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05/02/2009
President Klaus who was acquainted with Mr. Fischer’s proposal on Friday has not commented on the situation. Analysts point out that under the Czech Constitution Mr. Klaus is now bound to appoint Mr. Fischer’s cabinet even if it lacks majority support in the lower house. The interim prime minister would then have thirty days in which to ask Parliament for a vote of confidence and he would remain in office even if he did not get it –ruling “in resignation” until the president decided to name a new prime minister designate or until early elections.
The Fisher cabinet was expected to take over on May 8th and lead the country to early elections in October. It is not clear if this unexpected hurdle will delay its appointment.
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05/02/2009
Outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said he hopes to regain his post after early elections in October. In an interview for the daily Pravo, Mr. Topolánek said he wanted to return to office and hoped his Civic Democrats would win enough votes to make a come-back. Topolánek's centre-right government fell in a no-confidence vote last month, halfway through the country’s European Union presidency. In the latest opinion poll from the CVVM agency Topolánek's Civic Democratic Party trailed the opposition Social Democrats 31.5 to 36.0 percent.
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05/02/2009
The Czech EU presidency has said it wants to tackle the overuse of antibiotics in many EU member states. Countries which overuse antibiotics such as the Czech Republic, France, Spain or Italy are creating serious problems for the world at large because antibiotics are fast loosing their effectiveness and there is nothing to replace them with to cure bacterial infections. Czech experts say that the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics among patients is alarming. In the Czech Republic alone antibiotics to the tune of one billion crowns are prescribed without good reason. The problem is most widespread in hospitals. On the other hand countries such as Scandinavia or the Netherlands could serve as role models.
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05/02/2009
Czechs are unable to buy flu medication in pharmacies across the country after a new computer system collapsed in trial operation. In line with a new amendment to the law which took effect on May 1st, flu medicine containing pseudoefedrine such as Coldrex or Stopgrip, is no longer available freely over the counter and will 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 new law has created a few problems. It involves putting personal data into a central evidence system and some pharmacies will not be selling flu medicine at all for fear of violating the privacy law. The matter is being investigated by the Office for Protection of Private Data.
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05/02/2009
Prague’s Motol hospital is working on a new vaccine that may be able to halt cancer-growth, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Saturday. The vaccine can be used to treat melanoma, leukaemia, cancer of the bowel and ovaries and does not have negative side-effects such as chemotherapy, the paper writes. The vaccine must be tailor-made for each patient from his own cells and tumour. Czech immunologists have been working on the vaccine for ten years and have now requested clinical tests. The prestigious medical journal Clinical Immunology has published a report on the discovery.
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05/02/2009
The organizers of a techno-party near the town of Květná, western Bohemia, have been ordered to end the event by 8pm on Saturday. The three day party attended by 5,000 people is the biggest event of its kind ever held in the area and the locals have been complaining about excessive noise. A hygiene officer called in by the police to measure noise levels in the nearby town concluded that the noise pollution levels were way off limits.
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05/01/2009
The interim prime minister, Jan Fischer, has said he is willing to discuss the proposed cabinet line-up after shocking political leaders with his own choice of candidates. Mr. Fischer was selected for the post of interim prime minister under an agreement between the two strongest parties in Parliament who expected to push through their own candidates for various ministerial posts. However Mr. Fischer deviated from the planned scenario and the list of candidates which he presented to President Vaclav Klaus on Friday included several unexpected names, the most controversial of which appears to be the nominee for finance minister Jaroslav Míl.
The outgoing prime minister, Mirek Topolánek, said he was surprised by the move and indicated that the proposed line-up would not win a vote of confidence in Parliament. Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek likewise criticized the proposed line-up, saying he expected further negotiations. President Klaus has not commented on the development.
The Fisher cabinet was expected to take over on May 8th and lead the country to early elections in October. It is not clear if this unexpected hurdle will delay its appointment.
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05/01/2009
The Czech health authorities on Friday ruled out another suspected case of swine flu, twenty more people are being tested. The authorities have tightened security measures at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport and people arriving from Mexico now have to undergo thermal screening before being allowed to enter the country.
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05/01/2009
In a related development, EU health ministers on Thursday rejected a French call to suspend all EU flights to Mexico, leaving it up to individual member states to decide on whether or not to introduce restrictive measures. Czech Health Minister Daniela Filipiová, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the 27 member block, said she considered the EU to be well prepared for a possible pandemic.
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05/01/2009
Four Czech military fighter jets have started policing the airspace of the Baltic countries within a rotating NATO security operation. The four Gripen planes will police the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who do not have the means to protect their airspace and rely on NATO allies for assistance. In September the Czech Gripens will be replaced by Danish F-16 fighter jets. This is the first time that the Czech Republic’s air force has been deployed in a foreign operation since the end of World War II.
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