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06/14/2009
Far-right radicals took to the streets in a number of Czech towns over the weekend to protest against this week’s crack-down on ultra-right groups. In the town of Most, north of Prague, police dispersed a gathering of far-right extremists that was not approved by the town hall, detaining 14 people in the process, among them the deputy leader of the Workers Party Petr Kotab. In Zlín, south Moravia, an extremist march provoked a series of skirmishes with anarchists. There too police detained several people. Smaller gatherings also took place in the towns of Havlíčkův Brod, Mladá Boleslav and Jablonec nad Nisou. Expecting trouble police were out in force to secure law and order.
On Tuesday, special police units conducted raids on far-right radicals around the country, in what has been described as the biggest anti-extremist operation ever undertaken. Ten people, all members of the National Resistance group, were detained and later charged with promoting a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms. If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.
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06/14/2009
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer will pay a brief visit to Great Britain on Monday during which he will meet with his British counterpart Gordon Brown, the ctk news agency reported. The talks are expected to focus on the agenda of next weeks EU leaders summit, the last big event to be held under the EU presidency. The Czech prime minister held a similar meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday.
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06/14/2009
The Czech Interior Ministry has said it will retaliate in kind for the practice of selected police checks targeted at Czech nationals in German border areas. Although the country joined Schengen in December of 2007, German police are still picking out Czech drivers for thorough inspections involving a detailed search of personal belongings, a strip search and even a request for urine and saliva samples. The Czech Interior Ministry says it has received dozens of complaints from Czech nationals about unwarranted, humiliating treatment at the hands of German police and says it is now ready to respond in kind in the Czech border areas.
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06/14/2009
Czech President Václav Klaus on Saturday presented the former Hungarian president Arpad Goencz with the Saint Adalbert Prize for Peace, Freedom and Cooperation in Europe. Mr. Goencz could not be present at the ceremony in Prague for health reasons so the award was accepted in his name by his daughter – the Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goencz. Arpad Goencz received the prize from the Adalbert Stiftung foundation in Krefeld, Germany, for his contribution to Hungary's peaceful path to democracy and his long-time efforts to deepen good neighbourly relations on the continent.
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06/14/2009
The historic town of Cesky Krumlov, a UNESCO world heritage site, is preparing a series of social and cultural events to mark its upcoming 700th birthday. The week-long festivities will start on Monday with a ceremony on the town’s main square and the launch of the summer Five-Petalled Rose Festival. Visitors can look forward to a historic procession through the town, outdoor theatre performances, jousts, concerts and open-air markets. The celebrations will end on Sunday with a big fireworks display.
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06/14/2009
The police has detained one of two suspects believed to have robbed a dying man. The theft took place after a man in Ostrava collapsed on the street and instead of coming to his aid two young men in the vicinity walked up to him and stole this wallet and mobile phone before making off. Eyewitnesses reported them to the police. The man died shortly after. The youth detained admitted he had taken the man’s mobile but said he though he was just drunk. He has been charged with theft and failing to give first aid. Police are now looking for the second suspect.
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06/13/2009
The US pharmaceutical company Baxter has started producing a vaccine for the swine flu in one of its plants in the Czech Republic. The firm anticipates that the first batch of vaccines should be ready sometime in August. Full-scale production should be underway in the autumn. The Czech health authorities say they plan to acquire the vaccine for as many people as possible. The EU is recommending that governments acquire the vaccine for thirty-five percent of their country’s inhabitants. In the Czech Republic this would mean 3,5 million people. The Czech authorities currently have anti-viral drugs for 20 percent of the population.
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06/13/2009
The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a man who has accused the Office of the Government of age discrimination. The man claims that he and five other employees over 50 had been sacked on the grounds of a planned re-organization under which their posts were to have been scrapped, but a few months later these positions were all filled by young people under 28 years of age. Several court verdicts went in favour of the Office of the Government until the man filed a complaint with the Constitutional court, which overturned the earlier verdicts in a ruling that is seen as an important precedent. The case will now go back to a lower court to be reviewed.
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06/13/2009
A commemorative ceremony has been held to mark the 67th anniversary of the Lidice massacre by the Nazis. The country’s political leaders, among them President Václav Klaus and Senate chairman Přemysl Sobotka, cultural figures and war veterans attended a wreath laying ceremony and concert held in memory of those killed in the brutal massacre. The old Lidice, a village north-west of Prague was one of two villages which were completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich the highest ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. On June 10th of 1942, all 192 men over 15 years of age were rounded up and shot, the women were sent to concentration camps and the children to be re-educated. The other village, Ležáky was razed to the ground in a similar manner a fortnight later.
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06/13/2009
Speaking at the commemorative ceremony in Lidice, President Vaclav Klaus expressed concern over growing extremism in the Czech Republic and said the authorities should take a much tougher line against its representatives. He said the country’s legislation afforded the means to do so but that some ministers and mayors were unnecessarily cautious in employing those means. Last week the police conducted the biggest ever anti-extremist operation in the country, arresting and charging ten far-right radicals in the process. The interior ministry has promised to provide towns and municipalities with a manual on how to fight various forms of extremism more effectively.
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