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02/19/2007
Ten Roma families that were evicted from the North Moravian town of Vsetin last autumn as rent-defaulters and moved to rundown buildings in the Moravian Jeseniky region may be given some subsidies for basic repairs to their dwellings, Czech Minister without Portfolio Dzamila Stehlikova told journalists on Monday. The Green Party minister said she wanted wanted to obtain a total of 1.5 million crowns for this purpose and would be submitting a proposal to the government in about a month. The Roma families were evicted from a dilapidated tenant house in the centre of Vsetin last October by the then mayor Jiri Cunek, who is now Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Christian Democrats. Ms Stehlikova said that the conditions in which the Roma are living in Jeseniky are miserable. Some of their houses don't have any drinking water or proper sewerage.
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02/19/2007
A witness has come forward to testify that Christian Democrat Senator Milan Spacek cooperated knowingly with the communist secret police, the StB. Jitka Nagy, one of the people Mr. Spacek allegedly reported on to the StB told Monday's Hospodarske Noviny that he had explained privately to her that he had to cooperate with the StB in order to be able to visit his father in then West Germany. Senator Spacek maintains that he was not aware of the fact that the StB was pumping him for information. If proved otherwise, Senator Spacek would be expelled from the Christian Democrat Party, which has said it will not tolerate former StB collaborators in its ranks.
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02/19/2007
The police are investigating the death of Zdenek Smetana, owner of the first-division football club FC Viktoria Plzen. Smetana was found dead in his flat on Friday night, and the evidence suggests he shot himself with a legally held gun. The police are still waiting for the results of the autopsy and investigating the state of Mr. Smetana's businesses in order to ascertain why he should have wanted to kill himself.
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02/19/2007
Almost two thirds of Czechs say that the powers of the president should be retained at their current level according to a new poll. The survey conducted by the CVVM agency in January shows that 59% of Czechs think the president should keep his current level of authority, a marked increase since 2002. A majority of those polled also said that the president should only be able to interfere in the activities of the government to a limited extent, that he should appoint ministers on the prime minister's recommendation and keep his involvement in foreign policy issues in line with the objectives pursued by the cabinet and the ministry of foreign affairs.
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02/19/2007
This morning Czech police eased anti-terrorism measures at Prague's Ruzyne Airport, which have been in place since last Wednesday. The airport had been on a state of high alert after police received information from a woman claiming to be a psychic that an aircraft was going to be attacked. Police said they had been duty bound to take the threat seriously as the woman did not act anonymously and had very specific information about the planes that were to be targeted. The Prima commercial television station reported that flights to Israel had been the subject of most concern.
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02/18/2007
The Czech Republic's ambassador to NATO, Stefan Fulle, has said the proposed US anti-missile defence base cannot be built in Europe without prior consultations within NATO and without being integrated into the alliance's system of command and control. The United States is now holding talks with the Czech Republic over a possible stationing of a radar site in the Brdy hills near Prague.
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02/18/2007
The planned US missile defence site will be on the agenda of Monday's meeting between Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and his Polish counterpart Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Mirek Topolanek is leaving for Warsaw on Monday for a two-day official trip. Other topics to be discussed include the European constitution, the situation of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic and relations with Germany.
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02/18/2007
Environment Minister Martin Bursik has been confirmed in the post of Green Party chairman by a national party convention which has been meeting in Prague this weekend. Education Minister Dana Kuchtova was re-elected deputy chairperson. Another party deputy chairman, Prague councillor Petr Stepanek, was replaced by Ondrej Liska in a vote on Sunday. Prior to the congress, the leadership of the party had announced it would step down and ask for re-election after a left-wing faction within the party disagreed with the Greens joining the centre-right coalition government along with the Civic and Christian Democrats.
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02/18/2007
Interior Minister Ivan Langer has said he intends to discuss a planned reform of the police force with the opposition Social Democrats, namely his predecessor in the post Frantisek Bublan. According to Minister Langer, the proposed reform should concern the Interior Ministry's internal inspection, the powers of police officers and a system of education within the force. The reform should be implemented in 2009.
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02/18/2007
Deputy Minister for Regional Development Miroslav Kalous has said an out-of-court settlement between property owners who are suing the Czech state over alleged damages incurred by the country's system of controlled rent is unlikely. The possibility of an out-of-court settlement was put forward by the property owners on Friday as a way of preventing a trial at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The property owners have demanded 50 billion crowns (the equivalent of 2.4 billion USD) from the state which the Ministry for Regional Development has refused to pay.
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