on unpaid VAT for over two years. If found guilty they face up to 12 years in prison.
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06/02/2009
A series of cultural events publicising the Czech presidency of the EU opened at UN headquarters in New York on June 1st and is scheduled to last until June 17th. They include Antonín Kratochvíl´s exhibition of photographs called “The Times in which I Live”, Zuzana Stivínova´s Concert “From the Stage to the Bar”, a Gourmet Festival of Czech food and a screening selected of documentaries by Czech filmmakers.
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06/02/2009
Czech singer Karel Gott on Tuesday launched a new album of evergreens – a collection of the greatest hits of his career spanning half a century. The album –comprising 70 songs - is being released on occasion of the singer’s upcoming 70th birthday. The book launch took place on the site of the former Vltava coffee house where Karel Gott gave his first public performance, singing with an amateur band. In the course of his career he collected 34 Golden Nightingale Awards as the country’s most popular singer, recording 63 albums and 182 singles.
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06/02/2009
The Serbian border police detained a Czech woman trying to smuggle nine kilograms of heroin across the Hungarian border in her car on Sunday, the Serbian news website B92 reported. The woman was detained at the Hogoros border crossing and is in custody pending an investigation. The value of nine kilograms of heroin on the black market would be from 5 to 18 million crowns, according to the Czech National Drug Centre.
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06/01/2009
The Czech EU presidency on Monday issued a statement calling elections in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia “illegitimate” and expressing full support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. The EU does not accept the legality of the election, nor its result, and considers this development a setback in the search for a peaceful and lasting settlement of the situation in Georgia, the statement says. Russia recognized South Ossetia as an independent state after its five-day war with Georgia in August last year and has been trying to consolidate its hold on the region. Sunday’s election is reported to have been won by parties close to the pro-Moscow leader of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoyev.
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06/01/2009
The leader of the right-wing Civic Democrats Mirek Topolánek has urged supporters to go to the polls in elections to the European Parliament, saying that the creation of a new right-wing faction in the EP depends on the outcome of the vote. Over the weekend Mr. Topolánek met with British Conservative Party leader David Cameron and representatives of the Polish Law and Justice Party to discuss the possibility of forming a strong centre-right faction which they say would “provide an alternative to the current federalist trend”. The three parties say they share a common vision of Europe as a dynamic, flexible alliance of individual members rather than a single European “super-state”. Mr. Topolánek said he hoped that together the three parties would win at least 50 seats in the EP, which would be sufficient to form a new faction.
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06/01/2009
The Czech Foreign Ministry has introduced an Internet registration system for visa applicants intended to ensure equal access and reduce the risk of corruption. The system was introduced in Vietnam after it emerged that Vietnamese applicants were paying local agencies high bribes to get on a waiting list for a visa application. The system will now gradually be extended to other countries, starting with China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan.
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06/01/2009
An informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers is underway in the Moravian city of Brno. The main issue on the agenda is a controversy over the current division of subsidies within the block and plans for equal payments after 2013. The EU states who joined in 2004 complain that five years after EU accession they are entitled to only 60 percent of the subsidies afforded to old members. Czech farmers say their livelihood is threatened due to unequal competition within the block and together with farmers in Poland and Hungary are pushing for equal payments before 2013. The governments of newcomer states are free to top up farming subsidies by another 30 percent from state coffers, but their generosity depends on the state of individual countries’ finances.
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06/01/2009
The U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty on Monday formally handed over the keys of its former headquarters at the top end of Wenceslas Square to the building’s new tenant, the National Museum. The museum, located just across the street and in desperate need of new premises, has big plans for the imposing glass and chrome building. It will house over 3,000 square meters of exhibition rooms, a museum restaurant and shop, and a conference and multimedia room for an audience of nearly 500. The museum is planning to throw its doors open to the public on the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in November. Radio Free Europe has moved to new headquarters on the suburbs of the city for security reasons.
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