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12/14/2004
The Lower House has delayed voting on a bill on homosexual partnerships for fear of sparking opposition before the traditional Christian Christmas holidays. Tana Fisherova, a deputy for the Freedom Union, told journalists that organizations representing gays had agreed "not to disturb the Christmas atmosphere". The bill on same sex marriages would give homosexual couples similar rights as heterosexual couples including the right to inherit property and to know their partner's medical condition. It would not, for the present time, allow adoption. Parliament deputies remain divided on the bill, with opponents claiming that it could undermine the role of the family.
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12/14/2004
The entire dramatic works of the former Czech President Vaclav Havel are to be presented at a New York Festival being staged to mark his 70 th birthday in 2006.The Prague agency Aura-Pont, which handles the copyrights for Havel's plays, has confirmed that New York's Untitled Theatre Company No. 61 would organize a festival showcasing all 17 of Havel's plays, including those he has co-written. It will be the biggest ever performance of Vaclav Havel's plays.
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12/14/2004
Nine Slovak citizens died in two separate traffic accidents in the Czech Republic on Monday. Six people died and five were injured when a bus from Slovakia crashed on the country's main motorway linking Prague to the Slovak capital Bratislava in the early hours of Monday. The victims include a seven-month-old girl, her 24-year-old mother and a 23-year-old pregnant woman. Another three Slovaks died in a traffic accident involving two cars in North Moravia. Monday was one of the most tragic days on Czech roads this year, with road accidents claiming 14 victims, the highest death toll in 2004.
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12/13/2004
The US company Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has bought the Czech commercial television channel TV Nova for 642 million dollars in the largest direct US investment in the country. CME announced the deal on Monday and TV Nova's majority-stake owner, the financial group PPF, has confirmed the sale. CME previously held a stake in TV Nova but was involved in a long legal dispute with Nova's former general director Vladimir Zelezny, who is now a Czech MEP. Mr Zelezny eventually broke off all relations with CME and its head, the cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, in 1999. The news of the sale comes two years after an international arbitration ruled that the Czech state had to pay nearly 360 million dollars in compensation to CME for failing to protect its investment in TV Nova.
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12/13/2004
The Czech crown has improved a two-year high to the euro, firming to 30.52 crowns to the euro, a development which according to analysts was influenced by the sale of the commercial TV Nova. The crown also strengthened to 22.98 crowns to the dollar but closed at 23.05 crowns to the dollar.
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12/13/2004
The Prime Minister Stanislav Gross has said that President Vaclav Klaus does not observe his promise that he would stand above parties and that he behaves like the honorary chairman of the strongest opposition party, meaning the right-of-centre Civic Democratic Party which Mr Klaus chaired for many years. Mr Gross was reacting to Mr Klaus's statement for Saturday's issue of the daily Pravo that the cabinet of Stanislav Gross was unable to solve long-standing problems, reinforcing the power of state over the individual.
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12/12/2004
Delegates at district conferences of the Social Democratic Party held in the towns of Hodonin and Breclav in south Moravia, have voted in favour of Labour & Social Affairs Minister Zdenek Skromach's taking over as head of the Social Democrat Party next year. Mr Skromach has already announced plans to challenge Prime Minister Stanislav Gross for the chairmanship at the party's convention in the spring. At the weekend Mr Skromach took part in meetings in both districts, presenting a plan for the Social Democratic Party to return to its left-of-centre roots.
Otherwise, there are indications that most district organisations continue to support Prime Minister Gross. Mr Skromach does have some high-profile backers, namely retired politician and former prime minister Milos Zeman.
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12/12/2004
The outgoing U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is set to arrive in Prague on Monday evening ahead of talks on Tuesday with Czech politicians including Justice Minister Pavel Nemec and Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan. Among other things the Czech justice minister and his U.S. counterpart will work to negotiate a new treaty on extradition. The current treaty between the U.S. and the Czech Republic dates back to 1920s Czechoslovakia and a new basis for cooperation between the two countries needs to be adopted, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry has said.
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12/12/2004
Around 70 Russian children and adults on recuperative stay in Karlovy Vary following the tragedy in Russia's Beslan visited the west Bohemian town of Pilsen on Sunday. Visiting sites included Pilsen's zoo. Most of the children and parents invited for the four-week stay in the Czech Republic lost friends or loved ones in the hostage-taking and terrorist stand-off in Beslan, in September, in which terrorists killed 330 people. Of those, 172 were children.
Czech specialists say the children on stay in Karlovy Vary have adapted well, but continue to show deeply-ingrained trauma, evident in their drawings of bombs, graves, and war.
One of the parents told the press on Sunday that returning home would be difficult, that parents would once again fear for their children there.
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12/12/2004
Icy conditions are more than likely to have been a factor in a five-car pile-up in the north Bohemian region of Usti nad Labem on Sunday that left three injured and transported to hospital in Litomerice. One of the cars caught fire in the crash, but was soon put out by fire fighters arriving at the scene.
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