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03/15/2007
The Interior Ministry's inspectorate says it suspects eleven traffic police officers from the town of Kladno of abuse of office and accepting bribes. All of them are going to be sacked from the police force, according to the Kladno police director. A spokeswoman did not specify how long they had been allegedly breaking the law and how much money was involved.
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03/15/2007
Police have arrested two men who are believed to have stolen an early version of the latest project by Slovak film director Juraj Jakubisko. The director, who lives in the Czech Republic, says the men threatened to illegally distribute his latest film if he failed to pay them half a million crowns. The premiere of the thriller about the 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Bathory is scheduled for this autumn.
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03/15/2007
The Belgium-based supermarket chain Delhaize said on Thursday that net profit fell by 3.6 percent in 2006 due to its struggling Czech business, which the company has put up for sale. Delhaize, which has big US operations, reported a 2006 net profit on 351.9 million euros (464.7 million dollars), down from 365.2 million euros one year earlier. The company announced last November it was pulling out of the Czech Republic and putting up its 97 Delvita stores for sale, which would allow it to focus on higher opportunity markets.
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03/14/2007
The opposition Social Democrats have criticised government plans to sell seven percent of the state's stake in the power giant CEZ. The shares, currently worth some 35.7 billion crowns (an estimated 1.6 billion US dollars), are to be offered on the stock market later this year. The daily Hospodarske Noviny reports that the revenue is to be used for the construction of roads and motorways. Social Democrat MP and former Trade and Industry Minister Milan Urban has opposed the plan. He views it as irresponsible to sell off part of CEZ just for the purpose of what he considers "darning a hole" in state finances.
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03/14/2007
The Justice Ministry is preparing a new Penal Code that sees the age of criminal responsibility lowered from 15 to 14 years. Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil said on Wednesday that the bill should be ready by the end of next month. Unlike last year's proposal, which was not passed because it failed to deal with large-scale fraud, the new bill will have a clause on the issue; however, it will not have a clause on euthanasia, as it is to be dealt with by a separate law. The current Penal Code is considered outdated as it was written in the 1960s.
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03/14/2007
Deputy Prime Minister and Christian Democrat leader Jiri Cunek, who is facing charges of corruption, has postponed a police interrogation. Mr Cunek says he put in a request to reschedule because the media had found out about the date. Mr Cunek is accused of having accepted a bribe five years ago when he was mayor of the Moravian town of Vsetin. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Wednesday that it will not be long before Mr Cunek - unable to cope with mounting pressure - resigns.
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03/14/2007
The Communists have failed to win support for a bill on national referenda in the lower house of parliament. The bill needed the support of 120 deputies in the 200-seat chamber as this is the majority needed for a bill like the proposed national referendum law, whose enactment requires an amendment to the constitution. The Communists' proposal was rejected in the first reading on Wednesday when all 100 governing coalition MPs voted against. If it were passed Czechs would have been able to hold a referendum on whether or not a US radar station should be built on Czech territory.
The Green Party, which generally supports the enactment of a national referendum law, is working on its own proposal.
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03/14/2007
The US Congress has taken a first step towards cancelling the requirement for Czechs to get a visa for travelling to the United States. Senators have approved a proposal that would allow visa requirements to be cancelled for countries like the Czech Republic who are allies of the US in its so-called War against Terrorism. The proposed legislation would have to be passed by the House of Representatives in order to come into effect.
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03/14/2007
Prague city councillors supported the city's proposed candidacy for the Olympic Games in 2016 at a meeting on Tuesday evening. The city council will now vote on the matter next week Thursday. If, as expected, most of its members vote for the proposal, Prague will become an official candidate for the Olympic Games and compete against cities like Berlin, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the honour of hosting the event.
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03/14/2007
Germany's Social Democrats would like the European Union to hold discussion on a US request to station part of its anti-missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Since EU members hold a joint foreign and security policy this issue should not be ignored, according to the head of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament Martin Schulz. German Chancellor and Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, on the other hand, says talks on the defence system should mainly involve NATO.
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