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11/28/2009
A Christmas market opened in the centre of Prague on Saturday. Visitors can browse hand-made goods and traditional Czech Christmas fare at the market in Prague’s Old Town square that boasts some 100 stands and features live music from around the world. On Sunday, a smaller and more modern market in downtown Prague will open its gates to visitors at the bottom of Wenceslas Square. Throughout the city, a number of other Christmas markets will be held starting in late November and early December.
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11/28/2009
Czech rider Zdeněk Štybar won the fourth round of the UCI cyclo-cross World Cup in Koksijde, Belgium on Saturday. The Telenet Fidea rider was in a group of five coming to the finishing line, and unleashed a perfectly timed sprint to claim the win over Belgium’s Sven Nys and Klaas Vantornout, who came in second and third, respectively. For Štybar, this was his first World Cup victory in two years; he currently ranks second in the UCI chart.
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11/28/2009
Several clubs of the Kontinetal Hockey League eye Vladimír Růžička, the coach of the Czech national hockey team and Salvia Prague, the Czech daily Sport reported on Saturday. Mr Růžička, who won gold as player the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998, led the Czech team to the world title in 2005. His contract at Slavia expires this year. According to Sport, the clubs that are interested in the Czech coach include SKA Saint Petersburg, AK Bars Kazan and Dynamo Moscow.
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11/28/2009
Meteorologists issued a warning on Saturday against strong winds that should hit the eastern part of the country over the weekend and at the star of next week. They said that the regions of Pardubice, Zlín and Ostrava could see winds of up to 100 km/hour. Meteorologist asked people to take extreme caution and avoid trees and older buildings as their roofs could be ripped off.
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11/27/2009
The president of the European Commission Jose Barosso confirmed on Friday that the Czech EU commissioner Stefan Füle has received the EU enlargement portfolio. Aside from evaluating applications for EU membership, Mr. Füle will also be responsible for relations to neighbor states of the EU that are not in line for joining. During the five-year term that Mr. Füle will serve, Croatia is expected to join the European Union. Mr. Füle still has to be officially confirmed in this position by the EU member states and the EU parliament. He replaces Vladimír Špidla, the former Czech EU commissioner, who was in charge of social affairs.
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11/27/2009
The Ministry of Education announced Friday that four Czech research projects will receive 2.4 billion crowns from the budget of the EU operational program for research and development. The recipients are technical universities in Liberec and Brno, as well as the Academy of Sciences and the Veterinary Research Institute. The highest subsidy of 800 million crowns will go to the Technical University in Liberec, which will use the funds to create a state-of-the-art research center for nanotechnology. The Technical University in Brno received over 700 million crowns to build the NETME Center, a place where new technologies will be researched and developed. Another four billion crowns are yet to be distributed amongst further applicants.
In related news, in a list of the most successful new member countries that have applied for EU funds between 2004 and 2007, the Czech Republic placed fourth.
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11/27/2009
Friday morning, almost all of the 95,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine that the Czech Republic was given were distributed to physicians and vaccination centers across the nation. Almost 90 percent of all physicians and 133 vaccination centers now have the substance in stock. Full-scale vaccination can begin next week and some doctors were able to start on Friday already. The head of the Czech Immunology Society Roman Prymula said on Thursday that swine flu caused more health complications and resulted in more deaths than the seasonal flu. Three regions of the Czech Republic have now reached the threshold of an epidemic and eight Czechs have died of the disease so far.
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11/27/2009
Leader of the Social Democrats party Jiří Paroubek said on Friday that Minister of Finance Eduard Janota had addressed the inadequately high bonuses given to former managers of the Czech airline ČSA too late. Mr. Paroubek said he nonetheless appreciated Mr. Janota’s effort to investigate bonuses given to managers of companies that the state owns stock in, such as Prague Airport or the Czech energy company ČEZ. After news that 15 former managers of the Czech airline ČSA would receive about 120 million Czech crowns in bonuses, Minister of Finance Eduard Janota said Thursday that he considered the bonuses inappropriately high and that he will wage a large-scale investigation into bonuses received by managers of other semi state-owned companies, starting next week.
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11/27/2009
Former Interior Minister and member of the Civic Democrats Party Ivan Langer said in an interview with the Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny on Friday that he is considering to run for the post of Civic Democrats leader, but wasn’t interested in becoming the party’s candidate for prime minister. Some members of the party have suggested a new, two-fold model of party leadership. The post of party leader, under the new model, would not entail running for the post of prime minister. Mr. Langer argued that when Mírek Topolánek was prime minister, he was too busy with the executive and with the Czech EU presidency to find time for his own party and suggested this new model could help prevent such problems in the future.
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11/27/2009
On Friday, in the second phase of a project that offers foreigners living in the Czech Republic free air fare and an 8000 crown support fee to return home, almost 200 have volunteered to return to their native country. The program assisting foreigners who have lost their job due to the financial crisis was initiated to lower the risk of crime related to unemployment in foreign residents. During the project’s first phase, almost 2000 foreigners took advantage of the offer. In both phases, residents from Mongolia were the ethnic group that took advantage of the offer the most.
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