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03/02/2007
The Social Democratic Party has said that the leaking of the so-called Kubice report days before last June's national election was a plot masterminded by senior officials from the right-of-centre Civic Democratic party, including current Interior Minister Ivan Langer. Deputy Social Democrat chairman Bohuslav Sobotka told journalists on Friday that the ruling coalition was not interested in solving the Kubice case following the rejection of a proposal on Thursday that a parliamentary commission be established to look into the matter. Jan Kubice, the head of the country's organised crime police unit, submitted a report to the lower house late last May that was almost immediately leaked to the media. His report suggested that organised crime had infiltrated the country's civil service, which was dominated by the Social Democrats at the time.
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03/02/2007
Labour minister Petr Necas has said that senior managers in institutions relying on public finances should undergo vetting under an amendment to the Labour Code to be submitted next year. On Friday, Mr Necas criticised the current code which was pushed through by the political Left shortly before the elections last year. He said that it allowed people in influential posts, such as top managers at Czech TV or the public service Czech Radio, to not have to undergo security vetting. Recently, controversy was stirred up over the revelation that a top Czech TV official had been a member of the communist-era Peoples' Militia.
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03/02/2007
Deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek has said that the Czech Republic may begin drawing from EU funds for the years 2007 - 2013 by this summer. Jiri Cunek said as much on Friday during a meeting in Brussels. In the years 2007 - 13 the Czech Republic will be able to draw from 780 billion crowns - the equivalent of around 36 billion US dollars - with about one fifth going towards transportation infrastructure. On Friday Mr Cunek provided the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Danuta Hubner, with a national strategic plan for the country's drawing of funds over the next seven years.
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03/02/2007
Police in the United States have detained 36-year-old Czech businessman Vit Studlar who was convicted of embezzlement in the Czech Republic but went missing in 2005 before he was to start serving his seven-year prison sentence, the Czech daily Pravo writes. Mr Studlar is to be deported from the United States to the Czech Republic next week and escorted to prison. Mr Studlar who worked in the used car business was found guilty of cheating his customers out of 19 million crowns (890,000 US dollars).
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03/02/2007
Two people were killed on Friday morning after being hit by an express train outside the Moravian town of Prerov. All railway traffic has been halted on the route, the railway inspection says. It is not yet clear what led to the accident.
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03/02/2007
Promoters Interkoncerts have announced a Prague date for George Michael on his current tour. The pop singer will perform at one of the stadiums at Prague's Strahov on June 2nd. The 44-year old singer set out on the tour in 2006, his first in fifteen years.
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03/01/2007
The Czech Republic will respond to the US request to station a radar base on Czech territory within a month, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar. If the answer is affirmative it would then take another several months to settle the details of a bilateral agreement and its approval in Parliament would be on the agenda either in the winter or spring of next year. The radar base would be part of a US anti-missile defence system in Central Europe stationed in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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03/01/2007
President Vaclav Klaus has appointed Vlastimil Picek as the new Czech military chief-of-staff. Mr Picek, the former head of the President's Military Office, is replacing Pavel Stefka whose term of office expired this year. Mr Picek's main task as chief-of-staff will be to carry on with the reform of the Czech military and participate in discussions on the planned stationing of a US radar base in the Czech Republic.
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03/01/2007
The Czech Hydro-meteorological Office says this winter has been the warmest in 85 years in this country. Temperatures in the months of December, January and February were above long term average. The office says it will release the final data in mid-March.
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03/01/2007
The police are looking into statements made by Communist Party leader Vojtech Filip at a meeting of the party's executive leadership last weekend in order to ascertain whether he did not breach the law on extremism. Addressing the party's central committee, Mr. Filip called for the party to re-embrace the philosophy of Marx and Lenin, praised the former communist regime in Czechoslovakia and referred to a possible new revolution.
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