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03/05/2008
The Czech government has announced that it may block a proposed plan by the European Commission to auction Carbon Dioxide permits after 2012. The proposals, which have been broadly welcomed across Europe, extend the EUs Emissions Trading Scheme, which seeks to cut CO2 emissions by 20% on 1990 levels by 2020. The current trading system allows companies free emissions permits, but in future they will have to buy these allowances, significantly increasing costs. Several new EU states have voiced opposition to the plans, saying that the proposals would hurt their more coal-dependant economies.
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03/05/2008
Jiří Paroubek, the leader of the opposition Social Democrats has announced that he wants his party to conduct an internal referendum on whether to approve the placement of a US military radar base on Czech soil. The comments came after Mr Paroubek concluded a meeting with members of the anti-radar civic group Ne základnám or No Bases. He also added that any Social Democrat MP in favour of the base should not run as a Social Democrat party member in future general elections. The referendum is set to extend to the entire party membership and reflects a growing opposition to the base by the Social Democratic party, which is also set to attend a protest against the radar organized by Ne základnám on 15 March.
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03/05/2008
Czech police are investigating the disappearance of a quarter of a million Euros from a Czech Airlines plane last week. According to the Czech daily Mladá fronta Dnes, the airplane stopped off in Prague en route to the Estonian capital Tallinn from London. The plane was carrying billions of Euros in cash, as part of a routine trip from a money-printing facility. Investigators are looking into whether somebody working at the airport managed to pocket a bag containing a quarter of a million Euros during the plane’s stop-over in Prague. However, investigators are also looking at the possibility that the money may have been stolen in Estonia, where the plane landed shortly thereafter – its cargo was later returned to Prague after the missing money was not accounted for by the Estonian authorities.
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03/05/2008
Czech lawmakers have proposed a law which would see Czech drivers paying to receive police-assistance. The law, which is yet to be debated by MPs, would mean that Czech police would no longer investigate or log car accidents in which there were no injuries. The change would see drivers paying between 100-1000 crowns for calling in police assistance for accidents deemed to be of little consequence. At present, the law states that police intervention is not required if a car accident creates less than 50,000 crowns damage. The new law would see that figure rise to 250,000. Advocates of the law argue that it will free up the police to focus on more serious incidents.
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03/05/2008
On Friday, President Klaus is set to be inaugurated for a second term. It has been revealed that he will sign his presidential pledge with a platinum-plated pen said to be worth up to a million crowns. The pen has been donated to Mr Klaus by the Czech company Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth and is one of a limited collection of ten.
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03/05/2008
Two trucks and 11 cars have been involved in an accident on the D1 motorway in the Czech Republic, causing a stretch of the motorway to be sealed off. The accident has caused major traffic delays for Prague-bound traffic and is suspected to have been caused by icy conditions on the roads.
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03/05/2008
Analysts at the Swiss UBS bank have pronounced that they are fairly certain that the Czech Republic will win the Euro 2008 football competition this summer. The analysts at the bank have apparently devised a formula, which calculates current team performance as well as the financial values of individual players. According to UBS, the same formula allowed them to correctly predict that Italy would win the World Cup in 2006. Specifically, the prediction is that the Czech Republic will win the championships after beating Italy on penalties.
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03/04/2008
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has presented a prime minister’s medal to Milan Paumer, a member of the armed anti-communist group led by Josef and Ctirad Mašín. The three killed six people including a cashier before and during a dramatic escape to West Germany in 1953; other members of their group were later executed. Last week the prime minister presented the same award to Josef Mašín at the Czech Embassy in Washington, the first ever official recognition of the group. Czech society is divided over their actions: some regard the men as freedom fighters, others believe they are murderers.
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03/04/2008
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has softened his position on the possible return of Jiří Čunek to cabinet, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. Mr Schwarzenberg had previously said he would quit if Mr Čunek was reinstated as deputy prime minister and minister for regional development. But the foreign minister, currently recovering from surgery, told the newspaper he would now tolerate his return, if Mr Čunek presented him with his accounts and the decree ending a criminal investigation into allegations that he took bribes. Jiří Čunek has reportedly agreed to do so. Prime Minister Topolánek said on Tuesday it was likely Mr Čunek would be reinstated by Easter.
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03/04/2008
MP Evžen Snítilý has been kicked out of the Social Democrats after defying the party whip and supporting Václav Klaus in a presidential election. Mr Snítilý had earlier been expelled from the Social Democrat’s group in the Chamber of Deputies, after his vote helped the incumbent win a second term. Despite having now been thrown out of the party itself he refuses to give up his seat in Parliament.
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