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07/24/2008
Meanwhile, Prague authorities have expressed alarm over an epidemic of hepatitis A which is particularly affecting drug addicts in the city. Around 100 people have contracted the disease since January, compared to the 36 and 13 cases recorded in the whole of 2007 and 2006. The incidence of hepatitis A is 30 times higher in the capital than elsewhere in the country.
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07/24/2008
The Czech National Film Archive is to get a new headquarters under a plan approved by the government. The Culture Ministry, which will oversee the project, expects construction to begin in 2013. No site has as yet been acquired for the project.
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07/24/2008
The Czech Republic's Under 19 football team have taken a bronze medal at the European Championship, after being knocked out in the semi-finals on Wednesday night. The Czechs, playing in front of a home crowd in Mladá Boleslav, were drawing Germany 1:1 after 90 minutes but went out after conceding a second goal in extra time.
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07/24/2008
The Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger finished eighth in stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday. Kreuziger, who is 22 and taking part in the famous race for the first time, is 13th overall. He remains in second place in the Tour’s under 25s category.
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07/23/2008
Dana Kuchtová, deputy chairwoman of the Green Party, has announced she will challenge Martin Bursík for the party’s top post at an extraordinary party conference in September. She has been one of Mr Bursík’s most vocal critics, accusing the Greens leader of autocratic practices and claiming that he was not doing enough to defend the party’s policy programme within the governing coalition. At a press conference in Prague on Wednesday Dana Kuchtová said that the Greens had veered too far right, when they should rightly be a centrist party. Party leader Martin Bursík, who has come under a lot of pressure from both inside and outside the party, recently called an extraordinary conference at which he plans to run for re-election in order to boost his mandate ahead of crucial votes in Parliament.
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07/23/2008
The minister for human rights and minorities, Džamila Stehlíková, says a bill on euthanasia, tabled in the Senate, contradicts one of the fundamental human rights – the right to life. The minister warned of possible widespread misuse and argued that such a bill should have been preceded by a widespread expert and public debate.
The first ever euthanasia bill reached the upper house of parliament on Tuesday and immediately sparked controversy. Drafted by Senator Václava Domšová of the European Democrats the bill would legalize assisted suicide, and give comatose patients the right to die. However, it faces a number of obstacles. Senators across the board are opposed to it, citing concerns over potential misuse. Despite these fears, opinion surveys indicate that two-thirds of Czechs would support the right to assisted suicide.
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07/23/2008
The winning design for a new national library building by the renowned Czech-born architect Jan Kaplický will not be built on Prague’s Letná Plain, Culture Minister Václav Jehlička told reporters after a government meeting on Wednesday. The minister cited financial reasons, saying the state could only afford to pay 2 billion for the new building while Kaplický’s design would require four billion. Kaplický’s design, a nine storey building, dubbed “the blob” has divided the public as well as experts and politicians. Critics say its avant-garde design would ruin Prague’s sky-line.
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07/23/2008
The Czech government on Wednesday approved a proposal for the state to compensate all victims of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, regardless of whether they had received some form of compensation in the communist years. An earlier legislation opening the way for compensation of 1968 victims does not entitle many of them to apply. According to Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek this is unfair since the sum they had received was negligible. Under the law from 2005, the victims or their relatives can apply for a one-off financial compensation from 30,000 to 150,000 crowns depending on the harm suffered.
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07/23/2008
The Czech government on Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding between the Czech Republic and the steel giant ArcelorMittal, ending all their disputes. Under the agreement, ArcelorMittal will withdraw all its suits against the Czech Republic in which it demanded 26 billion crowns, and the Czech Republic, will, in turn, sell an 11-percent stake in the largest Czech steel maker ArcelorMittal Ostrava to ArcelorMittal. The Czech Republic will gain 6.8 billion crowns from the shares sold. ArcelorMittal now holds over 71 percent shares in ArcelorMittal Ostrava.
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07/23/2008
The German concern Siemens has decided to pull out from its railway vehicles producing plant in Prague-Zličín by the second half of this year, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday. The company intends to regroup its European production activities to boost its long-term competitiveness. Siemens is looking for a buyer, but a spokesman for the concern did not rule out that the Prague plant may eventually be sold. The plant has over 1,000 employees.
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