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09/10/2004
Disagreements have emerged within the ruling Social Democrats over pay rises for the police, the fire service and prison guards, the newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Friday. Prime Minister Stanislav Gross, a former interior minister, has called for provisions for the pay increases in next year's budget, while some MPs from the party say they would not support the move unless teachers and doctors also got rises.
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09/09/2004
On a working visit to Germany, the Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda on Thursday criticized a French proposal to axe structural funds for new EU members. In talks with his German counterpart Joschka Fischer, minister Svoboda pointed out that the debate on the future EU budget would be taking place alongside a debate on the future EU constitution and that it would be impossible to keep the two issues separate. Every country in the EU cares about finances, the Czech Foreign Minister said. In view of the financial burden of the recent EU expansion, some of the economically stronger nations such as France and Germany are now considering lowering their annual contribution to EU coffers in the years between 2007 and 2013. This would have an adverse effect on the newcomer states.
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09/09/2004
An express train from Pilsen to Brno got de-railed on Thursday morning due to a wrongly positioned shunt. No one was hurt in the accident. According to Czech Railways there was a problem with technology and the shunts were being switched manually in the course of the morning. The signalman responsible for the accident has suffered a nervous break down and has had to be hospitalized. Material damage has been assessed at close to half a million Czech crowns.
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09/08/2004
One hundred Czech soldiers serving in Afghanistan under the US-led military operation "Enduring Freedom" are to return home as early as next week. A Czech Defence Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday the soldiers, who have been serving in Afghanistan on a six-month mission, will return to the Czech Republic between September 15th and 20th. Replacement troops are not currently being considered. Much of the contingent is made up of an elite forces unit specially geared towards the fight against terrorism. Under American command, the Czechs participated in efforts to track down armed groups of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters in the Afghan mountains. The unit's deployment marked the Czechs' first direct involvement in a combat operation since World War II.
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09/08/2004
On Wednesday the government approved the possibility to deploy over 10,000 soldiers and hundreds of military vehicles in severe emergency situations. The cabinet approved six possible scenarios in which military troops could be deployed, including the event of a terrorist attack, extensive floods, forest fires, serious industrial accidents, cases of mass migration, or widespread epidemics. The document was put together by the ministries of the interior and defence, in cooperation with additional experts.
Within the crisis scenarios, the military could be called to help guard the state border, provide evacuation for inhabitants, help in the construction of emergency access roads and bridges, as well as provide accommodation facilities.
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09/08/2004
The Czech government has put off further discussion on the state budget for 2005. On Wednesday members of the ruling coalition met for a little over an hour to discuss their differences, before postponing further talks on the budget for the next two weeks. The government must submit a state budget draft by the end of September. So far, the three parties in the ruling coalition have failed to agree on the volume of spending: the smaller parties would like to see some 8 billion crowns in cuts.
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09/08/2004
President Vaclav Klaus has officially pardoned three North Korean seamstresses facing charges for theft earlier this year, bringing legal procedures against them to a halt. The incident with which the seamstresses were charged took place in April, when they allegedly assaulted a Czech TV cameraman filming outside the facility where they worked. The seamstresses were then charged with stealing material from the camera itself. The presidential office has said Mr Klaus decided in favour of halting legal procedures against the three as potential damages to the charged were greater than the damages in the incident, an estimated 20, 000 crowns.
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09/08/2004
In all likeliness, former Czech president Vaclav Havel will not be the only Czech candidate in the running for the Andrej Sacharov Award for the spirit of liberty, nominated by members of the European Parliament. Czech left-of-centre euro-parliamentarians are also considering nominating renowned Czech author Arnost Lustig. Also being considered are students in Belarus actively opposed to the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
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09/08/2004
Controversial Czech-born financier Viktor Kozeny, wanted on charges of fraud in both the Czech Republic and the U.S., has filed against the Social Democrat government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Mr Kozeny, who lives in the Bahamas, filed his lawsuit on the grounds - in his view - that the Social Democratic Party has violated the Convention of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Kozeny filed the lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
The Czech Republic is seeking Mr Kozeny's extradition from the Bahamas on the grounds of a 79-year-old treaty between Czechoslovakia and the British Commonwealth. The Czech Republic and the Bahamas do not share any similar diplomatic agreements.
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09/08/2004
The Czech national football side is preparing to face the Netherlands on Wednesday evening, in their opening qualifier for the 2006 World Cup. After facing each other in the last two European championships, the Czechs and the Netherlands have become something like traditional rivals. At Euro 2004 in June, the Czechs downed the Dutch in a 3-2 turn-around thriller. Wednesday's game will see many key players, however, missing from the Czech line-up: regular team captain Pavel Nedved and fellow midfielder Karel Poborsky.
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