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05/02/2007
Former Social Democrat Prime Minister Stanislav Gross has told the tabloid daily Sip that he supports the stationing of a US radar base in the Czech Republic. The Social Democrat Party as a whole is against the base. The party is calling for a referendum on the issue and wants the base to be part of NATO's defence system. Deputy chairman of the Social Democrats, Zdenek Skromach, has said he is not surprised by Mr Gross's view. He said some party members were in favour of the radar base but the majority were against it.
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05/02/2007
Police say the prolonged weekend, when many people took Monday off ahead of Tuesday's state holiday, brought an increase in the number of traffic accidents on Czech roads, with 17 people killed. On May 1 alone, six people died in road accidents around the country, according to preliminary police statistics.
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05/02/2007
Former world 800m champion Ludmila Formanova has announced her retirement. The 33-year old athlete said on Wednesday the reasons were her state of health and her son Petr to whom she wanted to devote more time. Formanova was crowned world champion of the two-lap event in Seville, Spain in 1999 and also won the world indoor championships in Maebashi, Japan in the same year. A foot injury saw her pull out of her heat in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and she has not competed at top international level since 2002. Formanova took a year out from competitive sport in 2005 to have a baby but returned a year later only to be plagued by a muscle injury from February that year.
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05/02/2007
Former Liverpool winger Patrik Berger is to be rewarded for the recent upturn in his form by being offered a new contract at Aston Villa, the club confirmed on Wednesday. Czech international Berger, 33, was loaned out to Stoke in November following a breach of club discipline and appeared to be living on borrowed time at Villa Park. But he has recently returned to the first team and done enough to convince manager Martin O'Neill that he is worth holding on to. Berger joined Villa in July 2005 on a free transfer from Portsmouth.
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05/02/2007
The Czech Republic beat the United States 4:3 on Tuesday, taking top spot in Group B at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Moscow. After going up 3:1 in the final period, the Czechs looked headed for a more comfortable win until the Americans struck two late goals to level the score at 3:3. "We should have defended the 3:1 lead. That didn't happen but I'm happy we scored the deciding goal," Czech coach Alois Hadamczik told reporters. "We saw a very good hockey game tonight."
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05/01/2007
May Day is a state holiday in the Czech Republic and public events and rallies are being held in towns and cities across the country. Several hundred people gathered on Prague's Letna Plain, formerly the site of communist May Day parades, to attend an open air anti-communist gathering organized by the Confederation of Political Prisoners. The all-day event included debates with former political prisoners, photo exhibitions documenting the crimes of communism and a concert featuring, among others, the Plastic People of the Universe. The event is being held under the motto "No more communism, no more fascism, no more dictatorship". Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek made a brief appearance at the gathering.
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05/01/2007
Meanwhile, left-wing supporters filled Prague's Vystaviste exhibition grounds on Tuesday where the opposition Social Democrats and the Communist Party hosted separate Labor Day rallies. Traditionally both are highly politicized and this year's Communist Party rally was moreover organized as a protest against the deployment of a US radar base on Czech territory. The CTK news agency reports that there was a brief skirmish between communist party supporters and anti-communist activists, but no serious injuries were reported.
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05/01/2007
Elsewhere in Prague, anarchists clashed with right-wing extremists while the police, out in force for the day, struggled to maintain law and order. Around two hundred anarchists marched along the banks of the Vltava to Strelecky Island where ultra-right supporters were congregating. The two groups came face to face at Legionaries Bridge, separated by two lines of police in riot gear. Isolated skirmishes were quickly brought under control and several dozen people were detained. The situation is reported to have been rather more serious in the Moravian city of Brno where some 500 neo-Nazis clashed with police in the centre of town, throwing stones and bottles. Several people are reported injured, among them two policemen and one journalist.
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05/01/2007
The mood was entirely different on Prague's Petrin Hill, where couples in love traditionally lay flowers at the statue of the country's romantic poet Karel Hynek Macha. This year the governing Civic Democratic Party held a May Day rally at the foot of Petrin Hill under the motto "stick with us - we'll take you to the top of the hill". Thousands of Czechs visited Petrin Hill in the course of the day, to enjoy the sunny weather and celebrate the Czech version of Valentine's Day.
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05/01/2007
Interior Minister Ivan Langer has promised to draft an amendment to the controversial new civil service law. Addressing police officers and firemen who staged a protest against the law outside the Interior Ministry on Monday, Minister Langer said he was aware of the complications that the new law had caused and promised that the ministry would start working on a proposed amendment as soon as possible. The new bill could be presented to Parliament by the end of the year and could take affect in 2008, the minister said. The law has slashed the salaries of police officers, firemen, prison guards and customs officers by making them work 150 hours overtime for free and scrapping bonuses for night-shifts, holidays and weekends. Hundreds of officers have left the ranks of the police since it went into effect at the beginning of this year. Minister Langer said that he would try to compensate the decrease in wages and would discuss the proposed amendment with experts.
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