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08/16/2007
Frantisek Banyai, the head of the Prague Jewish Community, together with director of the Prague Jewish Museum Leo Pavlat, sent an open letter to the management of the Sparta Prague football club concerning open anti-Semitic slogans that could be heard during the game against Arsenal on Wednesday. Parts of the audience yelled the slogan "Jude Slavia" referring to Sparta city rival Slavia that was playing on the same day. According to the senders, the term is used in a derogatory way and some of Sparta's fans thus openly embrace Nazi-type anti-Semitism. Mr Banyai and Mr Pavlat hope the club will do everything to prevent this from happening in the future.
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08/16/2007
The Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that the interior ministry made a mistake refusing to compensate a man from Decin whose father died in 1980 in an accident caused by Soviet troops occupying Czechoslovakia. The ministry refused the application in 2006 due to the fact that the man was already paid an allowance of 2,800 crowns in 1980. The court said that both legal and ethical principles must be employed when deciding on such matters, and the Interior Ministry clearly failed to do so. The man is now entitled to compensation of 150,000 crowns.
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08/16/2007
Six employees from a hospital in Brno - Bohunice have been charged with trafficking organs, the daily Pravo reported on Thursday. Six staff members of the hospital's tissue bank are in suspicion that they took part in an international trade with human organs. At least one of the medics charged is facing eight years in prison, the highest penalty possible for such a crime. The case was discovered three years ago by the police who tracked down of the shipments of xenograft sent to a company in the Netherlands. The hospital lost seven million crowns, or 340,000 US dollars, due to the crime. Most of the accused still work in the hospital in Brno.
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08/16/2007
A 21-year-old man in Brno suffered serious burns on Wednesday night at the main train station in Brno after he climbed on top of a train and was hit by an electrical charge of 25,000 Volts. The accident caused a power outage at the station which made the staff call an ambulance. The accident happened at the time when Czech Railways is launching a campaign warning people of accidents in similar situations. The campaign includes a controversial poster showing a man hit by electric current.
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08/16/2007
Slavia Prague surprisingly beat the firm the favourite Ajax Amsterdam 1:0 on Wednesday in the third preliminary round of the Champions League. Slavia has already attempted to enter the main phase of the prestigious Champions League five times. After the victory in Amsterdam, the team's hope of advancing have risen significantly. The second leg scheduled for Prague in two weeks' time. Sparta Prague, the other Czech team struggling to enter the Champions League, lost their home match against Arsenal London 2:0, and its chances of advancing are negligible.
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08/15/2007
Leaders of the governing centre-right coalition have come to an agreement on the package of reforms being presented to Parliament. Following a late night meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Civic Democrats, Jiri Cunek of the Christian Democrats and Martin Bursik of the Greens said that they had reached a compromise on the main sticking points of the reform plan - taxes and medical fees. Under the proposal, taxes should decrease faster than originally planned - and everyone except the chronically ill should pay for healthcare.
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08/15/2007
One of the deputies of the governing coalition Ludvik Hovorka of the Christian Democrats said after the late night talks that he would not support the reform package. Mr. Hovorka said he was particularly unhappy about proposed changes to the health sector and would submit his own proposals in the course of the debate. Even without his vote, the government still stands a chance to push through the reforms due to the fact that two former Social Democrat deputies, now unaffiliated, have promised to back the reform package.
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08/15/2007
An attempt by the opposition Social Democrats and the Communists to get the vote on the government-proposed reforms postponed until mid-September has failed. Left wing deputies said they wanted more time to study the reform package because the ruling coalition had been making amendments to the proposed reforms up until the last minute. Their joint proposal was turned down by the three ruling parties together with the two unaffiliated deputies Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka. A vote on the reforms is thus likely to take place sometime next week.
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08/15/2007
The head of the Social Democrats' deputies group in the lower house Michal Hasek said on Wednesday that if the reform package was approved in its present form he would file a complaint against it with the Constitutional Court. According to the Social Democrats the ruling coalition is proposing some modifications in the form of a "rider" i.e. an amendment to a bill that is not directly related to it, a practice which the Constitutional Court has overruled in the past.
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08/15/2007
Economists have welcomed the proposed cuts in social benefits but they say that the reforms do not go far enough to counter the country's steep fiscal deficit. Ales Michl of Raiffeisenbank says that even if the proposed reforms are implemented the country would still operate on a high deficit in the coming years, which he sees as a big risk for the country's economy. Economists estimate that as late as 2010 the country will still need to operate on a deficit of around 100 billion crowns.
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