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03/10/2007
Less than two weeks after a rise in value added tax on cigarettes and tobacco products the Finance Ministry is already planning another VAT increase, Pravo reported. If the ministry's proposals are accepted, the new price rise could come into effect at the start of 2008. This would represent a record 30-percent rise in cigarette prices in one year.
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03/10/2007
The Lidice Memorial has acquired unique photographic documentation of the village's destruction by the Nazis, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. The collection of 40 photos came from a woman in a nearby village; her husband had a drug-store during the war and made copies of pictures the Germans left to be developed. Lidice was razed to the ground in 1942 as a reprisal for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. The men in the village were executed while the women were sent to concentration camps.
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03/10/2007
The minister of defence, Vlasta Parkanova, has spoken out against the director of Czech military intelligence. In an interview in Lidove noviny, she said there was a lack of trust between herself and Miroslav Krejcik. She criticised the fact Mr Krejcik had told a newspaper there were former communist StB secret police agents in the military secret service until 2003. Minister Parkanova said when the head of the secret service appeared in the media it weakened and devalued the agency's work.
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03/10/2007
The leader of the Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, said on Saturday that it was premature to talk about who the party's candidate would be in next year's presidential election. He said the Social Democrats would discuss criteria first and names later. Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Friday that the Social Democrats could nominate former prime minister Vladimir Spidla, ex-education minister Petra Buzkova or the former state attorney Marie Benesova. The incumbent Vaclav Klaus says he plans to seek re-election.
Saturday's Pravo reported that former dissident and Czechoslovak foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier could receive the backing of the Social Democrats, the Communists and the Greens. Mr Dienstbier said it was too early to discuss the matter but did not rule out standing.
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03/10/2007
Five people were arrested during a march by a far-right group called National Corporativism in Prerov on Saturday. Police struggled to keep the marchers separate from a left-wing group who were protesting against them in the Moravian town. Bottles and cobblestones were thrown, but the police said there had been no recorded injuries.
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03/10/2007
An organised group is suspected of searching for World War II-era weapons left in the border regions by Sudeten Germans and the Nazis and trading in the arms, Pravo reported. The daily said the police's organised crime unit has been investigating the matter for some weeks. A source close to the investigation said one of the suspects was a former StB secret police agent who had been involved in the same activity even before 1989.
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03/10/2007
The Interior Ministry says Prague mayor Pavel Bem's plan to take seven weeks of unpaid leave to climb Mount Everest contravenes the law, Lidove noviny reported. However, deputy mayor Rudolf Blazek told the daily his superior could legally take the time off, adding that the Interior Ministry's opinion was not binding. Mr Bem plans to leave on the expedition later this month.
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03/10/2007
Over 300 public offices in the Czech Republic have raised the flag of Tibet, to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the crushing of an insurrection in the territory by the Chinese authorities. Prague's Chinese Embassy protested on Friday against the raising of the Tibetan flag at the Czech Environment Ministry.
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03/10/2007
The American singer Lionel Richie appeared at Prague's Sazka Arena on Friday. The 57-year-old former member of the Commodores told the audience he had been almost everywhere in the world but was in Prague for the first time and could not believe it. Lionel Richie has sold over 70 million albums and won an Oscar in 1985 for his song Say You, Say Me.
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03/09/2007
President Vaclav Klaus has met with US Vice President Dick Cheney to discuss the possibility of a US radar base on Czech territory as part of a broader missile-defense shield. According to reports, the US vice president assured Mr Klaus that efforts to find consensus on the matter with Russia were on-going. Russia has come out strongly against the idea of a US radar base in the Czech Republic complementing an instillation in Poland housing ten interceptor rockets. The idea of the system is to prevent potential attacks by rogue states such as Iran or North Korea.
On Friday Mr Cheney and Mr Klaus also discussed the possibility of lifting visa requirements for Czech citizens.
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