• Hospital must pay half a million crowns in damages following malpractice ruling
    07/31/2007

    A regional court has ruled that a hospital in Sokolov in West Bohemia must pay almost 600,000 crowns (USD 30,000) in damages to a woman who suffered health problems as a result of two operations in 1990. The woman's health problems resulted from a piece of cloth left in her body during the first surgery. Just a month ago, a surgeon from Krnov was ordered to pay 50,000 crowns (USD 2,500) in damages in a similar case.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Singer Gipsy appointed ambassador for minorities
    07/31/2007

    Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga, the singer for the popular Czech Gipsy.cz band, has been appointed an ambassador for minorities as part of the European Year of Equal Opportunities aimed at battling discrimination. Gipsy and several Roma activists met with minister without portfolio Džamila Stehlíková in charge of human rights and minorities on Monday to discuss their future cooperation.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Jiri Sedivy to become top NATO official
    07/30/2007

    Former Czech defense minister and current deputy minister for European affairs Jiri Sedivy will become NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning, the Czech NATO Information Centre reported on Monday. He will assume the post in September or October this year becoming the highest ranking Czech official in NATO ever.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Eight pardoned by President Klaus
    07/30/2007

    President Vaclav Klaus pardoned another eight persons, most of them for humanitarian reasons, President's spokesman Petr Hajek told the Czech News Agency on Monday. Four people will not have serve the remaining prison time of up to one year, while the other four persons are foreigners who were to be expelled from the Czech Republic but have established family ties with Czech nationals. Mr Klaus has pardoned 169 people during his term that began in 2003.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Czech soldier wounded in Afghanistan
    07/30/2007

    A Czech officer was wounded in Southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. After having received medical treatment at the site of the incident, he was taken to a British military hospital. On Monday, he was transferred to the Czech field hospital in Kabul and then later to the Czech Republic. His condition is reported as stabilized. Meanwhile, thirteen local security workers were killed by Taliban insurgents on Sunday in the same area.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • National Party supporters will protest against "Islamization" of Europe
    07/30/2007

    A group of Czech nationalists close to the right-wing National Party will be demonstrating against the alleged "Islamization" of Europe in Brussels in September, according to an invitation published on their website. The event will be held by the Stop Islamization of Europe initiative that expects nationalists from other European countries to participate as well.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Former prosecutor goes to court for judicial murder of Milada Horakova
    07/30/2007

    Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, over 80, was accused of participation in the judicial murder of anticommunist politician Milada Horakova, who was executed by the communists in 1950. The former prosecutor is facing up to 15 years in prison for complicity to murder. Milada Horakova was arrested after the communist takeover in 1949, accused of high treason and espionage and sentenced to death in a show trial. She was the only woman executed in Czechoslovakia for political reasons.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Ex-minister Dlouhy turns down offer to become Czech ambassador to Brussels
    07/30/2007

    Vladimir Dlouhy, a former Czech minister of industry and trade, has rejected an offer to become the Czech ambassador to the European Union in Brussels next year. The Czech government wants to dismiss the present ambassador Jan Kohout to improve communication between the embassy and Prague, only a year before the Czech Republic assumes the EU presidency. Vladimir Dlouhy, who was the most popular Czech politician for most of the 1990s, said on Sunday that he was too busy to accept the post. After Dlouhy left politics in 1998, he started pursuing an academic career.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • CZK 15 billion of EU money will arrive this year
    07/30/2007

    The Czech Republic will receive about CZK 15 billion from European Union funds by the end of the year, Czech Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek told the daily Pravo. This is 2 percent of the total amount allotted to the Czech Republic by the EU for the period between 2007 and 2013. There has been some disappointment recently about the failure to receive all the European funding granted to the Czech Republic for the period of the previous three years.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Czech roads sixth most dangerous in Europe
    07/30/2007

    Roads in the Czech Republic have been rated as the sixth most dangerous in Europe by the European Transport Safety Council. The rating, based on the number of fatal accidents per 100,000 inhabitants, places the Czech Republic with 12.6 fatalities in sixth position among 23 European countries included in the survey. Over the weekend, nine people died in traffic accidents in the country and the number of fatal accidents has increased in comparison with last year. Zdenek Bambas, the head of the national traffic police, lost his job last week as a result.
    Author: Jan Richter

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