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04/02/2008
The Czech government has passed a proposal that would see up to a third of all church property confiscated by the former communist regime returned. The proposal, which must now be debated by parliament, was authored by the Czech Culture Minister Václav Jehlička. The proposal would also see around four billion Czech crowns going into church coffers, with the vast majority going to the Roman Catholic Church, which has around three million followers in the country.
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04/02/2008
Media reports are suggesting that the Czech Republic’s oldest and most popular search engine Seznam.cz is up for sale. Details remain sketchy, but the suggestion is that the founder and majority shareholder Ivo Lukačovič along with minority partners Tiger Holding Four and Miura International are preparing to sell their stakes in the company. Estimates for the possible value of the company have gone as high as one billion US dollars. Seznam is only one of four national search engines in the world that has dominance over the US company Google.
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04/02/2008
Figures released by the anti-bank-charge campaign group bankovnipoplatky.cz suggest that last year, Czechs paid around 36.5 billion crowns in bank charges – a figure which, reports suggest, amounts to 100 million crowns a day. The figures also suggest an increase in overall charges from 2006 by more than two and a half billion crowns. Bank charges remain deeply unpopular among most Czechs, although Czech banks continue to insist that they are necessary. This year saw the entrance into the Czech market of the first bank which does not charge its customers for basic services.
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04/02/2008
České Dráhy, the Czech train operator is to pay its first ever fines levied for the late running of its trains. The fines, which have been imposed in the Olomouc region of the country total 2.6 million crowns and cover more than one hundred late arrivals. Even though late arrivals have been catalogued in previous years, this is the first time that a Czech region has imposed such fines.
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04/01/2008
A senior United States official says a deal with the Czech Republic on the building of a US radar base in central Bohemia is very close to completion. Assistant Secretary of State John Rood said in Washington that it could be agreed in the next few days. His statements echo those of the Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolánek, who said it seemed the last remaining points of contention in the bilateral deal had been ironed out and all that remained was to arrange a signing ceremony. Mr Rood said he hoped the US would find wider support for its global anti missile defence shield at a NATO summit in Bucharest later this week.
The main Czech negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Tomáš Pojar, said agreement between the Czech Republic and the US would likely be reached either before or during the NATO summit.
The proposed radar in the Czech Republic would be linked to a missile base in neighbouring Poland. The Czech Parliament has yet to vote on the matter.
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04/01/2008
The Chamber of Deputies has supported ratification of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty in the first reading. The treaty replaces a failed EU constitution and will come into effect during the Czech Republic’s presidency of the bloc in the first half of 2008, if all 27 member states ratify it by the end of the year. However, the Czech Parliament may not actually vote on ratification for several months, and possibly not until the autumn. Meanwhile, the largest party in the governing coalition the Civic Democrats want the Constitutional Court to rule on whether the treaty is in line with the Czech constitution before a final decision on the matter.
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04/01/2008
Jiří Čunek is set to return to the Czech cabinet, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has told reporters. President Václav Klaus is expected to reinstate Mr Čunek as deputy prime minister and minister for regional development on Wednesday, nearly five months after he stepped down over an investigation into allegations – since dropped – that he had taken bribes. The Christian Democrats leader has to allow his family finances to be examined by an independent auditor, a condition Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg set for remaining in cabinet with the controversial politician.
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04/01/2008
Twenty-six arrests were made at a football match between Slavia Prague and Sparta Prague at the city’s Evžen Rosický Stadium on Monday evening. There was fighting both inside and outside the ground, while the game was briefly halted when supporters ripped out and hurled plastic seats. No more derbies will be held at the venue – Slavia are set to open a new stadium at their traditional home in Prague 10 by the end of this season. As for the game itself, it ended 1:1, leaving Slavia two points ahead of Sparta in the race for the Czech league title.
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04/01/2008
Czechs spent a record CZK 7.98 billion on air tickets last year, Mladá fronta Dnes reported, quoting figures from the International Air Travel Association. That was 11 percent higher than in 2006. Czech travellers spent another CZK 2 billion on airport charges. Around three quarters of a million flight tickets were bought by Czechs, for whom tickets cost an average of 6 percent less than in 2006.
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04/01/2008
Two couples who had their babies accidentally swapped at birth are going to file a lawsuit this week against the hospital where the mix-up occurred, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. The two families want CZK 12 million between them from the hospital in the Moravian town of Třebíč. The two couples had raised the other’s baby girl for the best part of a year before the mix-up was discovered, making world headlines. One of the couples, Jan and Jaroslava Čermák, had another baby girl last week.
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