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09/07/2009
Representatives of the eight Czech Airlines unions meeting with the company management and Finance Minister Eduard Janota have rejected wage decreases. The unions will now have one week to submit their own proposal for the company to save one billion crowns annually. Tensions have run high recently between the airline unions, which have threatened to go on unlimited strike, and the company management, some of whom have offered their own resignation in exchange for blanket wage reductions across the company.
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09/07/2009
Further elimination of environmental damage to land used by the Soviet Army during the 1970s and 1980s will cost the state another 200 million crowns and last until 2016, the Ministry of the Environment announced today. As of the end of last year, the Czech Republic had spent 1.4 billion crowns on the effort. The Soviet Army used 110 locations in the Czech Republic, 60 of which suffered serious environmental damage.
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09/07/2009
Customs police near the South Moravian town of Znojmo have confiscated more than 500 sacks of imitation goods and roughly 50 million crowns worth of hazardous fireworks. Over 100 police are currently involved in the raid, which is still underway and focuses on three marketplaces on the Czech/Austrian border. A fire caused by illegal fireworks at one of the marketplaces in 2006 left 150 million crowns in damages and most of the marketplace burnt to the ground. A June raid on the same marketplaces also uncovered 27 million crowns in imitation goods.
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09/07/2009
Traffic fatalities over this year’s summer holidays reached a record low this year, the Czech traffic police have reported. 150 died in traffic-related accidents, two less than in the year 2006, when the penalty point system was introduced. With the exception of these two years, the number of fatalities over summer holidays has never been below 200. The worst summer for traffic fatalities was in 2003, when the number rose to 286.
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09/07/2009
The Czech Statistical Office reported Monday that Czech foreign trade figures for July show a profit margin of 12.3 billion crowns, marking a year-on-year improvement of almost six billion. The standard prices of exports during the period declined by nearly 18% compared with last year, while import prices were down by 21.3%. The result was put down primarily to a lower deficit in mineral fuels, while a decline in machinery and transport vehicles had a negative impact on foreign trade.
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09/07/2009
The State Health Institute has recorded eight cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus since September 4, bringing the number of infections in the country to 277. Most of the cases have occurred in Prague, the eastern region around Ostrava and in the central highlands region. None of those infected have been in serious condition, with most waiting out the illness in home isolation without antiviral treatment.
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09/06/2009
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said that the growth of Czech economy might be higher than expected, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Sunday. Speaking during his official visit to Hong Kong, Mr Fischer said that in 2010, Czech economy might grow by about 0.5 percent and that in the following years, Czechs could see “the light at the end of the tunnel”. The Czech prime minister noted that compared to other countries in the region, the Czech Republic has a sound banking and financial sector with no toxic assets. Mr Fischer also said he was confident that his government would approve next year’s state budget despite the current political crisis over the postponed general elections.
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09/06/2009
Experts nominated by Czech parliamentary parties failed on Sunday to agree on an alternative date for early general elections. Social Democrats push for a change to the constitution that would allow holding the elections on October 9 and 10, as originally planned. But experts from other parties believe such an amendment could again be refuted by the Constitutional Court. The court decided on Thursday to postpone the elections over a complaint from unaffiliated deputy Miloš Melčák. He claims the constitutional amendment by which the Chamber of Deputies shortened its term had violated his right to execute his mandate for four years.
Leaders of six strongest political parties and the heads of both chambers of Parliament will meet on Sunday night to discuss a joint strategy concerning the issue of early elections.
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09/06/2009
In related news, the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Pavel Rychetský, told Czech TV on Sunday that it was not certain that the Court decides on Thursday on whether early general elections can be held as planned. The court is set to hold a public hearing on Thursday about Mr Melčák’s complaint. Justice Rychetský said that the court is acting unusually fast and it might therefore take longer to decide on the complaint. If the complaint is rejected, the elections would be held as originally planned.
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09/06/2009
Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek told Czech TV on Sunday that the Czech Republic might lose its EU commissioner if it fails to ratify the Lisbon treaty by mid October. According to the Swedish presidency of the European Union, the new European Commission will be formed under the Nice treaty if the Lisbon treaty is not ratified by that time. Mr Paroubek called on the Civic Democrats to avoid further delays with the ratification of the reform document.
The Lisbon treaty was approved by both chambers of the Czech Parliament earlier this year. However, President Václav Klaus has refused to put his signature to it. He said he would wait for a group of Civic Democrat senators to petition the Constitutional Court to see whether the document is in line with Czech law. The senators said they would file the petition in early October.
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