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06/09/2006
President Vaclav Klaus has vetoed a bill on that would have substantial changes in the health care sector, the president's spokesman Petr Hajek said on Friday. Mr Klaus was reportedly critical of the bill - backed by health Minister David Rath - because in his view it would have unjustly centralised key decisions on agreements between health facilities and health insurance companies in the hands of the health minister - denying contractual freedom. The bill is the fourth that Mr Klaus vetoed in recent days; following general elections his decision can not be overridden by the lower house.
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06/09/2006
A forty-year-old man from the Czech Republic has been arrested on the border between Turkey and Greece, apparently smuggling some 30 kilograms of heroin, worth the equivalent of around 1 million US dollars on the Czech black market. The drug was reportedly hidden in sixty packets in his car. The discovery was made by customs officials using a specially-trained sniffer dog.
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06/09/2006
Czech striker Milan Baros - who suffered an injury to his foot earlier - is still doubtful for the Czechs' debut on Monday in the football World Cup. Baros is struggling to be fit for the game, in which the Czech Republic faces the US. Doctors are reportedly optimistic, saying it is 'quite probable' Baros will be ready for the game. The striker is considered to be one of the squad's key players. So far he has 49 caps for his country, during which he scored 27 goals.
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06/08/2006
Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has apologised for a controversial speech he made on Saturday evening questioning the result of the general election in which his Social Democrats came second. At a news conference on Thursday, Mr Paroubek said that while the subject of his speech was rational, the means of expression he used were wrong. Mr Paroubek also called his emotional speech "the first serious mistake he had made in his 13 months in office". In his Saturday speech, Prime Minister Paroubek accused a number of Czech journalists of being mercenaries of the Civic Democratic Party and also likened the party's policies to the Communist takeover in 1948.
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06/08/2006
The prime minister has also reiterated that his Social Democrats will not back a government of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Green Party. After meeting President Vaclav Klaus on Thursday, Prime Minister Paroubek also said that a grand coalition was currently not an option. Coalition talks are now underway, led by Civic Democrat chairman Mirek Topolanek. A coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Greens would only have 100 seats in the 200-seat lower house. The new chamber is expected to meet for the first time on June 27th.
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06/08/2006
The deputy leader of the Social Democrats, Bohuslav Sobotka, has said that his party will seek to occupy the position of chairman of the lower house. Mr. Sobotka says that the Social Democrats are not considering this as part of any post-election negotiations, but rather that a member of the Social Democrats should naturally occupy the post because the party won the second largest number of seats in the recent elections. Mr. Sobotka denies that his party would exchange this post for the support of the incoming government coalition.
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06/08/2006
An OECD official has warned the Czech Republic of the risks involved in pushing through a 15-percent flat tax, one of the fundamental reforms proposed by the election-winning right-of-centre Civic Democrats. The head of the OECD's country studies division, Andreas Woergoetter, said the introduction of a 15-percent flat tax could cause a serious revenue shortfall and a flat tax of such an extent would make it necessary to look for savings in other areas. If these savings were not found, he said, fiscal policy could be derailed. One of the Civic Democrats' key policies is a flat 15-percent level of income tax and VAT, renewed privatisations, shrinking the state sector and combating corruption.
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06/08/2006
The OECD has also said that the Czech economy will continue to grow and the country is on track to join the eurozone by 2010 but it must not neglect fiscal and pension reforms. The organisation presented an economic survey of the country on Thursday which said the budget and overall deficit was kept in check last year owing to stronger than expected revenues on the back of economic growth of 6 percent in 2005 and deferred spending. But the report says real steps have not been taken to tackle the overall level of government spending.
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06/08/2006
President Vaclav Klaus has vetoed a bill on compensatory alimony paid by the state for children from single-parent low-income families in cases where one of the parents does not fulfil this duty, a spokesperson for the president said on Thursday. Mr Klaus argues that the bill supports parents' lack of responsibility for their children. The Social Democrats and the Communists have criticised his decision.
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06/08/2006
Czech participants in the Battle of Britain and other war veterans have commemorated the 65th anniversary of the legendary battle in which the Royal Air Force prevented a German invasion of Britain. Some of the Czechoslovak pilots, fighting with RAF, remained in Britain after the war for political reasons. Some 2,500 Czechoslovak citizens took part in the Battle of Britain, including 1,450 pilots, and nearly 500 of them were killed. At present, only a few dozen Czech participants are still alive, their average age being 86. One of the most famous Czech pilots who fought in England Frantisek Perina died a month ago, aged 95.
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