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11/11/2009
Leaders of the Prague transport authority’s trade unions walked out of talks with city officials on Wednesday, increasing the chances of a strike in the coming days. Union leaders said Prague City Hall had failed to answer their demands. However, they called for another meeting with the authorities on Thursday before a decision on the strike is made. The news website lidovky.cz reported that the strike is likely to begin on Wednesday, November 18.
The Prague transport authority’s trade unions demanded, among other things, that the city covers the company’s operational loss of 1.9 billion crowns, or more than 112 million US dollars. However, city officials only agreed on Tuesday to provide the company with 900 million crowns.
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11/11/2009
The Czech candidate for the new European commission, Štefan Füle, on Wednesday outlined his preferences as to which portfolio he would like to get. Mr Füle told the Chamber of Deputies’ European Affairs Committee that the portfolios that could be considered included energy, enlargement, regional policy, transport, environment and science and research. The Czech candidate said that he would personally prefer the energy or enlargement portfolios.
Mr Füle also rejected criticism by some MPs that his membership in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and studies at the KGB-controlled Moscow Institute of International Relations in the 1980s disqualified him for a high-profile job in the European Commission.
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11/11/2009
The governor of the Czech National Bank, Zdeněk Tůma, has expressed scepticism concerning the Czech economy’s ability to generate a 5-percent growth in the coming years. Speaking at a banking conference in Prague on Wednesday, Mr Tůma said he expected the economy to grow moderately despite persisting problems, such as the rising unemployment rate. He noted that one of the major problems the government should focus on is budget policy.
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11/11/2009
The Teaching Hospital Královské Vinohrady in Prague introduced extraordinary measures on Wednesday after a doctor and two nurses at the hospital’s haematological ward got infected with the H1N1 virus from a patient. Two other patients got infected as well. Due to the infection, the hospital follows an anti-epidemic regime and the haematological ward only accepts patients in severe condition.
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11/11/2009
A monument honouring Czechoslovak paratroopers from WWII was unveiled in the Scottish town of Arisaig on Wednesday. Around 300 Czech and Slovak members of the Czechoslovak army in exiled were trained in the area during the war to be dropped in occupied Czechoslovakia. Those included Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, who assassinated the acting Reichsprotektor, and one of the highest- ranking Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942.
The granite statue, depicting a parachute after descent, was paid for by funds collected by the Czech honorary consul in Scotland, Paul Millar.
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11/11/2009
The director of the Bory prison in Plzeň, western Bohemia, Petr Folk suspended on Wednesday several guards who did not prevent a prisoner from escaping during a visit to the doctor. Mr Folk refused to specify how many guards were suspended, but said the measure should enable an objective investigation into the incident.
A 32-year-old man escaped during a visit to a hospital in Plzeň on Tuesday after his wife and accomplice opened fire at the guards. They later got in a car and drove off. The police suspect that both the convict and his wife have already left the country.
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11/11/2009
The Union of Friends of Beer named the Herold brewery in Březnice, central Bohemia, the brewery of the year. Draught beer Podskalák, made by the Rohozec brewery, won the best 10-degree beer category, while the best 12 degree beer is Svijanský rytíř by the brewery in Svijany, in northern Bohemia.
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11/10/2009
Štefan Füle, the Czech minister for EU affairs, is to replace Vladimir Špidla as the country’s next EU commissioner. Mr. Füle was nominated on the basis of a political agreement between the two strongest parties, the Civic Democrats and the Social Democrats. Prime Minister Jan Fischer who mediated the agreement refused to say what portfolio the Czech Republic would strive for.
The 47-year-old Füle, a career diplomat, served as Czech ambassador to Lithuania (1998-2001) and Britain (2003-2005) and later became head of the Czech Republic's permanent mission in NATO (2005-2009). In May of this year, he became minister for European affairs in Jan Fischer's non-partisan cabinet.
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11/10/2009
Two soldiers from an elite army unit serving in Afghanistan who wore Nazi emblems on their helmets have been dismissed from the military, Czech Defense Minister Martin Barták announced after Tuesday’s cabinet meeting. Neither will have the right to retirement or severance pay. Their commander, who allegedly tried to cover up the incident, has been suspended pending an investigation. Minister Barták said the soldiers behaviour was unacceptable and tarnished the reputation of Czech units serving abroad. On Monday, the minister dismissed a soldier who confessed that he had trained members of the neo-Nazi group White Justice in hand-to-hand combat.
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11/10/2009
President Klaus on Tuesday launched his new book “Where Tomorrow Begins” on the fall of communism and the country’s political and economic development in the past 20 years. Although the book is expected to map the president’s own career in Czech politics, Mr. Klaus told readers not to expect any behind-the-scenes stories about himself and his closest associates, saying that the book was largely analytical. During his time in office the president has written over a dozen books on issues ranging from global warming to EU integration.
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