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04/22/2008
Prague Green Party councilors have said that they are strongly opposed to the idea of building a tunnel under the river Vltava to help ease the capital’s congestion woes. According to the Greens, the project is too expensive and would only create traffic jams in other areas of the city, namely Letná and Holešovice. Councilors for Prague 1 who came up with the idea have reacted by saying that the financial viability of the project will have to be looked into further, but that they believe the tunnel is the best solution to Prague’s traffic problems. Prague Town Hall will decide on the matter by 2010.
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04/22/2008
Czech car giant Škoda Auto announced a 15.7 percent jump in first quarter car sales on Monday, largely thanks to strong demand from Eastern Europe and China. The manufacturer, which is part of the Volkswagen Group, said sales in Eastern Europe climbed 38.6 percent to 27,461 cars from January to March. In China, where Škoda cars are produced under licence and the dealership network is developing rapidly, 16,212 cars were sold. The Škoda Octavia was the most sought-after model, followed by the Fabia. The new Škoda Fabia Combi made a successful sales debut with 19,503 cars sold, the company added.
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04/22/2008
The Czech beer Gambrinus has come third in the Brewers Association World Beer Cup in San Diego, it was announced on Tuesday. Gambrinus, the most popular beer in the Czech Republic, brewed by Plzeňský Prazdroj, won a bronze in the pilsner beer category of the competition. Over 2800 different beers brewed by nearly 650 different breweries were entered into the competition. The winners were decided by a jury of 129 judges from 21 countries.
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04/22/2008
More than 50 percent of Czechs are unhappy with the way democracy is working in the Czech Republic, found a poll conducted by the CVVM agency and released on Tuesday. Fifty-one percent of those polled said that they were unhappy with the way they see democracy as operating in the Czech Republic, a six-percent rise on last year’s figures. Forty-nine percent of those polled said that they thought democracy was the best form of government, a figure which equaled last year’s result.
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04/21/2008
Czech president Václav Klaus has met with the Dutch Queen Beatrix during his one-day visit to Holland. They discussed bilateral relations and EU related issues. The president is also scheduled to attend the presentation of the Dutch translation of his book Blue, not Green Planet. He will meet with the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende before returning to Prague.
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04/21/2008
Czech Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil wants to investigate claims of political pressure allegedly exerted on the state attorney and the courts in the case of Qatari prince Hamid bin Abdal Sani who was charged with sexually abusing underage girls back in 2005. A Prague district court sentenced Prince Sani, a member of the Qatar royal family, to 2.5 years in prison. He appealed the verdict and was extradited to his homeland shortly after on the intervention of then-justice minister Pavel Nemec who said he’s received guarantees that the prince would be prosecuted in Qatar. The Qatari Prosecutor General halted his prosecution in January. Marie Benešová, who was the supreme state attorney at the time, said people from the Justice Ministry have exerted pressure on her in connection with the case.
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04/21/2008
The Czech Republic will extradite four Danish nationals who are believed to have robbed a bank in Aarhus, Denmark, back to their country, the City Court in Prague decided last week. The four suspects have been in custody since the Czech police detained them in mid-March. The men are said to have escaped with 27 million Danish crowns late last year. They will be transported to Denmark on Wednesday by the Danish police.
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04/21/2008
Police have completed investigation into the biggest pile-up in the country’s history. A total of 231 vehicles crashed on a major Czech motorway connecting Prague and Brno on 20 March in bad weather. Three people suffered serious injuries in the accident and another 27 were treated for light injuries. Some 20, 000 people got stuck in the traffic jam and a 40 km stretch of the road had to be closed down. The police concluded that the accident was caused by speeding. Overall damages come up to 28 million crowns.
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04/21/2008
The cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to build a small dam on the river Opava in North Bohemia. The artificial lake is designed to prevent the nearby towns of Krnov and Opava from floods. The project was approved in spite of criticism from environment activists and the inhabitants of the nearby village of Nové Heřminovy who will have to move out of their homes to make way for the dam. The owners of the buildings are to receive compensations.
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04/21/2008
The number of Czechs living and working abroad has more than doubled in the past two years, according to data released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. A total of 76,000 Czechs worked in 20 European countries last year. The largest number of Czech citizens, about 30,000, worked in Britain and nearly 14, 000 left for Germany. The country with the third largest Czech labour force last year was Ireland with 12,000 workers, almost three times more than the previous year. The ministry admits that the real figures could be different since some countries don’t require employees to report the end of their work stay.
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