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03/31/2006
The EC Vice-President and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Guenter Verheugen, is on a one-day visit to Prague. The former EU commissioner for enlargement is due to hold talks with politicians and entrepreneurs. At a meeting with Czech Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Jiri Havel, the liberalisation of the energy market dominated the talks. Mr Verheugen is also due to visit the Senate, participate in a discussion on economic growth and employment in the European Union, and meet Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek. This is Mr Verheugen's first official visit to Prague since EU expansion in 2004.
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03/31/2006
The Brno women's basketball team has advanced to the final of the European League Final Four by defeating French champion US Valenciennes 61-54. Brno will now play the winner of tonight's other semifinal between VBM Samara and Lietuvos Vilnius in the championship game in Brno on Sunday.
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03/31/2006
Thousands of children are expected to spend Friday night at some 500 libraries, schools, hospitals, and other institutions across the country. The event called Hans Christian Andersen night is being held in the Czech Republic for the sixth year to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Danish storybook writer Anderson. The children write and stage plays, take part in contests, sing, dance, read fairy tales, and spend the night in sleeping bags.
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03/30/2006
Over forty municipalities around the country are still on high flood alert, as their rivers swell due to rain and melted snow, the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute has announced. The worst affected area is Moravia's Znojmo region around the River Dyje, where over 10,000 people have been evacuated. Local authorities say another 20,000 may have to leave their homes if things get worse. The northern city Usti nad Labem, and several other towns and villages in the region, have also begun evacuating residents with disabilities.
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03/30/2006
The capital city is also on alert. Work continued through the night to reinforce river banks and secure flood defences. Several museums have moved their exhibits to other venues and Prague Zoo has taken its gorillas out of the pavilion, though no animals have been evacuated. With water levels of the River Vltava rising steadily, Mayor Pavel Bem inspected the metro's security system and assured Prague residents that the city is well prepared for the threat of flooding.
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03/30/2006
Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek visited Egypt briefly on Thursday to reaffirm the stable relationship that both countries have enjoyed for decades and to revive business relations. Czech firms are hoping to help Egypt build roads, sewerage and power plants, re-open sugar refineries, and rebuild railways. The political situation in the Middle East was also discussed. In a two hour talk with President Hosni Mubarak, for example, both politicians agreed that it was too early to assess what turn relations will take in Israel, where the Israelis and the Palestinians have elected their new leaderships.
On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Paroubek flew back to Prague in order to attend a special government meeting on the flood situation.
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03/30/2006
The Czech Republic plans to stock up on anti-viral drugs thought to be effective against bird flu. By the end of the first quarter of next year there should be enough medicine to cover the needs of one fifth of the population, the country's chief hygienist Michael Vit said on Thursday.
Three swans have already died of bird flu around the town of Hluboka in south Bohemia. An EU laboratory in England has confirmed that one of them carried the H5N1 strain of bird flu that is potentially deadly to humans; the other two swans are still being tested. Special veterinary measures have been introduced in three and ten kilometre zones around Hluboka, in line with EU regulation.
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03/30/2006
The upper house of Parliament, the Senate, has rejected a new Labour Code, which was pushed through the lower house by the Social Democrats and the Communists. The opposition Civic Democrats and the two junior ruling coalition parties the Christian Democrats and the Freedom Union say the bill threatens the flexibility of the labour market and is unconstitutional because it gives trade unions too much power, and makes it difficult for employers to let go of unproductive staff and employ new people.
In November, over 25,000 members of 51 trade unions flocked to Prague to support the proposed new Labour Code in a demonstration that was the biggest that the country has seen since the Velvet Revolution sixteen years ago.
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03/30/2006
Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Skromach intends to take legal action against a popular TV investigative programme that tied him to a controversial privatisation deal. On Wednesday, TV Nova's Na Vlastni Oci magazine said Mr Skromach was involved in the Unipetrol privatisation negotiations, widely believed to have been lined with corruption and shady business deals. Mr Skromach, who is also Labour and Social Affairs Minister, says he was never involved in the negotiations and will lodge a criminal complaint against the accusations.
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03/30/2006
A Swedish court has found the adoptive father of a Czech boy, who died earlier this year, guilty of neglect and has sentenced him to six months in prison. Three-year old Erik, who was sent to the Swedish family in the town of Jonkoping last year, died of untreated pneumonia and blood poisoning. His body was covered with over 150 bruises and festering wounds.
His adoptive parents originally faced up to six years in prison on charges of psychological and physical abuse, resulting in death. The charges were reduced to neglect after an expert on infectious diseases testified that the wounds may also have been caused by a skin disease. The court is still awaiting the result of the adoptive mother's psychiatric assessment.
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