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11/26/2009
The Dutch anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders has cancelled a planed visit to Prague after his hosts proved unable to find a venue for his appearance. Mr. Wilders was invited by a Czech anti-Islamist website and Civic Democrat senator, Jiří Oberfalzer earlier this month for a screening of his controversial film Fitna and a debate on the subject. His planned appearance in the Czech Senate was banned, and efforts to set up the lecture at Prague’s Aventin Palace also came to nothing after the palace management refused to have him on the premises.
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11/26/2009
The Czech military has bought two Israeli-made pilotless surveillance planes for the price of 50 million crowns, the news server Euro reports. The Skylark II aircraft are used for surveillance in low and medium altitudes and will be used in the country’s foreign missions. The places were produced by the Elbit Systems company and the order was mediated by the Czech MP1 Group.
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11/26/2009
Two Czech men who were sentenced to eight months in a Cuban jail for a breach of the peace earlier this month have been released, Petra Jecinova, from the Czech embassy in Cuba told the CTK news agency on Thursday. The two men were detained at Havana Airport on March 22 after arriving drunk, getting into a fight and resisting arrest. Their eight-month punishment expired this week since time spent in custody is regarded as time served. Both men will now be expelled from the country.
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11/26/2009
Czech league leaders Teplice have been hit by illness, including the H1N1 flu virus, and have asked for Sunday's first division match against Viktoria Plzen to be postponed, a club spokesman said on Thursday. Eighteen of the 24 first-team squad are ill, with at least five suffering from H1N1 flu. Teplice, who are top with 32 points from 15 matches, had already asked for last Monday's match against Olomouc to be postponed but the Czech FA declined the request. Teplice fielded a mostly reserve team and lost 6-2.
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11/25/2009
Speaking in Baghdad at the end of his two-day visit to Iraq, the Czech foreign minister, Jan Kohout, promised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the Czech Republic would send observers to Iraq to monitor the course of general elections scheduled for January 2010. Commenting on business relations, Mr Kohout said that agreements on investment protection and double taxation avoidance between the two countries needed to be signed to promote the interest of Czech companies on the Iraqi market. In Baghdad, Mr Kohout also launched an exhibition titled “1989 through the eyes of photographers”.
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11/25/2009
Seven people have died of the swine flu in the Czech Republic to date. The country’s chief hygiene officer, Michael Vít confirmed the number on Wednesday after tests showed that a 42-year old man who died in a hospital in Plzeň, western Bohemia was infected with the H1N1 virus.
Mr Vít said that three out the country’s 14 regions have reached epidemic levels, with more than 2000 patients per 100,000 inhabitants. Vaccination against the swine flu began earlier this week. Health authorities are now distributing some 95,000 vaccines, while another 90,000 vaccines should be delivered in early December.
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11/25/2009
In related news, health workers of the Central Bohemian region temporarily ceased on Wednesday vaccinating people against the H1N1 virus over irregularities in vaccine identification. The authorities said that the numbers on the vaccines differed from those on their delivery certificates. The distributing company dismissed the claims, saying that all the vaccines delivered had been properly labelled.
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11/25/2009
Two new sections of the D1 motorway opened on Wednesday, connecting the city of Ostrava, in north Moravia, with the Czech capital. The construction of the new 12- and 18 -km-long stretches cost 7.6 billion crowns, or more than 440 million US dollars, the Czech road authority said. The completion of the two motorway sections is expected to improve the overall traffic situation in the region. The final section of the motorway, leading up to the Polish border, should be completed by 2012.
Just hours before the new sections opened, an Indian national crashed his car after driving onto the new road. He drove through a large tent put up for Wednesday’s official opening, and ended up in the ditch. No one was hurt in the accident, the news agency ČTK reported.
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11/25/2009
Three new cabinet ministers will be appointed at the start of next week, Prime Minister Jan Fischer told reporters on Wednesday. The names of the new ministers of environment and European affairs, together with the new head of the cabinet’s legislative council, will be announced later this week, the prime minister added. The current minister for European affairs, Štefan Füle, has been nominated the Czech candidate for Eurocommissioner, while the environment minister Ladislav Miko is set to return to his position in the European Commission. The post of the legislative council chair has been temporarily taken over by the justice minister.
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11/25/2009
Anti-trust officials from the European Commission continued on Wednesday with inspections at the Czech energy giant ČEZ and the EPH firm over allegations of anti-competitive behaviour. A ČEZ spokeswoman said the inspections are expected to last several days. The European Commission officials are looking into whether ČEZ had worked to block competitors in order to boost its own position as the country’s dominant wholesale power supplier, either acting alone or in conjunction with other firms.
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