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07/16/2009
The Czech National Bank has attacked the proposed reinforcement of supervision of financial markets agreed by EU leaders at the start of June. The proposal called for two entirely new Europe-wide bodies to improve regulation and supervision of financial markets.
The Czech central bank said on its web page on Thursday that the proposals weakened national supervision whose independence should not be undermined. It added that proposals do not solve fragmented supervision in some countries and do not at all address the causes of the current financial crisis. It also complained that the proposals are still very vague. The national bank was asked to comment by the European Commission before EU leaders agreed on an outline of the new rules.
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07/16/2009
The Czech Republic has announced its first home grown case of swine flu. The young woman infected is believed to have contracted the virus domestically after coming into contact with foreigners from Britain and the US. The Ministry of Health said she was admitted to hospital on Monday but is now in quarantine at home. All previous 20 cases of Czechs infected followed their return from foreign destinations.
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07/16/2009
A World Health Organisation report has highlighted the low level of HIV infection in the Czech Republic. The report says that 17 Czechs per 100,000 are infected with the virus that leads to AIDS. This compares with a European average of 336 per 100,000 and 4,735 per 100,000 in Africa. The figures also shows Czechs on average live to 77 compared with the European average of 74 and African average of 52.
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07/16/2009
The Czech National Bank is following closely an offer to buy the producer of the country’s coins. A tender has been launched for the sale of the private company Česká mincovna with its Polish counterpart seen as a favourite for the purchase. The central bank is the main client of the only Czech mint and wants to see it in safe hands. As well as coins in circulation it also produces commemorative coins and medals.
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07/16/2009
The Czech Ministry of Interior has announced that 1,819 applications have been made under its scheme to help unemployed foreigners return home. The offer of free flights home as well as 500 euros was offered to foreigners who had lost their jobs with the aim of encouraging them to leave rather than stay in the country and work illegally. Mongolians have so far been the biggest group to take up the offer with 1,186 applications made, followed by Uzbeks with 282 and Vietnamese with 228. An amended version of the offer will be widened to foreigners working illegally in the country from September.
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07/15/2009
The Swedish EU presidency said on Wednesday it was in favour of visa requirements for Canadians travelling to EU member states after Canada imposed visa requirements on Czech nationals. Swedish Migration and Asylum Policy Minister Tobias Billstroem told the AFP news agency his country was in favour of respecting the EU solidarity principle but said it was up to the European Commission to handle the proposal, since the commission was responsible for the reciprocity mechanism.
Canada imposed visas on Czech nationals on Tuesday citing the need to stave off what it said was a steady influx of Roma asylum applicants from the Czech Republic. Czech officials reacted to the news with anger, calling the move “unfriendly and unaccommodating”. The Czech government has urged the EU to take joint steps against Canada within the solidarity principle, but the EU on Tuesday ruled out immediate action. Acting within its rights, the Czech government has recalled the country’s ambassador to Canada for consultations and announced plans to impose visa requirements on Canadian diplomats and civil servants.
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07/15/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus on Wednesday criticized the EU for curbing the Czech Republic’s option of retaliation after Canada imposed visas on Czech nationals. He said the difference between the Czech Republic and Canada in this dispute was that Ottawa was free to make its own decisions while Prague’s hands were tied. It is Brussels that will decide for us, the president said. Mr. Klaus is a fierce opponent of the Lisbon treaty which he has so far refused to sign, saying it threatens Czech sovereignty.
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07/15/2009
The Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Michael Kocáb has said that Czech politicians should take part of the blame for the Romany exodus that has led Canada to re-impose visa requirements on Czech nationals. He said that local politicians had played the Romany card for their own political gain and had worsened already strained relations between the majority population and the Romany minority. He cited, among others, Jiří Čunek, former mayor of Vsetin in north Moravia, and Ivana Řapkova mayor of Chomutov, north Bohemia, as cases in point. Both took a hard line with Romany rent defaulters, moving them to inadequate housing facilities on the town suburbs or confiscating their welfare allowances.
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07/15/2009
Czech Social Democrat MEP Libor Rouček was elected one of the 14 deputy presidents of the European Parliament on Tuesday, at the assembly’s constituent session. Mr. Rouček, who joined the European Parliament in 2004, has been active on the EP’s foreign committee. The ctk news agency says Czech representatives are unlikely to win any other influential posts in the EP. The fall of the Mirek Topolánek centre-right government in March has moreover complicated the country’s chances of getting an influential post in the European Commission. The bid for a portfolio and talks on a suitable candidate have been put on ice until after the early general elections in October.
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07/15/2009
Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek has called on the Civic Democratic Party to publicly distance itself from the Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom party and the Polish Law and Justice party with which it has allied itself within the new right-wing faction in the European Parliament. Paroubek said the Latvian nationalist party supported the annual marches of veterans of Latvian SS divisions and the Polish party held the view that homosexuality was an illness. The Social Democrat leader said that at a time of growing extremism an alliance with such parties was scandalous. Civic Democrat MEP Jan Zahradil rejected the accusations, saying they were an attempt to discredit the new right-wing faction in the EP which was a thorn in the flesh of many politicians.
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