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04/30/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says the government is considering including some of the ideas of rebel Civic Democrat MP Vlastimil Tlusty in a major package of tax and social welfare reforms. Mr Tlusty, briefly finance minister in a previous government, has been threatening to vote against the bill. After otherwise inconclusive talks on Sunday, the prime minister said Mr Tlusty had not only explained his objections, but suggested how they could be resolved. However, Mr Topolanek said the cabinet would not compromise on the issue of the public finance deficit.
Meanwhile, Mr Tlusty is planning to put forward his own plan to reform the public finances on Thursday. The right-of-centre coalition needs his support for its reform bill to pass a vote in the lower house. Prime Minister Topolanek has staked the future of the government on the reforms. He says if the bill fails he will push for early elections.
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04/30/2007
The opposition Social Democrats are preparing to file a criminal complaint against two rebel MPs who supported the government in a confidence vote. Social Democrat boss Jiri Paroubek said he would instruct the party's lawyers this week to finish readying charges against former members Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka. Mr Paroubek accused the two of treachery and corruption. Their crossing the house to vote for Prime Minister Topolanek's government in January brought to an end a long period of political stalemate following elections last June.
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04/30/2007
The price of shares on the Prague Stock Exchange rose by an average of five percent in April, after growing at the same pace the previous month. Brokers have reported strong investor interest, with new records being broken almost every other day. The healthy figures come on the back of companies announcing improved economic results, dividend payments and foreign acquisitions.
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04/30/2007
Measures introduced against the risk of bird flu last year cost Czech poultry farmers a billion CZK (almost 5m USD), Hospodarske noviny reported on Monday. Last week the state veterinary authority said remaining extraordinary measures against bird-flu would come to an end on May 1. But they were not the only reason for the farmers' losses: there was also an increase in cheap imports from other states where people were afraid to eat poultry.
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04/30/2007
Fire fighters around the Czech Republic are on standby ahead of Monday night's paleni carodejnic (witch-burning). The ancient celebration takes place every year on the night of April 30, and welcomes in the spring. A spokesperson appealed for the public to act responsibly and adhere to basic safety rules. Those planning to light large bonfires have been urged to inform local fire brigades in advance.
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04/30/2007
Twelve percent of telephone users in the Czech Republic have abandoned their fixed-line telephones in the last year alone, according to a survey released by Eurobarometer. It found that over half of Czech households only make calls on mobile phones - the highest percentage in the European Union, the poll suggests. Only 7 percent of Czech families rely completely on fixed line phones and do not use a mobile.
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04/30/2007
The first division of the Czech football league could be set for a dramatic finish, after Sparta Prague failed to beat Banik Ostrava on Monday evening. With that game ending 2:2, Sparta are now in second with 49 points, behind Liberec on 50. Slavia Prague are third on 48, with Mlada Boleslav one point behind them. There are five more rounds between now and the end of the season.
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04/29/2007
Czech politicians say that the decision on whether the country should host a US radar base is in the hands of the Czech Republic alone, but they fail to agree on whether it should be made by Parliament or the people. In a televised debate on Sunday Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that national security issues should be decided by Parliament, since the Czech Republic was a parliamentary democracy. Opposition leader Jiri Paroubek countered that according to opinion surveys close to 70 percent of Czechs oppose the deployment of a US radar base on Czech territory and therefore it would be fair to let the people decide in a referendum. The question whether or not the Czech Republic should agree to hosting a US radar base as part of a US missile defense system in central Europe is a highly debated issue. Czech-American talks on the matter are expected to continue until the end of the year.
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04/29/2007
The Czech Doctors' Chamber has slammed the health minister's proposed reform plan saying it would harm both doctors and patients. At their national conference over the weekend doctors argued that the proposed spending cuts were merely an effort to save money not a genuine reform based on the health sector's needs. They called for a broad debate on the future of health care in the Czech Republic. Although Health Minister Julinek had been invited to the conference he did not turn up. Health Ministry spokesman Tomas Cikrt said the Health Ministry did not consider the Czech Doctors' Chamber a partner for negotiations.
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04/29/2007
The police have once again proposed filing charges against six former IPB bank managers for breach of trust. The financiers allegedly ordered a series of dubious bank transactions in an effort to rid the IPB bank of four bad loans. They lent nine billion crowns to firms tied with IPB but the bank never got the money back. The police first proposed filing charges against them in May of 2006 but the State Attorney returned the case, citing lack of evidence.
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