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10/06/2007
According to the predictions of the Czech Finance Ministry, civil servants can expect a pay-rise of around 5% next year. This would bring their average wage up to around 27,000 CZK (13,500 USD) a month. In a draft of next year's budget, the government has allocated some 130 billion CZK to the payment of its public administrators. This figure is 4 billion CZK up on last year's amount. According to predictions, policemen, soldiers and customs officials can also look forward to a pay-rise. Their average salary looks set to go up by around 3%. And the Ministry of Finance predicts that those working in the private sector will not be left behind - their average wage is expected to rise to around 23,500 CZK a month.
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10/06/2007
A Czech businessman held in the United Arab Emirates on charges of illegally using the internet to make telephone calls is to be allowed to return home, reported Saturday's Pravo. Roman Mnicha was arrested in February, charged with making calls to his business partner, Michal Zamec, illegally over the internet. Subsequently, the communications firm providing the telephone link took Mr. Mnicha to court, seeking damages of 3.7 million CZK (185,000 USD) for the illegal use of its service. This week, the court ruling on the case threw out the telecommunications company Etisalat's complaint, and now that Mr. Mnicha is no longer on trial, he can return home.
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10/06/2007
An employer who refused to offer Mr. Pavel Sarissky a job, on the grounds of his ethnicity, has been ordered to apologise and fined 50 thousand CZK (2,500 USD) by a Prague court. Ms. Nada Mihailova, the owner of IMAGE-n-west, was found guilty of racist discrimination against Mr. Sarissky, and ordered to pay damages. When Pavel Sarissky applied for a job in her firm in 2005, she rejected his application - telling the employment bureau that it was because he was unwilling to work nights. Mr. Sarissky refuted the allegations, producing a reference from his previous employer as evidence. Ms. Mihailova responded to this by telling Mr. Sarissky that she 'just didn't employ Romanies'. According to the European Monitoring Centre in Vienna, discrimination against the Roma minority in the Czech Republic is widespread, though this is only one of a couple of cases of discrimination in the workplace to have made it to Czech courts.
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10/06/2007
Czech decathlete Roman Sebrle has been voted the second best European athlete of the year. Mr. Sebrle comes second only to Finnish javelin-thrower Tero Pitkamaki in the poll conducted by the European Athletic Association. This is Roman Sebrle's highest ever ranking in this poll - he came third back in 2004, having taken the Olympic decathlon title earlier that year. The results for the women's competition were released on Thursday, and saw Czech javelinist Barbora Spotakova coming seventh.
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10/06/2007
Czech tennis' leading-light Tomas Berdych will not be progressing to the final of the Japan Open, after losing out to Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the semi-final. Third seed Gasquet beat number two seed Berdych 7-6 6-3, and will now meet David Ferrer, the favourite for the title, in the final.
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10/05/2007
Iraqi parliamentary chairman Mahmoud Mashadani, heading a delegation on a four-day visit to Prague, has told journalists that the Czech Republic as well as other EU countries should play a greater role in the economic transformation, as well as training of security forces, in Iraq. Mr Mashadani and other Iraqi officials have met with Czech representatives including the head of the lower house Miloslav Vlcek. On Thursday the Iraqi politician stressed that Czechs should make use of historic past cooperation between the two countries, going back decades. The Czech Republic began contributing to renewal projects in Iraq in 2003. The Foreign Ministry earmarked almost 50 million crowns (the equivalent of around 2.5 million US dollars) to projects in the years 2004 to 2006.
Lower house chairman Miloslav Vlcek, meanwhile, has made clear more Iraqi parliamentarians will be invited to the Czech Republic in the future to discuss former Czechoslovakia's own transformation from a totalitarian regime to a democratic state.
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10/05/2007
President Vaclav Klaus has signed the country's bill on public finance reform; his spokesman Petr Hajek made the information public on Friday. The legislation, bringing changes to taxation, social security, and health care, is aimed at cutting the country's debt. The opposition is opposed to the bill, with the largest opposition party saying it will lodge a complaint at the Constitutional Court. The Czech president has reportedly admitted the legislation was not without flaws, although he did not think they contradicted the Constitution, Mr Hajek said. Under the new bill, which takes effect on January 1st, Czechs will, for example, pay cash for visits to doctors' surgeries as well as to hospitals. Also, those on sick leave will not receive payment for their first three days off. Among other changes, the legislation also introduces a flat income tax rate, and raises VAT on foodstuffs and medicines.
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10/05/2007
The Environment Ministry has released a report on the state of the Czech environment for 2006 which says that the Czech Republic is lagging behind other European countries in a number of environmental areas. The Minister for the Environment Martin Bursik called the results of the report "alarming" on Friday. According to the information, sixty-two percent of Czechs breathe air containing excess levels of soft dust particles and air pollution is increasing. Mr Bursik has pointed to a dramatic increase in the number of children suffering from allergies. The situation could improve through EU funds, as the government intends to replace incinerators that are not environment-friendly. Also, in the future, drivers' vehicles will have to undergo stricter technical controls, and a road tax amendment will give preferential treatment to cars using cleaner types of fuel. The report reveals the most serious levels of air pollution are found in parts of North Moravia, where large industrial companies are concentrated, as well as in the Czech capital.
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10/05/2007
Prague Town Hall has decided to ban a planned neo-Nazi march through Prague's Jewish quarter; it was originally announced to take place on the 10th of November. That date marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews that took place in Germany in 1938. Town Hall officials have said such a march would promote hatred and intolerance towards citizens on the basis of religion or ethnicity. The march was previously given permission as it was officially put forward as a protest against the Czech mission in Iraq. Organizers of the march said earlier this week they planned to postpone the event until November 17th; but the site on that date has already been booked by the Jewish Liberal Union.
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10/05/2007
Two little girls, who were accidentally switched shortly after birth nine months ago at a Trebic hospital, will be returned to their proper biological parents. The babies' parents met at an undisclosed location on Thursday, agreeing that such a solution - although difficult - would be best for both families. Before the plan goes into effect the couples and children will reportedly spend time together, including going on holiday, to help the little girls grow accustomed to their real parents. The couples have agreed on exchanging the children shortly before the girls' birthdays in early December.
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