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01/11/2007
The new cabinet is expected to present its policy programme to the lower house next Wednesday. On the same day the speaker of the lower house Miloslav Vlcek will resign from his post. Before his election to the post of speaker Mr. Vlcek pledged to fill the post on a temporary basis. That was because it is the speaker of the lower house who would have the task of selecting a prime minister designate for the third attempt should the centre right government fail to win its confidence vote next Friday. As a Social Democrat, Mr Vlcek's choice would be open to allegations of a party bias. The parliamentary parties will now need to reach some kind of consensus on who should succeed Mr. Vlcek.
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01/11/2007
The Green Party says it wants to re-open debate on the relocation of a pig farm built on the site of a former concentration camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia. The Lety pig farm is a long-standing problem which past governments failed to resolve. Several alternatives were considered in the past including the purchase of the farm by the state and its subsequent removal. None of the suggestions were taken up because they were allegedly all too costly. Romany organizations have been calling for the farm's relocation for many years. According to historical documents over 300 people died in the camp and 500 of its inmates ended up in the extermination camp at Auschwitz.
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01/11/2007
I Served the King of England, the new film by Czech director Jiri Menzel, goes on general release in the Czech Republic on Thursday. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Bohumil Hrabal, tells the story of a Czech waiter from the inter-war period, through World War II up until the 1960s. Menzel, who has made several adaptations of works by Hrabal, fought a ten-year-legal battle for the film rights. His most famous Hrabal movie is Closely Observed Trains which won an Oscar in 1967.
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01/11/2007
President Vaclav Klaus is on an official three-day visit to neighbouring Slovakia, where he has been meeting with the country's top officials. The two countries have exceptionally close relations since Czechs and Slovaks spent 73 years in a federal state before breaking up and going their separate ways 14 years ago. The president is accompanied by his wife Livia, who herself is Slovak.
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01/10/2007
In a live televised discussion with representatives of the three parties in the new government, Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said his party would neither tolerate nor support the coalition with a confidence vote. The government of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Green Party, which was appointed on Tuesday, has to gain a vote of confidence within the next month. But it holds only half of the 200 seats in the lower house of Parliament and needs at least one vote from a Communist or a Social Democrat deputy.
Though the leaders of both parties have said they would not support the coalition, two Social Democrat MPs - Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka - have not made it clear whether they share their party's official stance.
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01/10/2007
Police officers from around the country are planning to stage a large demonstration in Prague at the end of the month. The officers are concerned about a new salary system that has been in effect since the start of the year. While Interior Minister Ivan Langer and Czech Police Chief Vladislav Husak say no-one in the police force will be at a financial loss with the new system, trade union estimates expect over 5,000 officers to end up with lower salaries.
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01/10/2007
The newly appointed minister without portfolio hopes a new institution will help prevent the formation of ghettos. Dzamila Stehlikova of the Green Party, who is also responsible for minority and human rights issues, says the creation of such an institution and the introduction of an antidiscrimination law would be her priorities. It is estimated that up to 80,000 of the country's population of ten million live in ghettos or under poor social conditions.
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01/10/2007
A Russian man who forced a plane to make an emergency landing in Prague is to be tried in a court in the Czech Republic, Pravo reported. The defence lawyer for Yevgenii Dogayev told the daily he was trying to have his client's charge changed from breaching aviation safety to giving false information, which carries a lesser sentence. Mr Dogayev, who was drunk when he tried to force the plane to land in Cairo, says he remembers nothing of the incident. He has paid Czech Airlines for the costs incurred by the emergency landing.
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01/10/2007
Former defence minister Karel Kuhnl of the Freedom Union is to become ambassador to Croatia. According to the internet server Euro OnLine, he is to replace Petr Burianek who has been stationed in Zagreb since 2003.
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01/10/2007
Some 6.64 million foreign tourists visited the Czech Republic in 2006, according to the association of Czech travel agents. That number represents an increase of 4 percent on the previous year. Of last year's total, 57 percent visited Prague.
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