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04/27/2008
Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek of the Christian Democrats has said he would be prepared to accept some changes to the proposed bill on a settlement between the state and churches if it was unacceptable to part of the Civic Democratic party in its present form. However Mr. Kalousek said the changes would have to be discussed with church representatives. Under the proposed bill, which would compensate churches for property lost under the communist regime, the state would have to pay close to 270 billion crowns in restitution money plus interest over the next 60 years.
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04/27/2008
Police broke up a skinhead concert attended by around seventy people in Velký Beranov, in South-East Bohemia, on Saturday night. Over 100 officers were monitoring the event and intervened when one of the participating bands performed a song with anti-Semitic lyrics. Nine people were detained for questioning. It is not yet clear whether any of them will be charged. The rock concert was presented as a private birthday party.
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04/27/2008
Seven people were injured on Saturday in a collision between a bus and several cars during the filming of “G.I.Joe” in the centre of Prague. The accident happened in a closed area that was rented out to filmmakers for the weekend. Seven people were taken to hospital for treatment but their injuries are reported to have been light and all are said to be doing well. According to unofficial reports it appears that one of the cars doing a stunt scene had trouble breaking.
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04/27/2008
Police are investigating the death of a newborn baby girl who was found in a garbage container in Prague early on Sunday. The police discovered the identity of the mother almost immediately because she was forced to seek medical attention at a nearby hospital. The police investigate cases involving abandoned newborns several times a year and a number of Prague hospitals have set up baby boxes for unwanted children in the hope that this will decrease the number of babies killed at birth.
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04/27/2008
The Czech government will meet on Monday to discuss sick-leave benefits after the Constitutional Court ruled last week that the changes introduced were unconstitutional. According to recently introduced healthcare reforms, employees, who previously received 40% of their salary during the first three days of illness, now receive no benefits whatsoever. The court argued that the changed legislation, designed to prevent employees from abusing sick-leave benefits, was unconstitutional because it failed to guarantee an employee’s right to security in times of illness. Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Nečas says the ruling is absurd since a similar practice exists in other EU states.
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04/27/2008
Two people died and three were injured in a fire that broke out in derelict building inhabited by homeless people in the town of Vrchlabí, North Bohemia. The cause of the fire is being investigated. The police believe the building’s inhabitants may have lit a fire to warm themselves, fallen asleep and let it get out of control. The police are trying to ascertain the identity of the dead people.
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04/26/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has rejected claims that his ruling Civic Democratic party had betrayed its policy programme. Speaking at a weekend party conference devoted to policy matters, the prime minister said the Civic Democrats had not lost sight of their goal, although they had had to modify their plans in order to accommodate their partners in government. Mr. Topolánek said that in his view the goal justified the means and that his party was determined to fulfil its goal. He said that if his party won the next general elections he would guarantee that in ten years' time the Czech Republic would figure among the top ten EU countries.
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04/26/2008
Two dozen Czech followers of the spiritual movement Falun Gong on Saturday gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Prague to stage a peaceful protest against human rights abuse in China. Petr Šváb, one of the organizers of the event, said that Falun Gong was planning to step up its awareness campaign in the run up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. He said Falun Gong had proof of at least 2,000 arrests of political activists in China since the beginning of last year and of over 100 people dying in labour camps or being tortured to death. Šváb said the Chinese regime had two faces –one which it showed to the world and another to its own people.
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04/26/2008
Prague mayor Pavel Bém has rejected claims that town hall officials have proposed Vyšehrad as an alternative site for Jan Kaplický’s controversial design for the Czech National Library. The mayor’s statement came in response to an article in Saturday’s Lidové noviny which said that Prague councillors and the National Library’s management have discussed the possibility of building the so-called Octupus in Prague’s Vyšehrad district, close to the Prague Congress Centre. The futuristic purple-and-gold design for a new National Library, which was to have been built on Prague’s Letná Plain has caused a storm of controversy, with Prague town hall claiming that it would ruin the panorama of the city. Its future remains uncertain.
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04/26/2008
The Communist party has asked the government to consider holding a national referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The communists, who are the only parliamentary party to reject the Lisbon Treaty outright, claim that the treaty will restrict the country’s sovereignty and weaken its integrity and should thereby be sanctioned by the people. The government is to debate the proposal on Monday, but its chances of winning approval are close to nil. The Lisbon Treaty is now being debated by both houses of Parliament. The Czech Senate has moreover asked the Constitutional Court to ascertain whether the Lisbon treaty is in harmony with the Czech constitutional order.
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