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01/09/2008
Unemployment was up last month by 0.4% to 6%, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The number of people eligible to work but without a job totalled 331,696. This unemployment rate of 6% compares with that of 7.7% recorded in December 2006. As in previous months, the lowest rate of unemployment could be found in the capital Prague, where only 2.2% of people were registered as being unemployed.
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01/09/2008
Meanwhile, inflation in December hit 5.4%, which is the highest it has been since August 2001. The Czech Statistical Office released the figures on Wednesday, attributing the high rate of inflation for December to the rising costs of food and transport. According to the Statistical Office, the average rate of inflation for the year 2007 was 2.8%, compared to 2.5% in 2006.
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01/09/2008
Prague City Hall is to establish a new police unit to tackle the problem of homelessness in the capital. On Tuesday, deputy mayor Jiří Janeček made the announcement, adding that the police unit’s goal would be to make Prague’s homeless either leave the capital or ‘reintegrate into society’. He said that Prague City Hall would find employment for each homeless person ‘displaying an interest in work’. But the plan has been criticised by some social workers, who say that it fails to tackle the problem, which, they say, has deeper roots than unemployment. According to last year’s census, there are around 2000 homeless people in Prague. Around half of them sleep rough, while another half are accommodated in shelters run by charities.
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01/09/2008
Jiří Čunek is the least trusted politician in the Czech Republic at the moment, according to a poll conducted by the CVWM institute and published on Wednesday. The head of the Christian Democrats and former deputy prime minister came bottom of a list of 24 politicians, about whom people were asked. Only 12% of those polled said that they trusted him. The labour minister Petr Nečas also saw a sharp decline in trust - in December only 24% of respondents said they trusted him, as opposed to 30% back in October. Those who elicited the most trust from voters in the poll were current president Václav Klaus and ombudsman Otakar Motejl, who scored 64% and 62% respectively.
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01/09/2008
Czech tennis prodigy Nicole Vaidišová is through to the semi-finals of the Sydney International, after a surprise win against world number three Jelena Jankovic. Vaidišová won in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, and will now face former US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semi-final on Thursday. This is Vaidišová’s ninth encounter with the Serb, Jelena Jankovic, on the WTA tour. This victory is her sixth over the world number three.
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01/08/2008
The Christian Democratic Party is not decided on whether to back President Václav Klaus or his rival, the Czech born, US-based economist Jan Švejnar in the presidential election in February. Mr Klaus met with Christian Democratic Senators on Tuesday to discuss his bid. He said afterwards that he hoped to gain at least some of the eleven senators’ votes. President Klaus also expressed himself in support of a secret, rather than a public ballot.
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01/08/2008
The Czech Army has begun rotating its soldiers taking part in an international peace-keeping mission in Kosovo. The first 50 members of a new contingent left Prague’s Kbely airport on Tuesday. One of its main tasks will be assisting at demonstrations in case they turn violent. The situation among local Serbs and Albanians is reported to be relatively stable at the moment. The 550 members of the new contingent are expected to stay on their mission until July 2008.
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01/08/2008
Czech legislators across the broad political spectrum should accept the latest proposal for a property settlement between the state and the church, presidential candidate Jan Švejnar said at a press conference on Monday, after discussing the proposal with Cardinal Miloslav Vlk. Government and church representatives agreed in December on a plan for a settlement between the state and the church, whose property was confiscated during the communist regime. Under the agreement the state is to pay 83 billion crowns to churches over a period of 60 years. The state’s obligation to provide financial support to churches would then be abolished.
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01/08/2008
A Prague court has started discussing the case of Vladimír Železný, former director of the popular commercial station TV Nova and a European Parliament deputy, in which he and five other men face charges of tax evasion to the tune of over 38 million crowns (some 2 million US dollars). Mr Železný is suspected of committing tax evasion while transferring his stakes in CET 21, the company that held Nova’s broadcasting licence. Mr Železný, who has been previously prosecuted in other two cases, has rejected the charges.
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01/08/2008
The Communist Party will most probably back the Czech born, US-based economist Jan Švejnar in the first round of presidential election on February 8. According to the deputy chairman Jiří Dolejš, the Communist Party is not left with any other alternative but to support Mr Švejnar, if it doesn’t want to allow only one candidate to advance to the second round. The party hasn’t made any recommendations concerning the second and third rounds.
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