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08/29/2009
Medical experts have said they believe the amount of swine flue vaccine purchased by the state is insufficient. Last week the Czech government ordered one million doses of the vaccine, or one-fifth of the number originally planned, at a cost of 220 million crowns. The amount covers 5% of the population, ensuring vaccination for those responsible for critical state infrastructure, including health care workers and those providing energy, water and food supplies.
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08/29/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus has recommended citizens stock up on classic 100 watt light bulbs ahead of an EU regulation banning their sale. Speaking at the launch of his latest book, a critique of the environmental movement called “Blue Planet Under Threat”, Mr Klaus said that if he were a normal citizen and shopper he would buy a lifetime supply of “good, old Edison bulbs” to avoid joining the modern bandwagon. Beginning September 1, manufacturers will no longer be able to supply light bulbs of 100 Watts or higher, which are to be gradually replaced with more energy-efficient bulbs. Ecologists, including several from Mr Klaus’s former party, the Civic Democrats, have called the remarks “absurd”, and opined that the president is simply against any regulation that comes from Brussels.
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08/29/2009
A survey conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre suggests that Czechs’ confidence in state political offices is declining. According to the survey the greatest loss of confidence was in the office of president, which dropped by seven percent over the summer months. Still, at 59%, President Klaus enjoys far greater confidence than members of parliament, whom only 22% say they trust, a fall of 3%, or senators, who fare only 1% better. 43% of people said they have faith in their local regional representatives. Only one-tenth of the 1165 respondents said they were content with the current political situation in the Czech Republic.
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08/29/2009
The 2009 harvest in the Czech Republic is expected to be about 10% lower than the previous year, the minister of agriculture, Jakub Šebesta, announced Saturday. With the cereals and corn harvest almost in, the ministry expects a total volume of 7.4 million tonnes, with 5.3 sufficient to cover domestic demand.
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08/29/2009
A Czech Airlines plane made a diverted landing in Prague Friday after the pilot reported non-standard responses from the flight instruments. The nearly 200 passengers on board the flight from the Greek island of Corfu were transported Saturday morning to their original destination of Brno by bus. Czech Airlines stated the flight was diverted to Prague because the company lacks the appropriate repair facilities in Brno.
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08/29/2009
Around a hundred soldiers from the Texas National Guard will be arriving in the Czech Republic in September with six F-16 fighter jets for a ten-day training exercise with Czech pilots. In addition to training, the Ministry of Defence said the Squadron Exchange exercise at the Čáslav military base is intended to allow Czech pilots returning from the first foreign mission of the Czech Air Force Fighter Squadron to exchange information with their American counterparts. A similar exercise was held with Belgian pilots in 2007.
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08/29/2009
Czech fans of the late Michael Jackson held a dance spectacle in Prague Saturday as part of a worldwide event marking the pop musician’s birthday. A crowd of 700 danced to the song “Beat It” in front of the Intercontinental Hotel, where Jackson stayed for his last performance in Prague 13 years ago, and at several other locations in the Prague city centre.
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08/28/2009
President Barack Obama’s administration has denied a report that the United States had given up on building anti-missile bases in the Czech Republic and Poland. State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley said the American government’s strategy on missile defence was under review and no conclusions had been reached on whether to place missiles in Poland and a linked radar base on Czech territory. On Thursday the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza quoted lobbyists and officials in Washington as saying such plans had been scrapped.
Russia responded angrily to the project, which it saw as an encroachment in the former Soviet bloc, and threatened to point nuclear warheads at the Czech Republic and Poland.
The Czech Parliament has agreed to allow the US to build a radar in central Bohemia. Opinion polls have consistently suggested that most Czechs are opposed to the idea.
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08/28/2009
Industrial output in the Czech Republic fell by 18.4 percent year-on-year in July, according to official figures released on Friday. The Czech News Agency quoted analyst Michal Brožka as saying the drop was bigger than expected. But he said an uptick in Western markets should benefit Czech industry, which would probably see a 12-percent fall in output for the whole of 2009.
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08/28/2009
The Social Democrats would come first if elections were held now, suggests an opinion poll released by the Factum Invenio agency on Friday. The survey, conducted earlier this month, indicates that the left-of-centre party have the backing of 29.5 percent of the electorate, nearly two points ahead of their main rivals the Civic Democrats. The Communists were supported by 13.4 percent of those polled, while the new party TOP 09 enjoyed the backing of 11.4 percent. The only other grouping that would reach the five percent threshold to enter the lower house were the Christian Democrats, with 6.6 percent.
Czechs go to the polls on October 9 and 10 in early elections which follow the fall of a Civic Democrat-led cabinet in March. Since then a caretaker government has been in place.
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