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11/14/2008
Czech scientists will receive some 12 million crowns for radar research from the Pentagon by the end of this year. The Czech Technical University in Prague this week signed the first bilateral agreement with the US, securing some 5 million crowns for the development of special software. The Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences is set to receive the same amount.
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11/14/2008
Škoda Auto has sacked about 1,500 temporary workers since September in reaction to the global financial crisis. The biggest carmaker in the country still employs about 2,500 external workers, most of them from Slovakia and Poland. The company’s spokesman Jaroslav Černý says the number of in-house staff would remain unchanged for the time being. The company was forced to announce price-cuts last month.
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11/14/2008
A ČSA plane carrying 126 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport on Friday morning, after a bird was sucked into one of its engines. The Boeing, heading from Ostrava to Egypt, landed safely and no rescue operation was needed.
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11/13/2008
The Czech Republic plans to invite U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to a summit meeting with the 27 EU states in Prague on April 2, the country’s ambassador to the EU Milena Vicenová, said on Thursday. The Czech Republic which takes up the rotating EU presidency on January 1st has said transatlantic relations and improving economic cooperation with the United States would be a priority for the six-month Czech EU presidency. Mr. Obama, who will take office in January, is due to attend a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 3-5.
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11/13/2008
The diplomatic row over President Klaus’ visit to Ireland has divided Czech politicians, some have come out in his defense, others say his behaviour was inappropriate. Mr. Klaus, who in Dublin publicly labelled himself an EU dissident, chose to meet with the leader of the eurosceptic group Libertas Declan Ganley on Tuesday evening and made a number of outspoken comments about the EU which the Irish foreign ministry described as inappropriate intervention into the country’s internal affairs and an unprecedented breach of diplomatic courtesy. Mr. Klaus and the Irish foreign minister, Michael Martin, exchanged angry words via the press with Mr. Martin describing the Czech president’s comments as "misguided, misinformed and insulting" and Mr. Klaus calling him a hypocryte. In Prague, Prime Minister Topolánek said the president was free to voice his opinions and meet with whomever he pleased, but ministers for the Christian Democrats and the Green Party called his behaviour highly inappropriate, saying Mr. Klaus was rocking the boat ahead of the country’s EU presidency.
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11/13/2008
The Czech media have come out strongly against the new penal code, approved by the lower house on Tuesday, saying it would curtail freedom of speech. The country’s leading dailies, magazines and tv stations criticize an article in the bill that bans the publishing of information from recorded police wiretappings, saying that it would infringe on their right to provide information. A dozen editors in chief have signed a joint petition to the upper house, asking senators to reject the new penal code and get the controversial article debated by media experts. The Justice Ministry which drafted the new penal code has dismissed the criticism. If approved by the Senate and signed by the president the new penal code would come into force in 2010, replacing the current law from 1961.
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11/13/2008
Croatia looks set to complete EU accession talks before the end of next year, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said after a meeting with his Croatian counterpart Gordan Jandrokovic in Prague on Thursday. Mr. Schwarzenberg reiterated the Czech view that further EU enlargement should not be linked to progress on the Lisbon treaty. Croatia is the hottest candidate for EU entry and the Croatian foreign minister said he hoped that the Czech Republic’s EU presidency would lend the accession talks new dynamics.
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11/13/2008
The governor of Karlovy Vary Veronika Vlková has resigned from office. Mrs. Vlkova said that health reasons as well as the Social Democrats victory in regional elections were behind her decision. Mrs. Vlková, a member of the right-wing Civic Democrats, served as governor of Karlovy Vary since the beginning of 2006.
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11/13/2008
Giving Romany children equal access to mainstream education may take years, Education Minister Ondřej Liška said in response to a critical report by the European Roma Rights Centre on Thursday. The report said that many Romany children were still being placed in special schools for children with learning problems and handicaps which dramatically lowered their chances of later integrating in society. A number of government programmes in aid of Romany children were introduced within the 2005 education reform but minister Liška said it was too soon to see results. He said he expected a marked improvement by 2011.
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11/13/2008
The police have cracked down on a ring of people smugglers active on the country’s eastern border with Slovakia. The police accused five Mongolians of organizing illegal border crossings for which they face up to eight years in prison. A Czech lawyer in also being prosecuted in the same case. The man faces up to 12 months in prison for helping the migrants to obtain fake documents.
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