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07/10/2008
Environment Minister Martin Bursík has said that he has no plans to increase the country’s reliance upon nuclear power. Mr Bursik’s remarks come just before the publication of a government-commissioned report, which advocates the development of more nuclear power stations in the Czech Republic. Mr Bursík said on Thursday that the country’s two existing nuclear power plants are ‘sufficient’, and that the government should instead focus on energy consumption, not production. The Environment Ministry wants households to cut down on the amount of energy they use, Mr Bursík said.
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07/10/2008
Czech industrial production rose by 3.4 percent year on year in May, slowing from April’s 12.2 percent increase, the Czech statistical office said on Tuesday. In the manufacturing sector, the biggest output gains were in the machinery and transport equipment sectors. Production of food, drinks and textiles fell. New orders in May stood at 98.1 percent of their level a year earlier, with exporters complaining that they are losing market share following the recent surge in the value of the Czech crown against both the euro and the dollar.
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07/10/2008
In other business news, a record number of 32,300 foreign workers came to the Czech Republic in the first half of this year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on Thursday. This number is up by 8,000 on figures from the same time last year. A total of 272,500 foreigners were registered employed in the Czech Republic at the end of June. The biggest single group of foreign workers came from Slovakia, with Slovaks making up over a third of this number. Ukrainians and Vietnamese also accounted for a large percentage of the Czech Republic’s foreign labour force.
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07/10/2008
Two men have died in a mining accident in Darkov in the northeast of the Czech Republic. Both men were found unconscious by colleagues early Thursday morning. Rescue workers were unable to resuscitate the men when brought to the surface. The cause of the accident is being investigated by the mine owner - OKD. Work continued in other parts of the mine, a spokesperson for the company said, adding that other miners’ safety was not at risk.
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07/10/2008
Thursday sees the most expensive film ever made in Central Europe, ‘Bathory’, go on general release in Prague. The release follows the movie’s premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday, where the film received mixed reviews. The Slovak-Czech-Hungarian-British co-production retraces the life of the countess Erzebeth Bathory, a mysterious 17th-century Hungarian noblewoman thought to be a vampire. British actress Anna Friel stars as the bloodthirsty countess, playing alongside Czech star Karel Roden, who fills one of the two male leads.
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07/10/2008
Meanwhile in Karlovy Vary, American actor Danny Glover received a festival president’s award on Wednesday. Glover, who is known best for his performances in the Lethal Weapon action films, is in Karlovy Vary this week to promote his new film Honeydripper, directed by John Sayles. On Wednesday night at the Grand Hotel Pupp, Danny Glover was presented with his Crystal Globe by the festival’s head, Jiří Bartoška.
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07/09/2008
There is heightened tension between the United States and Russia following the signing of a missile defense treaty between Washington and Prague on Tuesday. The agreement opens the way for the deployment of a US tracking radar on Czech soil. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said his country was “extremely upset” by this development and was considering retaliatory action. Speaking at a meeting of Group of Eight leaders in Japan President Medvedev said that although Moscow considered these plans a threat to its security it would act “without hysteria” and remain open to talks.
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07/09/2008
Meanwhile, the United States urged Russia on Wednesday to join its planned missile defense as “equal partners”, playing down Moscow’s warning about taking retaliatory action. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Washington was interested in developing a missile defense system between the United States, Russia and Europe, with everyone participating as equal partners. He said the system was not aimed against Russia, adding that Moscow’s missile arsenal “absolutely dwarfed” it. According to inside sources Moscow fears that the radar system could be pointed into Russia for intelligence-gathering purposes. Prague has rejected Moscow’s demand that it be allowed to have permanent military inspectors at the site, on the grounds that it did not want even a small Russian military presence on Czech soil.
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07/09/2008
The Czech-US missile defense treaty still needs to be approved by Parliament and a vote on it is expected late this year or early next year. The issue has divided the Czech political scene and support for it in the lower house is far from certain. Public opinion is also against the radar base with 68 percent of Czechs opposing the deal. Close to two thousand people took to the streets of Prague on Tuesday to protest against the treaty.
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07/09/2008
President Vaclav Klaus has said he would sign the Czech-American radar agreement with “no hesitation whatsoever”, if it were approved by Parliament. At a brief press conference in Prague the president said that he regarded the radar as a unifying element in the country’s partnership with the United States. Asked to comment on Russia’s angry response to the missile defense project Mr. Klaus said that Prague and Washington had to keep trying to convince Moscow that placing elements of the missile defense system in two post-communist countries posed no threat to Russia.
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