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10/18/2009
The Czech education minister, Miroslava Kopicová, told Czech TV on Sunday that in reaction to the Plzeň law school’s fast-track degrees scandal, her ministry would carry out an audit of all Czech universities. Ms Kopicová said the ministry has already launched an audit of all of the country’s law faculties; Czech Republic’s public universities should be audited next, followed by Czech private higher education institutes.
In September allegations surfaced concerning fast-track degrees, plagiarism and missing dissertations at the law faculty of the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. The dean and two vice-deans of the faculty have stepped down, and the ministry has filed a lawsuit in connection with the scandal.
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10/18/2009
Czech Airlines could make profit in 2010 if the company is re-structured, CEO Radomír Lašák told Czech TV on Sunday. The state-owned firm should cut 1,000 of 4,600 jobs and keep 45 aircraft. In August, Czech Airlines posted a loss of 1.83 billion crowns, or more than 105 million US dollars. The Czech government is planning to privatize the national carrier; the sole bidder, UNIMEX, offered the state one billion crowns. The cabinet is scheduled to decide on the company’s privatization on October 26.
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10/18/2009
The Temelín nuclear power plant in south Bohemia postponed on Sunday the re-launch of one of the plant’s two reactors. The reactor was to be re-launched and r-connected to the grid on Sunday after a two-month shutdown during which fuel and parts of a low-pressure turbine were replaced. A spokesman for the energy giant ČEZ said the turbine was still being calibrated. Further schedule will be announced on Monday.
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10/18/2009
The novel Saturnin, by Zdeněk Jirotka, was voted the most popular Czech book in a Czech TV survey on Saturday. Saturnin, a humorous novel about a quirky yet perfectly proper butler, was published in 1942 and made into a film in 1994. It recently appeared in an English translation. The 1855 novel Babička, or The Grandmother, by Božena Němcová, finished second in the Czech version of BBC’s The Big Read, while the third most popular book with Czech readers is the French novella The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupéry. More than 320,000 TV viewers took part in the survey.
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10/18/2009
The UNESCO agency is concerned that a tunnel complex which is being constructed in Prague might harm the city’s historic centre, the news website aktualne.cz reported on Sunday. The agency will therefore send a mission to the Czech capital to examine the situation on the spot. The Blanka tunnel, which is to form part of a planned ring road around the city, runs only a few hundred metres from the protected area of Prague Castle. City officials said the tunnel will not damage any of the capital’s historic monuments.
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10/18/2009
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová lost to Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer 3:6 and 4:6 in the final of the WTA event in Linz, Austria, on Sunday The unseeded Czech did not put up much resistance, and was always behind Wickmmayer, seeded third, who converted the first match point. For 19-year-old Kvitová, Linz was the second WTA event final in her career.
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10/18/2009
Chelsea’s goalkeeper Petr Čech complained about the referee in Saturday’s game against Aston Villa, which Chelsea lost 2:1. The host team scored both goals after corner kicks. Petr Čech wrote on his website that before the second goal, Aston Villa’s Carew pulled his jersey and right hand, which prevented him from catching the ball.
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10/18/2009
Zdeněk Štybar finished third at a cyclo-cross World Cup event in Plzeň, west Bohemia, on Sunday. Belgian Niels Albert clinched victory, followed by Sven Nijs, also from Belgium. Štybar currently ranks second after the season’s second World Cup event. Another Czech, Radomír Šimůnek, finished seventh.
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10/17/2009
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, has said that the EU’s Lisbon treaty has progressed too far to be stopped. Mr Klaus told the daily Lidové Noviny on Saturday that although he did not consider the treaty to be a good thing for the Czech Republic or Europe, "the train has travelled too far and too fast" and it would not be possible to stop it. The Czech president also said he would not withhold the reform treaty’s ratification in anticipation of the next British elections.
The Czech Republic is the last EU member state not to have ratified the Lisbon treaty. The country’s Constitutional Court is scheduled to rule on whether the document is in line with Czech law on October 27. However, earlier this moth Václav Klaus said he would not complete the ratification unless the Czech Republic is granted an exception form the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights concerning possible property claims from ethnic Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia after WWII.
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10/17/2009
The Czech EU commissioner, Vladimír Špidla, has warned that delaying the ratification of the Lisbon treaty is driving the Czech Republic into “significant isolation”. Mr Špidla told the ČTK news agency on Saturday that the current situation not only weakens the Czech position within the European Union, but also undermines the countries relations to other EU member states. These issues, according to Commissioner Špidla, are much more important than whether or not the Czech Republic will lose its seat on the European Commission. That might happen if the Lisbon treaty is not ratified and the EU will be governed under the Treaty of Nice.
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