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09/22/2004
The Czech Cabinet has approved a draft state budget proposal for 2005 with a projected deficit of 83.6 billion crowns /about 3 billion US dollars/. Thanks to a last minute reduction of the budget deficit by 10 billion crowns the proposal falls just short of the criteria set by the European Commission's convergence programme. The proposal envisages a rise in salaries for some state employees, although the government failed to meet the demands of trade union leaders who requested a more even distribution of the available funds. The budget proposal was approved unanimously. The two opposition parties in Parliament are not prepared to support it.
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09/22/2004
On an official visit to Poland, the Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross called for closer cooperation within the Visegrad Group. The Visegrad group is a loose alliance of central and east European states established after the fall of communism, which later became instrumental in helping its members to meet the EU criteria for membership. During a meeting with his Polish counterpart Marek Belka in Warsaw, Mr. Gross argued that if the new EU members coordinated their policy more effectively they could achieve more. The two prime ministers also discussed the possibility of further EU enlargement to include Turkey. Mr. Gross said he was convinced that Turkey had a future in Europe if it could meet EU criteria.
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09/22/2004
Poland and the Czech Republic want the European Union to lobby the United States on their behalf to get the visa-regime for their citizens travelling to the United States lifted. We will probably achieve a no-visa system more easily and with greater efficiency within the framework of the EU, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka told reporters on Wednesday. Both the Czech Republic and Poland, which have been EU members since May 1st, have pressed in vain for visa requirements to be lifted. Czech and Polish visitors to the United States need a visa, whereas US citizens visiting the Czech Republic or Poland do not.
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09/22/2004
A woman who allegedly collected money for Chechen armed groups in several states, including the Czech Republic, has been arrested in Chechnya, according to the Russian Intelligence Service. Natallia Khalkayeva, 31, allegedly operated in the United Arab Emirates, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, collecting money and helping to select suicide bombers. She was arrested in Chechnya carrying a belt of explosives and a satellite telephone.
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09/22/2004
Twenty five Czech cities took part in car-free day on Wednesday, four of them even banning traffic in the city centre. Several cities made public transport free for that day. Although traditionally an attempt was made to observe car day in the Czech capital Prague only a few people responded to the appeal to leave their cars at home for the day. In an attempt to set a good example three Cabinet ministers rode their bikes to work on Wednesday.
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09/21/2004
The Deputy Chairman of the Czech Communist Party, Jiri Dolejs, has said he and two other Communists MPs would likely vote to override President Vaclav Klaus's veto on the introduction of a European Arrest Warrant. The vote in the lower house of Parliament is scheduled for Friday. Most Communist deputies argue that adopting the European Arrest Warrant should be preceded the adoption of an amendment to the Charter of Basic Human Rights and Freedoms, which would allow the extradition of Czech citizens abroad. Without the amendment, both the Communist and the main opposition Civic Democrats, of which President Klaus was chairman, consider the bill to be unconstitutional. The European Arrest warrant only relates to serious crime such as terrorism, trafficking in drugs, people or weapons, murder, rape, and engaging in paedophilia.
Deputies are also due to vote on Friday on bills relating to reforming the educational system reform and the abolition of compulsory national military service.
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09/21/2004
About a dozen Czech rock bands will play for a benefit concert this Sunday for the "We don't talk to Communists" group which is calling for the Communist party to be declared illegal. Writer and former dissident Petr Placak, one of the event's organisers, told journalists on Tuesday that in addition to the concerts, several avant-garde theatre groups would also stage productions. The event will take place in an abandoned former factory in Prague's Karlin district, close to the city centre. A "We don't talk to communists" concert was first performed last year, on November 17, the anniversary of the brutal intervention by communist police against a peaceful students' demonstration in Prague in 1989, which led to the so-called Velvet Revolution.
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09/21/2004
The Finance Ministry has announced it has tightened spending in next year's state budget draft to lower the projected deficit for 2005 by roughly one billion crowns, or around 35 million euros. The ministry made the announcement ahead of this Tuesday's government meeting on the state budget.
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09/21/2004
A fault in the cooling system at the Temelin nuclear power station, which prompted authorities to shut down a reactor on Monday, will take at least a week to fix, a plant spokesman said. It was the second reactor shut down in a month.
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09/20/2004
Czech member of European Parliament Jana Bobosikova has requested that her colleague Vladimir Zelezny apologise for his statements about her and her family made in the Czech media last week, in which he criticised her for hiring her husband as her assistant in the European Parliament and accused her of betraying her party's principles. Mrs Bobosikova has threatened to sue Mr Zelezny for slander if he fails to explain his remarks over the next seven days. The public falling-out between both Euro MPs sharply contrasts their professional relationship earlier in the year when both successfully ran for European parliament under the banner of the so-called Independents.
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