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01/24/2009
A demonstration by far-right supporters passed without any major incident in the town of Litvínov on Saturday. Around thirty members of the far-right Worker’s Party marched through Janov, a part of town that is home to a strong Romany minority. According to the Worker’s Party, the Town Hall has not been dealing with complaints from the local people about the situation in the neighbourhood. In November last year, Janov witnessed the worst street violence in the past eight years, with around 600 neo-Nazis clashing with the police.
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01/24/2009
Czech cinemas raised sales by 20 million crowns year-on-year to a record 1.22 billion last year, according to the data released by the Film Distributors Association. The number of cinema-goers increased to nearly 13 million, the highest number in the past 14 years. Multiplex cinemas account for the biggest share on sales as well as for the increase of visitor numbers. The price of tickets in Czech cinemas has continued to rise last year. In 2000, the price of a ticket was around 70 crowns, while in 2008 people paid 100 crowns on average.
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01/24/2009
Czech cross country skier Lukáš Bauer has clinched his first victory in this season’s World Cup, when he came first in the men’s 15 km classic in Otepaa, Estonia. The winner of last year’s cross country World Cup won his favourite race in a time of 35 minutes 43 seconds, beating Sweden’s Johan Olsson by 1.5 seconds. Vincent Vittoz of France finished third.
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01/24/2009
Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek has been knocked out of the Australian Open by Fernando Verdasco of Spain. Štěpánek lost Friday’s third round match 4-6, 0-6, 0-6, despite getting off to a good start by breaking the 14th-seeded player’s serve. In the previous round, Štěpánek had defeated Michael Berrer of Germany. The last Czech to remain in the singles competition is Tomáš Berdych, who will face Roger Federer on Saturday night.
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01/23/2009
President Václav Klaus has named new ministers to Mirek Topolánek’s government, completing a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle. Those named on Friday at Prague Castle include four newcomers, among them Daniela Filipiová as health minister and Michael Kocáb (a well-known musician and public figure) as the minister for minority affairs. Cyril Svoboda, a minister without portfolio until now, was named the minister for regional development, while Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanová was named deputy prime minister. A broad cabinet reshuffle was first promised by the prime minister last October, when the coalition parties were badly defeated in regional and Senate elections.
On Friday President Václav Klaus expressed the hope that the new cabinet would find the necessary backing in the lower house to better face the ongoing economic downturn.
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01/23/2009
Former Czech president Václav Havel, in hospital for almost a fortnight, is in markedly better shape than just two days ago, a spokeswoman for Prague's Motol Hospital revealed on Friday. She made clear that if Mr Havel’s condition continues to improve, he could be discharged from the hospital late next week. Mr Havel, who is 72, was first admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties in mid-January. He underwent minor surgery to remove an abscess from his throat but there were complications following the operation due to congestion in his right lung.
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01/23/2009
Serbia will officially apply for the membership of the European Union during the Czech EU presidency that lasts until June 30, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU Affairs Bozidar Djelic said after meeting his Czech counterpart Alexandr Vondra on Friday. Serbia is expected to be able to become an EU member around 2015. Alexandr Vondra said on Friday that Serbia’s membership in the EU was the key to the stability in the Balkans. According to the latest assessment report by the European Commission, the country needs to resolve a number of outstanding issues, among them high corruption and the need for judicial reforms.
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01/23/2009
The Czech EU presidency has said it will try to ease - if not remove - remaining barriers for citizens from newer EU countries to move freely on older members’ labour markets. Such barriers continue to affect countries which joined in 2004, including the Czech Republic. The commitment to easing conditions was made by the Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Nečas, at an informal two-day meeting between EU labour and social affairs ministers in southern Moravia. Belgium and Denmark have announced they will open their labour markets as of May but Germany and Austria are expected to apply restrictions until the end of April 2011. Mr Nečas insisted on Friday that member countries had no reason to continue applying restrictions during the transitional period, adding that countries that had opened their markets earlier had benefited from the step.
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01/23/2009
The Czech presidency of the European Union has praised a decision by US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year. On Thursday the new US president also banned torture in addition to his decision on the prison, a move seen as strong repudiation of the anti-terror policies of Mr Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush. In a statement, the Czech EU presidency expressed the hope that the move would strengthen transatlantic cooperation on security and counter-terrorism based on “the respect of international law and human rights”.
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01/23/2009
The west Bohemian town of Plzeň has banned a march planned for February 21, allegedly protesting the occupation of the Palestinian territories, a city official said. The march is believed to have been planned by right-wing extremists, along a route that would have seen protestors march by a local synagogue. Some 400 protestors were expected. The same day the site of the synagogue will see an event organised by Jewish community leaders. Plzeň officials proposed the radicals march run along a different route, which was reportedly rejected by the organisers. They have 15 days to appeal the ban in court.
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