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06/24/2009
A plot to blow up a number of foreign embassies in Islamabad, including the city’s Czech embassy, was foiled by Pakistani police, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported on Wednesday. Sweden’s foreign ministry confirmed the arrest last week of a man armed with two tonnes of explosives and suspected of planning to bomb its embassy and those of five other countries. A Czech ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Ždárek, was killed when terrorists blew up the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad in September.
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06/24/2009
Two more cases of swine flu have been detected in the Czech Republic, bringing the total number to nine. A health ministry spokesperson said a young woman found to have the respiratory disease had recently been in Canada, while a young man, who is a US citizen, was discovered to have it after arriving in the Czech Republic on Sunday. Nobody has died of swine flu in this country to date.
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06/24/2009
South Korean company Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction is in talks to buy Czech turbine maker Škoda Power for between USD 550 and 630 million, a spokesperson for the firm said, adding that the price had yet to be finalised. Doosan Heavy is South Korea’s biggest power equipment maker in terms of sales.
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06/24/2009
The head of the Czech Republic’s Supreme Audit Office, František Dohnal, is facing charges of mismanagement of the institution. The chair of the Chamber of Deputies supervisory committee, Vladimír Koníček, told reporters about the investigation on Wednesday, adding that police had request documents linked to the case. The committee voted to commission an audit of the running of the Supreme Audit Office.
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06/24/2009
Trainer and former international player Ivan Hašek has presented his policy programme ahead of a vote for the position of chairman of the Czech football association on Saturday. He faces only one other candidate for the job, Luděk Vinš. Hašek, who has the support of many in the game, promises to reform the running of the Czech FA, find more money for youth and amateur football and rebuild the organisation’s headquarters.
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06/23/2009
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, told Czech Radio on Tuesday that he would only make up his mind on whether or not he will ratify the Lisbon treaty after all other EU states have reached a decision. Mr Klaus, who is a staunch critic of the reform document, said he would wait for the result of the Irish referendum scheduled for October. He also said he would not decide before the Constitutional Courts in the Czech Republic and Germany reach their verdicts on the document, and he will also wait for the Polish position on the issue.
The Lisbon treaty was approved by both chambers of the Czech Parliament earlier this year but President Klaus refused to complete the ratification process. He said that putting his signature to the treaty would put Ireland under pressure to ratify the document.
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06/23/2009
Close to half of Czech firms say they are planning lay-offs in the coming months in order to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis and increase their chances of survival. In a flash poll conducted among 154 companies, a third of them said they may have to lay off up to twenty percent of employees, while five percent of them said they would have to let go up to thirty percent of employees to stay afloat. Fifty-four percent of firms polled said they were cutting costs elsewhere. The export-oriented Czech economy is feeling the effects of the crisis in neighbouring states, with eighty percent of Czech firms reporting a severe drop in demand in the first quarter. The credit-crunch is making it difficult for them to take out fresh loans, meaning that some will temporarily have to shut down production if the situation worsens.
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06/23/2009
Playwright and former Czech president Václav Havel is going to direct a film based on his latest play “Leaving”, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Tuesday. Producers of the planned movie said it took Mr Havel a long time to decide, but that he had a “very clear idea” of what the film should be like. Mr Havel also stopped a TV production of a theatre performance of his play as it would jeopardize the interests of the film producers. The production of the film should start next year, and Mr Havel’s wife, the actress Dagmar Havlová, is set to land one of the leading roles.
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06/23/2009
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Kohout, will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday, at the end of the Czech presidency of the EU. His agenda will include talks on the current situation in the Middle East following the Cairo speech by US President Barack Obama, and on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. During the trip, Mr Kohout will meet with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, as well as with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Foreign Minister Jan Kohout also wants to evaluate the situation in the Middle East after six months of the Czech EU presidency. In the beginning of the Czech term at the helm of the block in January, Czech officials dealt with the crisis following the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
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06/23/2009
Christian Democrat leader Cyril Svoboda has criticized plans to put off the nomination of a Czech EU commissioner until after the autumn general elections. In a statement for the ČTK news agency Mr. Svoboda said the Czechs were throwing away the chance to gain an interesting portfolio in the new EC because of political squabbles at home. Interim Prime Minister Jan Fischer has expressed readiness to start talks which would produce a widely acceptable candidate but the two strongest parties on the Czech political scene, the Civic and Social Democrats have made a deal to postpone the debate until after the general elections.
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