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08/30/2007
The Czech football club Slavia Prague have made it into the Champions League for the first time. Slavia reached the lucrative and prestigious competition after beating Ajax over two games; following a 1:0 win in Amsterdam, the Czech side achieved a 3:1 aggregate score with a 2:1 victory in Prague on Wednesday night. Slavia's opponents in the group stage of the Champions League will be Arsenal, Steau Bucharest and the winners of a tie between Sevilla and AEK Athens.
Sparta Prague have not qualified for the competition, after losing 5:0 to Arsenal on aggregate. A former Sparta player, Tomas Rosicky, opened the scoring in Wednesday's second leg in London, which the home side won 3:0.
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08/30/2007
The Czech international Petr Cech has been named best goalkeeper in last season's Champions League by European football's governing body UEFA. It was the second time the 25-year-old from Plzen received the award, which was presented at the draw for the group stage of this season's Champions League.
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08/30/2007
Sparta Prague football player Pavel Horvath is the centre of controversy after twice making a seig heil gesture to the club's fans during a game against Viktoria Zizkov last weekend. Horvath has apologised for what he described as an unfortunate gesture, saying he had not meant it in a bad way. The 32-year-old could face up to three years in prison for making the illegal gesture.
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08/29/2007
The Czech cabinet approved an updated strategy of the adoption of the euro on Wednesday. The new strategy does not contain any benchmark for the adoption of the single European currency but Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the euro could be, under certain circumstances, adopted in 2012, as originally proposed. According to the Czech government, the main obstacles preventing the replacement of the Czech crown by the euro is the bad state of public finances and low flexibility of Czech economy. The eventual deadline for the adoption of the euro will depend on when these issues are resolved.
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08/29/2007
A record number of almost 100,000 students will enter Czech universities in the next academic year beginning in autumn, the daily Hospodarske noviny reported. Each year, the number of students attending universities in the Czech Republic rises by about 10,000. Two months ago, however, the Ministry of Education announced that this will not be possible due to the lack of finances. On Wednesday, Education Minister Dana Kuchtová, of the Green Party, said that the Finance Ministry will release about one billion crowns for the purposes of university education which should cover the costs of an additional 10,000 students. University rectors claim that the amount to be released is still far from sufficient.
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08/29/2007
Members of the town hall of Havlickuv Brod, East Bohemia, say that a fence that could be erected to separate a town-owned building occupied by rent defaulters from other privately owned houses is not an issue of ethnicity. The building houses Roma as well as non-Roma families who have reportedly been bothering the inhabitants of nearby houses with disorderly behaviour and poor sanitary habits. Deputy mayor of Havlickuv Brod Libor Honzarek said that the objective is not to close off one community from another, but rather to establish basic principles of co-existence. It remains unclear when the fence will be built as well as its precise location. A similar project involving construction of a fence was carried out in Usti nad Labem, North Bohemia, in 1999. The local town hall was heavily criticized by human rights organisations and eventually pulled the fence down.
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08/29/2007
Brno district prosecutor Petr Coufal has dropped a complaint filed against his subordinate prosecutor Arif Salichov in the case of Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek. The Christian Democrats leader had been accused of taking bribes when he served as the mayor of Vsetin, North Moravia. After a six-month investigation, the case was taken away from the prosecutors in the nearby town of Prerov, and Arif Salichov was appointed to represent the state in this matter. In July, Mr Salichov dropped the case against Mr Cunek, citing lack of evidence and bad police work, which made prosecutors from Prerov file the complaint.
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08/29/2007
Independent senator Jana Jurencakova has resigned as the head of the Senate Committee for Expatriates. Ms Jurencakova had been criticized by some Czech and Slovak expatriate associations in Switzerland and Canada. She joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1988; for most Czech emigrants, it was communist rule that made them leave the country and settle elsewhere. Ms Jurencakova will be replaced at the head of the committee by fellow independent senator Josef Zoser. The change is expected to be approved at the next session of the Czech Parliament's upper chamber on September 20.
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08/29/2007
Greece will not use a Czech helicopter to extinguish extensive forest fires that broke out in the Peloponnese peninsula, a Czech foreign ministry spokesperson said. The Czech Republic had offered to send a police helicopter equipped to extinguish fire during flight. However, the Greek authorities announced that due to help from international community, the country has now enough resources to bring the fires to an end. The Czech foreign ministry informed that about five million crowns, or almost 250,000 U.S. dollars, have been released to help Greece.
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08/29/2007
Scientists at Masaryk University in Brno have come up with a new method of disposal of yperite, or mustard gas. The poison gas, first used by the German Army during WWI, can be liquidated by special enzymes that disintegrate its structure. The university has already registered the method in the Czech Republic. The new technology can be used for better protection against the gas as well as for disposal of excessive mustard gas stocks.
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