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05/21/2007
A new opinion poll suggests that the number of people in the Czech Republic who are satisfied with the political situation is on the rise. Although the study indicates that only 24 percent of the population was happy last month, it is three percent higher than the month before and eight percent higher than in January. In the poll conducted by the STEM agency, 68 percent of respondents were pleased with the performance of President Vaclav Klaus. The support for the government was much lower, 34 percent, and only 32 percent for Parliament.
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05/21/2007
A Health Ministry directive that orders all ambulances to reach patients within 15 minutes of their call has come into effect on Monday. The ministry is hoping to include the directive in a new law but has yet to find ways of getting around heavy traffic and making remote areas, especially in the mountain areas, easily accessible.
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05/21/2007
Special commissions will be set up in every region of the country to oversee the care of state-owned national heritage, culture minister Vaclav Jehlicka said on Monday. Speaking at a conference on cultural heritage, he said the commissions' main tasks would be to use local budgets efficiently and make the best use of EU grants. Mr Jehlicka also proposes that every castle and chateau owned by the state should have a supervisory board where the local authority, regional authority, National Heritage Institute, and entrepreneurs involved in tourism would be represented.
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05/21/2007
The number of police officers leaving the force is outweighing the number of newcomers, Interior Minister Ivan Langer said in a TV discussion programme on Sunday. There are currently 46,000 police officers in the Czech Republic and some 3,000 positions that need to be filled. Despite various campaigns, it has been difficult to attract people to join the force. Under a new service law which came into effect in January, officers are not paid for the first 150 hours of overtime that they work and salaries for most positions have also decreased compared to last year.
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05/21/2007
The Czech Republic's Horicke trubicky, or Horice rolled wafers, have been added to the EU's list of protected food products. Six other Czech products are already on the list. They include the Pohorelice carp, Budvar beer, Czech hops and the "Stramberk ears" cone-shaped gingerbread cookies. Horicke trubicky are crunchy and made from wheat pastry flour, powdered milk, vegetable oil, powdered egg yolks, sugar and water. Their producers now hope that the wafers will also be granted EU protection of geographical indications and designations of origin.
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05/21/2007
Meteorologists in the Olomouc region say temperatures rose to a record high on Monday. Reaching 27.2 degrees Celsius in the Jeseniky area, they were two degrees higher than when the last temperature record was broken fourteen years ago.
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05/20/2007
US missile defence experts have finished examining the location of a planned US radar site in the Brdy military zone southwest of Prague. According to the Czech Defence Ministry, the 38-member team focused mainly on the hydrological and geological conditions in the area and the local transport infrastructure. The chief-of-staff of the Czech armed forces, Vlastimil Picek, said the exact location of the planned radar installation is still unknown but he said it will be built at a minimum distance of five kilometres from the nearest house.
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05/20/2007
Education Minister Dana Kuchtova says the case of eight-year old Ondrej who was severely abused by his mother has highlighted loopholes in the law on home schooling. In a live TV debate on Sunday, the minister said she plans to tighten the terms under which parents are allowed to teach their own children. Under current legislation, these children are examined once every term; Minister Kuchtova would like to make the examinations more frequent. She pointed out the Education Ministry was not able to prevent what happened to Ondrej. He did not go to school, allegedly due to his hearing impairment. Another child living in the family, a 13-year old girl with no legal identity who is now missing, did not attend school either.
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05/20/2007
Around 2,000 people including President Vaclav Klaus gathered at the National Cemetery in Terezin on Sunday to commemorate all those imprisoned at the local Nazi concentration camp and the Gestapo prison during WWII. Between 1941 and 1945, some 155,000 Jews from all over Europe were imprisoned at Terezin; 117,000 of them did not live to see the end of the war.
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05/20/2007
The mayor of Prague, Pavel Bem, has descended to his base camp after reaching the top of Mount Everest on Friday, his assistant said on Sunday, adding that he has completed the most demanding part of the climb. Mr Bem, a senior figure in the Civic Democratic Party, became the tenth Czech to reach the world's highest peak. He was criticised both inside and outside his party for taking two months leave from his post as mayor of Prague.
Earlier this week, a Czech mountaineer, whose name remains unknown, died during the ascent of Mount Everest. According to the Foreign Ministry, the time and circumstances of the death of the 47-year-old Czech man are unclear. According to available information, he was the sole Czech in an international expedition and he died at a camp at 8,300 metres above sea level.
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