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02/17/2007
General practitioners in the Zlin region say they will go on strike once again on March 28 in protest of a decision by the state-run health insurer VZP's which has refused to increase payments to doctors. The majority of GPs and paediatricians in three regions of Moravia went on a one-day strike this Wednesday for the same reason. Some doctors in Bohemia joined them in a symbolic protest.
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02/17/2007
A court in the Austrian capital Vienna has begun hearing the case of the Czech Culture Ministry which demands a Viennese antiquarian to return a precious Gothic sculpture to the Czech Republic. The 15th century statue of the Madonna and Child was stolen ten years ago from a church in the village of Cholina in Moravia and police found it last year in an antique shop in Vienna. The Viennese antiquarian is demanding financial compensation.
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02/17/2007
Saturday's Lidove noviny writes that Social Democrat chairman Jiri Paroubek has sent a letter to lawyer Zdenek Altner offering him an out-of-court settlement in the case of the party's alleged large debt to the lawyer. According to the paper, the lawyer is willing to negotiate a settlement on condition the party pays him 176 million crowns (over 8 million USD) by Monday. The Social Democrats hired Mr Altner in a legal dispute over their Prague headquarters in the 1990s. He now says the party owes him 18 billion crowns (or 850 million US dollars) for his services. The amount demanded includes interest and sanctions.
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02/17/2007
Czech skier Sarka Zahrobska came first in the women's slalom in Are in Sweden on Friday becoming the first Czech to win a world Alpine skiing title. The 22-year-old Czech racer finished ahead of Austria's Marlies Schild and Anja Paerson of Sweden in a combined time of 1 minute 43.91 seconds.
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02/16/2007
The Supreme Court has overturned a lower instance court decision that returned Prague's famous St Vitus Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Church last year. In 2005 a local court first ruled that the Catholic Church's property rights had never been cancelled under communism, a decision later confirmed by an appeals court. The cathedral was officially given back last September. But Friday's decision by the Supreme Court criticised the earlier rulings on legal grounds, now returning the case to the district level. The Church has reacted by saying it has not received official confirmation yet.
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02/16/2007
Property owners who have filed a lawsuit against the Czech Republic at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have suggested they would be willing to agree to an out-of-court settlement of 50 billion crowns. A statement was made by the group's lawyer on Friday. The sum is the equivalent of 2.4 billion US dollars. Owners are suing the state for alleged damages incurred by the country's regulated rent system. Lawyer Klara Vesela Samkova suggested on Friday that many in the group had an interest in reaching an agreement. She said that many current owners were older citizens who had been returned property previously confiscated under communism.
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02/16/2007
Czech officials have said that Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek will discuss plans for a US anti-missile defence system with bases in the Czech Republic and Poland when he meets with his Polish counterpart, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, during an official visit next week. Last month the US officially asked the Czech Republic to host a radar base on its soil and for interceptor missiles to be deployed in Poland as part of an expanded anti-missile system. The plan has drawn strong criticism from Russia. Both Mr Topolanek and Mr Kacynski have backed Washington's plans but political parties and the public in both the Czech Republic and Poland remain divided on the issue.
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02/16/2007
The Defence Ministry is to donate a large number of weapons to the government of Afghanistan, the Czech daily Pravo has reported. According to the newspaper, the weapons - 20,000 submachine guns and 650 machine guns - are valued at more than 30 million Czech crowns (the equivalent of 1.4 million US dollars). The Defence Ministry said the weapons were surplus to their requirements, adding that the donation was part of international efforts to bring stability to Afghanistan. The guns will be followed by the delivery of 12 transport and combat helicopters.
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02/16/2007
Interior Minister Ivan Langer has told public broadcaster Czech TV that security measures introduced at Prague's international airport this week were not taken in reaction to a clairvoyant warning about a possible terrorist attack. Armed police have been patrolling the airport since Wednesday. An armoured vehicle has also been stationed in the area. Originally the fact that a psychic had contacted the police about a threat was confirmed by a spokesman for the counter-intelligence service. A number of politicians including the leader of the opposition Social Democrats, have criticised the interior minister's actions, but officials have said that special security measures will remain in effect throughout the rest of week.
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02/16/2007
A new poll released by the STEM agency has suggested that two thirds of Czechs think the current coalition government will not be successful, with only thirty percent of those queried saying they thought the government would rule until 2010. A majority of those polled told the agency they did not think that the government would be able to push through key reforms. The government, led by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, made up the Civic and Christian Democrats and the Greens, barely won its confidence vote in January. It had to rely on an agreement with two rebel MPs to allow it to gain a majority.
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