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12/07/2006
The High Court in Prague has abolished the verdict that acquitted the former head of the children's choir Bambini di Praga Bohumil Kulinsky of sexual abuse of two underage female members of the choir. The case is to be re-appraised by a lower-level court in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia. Mr Kulinsky is suspected of sexual abuse of a total of 49 girls from his choir. The Hradec Kralove court dealt with only two of the cases. The remaining 47 have been handled by a court in Prague. Bohumil Kulinsky maintains he is innocent.
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12/07/2006
The descendants of the Tugendhat family who owned the UNESCO-listed functionalist villa in the city Brno will probably apply for its restitution, Brno City Museum director Pavel Ciprian said on Thursday. According to unofficial information, the family's lawyers have already negotiated with the Culture Ministry as well as with representatives of the Brno city hall that owns the villa. The owners' descendants will probably apply for the return of the villa under the law mitigating property injustices committed during the Holocaust. The villa was designed by the world-famous German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1928. Its original owners, Greta and Fritz Tugendhat, lived in the house until 1938 when they Czechoslovakia and moved to Venezuela. The Gestapo confiscated the villa after the occupation of the Czech lands.
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12/07/2006
The government has decided to raise the minimum wage by 45 crowns to 8,000 crowns per month as of next year. Labour Minister Petr Necas says the decision was a compromise between the demands of the trade unions that called for an increase to 8,500 crowns, and the employers who insisted on the minimum wage being frozen at its current level. Mr Necas said that higher minimum wages would reduce employment opportunities for people with a low qualification. Trade union representatives say the current government's policy will result in further deepening of the gap between low- and high-income groups.
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12/06/2006
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has met President Vaclav Klaus at Prague Castle and says he will present Mr Klaus with a list of new government ministers by the end of next week. Following the announcement, Green Party leader Martin Bursik expressed disappointment in the Civic Democrats' failure to include his party in behind-the-scenes talks on the make-up of the next cabinet. Discussions have already been held with the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats.
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12/06/2006
The Civic Democrats have presented their proposed policy programme to the three parties involved in government talks - the Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and the Greens. Entitled "seven bold reforms for the future", the programme focuses on the following areas: the public budget and taxes, the pension and social systems, the health sector, the business environment and labour market, the limitations of regulations, reform in the police sector and the fight against corruption, and the Czech presidency in the EU and European funds.
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12/06/2006
Czech Police chief Vladislav Husak has ordered an investigation into steps taken by the east Bohemian police to uncover a series of mysterious hospital deaths. Media reports say that the police were too slow to react to the hospital's criminal complaint. The complaint was filed on October 23 but the suspect was not detained until December 1. The 30-year old nurse has since confessed to the crime, saying he injected 17 patients with excessive doses of a blood-thinning drug to see if doctors were able to detect the problem. Up to nine of the patients are believed to have died as a result.
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12/06/2006
The Interior Ministry plans to increase the number of police officers responsible for the country's national security when the Czech Republic joins the Schengen Zone. Some six hundred officers from the border and foreign police will be transferred to internal security forces, says Interior Minister Ivan Langer. Border-free travel to and from all of the Czech Republic's neighbours is to be introduced by March 2008.
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12/06/2006
Police say they have arrested six people believed to have organised the transport of illegal migrants to Italy. Four more members of the same international gang of people smugglers have been detained in Austria and Germany. The suspects are from Moldova, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic and are believed to have organised transports for at least 150 migrants within the last eighteen months.
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12/06/2006
The Slovak government has decided to sign a bilateral agreement with the Czech Republic that allows Bratislava to store emergency supplies of crude oil and petroleum products on Czech territory. EU countries have until 2008 to find a way to store enough crude oil to guarantee an emergency supply for 90 days. With insufficient storage space, Slovakia has agreed to pay the Czech Republic to store its crude oil.
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12/06/2006
The number of pickpocketings in the country's second biggest city Brno is rising dramatically. Police have recorded 2,100 cases since January, 400 cases more than last year. The thefts this year have so far amounted to 11 million crowns (a little under half a million US dollars). Most of them take place in department stores, in the vicinity of the train station, and on trams.
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