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05/12/2008
The 63rd Prague Spring international music festival gets underway in the Czech capital on Monday evening. As is traditional, the opening concert will feature Má vlast by the great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. Five prestigious foreign orchestras are taking part, including the BBC Symphonic Orchestra led by the Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek and Britain’s longest-established professional symphony orchestra, Manchester’s Halle Orchestra. This year’s Prague Spring features 50 concerts and seven theatre performances and runs until June 4.
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05/12/2008
Newly released figures from the Czech traffic police suggest that the number of fatalities on Czech roads has fallen. The figures for the first quarter of 2008 reveal 264 deaths on the roads, a figure which is 43 less than 2007 first-quarter figures. The numbers of accidents, serious injuries and material damages from car accidents have also all decreased. Further, the figures for serious injuries are at their sixth lowest since 1990. The numbers are believed to represent a modest improvement in Czech efforts to decrease high levels of traffic accidents.
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05/12/2008
Documents prepared by the Czech Communist Party ahead of its conference on the 17 May, could get the party into serious trouble, according to media reports. The controversy surrounds revolutionary statements which are similar in nature to that proclaimed by the Communist Youth Union, which was outlawed by a Czech court in October 2006. Both organisations proclaim that capitalism must be overturned to make way for socialism or communism. The Communist Youth Union was outlawed because of the seemingly revolutionary and violent methods it was advocating in order to achieve this goal - which the court ruled were unconstitutional. However, the Czech Communist Party is more cautious, insisting that its path towards this stated goal remains peaceful and democratic. However, observers note that the communists could ultimately end up before a court tasked with determining whether the party should be outlawed.
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05/12/2008
A new extension to the Prague metro, which will take trains all the way to the city’s airport should begin construction late next year. The Prague Transport Authority announced the proposals on Monday, detailing total costs of around 40 billion crowns. The “A” metro line will be extended in several stages, the first of which is expected to be complete by 2014. However, the metro is not expected to reach the airport until 2018. The first extension is being financed with the help of EU development grants.
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05/12/2008
The Czech Republic lost 3:5 to Sweden at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Quebec on Sunday, failing to score any points in a game for the first time. The defeat cost the Czechs the chance of first place in Group E, though they had already qualified for the next stage of the competition.
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05/12/2008
Czech president Václav Klaus has appointed a new spokesperson to replace the outgoing Petr Hájek. Radim Ochvat, a former assistant to PM Mirek Topolánek will assume his post on June 1.
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05/11/2008
The price of foodstuffs in the Czech Republic is likely to increase by at least ten percent this year, the president of the country’s Agricultural Chamber Jan Veleba said on a TV debate programme on Sunday. Mr Veleba said world demand for foods would always outstrip production, adding that rapid price rises were also caused by speculators. Czech consumers have seen record price increases; for instance, flour costs more than 50 percent more now than it did last May, while bread rolls, rice, milk and dairy products have all gone up by nearly a third in the last twelve months.
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05/11/2008
The production of the illegal drug pervitine has moved from the capital to the central Bohemian region, according to a report produced by the Prague police for the city’s Town Hall. The report, which focuses on drugs in the city in 2007, says producers of pervitine are now making the meta-amphetamine outside Prague to lower the risk of detection and then taking it to the city to sell. That said, eleven pervitine making labs were uncovered in Prague last year. Meanwhile, there has been an increase in marijuana growing in the capital, with more and more production in the hands of Vietnamese gangs, the report says. One official said the production of marijuana in the Czech capital was now extremely professional.
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05/11/2008
Runners from around the world took part in the Prague International Marathon on Sunday. Up to 5,000 runners were expected to sign up for the 14th Prague marathon, which got underway on the city’s Old Town Square at 9am. Unlike during a half-marathon earlier this year, participants crossed Charles Bridge, which is currently undergoing extensive reconstruction. A number of tram lines were diverted and traffic restrictions were in place. The race was won by the Kenyan runner Kenneth Mungara in a time of 2:11:06. The first Czech to cross the line was Róbert Štefko, who completed the race in 2:23:53.
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05/11/2008
Nearly two thirds of Czechs are opposed to the planned building of a United States radar base in central Bohemia, suggests a fresh opinion poll conducted by the Median agency. Forty-four percent of respondents in the survey said they were definitely opposed to the installation, while 21 percent said they were rather opposed. Four percent were strongly in favour, while 14 percent were rather in favour. The findings of the latest poll are in line with previous surveys. Prague and Washington have reached agreement on the radar base, which would be part of a global missile defence system, though the Czech Parliament is yet to vote on whether to allow US soldiers on Czech soil.
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