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11/25/2009
A court in Prague dismissed on Wednesday a lawsuit against the singer Marta Kubišová, filed by her colleague Helena Vondráčková over an allegedly breached contract. The two singers, who were part of the popular Golden Kids trio in the late 1960s, were planning an anniversary tour. Ms Kubišová later backed out of the plans, and her colleague demanded 1.3 million crowns from her in damages. The court said there was no proof that a contract had been concluded between the two parties.
Helena Vondráčková successfully pursued her career in the 1970s and 80s after the Golden Kids split in 1970. However, Marta Kubišová was banned by communist authorities over her disapproval of the 1968 Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia, and only returned to performing after the fall of communism.
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11/25/2009
The organizers of a Prague lecture to be delivered by the Dutch anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders are having trouble finding a venue for the event. Mr Wilders’ planned appearance at the Czech Senate was banned, and efforts to set up the lecture at Prague’s Aventin Palace have also come to nothing after the palace management distanced itself from the event. Mr Wilders has been invited to present his views and screen his controversial movie, Fitna, by a Czech anti-Islamist website and Civic Democrat senator, Jiří Oberfalzer. On Monday, a Czech Muslim organization also invited Mr Wilders to a debate on the subject.
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11/25/2009
The law school of the West Bohemian University in Plzeň was ordered on Wednesday to temporarily stop accepting graduate students for PhD programmes. The school, which was recently entangled in a fast-track degree scandal, is however allowed to continue its undergraduate programmes. The Czech Education Ministry’s Accreditation Committee said the ban would be lifted as soon as the situation “consolidates”. Both the university’s officials and students’ representatives have welcomed the decision.
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11/24/2009
Anti-trust officials from the European Commission have carried out surprise inspections at energy giant ČEZ and other power companies in the Czech Republic. The raids took place as part of an investigation into suspected anti-competitive behaviour, the European Commission said on Tuesday. It said it was 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. Counterparts from the Czech anti-trust body took part in the raids alongside European Commission officials.
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11/24/2009
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is to begin an inquiry into the privatisation of a Czech bank, the news website aktualne.cz reported. The investigation into the year 2000 sale of Česká spořitelna to Austria’s Erste Bank has been sparked by allegations made by two former executives at the latter institution. The two, who were fired by Erste this year, say the bank paid bribes to local politicians and officials when buying banks in the central and eastern Europe region. They told aktualne.cz that in the Czech Republic the bribery concerned leading politicians. The former bank officials are planning to file lawsuits against Erste in the US. For its part, the Austrian bank has rejected the allegations, while former ministers who served under then Czech prime minister Miloš Zeman have also denied any wrongdoing.
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11/24/2009
Six people were injured when a tram crashed into a bus on Prague’s Náměstí Míru square on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the city’s emergency services said the passengers affected had mainly suffered bruising in the accident, which occurred at a stop shared by trams and buses at around 8.30. Three people were taken to hospital, none of them with life-threatening injuries.
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11/24/2009
Initial investigations suggest the shooting of a Czech soldier in Kosovo was the result of a colleague’s inability to handle his gun correctly, a Czech army spokesperson said on Tuesday. A special commission sent to Kosovo to investigate the incident, which occurred on Saturday, has just returned to the Czech Republic. Two superior officers of the soldier suspected of being responsible for the shooting have been recalled to Prague. The victim is in a stable condition in hospital. An officer in the KFOR mission who caused a car crash on Sunday has also returned to the Czech Republic.
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11/24/2009
If reforms are not carried out next year, the state will have to bail out the Czech healthcare system in 2011, says the head of the country’s biggest insurer VZP. Pavel Horák told Tuesday’s edition of Hospodařské noviny that otherwise there was a danger limits would have to be placed on free health care. VZP is set to end this year with a deficit of CZK six to eight billion, a shortfall that is likely to be repeated at the end of 2010.
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11/24/2009
Some 128 new cases of HIV have been recorded in the Czech Republic since the beginning of this year, the state health care institute said on Tuesday. The total number known to be infected now stands at 1,315. However, the Czech News Agency reported that the real number of residents with HIV could be 10 times as high. Since 1986 152 people have died of AIDS in the Czech Republic.
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11/24/2009
Chef Tomáš Vaníček of Prague’s InterContinental hotel came first in a national bread dumpling making contest on Monday evening. The event was hosted by the InterContinental and was being held for the third time. Among the judges was former foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier, who is himself a keen cook. Mr Dienstbier said increasing numbers of Czechs were aware of the dumpling competition, which he joked was making more headlines than the congresses of political parties.
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