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04/08/2008
Czech President Václav Klaus, who is on a three-day official visit to Egypt, has launched a Czech-Egyptian business forum in Alexandria. On Monday, Mr Klaus met his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak and opened an exhibition in Cairo dedicated to the 50 years of Czech archaeological research in Egypt. Czech archaeologists have recently celebrated an important discovery, revealing a fully-intact archaeological site in the pyramid fields of Abusir dating back 4,500 years.
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04/08/2008
Interior Minister Ivan Langer and the head of the Czech Statistical Office Jan Fischer agreed on Monday that their offices would cooperate to design and test a system enabling electronic voting by the end of next year. The 2014 general election should be the first in which Czechs could vote via the Internet. The plan still needs to be approved by Parliament.
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04/08/2008
April 8 is International Roma Day and several events are being held across the Czech Republic to mark the occasion. One of the biggest events is an exhibition of 30 racially-motivated murders since 1989, which is taking place at Prague’s Náměstí Míru. International Roma Day was first marked in 1971 and was introduced in the Czech Republic in 1990.
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04/08/2008
Some 86 percent of Czechs older than 16 years had a mobile phone in 2007, a growth of 2.4 percentage points against the previous year, according to the Czech Statistical Office. There were 13 million active mobile phones in the country last year, which means there were around 126 phone numbers per 100 people. Data from EU’s statistical office Eurostat put the Czech Republic just below the top ten EU countries as regards the number of mobile phone users.
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04/08/2008
Czech international striker Jan Koller announced on Tuesday that he will retire from the Czech national football team after this year’s Euro championship. ”It’s a definitive decision and nothing can change it,” he said. The 35-year-old striker is the top all-time goal scorer for the Czech Republic. He plans to leave the national football team at the same time as its long-standing coach Karel Brückner, who has already said that he will quit his post after the European championships in Austria and Switzerland this summer.
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04/07/2008
The American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is set to visit Prague in early May to sign a Czech-American agreement on siting a US tracking radar on Czech soil. A spokesperson for the American Embassy made the announcement to journalists, but would not disclose the exact date of the treaty’s signing. There has already been some speculation that the signing of the accord will coincide with a conference on missile defence to start in Prague on May 5. Even after the deal is signed, the treaty will still need to be approved by the Czech Parliament and signed by President Václav Klaus. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has been elected to sign the treaty on behalf of the Czech Republic.
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04/07/2008
The Health Minister Tomáš Julínek has unveiled plans to streamline the country’s health insurance system, proposing the privatization of all health insurers except VZP – the biggest state-owned insurance provider. Around 60% of Czechs are currently insured by VZP, while the remaining 40% are insured by a mixture of state and privately-owned insurance companies. Mr Julínek’s plans have come under fire from the opposition Social Democrats, who say that the privatization of state-run health insurers could lead to private insurers siphoning off public money. But Mr Julínek responds that privatization is required to increase cost-efficiency, saying that at the moment, health insurance companies are ‘unable to fulfill their role, which is to protect their clients’. The plans will be discussed by the cabinet on Wednesday.
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04/07/2008
The German Embassy in Prague has spoken out against claims made by Czech PM Mirek Topolánek that police checks near the Czech-German border are tantamount to ‘bullying’ and ‘a breach of Schengen protocol’. The Czech Republic joined the Schengen zone in December last year, and since that time, Czechs have been enjoying passport free travel over the border to Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland. Border checks have given way to random checks within a 30 kilometre radius of the Czech Republic’s borders with its neighbours, including Germany. A report recently published by the Centre for European Policy Studies suggested that German police were targeting Czechs and Poles in particular in their checks. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek condemned German police on the basis of this report at a Schengen-related event at the end of March. But on Monday, the German Embassy responded that checks by police and customs officials along the EU internal border were ‘useful and important’.
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04/07/2008
The Czech trade surplus rose to 14.3 billion CZK (898 million USD) in February, up from 12.9 billion CZK in the same month last year, the national statistics office said on Monday. The rise was mainly owing to stronger sales of machinery and transport equipment, coupled with a narrowing of the deficit in food and a turnaround from deficit to surplus in sales of drinks and tobacco, the office said. The trade balance was in surplus to the tune of 26.5 billion crowns in the first two months of the year, a 3.8-billion crown improvement on the same period last year.
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04/07/2008
Flights out of Prague airport were grounded and incoming flights were diverted on Monday morning due to low visibility caused by thick fog. The Czech airline ČSA said it was forced to cancel nine flights, and redirect another 11 to the Czech Republic’s second city Brno, and Dresden, Germany. The fog reduced visibility to around 200 metres, which is less than half the minimum required for the airport to function normally. An airport spokesperson said that after hours of disruption, a normal service resumed around 0640 GMT, but with a backlog of delayed outgoing flights. Prague’s Ruzyně airport said that flights were running to schedule again by late Monday afternoon.
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