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05/18/2009
Nearly one in two Czechs fear for their jobs in light of the current economic downturn, suggests a poll conducted by the CVVM agency and released on Monday. Over 40 percent of respondents said that they feared redundancy while one third of Czechs said they feared a pay cut in the coming months. Some 62 percent of those questioned said they thought the current economic climate was having a negative impact on their household. The poll suggests that the current economic climate in the Czech Republic is being viewed pessimistically by Czechs. Fifty-seven percent of respondents to the survey said that they thought the government was not reacting well to the financial situation.
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05/18/2009
Former Interior Minister Ivan Langer has criticized Czech President Václav Klaus for having a ‘lack of memory’ and speaking out against those who twice elected him head of state. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr Langer said he did not know whether it was age, memory loss, or a Freudian complex which had lead the Czech president to turn his back on those who had twice supported his bid for president. Last week, Václav Klaus said he had been ‘disappointed’ by the government of Mirek Topolánek, of which Mr Langer was a part. Last year, Mr Klaus left the Civic Democratic Party, which Mr Topolánek leads, over a disagreement about the EU’s reform Lisbon Treaty.
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05/18/2009
The annual outdoor cinema on Prague’s Střelecký Ostrov will not be opening this year, Monday’s edition of Lidové noviny reported. The cinema has been displaced by ongoing work to regenerate the island, the newspaper wrote. A petition to save the open-air cinema in the centre of Prague has not succeeded and, for the first time in 12 years, the island will not be transformed into a summer-long cinema and concert venue. According to Lidové noviny, it is not certain that an open-air cinema will return to Střelecký Ostrov in the coming years.
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05/18/2009
Slavia Prague have won the Czech football league for the second season in a row. With two more rounds remaining, they achieved an unassailable points lead at the top of the table after beating Viktoria Žižkov 3:1 away on Monday evening, though a draw would have secured them the title. Slavia were particularly strong in the first half of the season, and at their own Eden stadium in Prague 10.
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05/18/2009
Czech striker Roman Bednář is being investigated by British police after a tabloid newspaper showed pictures of the West Brom forward purchasing illegal drugs. On Sunday, the Midlands’ team suspended Bednář saying it would launch an internal investigation into the allegations. Subsequently, a spokesperson for West Midlands’ Constabulary told the Birmingham Post that police were looking into the matter. The 26-year-old striker has admitted to buying cocaine and marihuana, but insists that it was on behalf of someone else. On Sunday, Bednář’s team, West Bromwich Albion, were relegated from the Barclay’s English Premiership after losing to Liverpool 2-0.
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05/17/2009
A plane belonging to German carrier Lufthansa made an emergency landing at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport on Sunday after smoke was detected in the hold of the aircraft. The plane, flying from Duesseldorf to Budapest in Hungary, touched down at Ruzyně at around 14:00 CET, a spokesperson for the Prague airport told press. The landing went smoothly and all 35 passengers on board the plane were taken to the airport to await replacement transport.
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05/17/2009
On Sunday, the Czech presidency of the European Union condemned discrimination against gays and lesbians, marking International Day against Homophobia, which was celebrated in more than 50 countries. In a statement, the EU’s Czech presidency said that it rejected and condemned any manifestation of homophobia, calling the phenomenon a ‘blatant violation of human dignity’. The presidency said it was deeply concerned by the use of the death penalty in parts of the world to punish those found guilty of being homosexual. The EU urged authorities to ensure that ‘sexual orientation and gender identity may under no circumstance be the basis for criminal penalties’.
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05/17/2009
The Finance Ministry has rejected the appeals of three unsuccessful candidates for the so-called ‘tender of the century’. The tender to clean up past environmental damage is thought to be worth 115 billion crowns (5.8 billion USD). The announcement was made by senior ministry official Tomáš Uvíra on Czech Television on Sunday. Mr Uvíra added that if the unsuccessful candidates wanted to appeal this decision then they could, at the country’s Office for the Protection of Competition.
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05/17/2009
At a commemorative service at the former Terezín concentration camp in central Bohemia on Sunday, speakers warned against the rise in far-right extremism in the Czech Republic. Around 1,500 gathered in the National Cemetery at Terezín on Sunday to commemorate victims of Nazism. After a laying of wreathes, head of the Terezín memorial, Jan Munk warned against the rising number of far-right gatherings and marches taking place across the Czech Republic. He said that ‘as a Czech and a Jew’ he felt threatened by this trend. Head of the Czech Senate Přemysl Sobotka said that he was unhappy with the amount of media coverage far-right extremists enjoyed in the Czech Republic, and said that more should be done to clamp down on neo-Nazis in this country. This Sunday’s ceremony was the 63rd annual commemorative service at Terezín concentration camp, where over 2600 people died, and from which many thousands more were transported, during the Second World War.
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05/17/2009
The Czech government will again attempt to outlaw the far-right Workers’ Party, Interior Minister Martin Pecina said in an interview with Czech Television on Sunday. Mr Pecina said that his ministry would file a complaint against the party as soon as it legally could. After an unsuccessful attempt to have the party outlawed brought by Mr Pecina’s predecessor, Ivan Langer, and thrown out in March, the government must wait for six months until they can try again. Mr Langer’s case for the banning of the party was thrown out by the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno. After the verdict, court officials working on the case said that the government’s arguments for outlawing the party had not been sufficiently prepared.
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