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03/06/2007
Health Minister Tomas Julinek has sacked the directors of three big teaching hospitals - Tomayerova and Vinohradska in Prague and the Teaching Hospital in Olomouc. The minister cited poor financial management saying that the directors had failed to substantially reduce their hospitals long-term debts. Former health minister David Rath of the opposition Social Democrats has meanwhile issued a statement accusing his successor of having launched a political purge.
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03/06/2007
Czechs have a lower life expectancy than people in most other EU states, according to a report published by Eurostat, the European Union's Statistical Office. Female life expectancy in 27 EU countries is 81 years, male life expectancy is 75. In the Czech Republic the official figures are 79 and 72 respectively. Experts say this discrepancy is likely to last at least until 2050.
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03/06/2007
Jiri Menzel's new film "I Served the King of England" has become a box office hit in the Czech Republic. The Association of Film Distributors says that since its premiere in January it has been seen by 600.000 viewers, making 67 million crowns. I served the King of England is the Oscar winning director's sixth adaptation of works by Bohumil Hrabal. It was voted film of the year at the Czech Lion Awards this weekend, where it picked up four prizes, and it recently won the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the Berlinale 2007 Film Festival.
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03/06/2007
Austrian anti-nuclear activists have announced they are planning to hold another protest against the Temelin nuclear power plant in southern Bohemia on March 14th. Manfred Doppler spokesman for the Upper Austrian group Atomstop said the activists would block four Czech-Austrian border crossings for two hours next Wednesday and every Wednesday after that regardless of whether Austria lodged an international complaint against the Czech Republic over Temelin. The Austrian government has asked lawyers to look into that possibility but no final decision has yet been taken on the matter.
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03/06/2007
Two men who set a homeless person on fire in one of Prague's night trams have been sentenced to three and a half years in jail. This is the second ruling on the case. Originally one of the men was sentenced to eight years for attempted murder. Both appealed, arguing that they had not meant to kill the man, but simply to frighten him and get him off the tram. The victim spent four months in hospital and has had to undergo a number of skin-transplants.
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03/05/2007
NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said negotiations about the stationing of a US anti-missile base are a bilateral issue of the United States and the country in question. After meeting Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek in Brussels on Monday, Mr de Hoop Scheffer said the US project nevertheless speeded up talks within NATO on its own anti-missile shield. Prime Minister Topolanek said he welcomed further discussion within the alliance and said bilateral talks with the United States were the beginning of such a process.
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03/05/2007
Deputy defence minister, Martin Bartak, who is accompanying President Vaclav Klaus on his visit to the United States has said the Czech Republic will negotiate about material support to its foreign military missions during talks this week about a possible stationing of a US radar base in the Czech Republic. The Czech delegation headed by President Klaus is going to meet US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Robert Gates in Washington on Friday.
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03/05/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek who is on an official visit to Brussels has said the Czech Republic will not block talks on reviving a European Union constitution but warned negotiations could drag on as his government may need time to debate a compromise. After meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday, Mr Topolanek said talks might go faster than he anticipated if EU governments agreed to discuss a slimmed-down version compared to the rejected text.
The Czech government is divided on the European constitution. Environment Minister Martin Bursik would like to see discussion on the original text, rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra and President Vaclav Klaus have repeatedly spoken in favour of a revision of the original text.
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03/05/2007
The opposition Social Democrats say they have not paid lawyer Zdenek Altner the sum of 165 million crowns he demanded them to send him by Monday. Mr Altner says he is owed a large sum from the Social Democrats for services he gave them in a legal dispute over the ownership of the party's headquarters seven years ago. Mr Altner says that in the meantime the party's debt has risen to close to 20 billion crowns due to fines and late-payment penalties. He is to announce his further steps on Wednesday.
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03/05/2007
Police have charged eight former high-ranking military officers with corruption in connection with public tenders for reconstruction of airports and repair of airport equipment. They allegedly manipulated the awarding of state contracts worth 482 million crowns (over 22 million dollars) between 1997 and 1999. If found guilty, they face between two and five years in prison.
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