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08/04/2008
Prague Mayor Pavel Bém will not run for the post of chairman of the Civic Democratic Party at the party’s national conference in the autumn, the E15 internet daily reported. Mr Bém said the party conference should confirm Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek in the post. The Prague mayor, who is considered to be the prime minister’s main rival in the party, said his potential victory over Mr Topolánek could spark a confrontation that could weaken the governing coalition.
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08/04/2008
Barbora Snopková, assistant to former finance minister Ivo Svoboda, has been released from prison on parole. Mrs Snopková and Mr Svoboda were sentenced to five years in prison in 2005 after being convicted of having unlawfully transferred 6.5 million crowns (around 400 000 US dollars) to their own private company from the now bankrupt baby carriage manufacturer Liberta, while on the company’s board between 1996 and 1998. Mr Svoboda is the first member of a post-Communist Czech government to be handed down a prison sentence. The release of Mrs Snopková was proposed by the head of Prague’s Ruzyně prison where she served her sentence.
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08/04/2008
The Czech Republic posted a foreign trade surplus of 13.9 billion crowns in June, according to preliminary data released by the Czech Statistical Office. The figure is 5.8 billion higher than in the same month in 2007. Exports grew by 1.7 percent while imports fell by 1 percent. The surplus has been attributed mainly to increased exports of machinery and transport equipment. Analysts expected the figure to be much lower due the strengthening Czech crown.
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08/04/2008
The number of employed Czech residents has exceeded 5 million for the first time in the country's history, the Czech Statistical Office reported. Unemployment has dipped to 4.3 percent, which is the lowest figure in 12 years. Some 220,000 people are currently unable to find a job. The lowest rate of unemployment – currently at 1.8 percent - is in Prague, while the highest rate is in the region of Moravia-Silesia, with 7.6 percent of people out of work. Employers complain increasingly of a lack of skilled workers.
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08/04/2008
Prague municipal police have collected littering fines amounting to 200,000 crowns (or 13,000 US dollars) from almost 5000 people since a strict regulation to prevent littering was introduced last month. Tossing a cigarette butt was the most common offence. Nearly 700 people have also been fined for drinking alcohol in alcohol-free public places. As of July 1, those caught spitting out gum, tossing cigarette butts, not cleaning up their dog’s mess and even feeding the pigeons face a fine of up to 30,000 crowns.
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08/04/2008
The number of Czechs who think courts are impartial is the lowest since 1999, according to a recent poll conducted by the STEM agency. Only 28 percent of Czechs believe that local courts are impartial and that they perform well. The work of judges was appraised by mere three percent of respondents. The survey by the STEM agency suggests people’s views are largely influenced by their political preferences, with supporters of the governing Civic Democrats being the most optimistic.
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08/04/2008
The Prague Zoo plans to repair two wooden Cubist houses built by the renowned Czech architect Josef Gočár, relocate them to an upper part of the garden and open them to the public. The houses were damaged by flood water in August 2002 and they have been in bad shape since then. The renovation will cost around 30 million crowns.
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08/03/2008
The musician Michael Kocáb has confirmed he is going to stand for the Green Party in elections to the Senate this autumn. However, he said he would withdraw his candidature if the Greens moved to the left under Dana Kuchtová, who is set to challenge chairman Martin Bursík for the leadership next month. Mr Kocáb, who leads the rock group Pražský výběr, played a leading role in the Velvet Revolution and was a Civic Forum deputy. He oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia and was an advisor to Václav Havel during Mr Havel’s presidency.
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08/03/2008
Around 400 people attended a neo-Nazi rock concert at Ochoz near Brno on Saturday evening. The event was monitored by hundreds of police officers. One of the organisers said the attentions of the state and the media had put off some would-be attendees, while most of the far-right rock groups slated to play at the outdoor concert also pulled out. Another such event is planned for the Pardubice area in east Bohemia the weekend after next.
Experts on extremism have told the Czech Press Agency they believe the Czech far right is planning to try to enter politics at the national level. The neo-Nazis long-term strategy involves a concerted effort to not break the law in order to gain broader support with an eye to eventually entering Parliament, a member of the Czech Helsinki Committee said. The Interior Ministry recently said it would put more energy into monitoring far-right groups.
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08/03/2008
A notorious neo-Nazi book cannot be banned in the Czech Republic, the website tyden.cz reported. The Czech police commissioned a legal analysis of The Turner Diaries after it was published in Czech for the first time earlier this year. The report states that no crime was committed in connection with the publication of the so-called “neo-Nazi bible”, a spokesperson for the Prague police told tyden.cz. Police are not satisfied with its findings and have now requested a second analysis. The Turner Diaries, which describes an Aryan revolution that leads to the extermination of the world’s non-white peoples, is banned in other European states.
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