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02/05/2008
The Czech Lower House postponed a debate on whether healthcare fees should be abolished on Tuesday. It also put-off a debate on whether smoking should be banned in the country’s restaurants. The debates were both rescheduled due to the absence of the Health Minister, Tomáš Julínek, who is ill, and not expected back before next week. Instead, the Lower House discussed the status of Kosovo during most of Tuesday’s sitting.
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02/05/2008
Foreign trade enjoyed a record surplus last year, to the tune of 86.1 billion CZK (4.31 billion USD). The Czech Statistical Office unveiled the figure on Tuesday, adding that this was over twice the surplus recorded in 2006. Exports of machinery and transportation were responsible for a large portion of the surplus, while chemical and food producers had a relatively poor year in 2007. Exports were up 15% year on year in 2007, while imports grew by 13.1%.
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02/05/2008
The publishing house Albatros has filed charges against an unnamed individual for printing and distributing a version of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ in Czech, which they deem illegal. The publishers have also called upon the supermarket chain Tesco to stop selling this version of the latest Harry Potter book. Albatros own the rights to the Harry Potter series in Czech, and have previously taken a rival publishing house to court over the publication of a pirate version of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, a case which Albatros subsequently won. Tesco has said that is will not stop selling the copies of the book that it has in its warehouses, to which Albatros has responded that it may press charges.
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02/05/2008
The Czech football team lost 1:0 in a friendly against Greece on Tuesday. The Greeks’ winning goal came ten minutes before the whistle and was scored by Dimitris Salpigidis. Both trainers fielded a team of younger, less-experienced players, with six players making their debut for the Czech side alone. The game was placed in Nicosia, Cyprus, to a crowd of 850.
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02/04/2008
A neo-Nazi demonstration is scheduled to take place in Plzeň on March 1. Far-right activists were originally planning to march through Plzeň on January 19, the anniversary of the first transport of Jews from the city in 1942. The town’s authorities had originally allowed the march to take place, but in the face of strong media pressure, they cancelled the event, only two days before it was due to take place. The radicals plan to march past the Great Synagogue in Plzeň, as it was planned before.
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02/04/2008
Presidential candidate Jan Švejnar has made his campaign budget public on Monday. This comes in light of comments made by Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, who questioned the funding of Mr Švejnar’s campaign. Speaking in a televised debate on Sunday, Mr Topolánek said that the campaign could be linked to corruption, suggesting there was a connection between Mr Švejnar’s seat on the supervisory board of ČSOB bank and his campaign’s funding. He also suggested that Mr Švejnar must have spent much more on his campaign than the officially declared half a million crowns. Jan Švejnar, who is financing his own campaign, said the costs have so far amounted to 750 thousand crowns.
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02/04/2008
The Czech Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust has called on the government to find a new location for a pig farm built on the site of a wartime concentration camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia. Last week, the Czech authorities were reprimanded for the second time by the European Parliament over the controversial issue. Romany organizations have been calling for the farm's relocation for many years. The committee said on Monday it would like to see a dignified monument erected on the site in honour of the camp’s victims. According to historical documents over 300 people died in the camp and another 500 ended up in the Auschwitz extermination camp.
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02/04/2008
The government on Monday earmarked development funds for towns and villages located in the vicinity of a planned US radar base. The municipalities in the Brdy region are set to receive a total of 1.25 billion crowns (approximately 70 million US dollars), which is three times less than they had asked for. The money is mainly to be invested into the development of local infrastructure, and the funds will be made available even if plans to build a US radar in the region fall through.
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02/04/2008
The case of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former prosecutor who took part in the 1950s communist show trial of Milada Horáková, will probably return to the Prague City Court. Mrs Brožová, now aged 86, was sentenced last year to eight years in prison for judicial murder. The High Court on Monday discussed her appeal against the verdict which means the case will probably be retuned to a lower-level court for further deliberation. Milada Horáková, a lawyer and politician, is the only woman to have been executed during Czechoslovakia's 1950s show trials.
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02/04/2008
The government approved on Monday a draft amendment that would allow the dismissal of chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of courts. Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil is hoping to change the current practice that makes the dismissal of court officials more or less impossible. Under the draft amendment their dismissal should be decided by the Supreme Court’s disciplinary proceedings. The draft law also includes measures which would make the disciplinary proceedings more impartial.
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