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06/15/2009
The Czech President Václav Klaus has signed a constitutional act limiting the current parliamentary term of office to allow early elections in October, Prague Castle has announced. The one-time act is the result of the agreement reached among the country’s parties in the spring to call early elections in the autumn, and the president did not have the right of veto. The Czech Republic is currently being led by a caretaker government after the previous elected government lost a vote of confidence on XXXXXX. According to the new act, the current parliamentary term will end on election day, which must take place on or before the weekend of October 9th.
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06/15/2009
The Czech interim government has proposed 370 million for the purchase of swine flu medicine and vaccines for half of the population. The same measures have been agreed upon by the other EU member states. The proposal must be approved by the State Security Council before a tender can be announced for the selection of a manufacturer. The state currently has reserves of a swine flu medicament, Tamiflu, for 20 percent of the population. The World Health Organisation announced last week that the outbreak of swine flu has reached the level of a pandemic, with nearly 30,000 confirmed cases in 74 countries.
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06/15/2009
The national deficit of the Czech Republic has grown by nearly one billion crowns since the start of this year. Data from the first quarter of 2009 released by the Ministry of Finance puts the country’s deficit at one trillion Czech crowns, or 96,000 crowns per citizen. The ministry has also raised the amount it expects to borrow this year. While the state deficit management and financing strategy from December estimated loans of nearly 150 billion for 2009, the amount now required due to the global financial crisis is expected to equal some 280 billion crowns.
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06/15/2009
Police in the western Bohemian town of Most have officially charged a participant in last weekend’s far-right extremist marches with promoting Nazism. According the police, the detained man was wearing neo-Nazi symbols on his clothing. Dozens of people were arrested at the weekend for involvement in unapproved gatherings as part of a recent, more large-scale effort on the part of the Czech police to clamp down on right-wing extremism. If convicted the suspect faces up to three years in prison under laws forbidding the “endorsement or promotion of movements to suppress human rights and freedoms”.
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06/15/2009
The centre-right party TOP 09, launched last week by former finance minister Miroslav Kalousek says it is receiving hundreds of requests for membership. A flash poll conducted by the STEM research centre at the weekend suggested that the new party could receive as much as 40% voter support in the early elections scheduled to take place in October. TOP 09 is currently being led by former foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who held that post on behalf of the Green Party and is consistently ranked the country’s most popular politician.
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06/15/2009
The company RegioJet, owned entirely by the transportation company Student Agency, is planning 15 railway lines around the Czech Republic, the company announced on Monday. The lines are to connect major destinations around the Czech Republic and will be serviced by new Siemens Desiro trains at a price of more than 10 billion crowns.
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06/15/2009
The television station Prima on Monday launched its second station in 3 months. The new digital station, R1, is meant to broadcast regional news and television series. The television station launched station for afternoon broadcast, Prima Cool, in April. Though it is a separate station, the national Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting has permitted R1 to share the same channel as Prima Cool, with R1 filling the channel’s morning broadcast.
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06/14/2009
The Czech EU presidency has expressed concern about alleged irregularities in Iran’s presidential election. In a statement published on Saturday, the EU presidency noted the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second four- year term, but said it was concerned about the street violence that erupted after the official results were announced. The presidency also said it hopes that Iran will respect its international obligations and enable the resumption of dialogue on nuclear issues. Six major powers, including EU members Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a package of economic and other incentives in exchange for which they want Iran to stop enriching uranium, a process that can produce fuel for power plants, or potentially a nuclear weapon.
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06/14/2009
The former Czech president and dissident Vaclav Havel said on Sunday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the Iranian presidential elections was cause for grave concern. In a statement for the ctk news agency, Mr. Havel said that the combination of modern technology and fanaticism was extremely dangerous. “We all know Mr. Ahmadinejad's statements. They are very dangerous and should lead us to greater vigilance and a deeper, more profound reflection about our civilization, its direction, the potential risks and the power of human obsession. Because what is coming out of Iran now has nothing to do with religion or patriotism, it is pure fanaticism,” Havel said.
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06/14/2009
Two hundred Czech tourists bound for Turkey were forced to spend the night at Ostrava airport after their flight was cancelled due to technical problems. The flight from Brno to Antalye was making a scheduled stop over at Ostrava airport when Czech Airlines (ČSA) staff announced a several-hour-long delay for technical reasons. When the flight failed to leave at the scheduled hour for a second time some of the tourists said they were no longer willing to make the journey. ČSA staff are dealing with the problem. The ctk news agency reports that on Friday ČSA was forced to cancel a flight bound for Brussels due to technical problems.
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