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04/11/2006
The owners of apartment buildings can sue the state over losses they have suffered because rents are regulated, under a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. Judge Ivana Janu said the state was responsible for the losses because parliament had failed to act on the issue for several years. Owners argue rents are so low they can neither maintain their buildings nor make a profit. Paradoxically, deregulation was approved last month, with rents set to rise 14 percent a year between 2007 and 2010.
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04/11/2006
Plans to remove a pig farm from the site of a world war two concentration camp for Romanies have ground to a halt, Lidove noviny reported on Tuesday. Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek had pledged to provide money to buy out the pig farm at Lety in south Bohemia, but talks between the government and its owners have collapsed. Mr Paroubek now says it will be an issue for the next government, the paper said. A spokesperson for a Romany group said the stalemate proved the government's promises had been intended for an overseas audience.
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04/11/2006
The Czech explosives manufacturer Explosia has decided not to sue Madonna for breach of its Semtex trademark. The company had considered taking the pop star to court after she began using the name Semtex Girls Ltd in the UK without asking its permission. The plastic explosive gained notoriety for its frequent use by terror groups such as the IRA.
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04/11/2006
Czechs put a record 50 billion crowns (two billion dollars) into gaming machines last year, according to figures released by the Finance Ministry. The number of machines also increased in 2005 to over 52,000. Operators pay local municipalities over 1,000 dollars a year per machine.
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04/11/2006
Slavia Prague are now level with Sparta Prague in the playoffs in ice hockey's Extraliga, after winning the second game of the best-of-seven final series 2:1 on Monday evening. Sparta will have home advantage when action resumes on Thursday.
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04/10/2006
Clean up work is underway in many parts of the Czech Republic following a week of heavy flooding. Water levels in the affected areas are continuing to drop and water management has called off a state of emergency in the last two areas in the Elbe (Labe) River basin. Of the thousands of people who were evacuated, only 200 have yet to receive the green light to return to their homes.
Though it rained around the country on Monday, water levels have not been affected. However, meteorologists expect the rain to continue throughout the first half of this week, enough to cause smaller rivers to swell.
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04/10/2006
Agriculture Minister Jan Mladek says plans are underway to limit imports of chicken from EU countries with confirmed cases of bird flu. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Mr Mladek said the Czech Republic expects to receive permission from the European Commission within the next month. The consumption of chicken has not dropped in the Czech Republic, despite several confirmed cases of bird flu. Suppliers of chicken meat in some EU countries, which are witnessing a decrease in consumption, have been selling their products in the Czech Republic at dumping prices. By limiting imports from abroad Mr Mladek hopes to aid local producers, who say their profits have suffered from the foreign competition's low prices.
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04/10/2006
The European Union has banned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 30 ministers, prosecutors and regional election officials from entering the 25-nation bloc. It took the decision to punish those they say were involved in rigging Belarus's March 19 presidential polls and a crackdown on opposition activists. The Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda was actively involved in the debate on what manner of sanctions should be introduced, stressing that they should be diplomatic sanctions which would not hurt the people of Belarus who are perceived as victims of the Lukashenko regime. The Czech Foreign Ministry has also announced plans to help Belarusian dissidents.
The European Union also decided to sever political contacts and temporarily suspend direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Monday to pressure it to recognise Israel, end violence and accept peace accords. But foreign ministers of the 25 member states, who met in Luxembourg, agreed to continue humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.
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04/10/2006
The Defence Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Zoran Stankovic, said on Monday that the Army would not intervene in efforts to gain Montenegrin or Kosovo independence. Speaking to his Czech counterpart Karel Kuhnl during a visit to Prague, Mr Stankovic said there will be no repetition of the 1990s, when the Yugoslav Army tried to hinder the Slovenes and Croats from gaining independence. A vote on Montenegrin independence is scheduled to take place on May 21 and there is ongoing discussion on autonomy for the south Serbian province of Kosovo.
The two defence ministers also spoke about a possible EU military engagement in Kosovo and Serbia's efforts to help bring Ratko Mladic before the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague by the end of this month. Mr Mladic is the alleged architect of the murder of around 7,500 Muslims in the Bosnian silver-mining town Srebrenica in 1995.
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04/10/2006
The Czech financial daily Hospodarske Noviny has reported that in 2005 Czech companies acquired a record number of foreign firms outside the Czech Republic - a total of twenty-five - up from eight the previous year. The news is based on a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting. The largest Czech firm to acquire control in foreign companies last year was the energy giant CEZ, investing largely in the Balkans, followed by Zentiva pharmaceuticals, and Agrofert chemical group. The largest number of acquisitions came in neighbouring Slovakia. In total, Czech firms spent 700 million US dollars to buy into the foreign companies.
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