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04/04/2006
Environment Minister Libor Ambrozek has had to cancel a decree that took effect two weeks ago and was intended to curb illegal waste imports from Germany. The decree proved problematic since hundreds of lorries carrying material for recycling could not cross the border because of it, thereby damaging Czech recycling companies. The decree also stipulated that used paper and plastics could only be imported with the ministry's written consent and the ministry was reportedly flooded with applications.
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04/04/2006
The European Union took legal action against 17 member states including the Czech Republic on Tuesday for failing to follow EU rules that aim to open the 25-nation bloc's gas and electricity markets to more competition. The EU is trying to create a better integrated gas and electricity market so consumers around the bloc can have more freedom to choose what company supplies their energy needs. But problems among member states when transposing the EU rules into national law were hurting those goals, it said.
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04/04/2006
The Czech Republic's foreign trade surplus shrank to 7.05 billion koruna (248 million euros) in February from 11.24 billion koruna in January, the National Statistics Authority announced Tuesday, citing higher prices paid for imported natural gas and oil. Exports in the machinery and auto sectors were the main factors fuelling the surplus, the CSU said.
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04/04/2006
The Czech Republic is now the ninth biggest producer of cars in Europe, according to figures compiled by analysts J.D. Power. The country reached the top ten thanks to the building of a large factory in central Bohemia which produces Toyota and Citroen-Peugeot vehicles; it should become a bigger car-making powerhouse with the completion of a Hyundai plant in Moravia.
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04/03/2006
The Czech government has declared a state of emergency in seven of the country's 14 regions after severe flooding last week and at the weekend. It is set to remain in place until midnight next Monday. The regions in question are South Bohemia, Central Bohemia, Usti, Pardubice, South Moravia, Olomouc and Zlin.
Meanwhile, evacuation measures in Znojmo, south Moravia have been called off. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes there last week when the River Dyje burst its banks.
As rescue workers and soldiers continue to work flat out to shore up flood defences around the country, a search is underway for a boy feared drowned in North Bohemia. The six-year-old is believed to have fallen into a rivulet of the River Svatava on Sunday. Seven people are reported to have died due to the floods.
Water levels are dropping on most of the country's swollen rivers, but there have been warnings that warming could lead to more problems in the middle of the week.
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04/03/2006
The United States ambassador to Prague, William Cabaniss, says there is little chance of the US lifting visa requirements for Czechs in the near future. But speaking after a meeting with Mr Cabaniss at the US embassy, Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek said he believed the United States would change its position and lift the restrictions.
Meanwhile, the Czech ambassador to Washington, Petr Kolar, told Mlada fronta Dnes the Czech Republic would use a number of avenues to try to lobby US congressmen to support the abolition of visa requirements for Czechs, which he referred to as a strategic mistake.
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04/03/2006
The Green Party are gaining more support ahead of June's elections, suggests a poll carried out by the Factum Invenio agency. Some 10.5 percent of respondents in a poll conducted at the end of March said they would vote for the Greens, up from 9.1 percent in the middle of the month. The Civic Democrats continue to lead the polls, with almost 30 percent support, while just over 25 percent said they would vote for the governing Social Democrats.
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04/03/2006
The Bahamas have promised to consider a Czech request for the extradition of Viktor Kozeny before looking at a similar appeal from the United States, Czech Justice Minister Pavel Nemec said on Monday. His officials were in the Bahamas last week for talks with local authorities. Mr Kozeny, dubbed the Pirate of Prague, is wanted in the US and the Czech Republic on charges of large-scale fraud.
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04/03/2006
The long cold winter led to record consumption of natural gas in the Czech Republic in first quarter of this year, according to figures just released. Gas usage was up 7.5 percent on the same period in 2005, with the highest daily consumption in the last week of January, when temperatures of around minus 17 degrees Celsius were recorded.
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04/02/2006
Around one fifth of the town of Olomouc in the east of the country was hit by flood waters after an embankment holding back a raging Morava River gave way on Saturday night. A wave of water flooded into the lowest lying parts of the historic city, home to 100,000 inhabitants. In some places the water is up to one metre deep. A local official confirmed that 20 percent of the town had been hit. Earlier, several thousand people were evacuated ahead of the floods, with more joining them during the night. The level of the Morava River has now stabilised but the situation is said to remain critical because further embankments could give way. The Czech Army together has been helping reinforce flood defences. Specialists have already repaired the breach from late Saturday.
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