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05/03/2009
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is expected to arrive in Prague late on Sunday ahead of an EU-Japanese summit chaired by the Czech EU presidency. The Japanese leader will on Monday meet with Czech President Václav Klaus and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso ahead of a summit focusing on the global economy, climate change and security issues. On the security front, the Japanese prime minister is expected to seek European support for pressure on North Korea over its threat to conduct a second nuclear test unless the United Nations apologizes for condemning its recent rocket launch. The EU-Japanese summit will be chaired by President Václav Klaus.
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05/03/2009
Members of the Roma minority held peaceful demonstrations around the country on Sunday in protest against growing extremism in the Czech Republic. In the town of Chomutov the protest ended prematurely after it was attacked by right-wing extremists. The mass protests were sparked by a recent arson attack on a Romany family which left a two-year-old girl fighting for her life. The organizers of the first-ever nation-wide Romany protest say Sunday’s gathering was contrived as a peaceful event but they will not hesitate to fight back if their lives are threatened by neo-Nazis. Romany vigilante groups are now operating in some parts of the country.
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05/03/2009
The Czech health authorities have so far ruled out 14 cases of suspected swine flu, thirty-eight more people are currently being tested. Among them are seven of 200 Czech tourists who returned home from Mexico on Sunday morning. Prague’s Ruzyně Airport had doctors on standby and people returning from Mexico underwent thermal screening on arrival. One person suffering from a high fever was taken to Bulovka hospital, six others are in home isolation. Czech doctors currently have two million anti-viral drugs at their disposal, enough to treat a fifth of the population.
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05/03/2009
Five Czech hikers and one Slovak were killed in an avalanche near the ski resort of Soelden in the Austrian Alps at the weekend. Witnesses spotted the accident and alerted rescuers but they could not reach the scene until Sunday due to poor weather. A police official said rescuers had retrieved the bodies of six climbers who had been ascending the 3,500-metre peak in an isolated region southwest of Innsbruck. The only survivor was the seventh member of the group who had opted to remain behind in a hut as he was not feeling well.
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05/03/2009
An effort to curb the amount of flu medication sold over the counter had to be abandoned on Sunday after a new computer system collapsed in trial operation. According to an amendment to the law which took effect on May 1st, flu medicine containing pseudoefedrine such as Coldrex or Stopgrip, should only be sold to people in small amounts on the basis of a health insurance card and ID. The move is an attempt to curb abuse of the substance in the production of the illegal street drug pervitin. However the system collapsed within hours of being launched and in the face of growing complaints from the public pharmacies are once again selling flu medication without restriction.
Aside from the technical problems, the new law is controversial. It involves putting personal data into a central evidence system and some pharmacies have refused to use it for fear of violating the privacy law. The matter is being investigated by the Office for Protection of Private Data.
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05/03/2009
Czech Republic handed Slovakia their worst-ever defeat at the world ice hockey championship on Saturday by trouncing their neighbours 8-0. Jakub Klepis and Karel Rachunek had three assists while Jaromír Jagr scored twice in the most one-sided meeting in the history of Czech Republic-Slovakia matches. The team scored four goals in each of the first two periods before easing off in the third. The win took them into third place in Group F, ahead of Belarus on goal difference.
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05/03/2009
Czech Roman Kreuziger won the 157.5-km fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie on Saturday. Estonia's Rein Taaramae was second and Russia's Vladimir Karpets was third. Kreuziger also took the race leader's yellow jersey.
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05/02/2009
The Czech EU presidency has slammed the execution of a young woman in Iran, urging the country to end the practice of handing out death sentences for crimes committed by juveniles. Twenty-three-year-old Delara Darabi was executed on Friday morning without her family’s or her lawyer’s knowledge for a crime she committed as a minor. A court sentenced her to death at the age of 17 after finding her guilty of murdering her father’s cousin. Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized Iran for sentencing minors to death. Iran says it is following sharia law and only carries out the death penalty when a prisoner reaches the age of 18.
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05/02/2009
The Czech health authorities have so far ruled out 14 cases of suspected swine flu, twenty-seven more people are currently being tested. More cases are expected to emerge on Sunday with 180 Czech tourists due to return from Mexico. The authorities have tightened security measures at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport and people returning from Mexico will have to undergo thermal screening before being allowed to enter the country. Czech doctors currently have two million anti-viral drugs at their disposal, enough to treat a fifth of the population.
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05/02/2009
Further talks are expected on the line-up of the country’s caretaker cabinet after prime minister designate Jan Fischer broke with a party agreement and proposed three candidates of his own choosing. The leaders of the two strongest parties the Civic and Social Democrats, who proposed Mr. Fischer for the post and expected to fill the respective ministerial posts with their own candidates, have both said they find the proposed line-up unacceptable and have ruled out support for it in the lower house. Mr. Fischer has said he is willing to discuss the matter.
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