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06/13/2008
Czech dailies Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta Dnes have reported that sixty percent of roads in the Czech Republic are high-risk, based on statistics on traffic accidents between the years 2003-2005. The project, part of the European Road Assessment Programme, takes the form of a map highlighting traffic density as well as accident frequency in areas. Most high-risk routes are primary roads. Multi-lane routes, meanwhile, have been assessed as the safest. Statistically, some of the most dangerous routes in the country include a road connecting Prague with nearby Kladno, as well as a route from Prague to Mělník, north of the capital. The map did not focus on the situation in the capital city.
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06/13/2008
Several thousand employees at three state hospitals in Brno, Moravia, are to join a strike planned for late June. The manner of joining the strike is still being negotiated, but workers at one of the facilities will cease work for one hour on the day – that is on June 24th. Workers are protesting conditions in the health sector, including reforms planned by the health ministry. One of the hospitals is fighting for its survival, expected to be closed under current plans. Regional hospitals in the area, meanwhile, will reportedly not be taking part in the strike.
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06/13/2008
Czech doctors, in an extraordinary operation at the Vinohrady hospital this week, managed to save the mangled leg of a patient who had suffered a car crash. Doctors managed to save the 31-year-old patient’s foot after it was practically severed at the ankle, through extensive reconstructive surgery. Specialists were able to reconnect severed veins, arteries and nerves. Afterwards one of the surgeons said such operations are “once in a decade”. The patient is now in recovery.
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06/13/2008
The Czech crown hit a new record high of 24.13 crowns to the euro on Friday as it continued in recent strengthening against Europe's single currency. After gaining 0.10 crowns against the euro, the currency weakened to around 24.20 in later trading. The strengthening crown has placed the Czech National Bank in a difficult position over whether it should raise interest rates in a bid to curb ongoing inflationary pressure. While a rate increase could help it counter prices rises, it would also fuel the crown's appreciation, which the bank has already described as exaggerated, and brake economic growth.
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06/13/2008
A representative at the Czech foreign ministry has revealed that some 17 Czech police officers, fluent in Serbo-Croatian, will serve on the Croatian coast between the end of June and the beginning of September. They will be there to assist Czech tourists as well as to ease communication with local authorities. Croatia remains the top summer destination for many Czech vacationers: this year there are estimates that more than 1 million Czechs will visit, up from more than 700,000 last year.
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06/13/2008
The Czech Republic has booked a slot at the Beijing Olympics with quarter-final victories in the women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Madrid. The Czechs had to overturn a 10-point deficit early on before defeating Japan 76-64. Forward Eva Vítečková and shooting guard Hana Machová led the way with 26 and 19 points respectively.
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06/12/2008
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has staked his political future on the Czech Parliament approving plans for a US radar base in the Czech Republic. Mr Schwarzenberg said that if the government failed to push a bilateral agreement on the base through Parliament in the coming months, then he would step aside to let a “better” foreign minister succeed where he had failed. In an interview with Reuters news agency, Mr Schwarzenberg said he was not sure of the government’s chances of success with the radar base treaty since the majority of the population is against the base and a large number of MPs are strongly opposed.
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06/12/2008
A car with an explosive device attached was discovered last week near a busy mall in Prague, the newspaper Deník reported on Thursday. A police spokesperson told the daily, however, that the explosive device was not functional. The civilian counter-intelligence service BIS are cooperating closely with the police on the case, the newspaper wrote. It is not known yet who planted the bomb.
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06/12/2008
The Croatian government has officially overturned a ban it imposed on Czech holidaymakers bringing foodstuffs into the country, in the face of strong opposition. The Czech consul in Zagreb Veronika Honcová broke the news to the Czech press on Thursday. The ban, which came into effect on June 1 this year, angered many Czechs to such an extent that they threatened to boycott the country. Croatia has been a popular tourist resort for Czechs since communist times. Last year, an estimated 800,000 Czechs visited the country.
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06/12/2008
The technical lifespan of almost all of the missiles being used by the Czech military has expired, the Supreme Audit Office said on Thursday. In some cases, a missile’s expiry date had been exceeded over three times. The president of the Audit Office, František Dohnal, said that this posed a serious security risk and that the reliable use of these missiles could no longer be guaranteed. The military has just bought 16 new Swedish RBS missiles, though it still has some missile systems in place dating from the Cold War era.
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