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01/16/2007
A Czech court has ordered a fitness club to pay 70 000 crowns in damages and apologize to a 43 year old homosexual man whom it failed to employ because of his sexual orientation. Lech Sydor said the fitness club promised him the job but backed out when it emerged that he was gay. In a private interview with Sydor the club's manager allegedly told him he could not risk having a gay masseur making passes at the club's male clients. In the court hearings the manager claimed he had found a more-qualified candidate for the position. This is the first time that a Czech court has recognized discrimination on the grounds of sexual preference.
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01/16/2007
A Czech judge has decided not to comply with a decision by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the wrongful placement of two children, claimed by their parents, in foster care. The judge ruled that the Wallas family's two youngest children should stay with foster parents in spite of the Strasbourg court's ruling in October attacking that decision by the authorities. Judge Jaroslava Novotna defended her decision saying there was nothing in the Strasbourg ruling that said the children had to be returned immediately to their parents and said she feared they would undergo a trauma if they were returned now to people who are essentially strangers to them. Strasbourg court rulings are mandatory for governments that have signed the European Convention on Human Rights which Prague ratified in 1993.
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01/16/2007
The Central Bohemian regional court has handed down long prison sentences to nineteen members of the so-called "Berdych gang" after finding them guilty of criminal conspiracy, taking part in armed robberies and other criminal acts. The court stated that members of the criminal gang collaborated with two detectives from the anti-organised crime squad between the years 1999 and 2001. The verdicts were issued after a year-long trial. The case of the "Berdych gang", named after the alleged ringleader David Berdych, has been described as the largest case of organised crime in the Czech Republic.
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01/16/2007
Culture Minister Helena Trestikova has decided to appoint theatre critic Ondrej Cerny as the new director of Prague's National Theatre. Mrs Trestikova made the decision based on a recommendation by an expert committee which assessed the proposals of five candidates for the post. Former Culture Minister Martin Stepanek dismissed the previous director Jan Mrzena in September, a move which caused a rift between the theatre's ensembles.
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01/15/2007
Prime Minister and Civic Democrat chairman Mirek Topolanek has met several Social Democrat MPs to discuss the policy statement of his new coalition government that is to ask for a confidence vote this Friday. Civic Democrat MP Petr Tluchor, who also took part in the talks on Monday, would not disclose the number or names of the Social Democrat deputies present at the meeting. However, Social Democrat chairman Jiri Paroubek said in a statement on Monday afternoon he did not know about any such MPs. The centre-right coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Greens has only 100 votes in the 200-seat lower house of parliament. Without the backing or tolerance from the opposition ranks it does not have a chance to win confidence from the chamber.
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01/15/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has called a meeting that should discuss the country's foreign policy. He has invited Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra to Prague Castle for Tuesday. A spokesman said the meeting will discuss the priorities and coordination of Czech foreign policy.
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01/15/2007
A new poll by the SC&C agency suggests that two thirds of Czechs wish that President Vaclav Klaus be re-elected for a second term as head of state. According to the poll, President Klaus, who is 65, enjoys the strongest support among voters of the current centre-right government coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Greens. Women, people with university education and younger people prevail among his supporters. The Czech President is elected by both houses of parliament. The next election is to be held in early 2008.
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01/15/2007
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says the Czech Republic supports Ukraine's bid to join the EU and NATO. Mr Schwarzenberg made the statement on Monday after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Borys Tarasyuk in Prague. The two ministers also signed a declaration on further cooperation between the two countries concerning foreign policy issues, agriculture and nuclear safety.
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01/15/2007
Trade and Industry Minister Martin Riman says that by 2010, more than eight percent of the energy consumed in the Czech Republic could be produced from renewable sources. Mr Riman said the country would therefore meet EU requirements. The share of so-called "green energy" on the Czech market was 4.5 percent in 2006.
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01/15/2007
Czech airline CSA announces it carried about 5.5 million passengers in 2006, 4.7 percent more than in the previous year. The number of passengers on scheduled flights rose on a year-on-year comparison by 3.4 percent to reach 4.7 million with charter passengers up 13 percent to nearly 800,000. CSA, the biggest airline in Central Europe, increased the number of flights by 1.1 percent last year to total 39,000.
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