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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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03/14/2007
The head of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic has said the Church does not enjoy the best of relationships with President Vaclav Klaus. Speaking on a radio programme on Tuesday, Cardinal Vlk said that relations with the president were not very positive. In particular, the cardinal highlighted Mr Klaus's negative reaction to a memorandum drawn up by a number of Catholic organisations on defining the relationship between church and state and finally settling the issue of church property.
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03/14/2007
In fifty percent of cases when a patient is prescribed an antibiotic in the Czech Republic, it is unnecessary, the head physician of the antibiotics department at Prague's Na Homolce hospital, Vlastimil Jindrak, warned on Wednesday. The exaggerated use of antibiotics leads to bacteria becoming immune to the drugs. This could result in an epidemic. Czech doctors would also save money if they used other forms of treatment, as health insurers currently spend some three billion crowns on antibiotics a year.
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03/14/2007
Austrian activists blocked four Czech-Austrian border crossings on Wednesday. The blockades were staged in protest at the Temelin nuclear power plant which is just 50 km away from nuclear-free Austria. Following two recent leaks of slightly radioactive liquid at the plant, the activists are planning more protests to call for an investigation into Temelin's safety.
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03/13/2007
Lawyer Zdenek Altner who is suing the Social Democrats for nearly 19 billion crowns or roughly 890 million dollars, has lodged a complaint against the Social Democrat chairman Jiri Paroubek and other senior party figures. Mr Altner's assistant Zdenka Vackova said on Tuesday that Mr Altner will disclose details of the complaint on Thursday. The lawyer claims he is owed 93 million crowns or 4.3 million US dollars from the Social Democrats for services he gave them in a legal dispute over the ownership of the party's headquarters in the 1990s and that this has now risen to 19 billion crowns due to fines and late-payment penalties. The Social Democrat leadership says Altner's claims are exaggerated and unsubstantiated and would not stand up in court.
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03/13/2007
The head of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic has said that the state has acknowledged the need for talks between it and the Church regarding the ownership of St Vitus' Cathedral. Writing on his own website, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk says that bilateral discussions would be held between Church and state this week about transferring the cathedral back to Prague Castle. Earlier this year, the Czech Supreme Court cancelled a previous ruling that the cathedral belongs to the church and said that it should be returned to the state. So far the church has refused to hand it over saying that it still owns the building's furnishings. The fourteenth-century cathedral was confiscated by the former communist regime and its ownership has been the subject of a bitter legal dispute between church and state since the early 1990s.
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03/13/2007
A motion put forward in the Czech Chamber of Deputies calling for the resignation of Christian Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek will not go before the house. The governing coalition comprising the Greens, Christian Democrats and Civic Democrats voted against the proposal put forward by opposition Social Democrat and Communist MPs. Mr Cunek is accused of taking a bribe when he was mayor of the Moravian town of Vsetin five years ago. He denies the charges and the governing parties have so far decided to stand by him.
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03/13/2007
New cameras are being installed to combat vandalism on Prague's Charles Bridge, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. Ten cameras are to be mounted on the towers on either side of the bridge in the next few weeks with the main task of monitoring the famous landmark's valuable statues. A recent study found that 18 of the bridge's 31 statues had been damaged. Police patrols of Charles Bridge and its surroundings are also being stepped up.
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03/13/2007
A new opinion poll suggests that the right-wing Civic Democratic Party are by far the most popular party among Czech voters. According to the poll conducted by the STEM research agency, if an election were to be held now, the governing Civic Democrats would win 81 seats in the lower house of parliament. Which has 200 members. The opposition Social Democrats would be the next strongest party with 61 seats while the Communists would come a distant third with 23 mandates followed by the Christian Democrats with 22 seats and the Green Party with 13 deputies. Such a result would give the current ruling coalition a sizable majority of 116 seats. At the moment the government only has 100 seats in parliament and is relying on rebel opposition MPs for support.
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03/13/2007
Around 300 people attended a rally in Prague on Monday evening calling for the building of a United States military facility in the Czech Republic. Organisers said they wished to express support for US policy in Europe and encourage debate on an American plan to build a radar base in the Czech Republic. The radar would be part of the US global missile defence shield. Most opinion polls indicate that a majority of Czechs are not in favour of the base.
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