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01/28/2009
In related news, sales of plane tickets shot up in the Czech Republic last year by almost ten percent. According to data released by the International Air Transport Association, Czechs bought over 790,000 plane tickets in 2008, and spent a sum worth more than ten billion crowns on flights. According to the news website iDnes.cz which released the figures, sales could in fact be even higher, as no low-cost airlines have been counted in this survey. The study found that the average cost of a plane ticket fell by 400 crowns to 10,242 crowns (nearly 500 USD) in 2008.
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01/28/2009
The Czech Senate approved a bill abolishing healthcare fees for the under-18s on Wednesday. The bill also halves the maximum amount that pensioners will have to pay for their healthcare each year to 2,500 crowns (120 USD). The paper will now be handed to the lower house for approval. Healthcare fees have been controversial since their adoption at the start of 2008. Czechs must now pay 30 crowns each time they visit the doctor and 60 crowns per night spent in hospital.
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01/27/2009
The lower house of the Czech Parliament is postponing a debate planned for next Tuesday on ratifying the European Union’s Lisbon treaty, the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Miloslav Vlček, told reporters. The matter had already been postponed once, in December. The lower house is now set to discuss Lisbon after meetings of its foreign affairs and constitutional-legal committees planned for February 15.
Even if it is ratified in Parliament, the Czech president, Václav Klaus, has indicated he will not sign the EU’s reform treaty unless it is approved by Ireland; Irish voters rejected Lisbon in a referendum last June and are due to vote on it again this year.
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01/27/2009
President Václav Klaus has signed into law a new Penal Code featuring several significant changes, including reducing the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 and increasing sentences for serious crimes and corruption. It also classifies new crimes like stalking, certain types of drug taking in sport and animal negligence. However, the minister of justice, Jiří Pospíšil, is already planning an amendment to return the age of age of criminal responsibility to 15, at the request of the Christian Democrats, who said they would not vote for the new code otherwise.
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01/27/2009
A ceremony was held at the Czech Senate on Tuesday marking Holocaust Memorial Day. Hundreds of people who survived Nazi concentration camps attended the memorial, held on the 64th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Others in attendance were the Czech Republic’s chief rabbi Karol Sidon, the head of the Czech Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, and the new minister of human rights and minorities, Michael Kocáb.
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01/27/2009
A public memorial was held in Prague on Tuesday for the architect Jan Kaplický, who died suddenly two weeks ago at the age of 71. Among a number of speakers at the ceremony at the Prague Crossroads deconsecrated church was Dagmar Havlová, wife of Václav Havel, who read a letter from the former president to Mr Kaplický’s daughter Johanka to be read on the girl’s 12th birthday; she was born just hours before her father’s death. The architect’s family have organised a private funeral and have not released any details.
Jan Kaplický, who was born in Prague and spent much of his life in London, was the founder of the innovative Future Systems design studio. He is perhaps best known for the Selfridges building in Birmingham and the media centre at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in the British capital.
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01/27/2009
President Václav Klaus has discussed plans for Pope Benedict XIV’s visit to the Czech Republic later this year with the country’s papal nuncio, Diego Causero. The pontiff is expected to spend three days in the Czech Republic in the latter part of September, though no official dates have yet been released. Leaders of the Czech Roman Catholic church have proposed that Pope Benedict begin his visit on September 27, meaning he would be in the country for St Wenceslas’s day, which is September 28. His predecessor Pope John Paul II came to the Czech Republic three times.
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01/27/2009
A former hospital worker found guilty of killing seven patients is also responsible for three other murders and one attempted murder, a spokesperson for the police told the news website novinky.cz. However, Petr Zelenka, who administered lethal doses of the drug heparin to patients at a hospital in Havlíčkův Brod, will not face more charges, as he is already serving a life sentence in prison.
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01/27/2009
Europe’s biggest maker of pianos, Petrof in Hradec Kralové, has laid off 82 workers. At the start of this month the company said it was planning to make half of its staff of nearly 400 redundant, due to the impacts of the global financial crisis. Petrof, which began producing pianos in the 1860s, exports 95 percent of its output.
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01/27/2009
The ice hockey star Jaromír Jágr is in the Czech Republic’s squad for the Swedish Games, part of the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour. Czech coach Vladimír Růžička said Jágr’s availability was excellent news as it gave his team a greater chance of winning their first event on the tour this season. The Omsk forward’s first international tournament since 2006 is also good news for Czech hockey officials, who can expect a considerably bigger gate for a game against Finland at Prague’s O2 Arena next Thursday.
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