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05/23/2009
Social Democrat election campaign organisers are concerned about incidents in which people have thrown eggs at the party’s leader, Jiří Paroubek, Právo reported. Party officials fear the incidents are tarnishing gatherings intended to get out the vote in elections to the European Parliament next month, the newspaper said. Mr Paroubek has been hit by eggs twice on the hustings this week, while opponents have brought boxes of eggs to other meetings without actually throwing them. The Social Democrats chairman has accused rivals the Civic Democrats of being behind the eggs, an accusation the right-of-centre party denies; leader Mirek Topolánek said voters who want to express their dissatisfaction with Mr Paroubek should do so at the polls on June 5 and 6. Newspaper Lidové noviny reported that 15,000 people had joined a Facebook group called “Eggs for Paroubek in Every Town”.
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05/23/2009
Meanwhile, hackers placed a link to a youtube video mocking the Social Democrats on the party’s website. Entitled “Pre-Election Anthem – or Start to be Afraid”, it featured among other pictures a photoshopped image of Mr Paroubek alongside Soviet dictator Stalin and Czechoslovak communist leader Klement Gottwald. The three had red stars above their heads.
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05/23/2009
The Czech troops deployed in Afghanistan are likely to operate in Kabul, Logar province and the Sharna helicopter base in Paktia province, the Czech defence minister, Martin Barták, said after talks in Prague with US General David Petraeus on Friday. Mr Barták also said the Czech provincial reconstruction team in the war-torn state would probably get more members. He presented the Czech plans for 2010 to General Petraeus, but said they would only be made public after they had been submitted to the Czech Parliament; the lower house is set to discuss the country’s mission in Afghanistan in June. General Petraeus, who oversees American military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, said he was mainly in the Czech capital to thank the Czechs for their operations in Afghanistan and the Balkans.
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05/23/2009
Prague police arrested two men on Wednesday after they attacked and injured a man who told them to stop giving the Hitler salute and shouting Sieg Heil and racist abuse. The two face up to eight years in jail if found guilty of a series of charges. On Thursday two men were detained in Prague after one of them recorded the other giving the Hitler salute on his mobile phone, the police said on their website.
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05/23/2009
Clean-up work has been carried out following storms in the Czech Republic on Friday. Trees were knocked down, hundreds of households were without electricity, and train transport was interrupted in some parts of the country. Czech fire brigades were called out 400 times between midnight Friday and noon Saturday to deal with problems caused by heavy rain and strong winds.
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05/23/2009
The Czech ice hockey player Robert “Bobby” Holík has said he is retiring after 18 seasons in the NHL. In an interview for the New York Post, Holík, 38, said he had decided at the end of the season that he wanted to spend more time with his family. The centre won two Stanley Cups with the club where he spent the best part of his career, the New Jersey Devils. His father Jaroslav Holík won the 1972 world championships with Czechoslovakia and seven national championships with Dukla Jihlava.
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05/23/2009
The 22-year-old defender Jan Šimůnek has won the German football league title with Wolfsburg. Šimůnek joined the Bundesliga club from Sparta Prague after captaining a Czech team to the final of the Under 20 World Cup in Canada two years ago. He has four full international caps for the Czech Republic and is expected to figure in the first squad selected by new manager František Straka.
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05/23/2009
Footballer Jan Koller has said he would consider coming out of international retirement to play a World Cup qualifier against Slovakia in September. Koller, who holds the Czech goals record with 55 international goals, said he might play if three strikers “banned” by the Czech football association had not returned to the squad by then. In an interview for the newspaper Sport, he said he would definitely not play in the rest of the Czechs’ world cup qualifying campaign. Winning the Slovakia game is seen as the last realistic chance the Czech Republic have of keeping alive their hopes of reaching South Africa next year.
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05/22/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus has said that a two-day EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk has strengthened trust between Russia and the European Union. Mr Klaus chaired the meeting on behalf of the Czech EU presidency. Afterwards, he said that the talks had increased mutual understanding on a number of issues. On the other hand, news agencies noted, the summit did not resolve disagreement in a number of areas including energy, as well as the Eastern Partnership project launched in Prague this month. The project aims to increase ties with six former Soviet republics; Russian President Dimitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia viewed it as an emerging security threat. Despite their differences, the EU is Russia's biggest trading partner, while the 27-member bloc currently imports more than a quarter of its gas from Russia.
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05/22/2009
In related news, the Czech president has made clear he sees no problems in Czech-Russian relations. He made the comment saying that a planned US radar base on Czech soil – a point of earlier discord - was not a current topic and had not been on the agenda in his meeting with Dimitry Medvedev. The two heads-of-state met for 30 minutes on Friday following the end of the EU-Russia summit, discussing steps in bilateral trade and investment. Russia strongly opposes a US radar base being stationed in the Czech Republic – part of plans for a missile defence system in central Europe that were strongly backed by former US president George W. Bush.
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