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08/16/2009
The inhabitants of Rohozná, a small village near Jihlava, voted overwhelmingly against the construction of a nuclear waste storage site on their land in a referendum on Saturday. Rohozná is one of eight Czech locations being considered by experts for the purposes of a nuclear waste store. On Saturday, three quarters of the village’s 312 inhabitants came to vote. Two hundred and twenty six people voted against the dump, while six people voted for the project. Nearly as many voters were opposed to a preliminary geological survey of the area, the village’s mayor František Venkrbec said after the vote on Saturday evening.
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08/16/2009
The head of the Czech Chamber of Commerce, Petr Kužel, has said that while the number of redundancies is now falling in this country, he believes that firms will not start taking on new employees until next year. On Friday, the Czech Statistical Office suggested that GDP was down in the second quarter by 4.9 percent compared with the same period last year. The bureau did, however, suggest that the Czech economy was showing some signs of recovery, with results for the second quarter actually up on those from the first by 0.3 percent.
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08/16/2009
Italian Valentino Rossi won the 250cc MotoGP race at the Czech Grand Prix meeting in Brno on Sunday. The victory means that Rossi extends his overall championship lead and moves a big step closer to clinching a ninth world title. After a thrilling head-to-head dual with Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo, Rossi profited from the latter’s fall five laps from the finish to extend his lead to 50 points going into the final seven races of the season. Rossi started the race in pole position after setting a track record in qualifying on Saturday.
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08/16/2009
Meanwhile, Nicolas Terol of Spain won the 125cc race at the Czech Republic MotoGP in Brno on Sunday morning. Terol finished ahead of compatriot Julian Simon and Andrea Iannone of Italy. Terol grabbed the lead from the start and was never headed after that as he recorded his first win of the year.
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08/16/2009
Meanwhile in athletics, Czech javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková qualified for Tuesday’s final in the discipline at the World Championships in Berlin with her first throw on Saturday. The reigning World and Olympic Champion Špotáková threw 63.27 metres on her first attempt, surpassing the qualification limit by 1.27 metres. According to Lidové noviny’s news website, however, Špotáková seemed unhappy with her throw. She subsequently told journalists that she felt in bad mental shape. The world record holder’s arch rival, Russia’s Maria Abakumova, threw 68.92 metres in qualifying, which is a season’s best, Lidové noviny wrote. The final takes place on Tuesday at 19:25 CET.
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08/15/2009
Finance Minister Eduard Janota has warned that, without government intervention, the budget deficit in 2010 could reach some 256 billion crowns (14.12 billion USD), which constitutes seven percent of GDP. Speaking on Czech Radio on Saturday, Mr Janota added that this would be a very bad outcome, on a level with the current economic situation in Hungary. The finance minister said that the government must make some legislative changes, increasing the amount of money coming into state coffers and making extensive budget cuts across the board if this situation was to be avoided. He added that the Finance Ministry would be proposing such legislation to Parliament in due course. Mr Janota said that it was important that changes were made but that, ahead of early elections in the autumn, he was in no doubt that such changes would only be made with difficulty.
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08/15/2009
Four Czech far-right extremists have been charged with attempted murder over an arson attack on a Roma family’s home which left a two-year-old girl fighting for her life, prosecutors said on Friday. The four are accused of throwing firebombs in a premeditated attack which led to three members of a Roma family suffering serious burns, prosecutor Brigita Bilíková said. The accused face between 12 and 15 years in prison, she added. The attack on April 19 in the north Moravian town of Vítkov sparked outrage in the Czech Republic and among the Roma community. The two-year-old victim of the attack, Natalka, suffered 80 percent burns and remains in hospital, with doctors saying her condition is still serious. The attack led to Czech government pledges to step up the fight against racism in the Czech Republic.
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08/15/2009
The former Czechoslovak Federal Assembly building opened its doors to the public for the first time this Saturday. After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, the building, which sits at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square, was handed symbolically to US broadcaster Radio Free Europe. In June, after years of broadcasting from this location, Radio Free Europe handed the keys over to the Czech National Museum. On Saturday at 10:00 CET the building opened its doors to the public for the first time. The National Museum organized a series of guided tours for visitors focusing on the building’s history. Such guided trips around the building will now be available seven days a week. A tour of the old Parliament building costs 80 crowns (4.4 USD).
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08/15/2009
A Czech bus crashed en route to Lviv, Ukraine, on Saturday afternoon leaving three passengers injured. The accident happened near the Slovak-Ukrainian border when the driver veered off the road and into a ditch. Slovak police are investigating the crash and say that it was most likely caused by momentary negligence on the part of the driver. Only Czechs and Ukrainians were on the Lviv-bound bus, the identity of those injured has not yet been revealed.
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08/15/2009
Ladislav Štaidl, who was alleged to have written and signed a letter with pop star Karel Gott to the general secretary of the Communist Party nearly 40 years ago, denied on Saturday ever having done such a thing. In the letter, published in the press two weeks ago, singer Karel Gott and his accompanists, the Štaidl brothers, seemingly plead for Communist leader Gustav Husák’s pardon, having spent too long in West Germany in 1971. In the letter, all of the signatories voice their support for the hard-line Normalization process which followed the Soviet-led invasion in 1968. When questioned about the letter, Karel Gott first said he may indeed have signed the document, but then dismissed the letter altogether as ‘utter nonsense’. On Saturday, his long-term colleague Ladislav Štaidl told Právo that he on no account wrote or signed such a letter.
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