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09/22/2009
A survey released Tuesday by the daily Mladá fronta Dnes suggests that 77% of Czechs do not trust the government’s anti-crisis measures. According to the report, for which 976 people were polled, people believe that politicians only talk about solutions, and that these do not improve life in any way. The most sceptical of respondents were people aged 45 or older. The same survey claims that a massive 80% of the population does have confidence in domestic banks in the Czech Republic, which the report says are particularly trusted by men and people under the age of 34.
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09/22/2009
A Prague bus driver died on Monday evening after being struck by a drunken passenger he was attempting to force off the vehicle. Neither medical examinations of the body nor the autopsy however has shown any evidence that the deceased died as a result of violence, and the suspected attacker has been released from custody. According to witnesses, a scuffle ensued after the suspect lit a cigarette in the public bus. The driver collapsed, and a passing police patrol caught the suspect as he was attempting to flee. According to the Prague Public Transit Co. some 20 drivers a year are injured in violent incidents with passengers.
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09/22/2009
Nine people have been charged in South Bohemia with violations of anti-fascism laws after police found video recordings in their possession in which they were using Nazi slogans. According to Czech Television the case is indirectly related to the attempted murder of a young man who was stabbed in the area last year after admonishing a group of extremists giving the Nazi salute. Police investigating the attack found the recordings on confiscated computers. If convicted the suspects face up to five years in prison.
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09/22/2009
An apartment in the town of Týn nad Vltavou, to south of Prague, exploded Tuesday afternoon leaving an elderly woman dead and one man in critical condition with burns to most of his body. 30 residents were evacuated from the building, in which a nursing home is also located. Police have yet to determine the cause of the explosion and the resulting fire, however witnesses have claimed that the injured man had threatened to set the flat on numerous occasions.
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09/21/2009
The Czech caretaker government on Monday unanimously backed a cost-saving and tax-raising budget proposal for 2010 tabled by Finance Minister Eduard Janota. Mr Janota’s package is seeking to limit next year’s deficit to 155.3 billion crowns instead of the record 230 billion deficit the country is now heading for. Prime Minister Jan Fischer has made acceptance of a budget with the deficit capped at 170 billion crowns a condition of his staying on in office after the abandonment of autumn elections. Mr Janota’s has presented his package as a more or less equal mix of spending cuts and tax rises. It includes rises in Value Added Tax and social insurance payments, cuts in social spending and a 4.0 percent cut in public service wages and for politicians and judges. Leaders of politician parties are due to continue talks on the budget on Tuesday and Wednesday with the lower house expected to weigh in on Thursday.
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09/21/2009
The Finance Minister’s proposed budget package was described on Monday by the country’s biggest grouping of trades unions as an acceptable compromise. The unions were meeting with employers and the government for regular three-way discussions. The chairman of the Czech and Moravian Confederation of Trades Unions, Milan Štěch, said unions still had reservations about a proposed 4.0 percent cut in public sector wages and cuts in payments to new-born children and child support.
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09/21/2009
On the other hand, the Social Democrats said on Monday that they will table their own budget proposal in which the deficit does not exceed 155 billion crowns. The Social Democrats say they can arrive at this figure without increased VAT or cuts in payments to families with children. They propose higher company taxes and more progressive taxation of individuals to raise cash for the state coffers.
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09/21/2009
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout is due to meet with his US counterpart Hillary Clinton on Monday. Discussions on the margins of the UN General Assembly meeting are expected to centre on the US decision last week not to go ahead with its original missile defence plans in the Czech Republic and Poland. In June of last year the Czech and US governments signed an agreement for the Czech Republic to host an anti-missile radar which would have been twinned with interceptor missiles in Poland. Mrs Clinton said on Friday that the two countries are frontrunners for a mobile missile defence system which the US would now like to roll-out in Europe.
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09/21/2009
A war of words has broken out between Social Democrat leader and former prime minister Jiři Paroubek and ex-president Václav Havel. Mr Paroubek started the row in a newspaper article by listing the former dissident and architect of the Velvet Revolution as among a series of leaders harking back to the Iron Curtain era. Havel responded by describing Mr Paroubek’s comments as lies. On Monday, the Social Democrat leader shot back in a letter in the daily Pravo sticking to his ground and saying Havel was one of those who was trying to block cooperation between the US, NATO and Russia. He said this was now being pushed by Washington.
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09/21/2009
The European Commission has hinted it will propose retaliatory steps against Canada if it does not lift the visa requirement for Czech imposed in the summer. Czech Deputy Interior Minister Lenka Ptáčková Melicharová said that was the stance outlined during a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels on Monday. The Commission could, she said, call for the EU to introduce visas for all Canadian diplomats travelling to the 27-strong grouping of countries. Other countries suggested unspecified economic steps could be taken to put pressure on Canada, she added.
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