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09/11/2007
Czech president Vaclav Klaus said at a meeting with university students in Jihlava that if the US radar base and foreign troops were stationed in the Czech Republic, it would not threaten the country's sovereignty. He added that the transfer of certain decision-making powers to Brussels was a bigger loss for the Czech Republic's sovereignty than the presence of foreign soldiers that would be subject to Czech law.
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09/11/2007
Czech Senate deputy chairman Petr Pithart of the Christian Democrats will announce next week whether he will run for the presidency in 2008. Mr Pithart's possible nomination was discussed along with other names at the Christian Democratic meeting on Monday, but the party failed to reach any agreement. Deputy Prime Minister and Christian Democrat leader Jiri Cunek said talks would continue with leaders of other parties including the Social Democrats on possibly fielding a joint candidate to challenge the current incumbent Vaclav Klaus.
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09/11/2007
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has become the face of a US media campaign entitled "Global Warming is No Crisis", questioning the impact of global warming on the Earth. A picture of the Czech head of state will appear in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post next to the picture of the former US vice-president Al Gore. The campaign is organised by the US Heartland Institute, which argues that the debate over global warming has been politicized. It also draws attention to Mr Klaus' speech, which is scheduled to take place in two weeks time at the UN conference on global warming.
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09/11/2007
Number of Czechs who contracted the tick-borne Lyme disease has grown this year, while the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis has decreased, the National Health Institute announced. Between January and September, doctors registered more than 2,000 people infected with tick-borne Lyme disease, which is almost 200 more than in the same period last year. The figures can still increase in the autumn, when a second wave of ticks is expected to arrive.
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09/11/2007
The engineering company Skoda Praha, a subsidiary of power producer CEZ, is bidding for a CZK 90 billion (4 billion USD) order to build a large coal-fired power station in Vietnam. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is coming to Prague this week to present the details of the project.
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09/10/2007
The Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint by a central figure in a case involving corruption charges against the deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek. Mr Cunek's former secretary Marcela Urbanova had been a key witness behind allegations that Mr Cunek had taken a bribe of half a million crowns or roughly 25,000 US dollars when he was mayor of the Moravian town of Vsetin five years ago. The charges were eventually dropped shortly after the original state prosecutor had been replaced - a move which gave rise to allegations of political interference in the case. The court dismissed Ms Urbanova's motion for procedural reasons, including the fact that she was simply a witness and not a participant in the proceedings and was therefore not entitled to lodge a complaint.
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09/10/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has dismissed speculation that the governing cabinet could collapse if President Vaclav Klaus was not re-elected early next year. Mr Topolanek said that the forthcoming presidential election was not an issue covered in his Civic Democratic Party's agreement with its coalition partners the Greens and the Christian Democrats. Mr Topolanek was reacting in response to comments made by Civic Democrat deputy chairman and Prague mayor Pavel Bem, who had suggested that the ruling cabinet would fall if President Klaus was not re-elected. Mr Klaus will be the Civic Democrat's candidate in next year's presidential election. The Greens and the Christian Democrats are currently negotiating with the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, about fielding a joint candidate to challenge the President.
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09/10/2007
A new opinion poll by the MORI sociological institute indicates that the Civic Democrats are still the most popular party in the country but have lost ground to their main rivals the Social Democrats. According to the survey, the Civic Democrats would win 33.9 percent of the vote if an election were to be held now, while the Social Democrats would garner 29.8 percent, an increase of nearly 8 percentage points since the last poll conducted by the same institute. MORI's research also indicates that the Communist Party would finish third in an election with 13.1 percent of the vote followed by the Greens and Christian Democrats with 10.7 percent and 6.3 percent respectively.
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09/10/2007
Around 500 teachers are to hold a public demonstration outside government offices on Wednesday in support of demands for better pay. The Bohemian and Moravian Educational Workers Union is demanding a 5-percent pay increase for teachers as opposed to a 1.5 -percent increase offered by the Ministry of Education. A spokesman for the union warned that a failure to meet teachers' pay demands could have a detrimental effect on the school system. The Minister for Education Dana Kuchtova said that the government was only offering teachers the same pay increases as other workers in the state sector.
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09/10/2007
The head of the Prague State Attorney's Office Lubos Petnik has been dismissed according to the Czech Press Agency (CTK). Citing what it calls a "trustworthy" source, CTK claims that the Minister for Justice Jiri Pospisil fired Mr Petnik "for insufficient managerial activity" and replaced him with the head of the Prague 1 District State Attorney's Office Jana Hercegova. Mr Petnik had been head of the Prague State Attorney's Office, which manages 10 district attorney's offices, since 1999.
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