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08/10/2009
Meanwhile inflation fell in July to 0.3 percent from 1.2 percent in June. July’s rate of inflation is the lowest the Czech Republic has seen since September 2003. The Czech Statistical Office released the figures on Monday, adding that their consumer price index had fallen by 0.4 percent month-on-month. According to the Statistical Office, the fall in prices was mostly affected by a drop in the cost of petrol and a further cut in the cost of foodstuffs.
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08/10/2009
Cases of animal maltreatment in the Czech Republic should be more severely punished, the Supreme State Attorney’s Office recommends in a new report this Monday. The Czech Republic’s new penal code, which will come into effect in January next year, redefines what constitutes animal cruelty. As of January 2010, those who neglect animals can also be charged with maltreatment, up until now, it has only been those who actively inflict cruelty upon animals who have been liable to such charges. The new report suggests that those who know of animal cruelty and do not report it should be subject to punishment as well. In the report, the Supreme State Attorney’s Office said that animal cruelty must not be ‘ignored, let alone tolerated’.
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08/10/2009
The man most Czechs would like to see as their next prime minister is head of the Civic Democrats, Mirek Topolánek, suggests a poll conducted by the Median Agency and published on Monday. Nearly 20 percent of respondents said that they wanted Mirek Topolánek to return to the post of prime minister, which he handed over to Jan Fischer in May after the toppling of his cabinet. Leader of the Social Democrats Jiří Paroubek came second in Monday’s poll. Almost two-fifths of respondents said they had no opinion on the issue. Head of the Communist Party, Vojtěch Filip, gained 7.1 percent of respondents’ support, while fourth was the head of new party TOP 09, the former foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
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08/10/2009
Meanwhile, Novinky.cz reported on Monday that the bookies’ favourites for October’s early elections are Jiří Paroubek’s Social Democrats. Tipsport bookmakers are offering odds of 1.75:1 on a Social Democrat victory, with the Civic Democrats trailing slightly behind, with odds of 1.90:1. According to Tipsport’s Lubomír Ježek, a recent scandal surrounding former Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek’s holiday in Italy has lowered the odds of a Civic Democrat victory.
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08/10/2009
Members of a regional branch of the Christian Democrats are being asked to pay up to 200,000 crowns (around 11,000 USD) if they want to be included in the party’s list of candidates for early elections this autumn. On Monday, the newspaper Hospodářské noviny reported that the party was in dire need of money and hoped to plug some of its 25 million-crown shortage by charging its members standing for election. The proposal only affects members of the Christian Democrats belonging to the Zlin branch of the party. The suggestion is that all members of the regional branch’s leadership pay 50,000 crowns for the privilege, while those high up the party’s list of candidates, and therefore with the highest chance of being elected, pay up to 200,000 crowns into party coffers.
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08/10/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus took part in the annual pilgrimage to the top of the Czech Republic’s highest peak, Sněžka, on Monday. Each year, thousands of Czechs climb to the top of Sněžka, some 1602 metres above sea-level, to honour St. Lawrence. A mass was said on Monday afternoon outside the St. Lawrence chapel on the peak of the mountain. St Lawrence is the patron saint of the Krkonoše mountains, to which Sněžka belongs, he is also the patron saint of brewers. Hundreds of Poles also attended the mass on Sněžka’s peak, as the mountain lies on the Czech-Polish border.
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08/10/2009
Seventy-five people died on Czech roads in July, the Czech police said on Monday. In July last year in comparison, 101 people died on the country’s roads. There is speculation that the fall in deaths year-on-year could have in part been thanks to a major shock campaign launched by the Transport Ministry last September. Similarly, the police’s summer road campaign, aimed at motorcyclists in particular, is thought to be bearing fruit. Last year some 41 motorcyclists died in accidents during the summer holidays.
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08/10/2009
The volume of assets Czechs have deposited in mutual funds grew by over 3.6 billion crowns (199 million USD) to total 216.6 billion crowns (12 billion USD) in the second quarter of 2009. The data was released on Monday by the Capital Market Association who said that last quarter’s figures constituted the first rise in assets in over a year. Equity funds registered a growth of .39 billion crowns, while mixed funds and secured funds also saw an increase in investment. Money markets performed the worst, losing 1.4 billion crowns in the second quarter. Real estate and bond funds also reported a fall in assets. The Capital Market Association said that a ‘major part of the increase’ came from growth in the market and the appreciation of assets already in funds.
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08/10/2009
The sale of newspapers in the Czech Republic rose in June by 0.5 percent to around 1.4 million papers a day. According to the Czech Publishers Association, who released the data on Monday, the number of papers being sold in this country has decreased year-on-year, however, by 8.5 percent. In June, the tabloid papers Blesk and Aha! both registered a rise in sales, as did the broadsheet Lidové noviny. Sales of financial daily Hospodářské noviny and broadsheet Právo remained around the same, while Mladá fronta’s sales dipped.
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08/09/2009
The Czech Defense Ministry has confirmed that it is planning to sell its military airport near the west Bohemian town of Plzeń without a public tender. The airport is to be sold to its current tenant –the firm PlayStation Plzen –by the end of the year. The firm’s director Michal Čermák said he planned to turn it into an international airport and logistics centre. The price of the property and assets is estimated at several hundred million crowns. The Defense Ministry has come under fire for not holding a public tender on such a significant sale.
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