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01/12/2007
Czech officials including the minister for industry and trade have begun talks with German-Austrian-Italian company TAL which operates the Ingolstadt pipeline. According to Industry and Trade Minister Martin Riman the talks are being held with a view to negotiating an alternative oil provider in the event of a crisis with Russian provider Druzba. The move follows developments between Belarus and Russia this week. At the same time, it is only the beginning of negotiations: an eventual deal could take several months.
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01/12/2007
A new report released by Eurostat - the European Union's statistical office - has shown that growth in spending in research and development in the sciences in the Czech Republic was among the fastest in recent years, especially compared to other new EU countries which joined the EU in 2004. According to the report, Czech R&D spending grew by 8.3 percent in the years 2001 to 2005. In 2005, for example, the country invested 1.42 percent of the GDP (the equivalent of around 1.4 billion euros) in the R&D sector, while the amount spent in some other eastern and central European countries was a percentage point less. But, the Czech Republic is still said to lag far behind countries like Sweden, Germany, and Finland when it comes to funding the sciences. More than half the amount spent on science R & D in the Czech Republic comes from private sources, namely private companies.
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01/12/2007
Milos Forman, the Czech-born film director famous for films like Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The People vs. Larry Flynt, has arrived in the Czech capital to begin pre-production on a jazz musical titled "A Well-Paid Walk", written by Jiri Suchy and Jiri Slitr. The work will premiere in the second half of April. While in Prague Mr Forman will also take part in the local premiere of his new film "Goya's Ghosts" on January 31st. Invited guests will reportedly include actress Natalie Portman as well as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere.
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01/12/2007
Parts of Northern Moravia were hit by strong gales on Thursday night, resulting in fallen trees and downed power lines. Some 25,000 homes in and around Cesky Tesin were left without power for several hours. Electricity was renewed at all homes by around 11 pm. Some sites in mountain areas, meanwhile, recorded winds of 100 or more kilometres per hour.
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01/11/2007
The ruling centre-right coalition will seek a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament next Friday, according to the speaker of the lower house Miloslav Vlcek. The government of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Green Party, which was appointed on Tuesday, holds only half of the 200 seats in the lower house of Parliament and needs at least one vote from a Communist or a Social Democrat deputy.
Though the leaders of both parties have said they would not support the coalition, two Social Democrat MPs - Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka - have not made it clear whether they share their party's official stance. Prime Minister Topolanek has sent all Social Democratic Party deputies in the lower house a letter asking them to support his cabinet or tolerate it by absenting themselves from the vote.
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01/11/2007
The new cabinet is expected to present its policy programme to the lower house next Wednesday. On the same day the speaker of the lower house Miloslav Vlcek will resign from his post. Before his election to the post of speaker Mr. Vlcek pledged to fill the post on a temporary basis. That was because it is the speaker of the lower house who would have the task of selecting a prime minister designate for the third attempt should the centre right government fail to win its confidence vote next Friday. As a Social Democrat, Mr Vlcek's choice would be open to allegations of a party bias. The parliamentary parties will now need to reach some kind of consensus on who should succeed Mr. Vlcek.
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01/11/2007
The Green Party says it wants to re-open debate on the relocation of a pig farm built on the site of a former concentration camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia. The Lety pig farm is a long-standing problem which past governments failed to resolve. Several alternatives were considered in the past including the purchase of the farm by the state and its subsequent removal. None of the suggestions were taken up because they were allegedly all too costly. Romany organizations have been calling for the farm's relocation for many years. According to historical documents over 300 people died in the camp and 500 of its inmates ended up in the extermination camp at Auschwitz.
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01/11/2007
I Served the King of England, the new film by Czech director Jiri Menzel, goes on general release in the Czech Republic on Thursday. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Bohumil Hrabal, tells the story of a Czech waiter from the inter-war period, through World War II up until the 1960s. Menzel, who has made several adaptations of works by Hrabal, fought a ten-year-legal battle for the film rights. His most famous Hrabal movie is Closely Observed Trains which won an Oscar in 1967.
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01/11/2007
President Vaclav Klaus is on an official three-day visit to neighbouring Slovakia, where he has been meeting with the country's top officials. The two countries have exceptionally close relations since Czechs and Slovaks spent 73 years in a federal state before breaking up and going their separate ways 14 years ago. The president is accompanied by his wife Livia, who herself is Slovak.
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01/10/2007
In a live televised discussion with representatives of the three parties in the new government, Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said his party would neither tolerate nor support the coalition with a confidence vote. The government of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Green Party, which was appointed on Tuesday, has to gain a vote of confidence within the next month. But it holds only half of the 200 seats in the lower house of Parliament and needs at least one vote from a Communist or a Social Democrat deputy.
Though the leaders of both parties have said they would not support the coalition, two Social Democrat MPs - Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka - have not made it clear whether they share their party's official stance.
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