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09/23/2007
The chairman of the Senate, Premysl Sobotka of the Civic Democratic Party, has said his party should discuss with its coalition partners, the Christian Democrats and the Greens, an appendix to the coalition agreement in which the coalition parties pledged to support Vaclav Klaus in next year's presidential election. Prime Minister and Civic Democrat chairman Mirek Topolanek says however that differing views of the coalition parties on presidential candidates do not harm the existence of the coalition and a joint position on the election is not part of the agreement itself.
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09/23/2007
The chairman of the lower house Miloslav Vlcek says he would like to see the right of MPs and Senators to use public transport free of charge abolished and therefore he is going to propose to the lower house an amendment to the law on the remuneration of public officials. Mr Vlcek had earlier announced he would like to make the incomes of politicians more transparent and abolish some of their perks. The public and also some politicians have been critical of the current system but lawmakers have repeatedly rejected attempts at reducing these privileges.
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09/23/2007
The Czech Police anti-organised crime squad detained a group of 15 people on Friday suspected of distributing forged 100-dollar notes, a spokeswoman said. Thirteen people have been accused of currency counterfeiting. The estimated damage is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The members of the group are Czechs, Slovaks, the citizens of former Soviet countries and the former Yugoslavia and Syrian nationals.
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09/23/2007
According to estimates, some two tonnes of fish were killed on Saturday after a toxic substance leaked into the Dedina river from a sugar refinery in Ceske Mezirici in East Bohemia. The leak of lime water, a substance used in the process of sugar production, polluted around seven kilometres of the Dedina downstream. The cause of the leak is being investigated as well as the amount of the substance involved.
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09/23/2007
Finance minister Miroslav Kalousek has said the government is going to privatise Prague's Ruzyne international airport next year. Speaking in a live debate on Prima television on Sunday, Mr Kalousek said the primary reason for the move was not money but rather a principle that "the state should not be doing business". Earlier this month, the government approved a proposal under which the state-owned company would transform into a joint stock company within eight months. Mr Kalousek also said the government wants to privatise the national carrier CSA, if not next year, then in 2009.
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09/23/2007
Banks in the Czech Republic have so far issued almost 8.3 million payment cards, with a year-on-year increase of 690,000, according to data published by the Bank Card Association (Sdruzeni pro bankovni karty). The number of credit cards issued by banks has exceeded 1 million. In the first half of 2007, Czechs bought goods worth 71 billion crowns using payment cards. In the same period, Czechs withdrew 264 billion crowns from ATMs. Debit cards are the most frequent type of cards but the number of credit cards issued by Czech banks has been rising recently.
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09/23/2007
The Centre for Transport Research has published an analysis according to which the road traffic law which came into force more than a year ago is not to blame for the continuing bad situation on Czech roads. It says the problem is poor enforcement of the legislation. The centre also says the media have been contributing to the grim road death statistics by encouraging drivers to be less disciplined. The study, commissioned by the Transport Ministry as a starting point for a planned amendment to the law, has not found major flaws in the legislation. In the past eight months, 714 people were killed on Czech roads, 22 percent more than in the first eight months of 2006. In the same period of last year the number was 586.
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09/23/2007
World number one Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych 7:6 7:6 6:3 to bring Switzerland level at 2:2 with the Czech Republic on Sunday in their Davis Cup World Group playoff at Prague's Sazka Arena. Federer won his opening singles over Radek Stepanek on Friday but lost in the doubles on Saturday when he and his doubles partner Yves Allegro were defeated by Berdych and Radek Stepanek who gave the Czech Republic a 2:1 overnight lead.
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09/22/2007
The leadership of the ruling coalition Civic Democratic Party has set up a special team which will be responsible for negotiating support among lawmakers for the party's presidential candidate Vaclav Klaus in next year's election. The team's members are party chairman and prime minister Mirek Topolanek, deputy chairman and Prague mayor Pavel Bem and heads of the Civic Democrat parliamentary parties in the lower and upper houses of parliament, Petr Tluchor and Tomas Julinek. Current incumbent Vaclav Klaus is the only official candidate so far.
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09/22/2007
Former Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel dismissed speculation on Friday that he would run as a candidate for the Czech presidency next year. Mr Havel's spokesman said that Mr Havel had not received any offer and that no one had discussed this issue with him. Vaclav Havel who was the country's president between 1989 and 2003, hinted in March he could stand in the 2008 election "to scare somebody", a veiled reference to incumbent President Vaclav Klaus whose policies Mr Havel opposes.
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