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06/17/2008
Stars of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian are due to attend its Czech premiere on Tuesday night. Alongside the young actors, director Andrew Adamson will attend the screening at Prague’s Slovanský Dům. Parts of the movie were shot in the Czech Republic – in north Bohemia, at Barrandov Studios and at the Brdy military zone.
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06/17/2008
The business manager of the Czech national football team, Vlastimil Košťál, has resigned. He had been in the position for the same six-and-a-half-year period that Karel Bruckner served as team coach. Mr Košťál is also the deputy head of the Czech football association and is regarded as one of the most powerful and controversial people in Czech soccer. Commentators have welcomed his resignation; his presence in the national team structure was reportedly a deterrent to potential successors to Mr Bruckner as Czech coach.
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06/17/2008
The Czech goalkeeper Jaromír Blažek is returning to Sparta Prague after one season at the German club Nuremberg. The Bundesliga side, who last season also featured Czech players Jan Koller and Tomáš Galásek, were relegated to the German second division in May. Blažek, who was second choice Czech goalie after Petr Čech, quit international football after the Czech Republic’s exit from Euro 2008.
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06/17/2008
The Czech tennis player Nicole Vaidišová was defeated in the first round of a Wimbledon warm-up tournament at Eastbourne on Tuesday. The 19-year-old has been having a disappointing season, with a run to the quarter-finals of a tournament in Birmingham last week the only matches she has won since the beginning of March.
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06/16/2008
Speaking in Prague on Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty should not be ‘over-dramatised’. Nor, he said, should the importance of the no-vote be played down. Mr Sarkozy said that it was now up to France, who will be presiding over the EU for the next six months, to face the consequences of the Irish ‘no’ vote. The French president was in Prague on Monday to meet heads of the Visegrad four states. His visit also provided an opportunity to liaise with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, whose government will be taking over the EU presidency from the French at the start of 2009.
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06/16/2008
Meanwhile, the Czech, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian prime ministers said that they would support Croatia’s bid to join the EU at a meeting in Prague on Monday. Czech prime minister Mirek Topolánek said that he did not want Croatia to become a ‘victim’ of the confusion that the EU has been thrown into after Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty last Thursday. Mr Topolánek’s sentiments were echoed by Polish premier Donald Tusk, who said that the so-called ‘Visegrad four’ (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) should continue to strive towards the enlargement of the EU, even after the Irish vote.
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06/16/2008
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg argued against lifting sanctions on Cuba at an EU meeting on Monday, and succeeded in having the decision postponed until a summit of the EU’s 27 member states on Thursday. At a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, the topic of Cuban sanctions was raised, but then mothballed, with precedence being given to questions about the Lisbon Treaty, which Irish voters rejected last week. Lifting sanctions would put the EU at odds with Washington over its Cuba policy. Former colonial power Spain has long led calls for an end to EU sanctions, but it has met resistance from the EU’s ex-communist members, most notably the Czech Republic.
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06/16/2008
Education Minister Ondřej Liška has said that he wants a treaty paving the way for a US radar base on Czech soil to be ratified by the Czech Parliament only after the American presidential elections. Mr Liška said that his party, the Greens, would do their ‘utmost’ to postpone the ratification of the treaty until next year at the earliest. According to the education minister, a new American president may not necessarily support plans drafted by the outgoing Bush administration to build an anti-missile defence system in both the Czech Republic and Poland. Mr Liška’s views are at variance with those held by Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, who would like the bilateral treaty to be approved by the Czech Parliament as early as August.
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06/16/2008
Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek will again be called as a witness in the case of entrepreneurs Roman Vaškůj and Petr Šmiřák, it was revealed on Monday. Mr Čunek had previously refused to testify before the Přerov court hearing the case, but on Monday, the presiding judge insisted that Mr Čunek appear as a witness. Mr Čunek was previously cleared of accepting bribes from Messrs Vaškůj and Šmířak. The leader of the Christian Democratic Party resigned from his government posts over allegations he had taken bribes from the two, but was reinstated after an investigation was dropped.
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06/16/2008
In related news, a key witness in the Čunek corruption case, Marcela Urbanová, has been charged with providing false testimony against the government minister. Ms Urbanová was formerly Mr Čunek’s secretary when he was mayor of Vsetín back in 2002. She accused Mr Čunek of sexual harassment and of offering her money in exchange for keeping quiet about bribes he was accepting. The case against Mr Čunek was dropped earlier this year. On Monday, the Prague Attorney’s Office said that it was charging Mrs Urbanová with giving false testimony in the case. Mrs Urbanová denies the accusations. If found guilty, she could face a prison sentence of up to ten years.
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