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10/30/2008
The Finance Ministry has reduced its expectation of GDP growth in 2009. Its analysts now predict the Czech economy will grow by 3.7 percent next year, down from the 4.8 they forecast in July, prior to the international credit and banking crisis. The draft budget for 2009 was drawn up on the basis of the July estimate. The ministry has revised its GDP forecast for this year from 4.6 percent to 4.4 percent. 2007 saw record Czech GDP growth of 6.6 percent.
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10/30/2008
A man died in Bruzovice, north Moravia on Thursday morning when strong winds caused part of the roof of a factory in the town to collapse. Gales and heavy rain on Wednesday night and Thursday saw rescue workers called out numerous times. Fallen trees delayed trains and blocked roads, while some households were without power.
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10/30/2008
Two men died when a steel silo of chemical fertiliser collapsed near Český Krumlov in south Bohemia on Thursday. Four employees were filling the silo when part of it gave way; only two of them managed to escape before the whole structure came crashing down. A special team has mounted a clean-up of the nitrogen fertiliser which spread over the surrounding area, including an adjacent road.
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10/30/2008
The state has been ordered to pay compensation to a psychiatrist who was seriously injured by a patient wielding a machete, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. The court said the police had failed to protect Doctor Karel Hynek, who had reported that he was in danger from the patient. The psychiatrist, who is 63, spent two months in hospital after receiving serious injuries to his head and arm. While the court has yet to fix the amount of compensation, the doctor’s lawyers have demanded CZK 1.5 million.
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10/30/2008
Most Czechs would vote for the Democratic candidate Barack Obama if they could vote in next week’s US presidential election, suggests a poll published in Thursday’s Mladá fronta Dnes. The survey, conducted for the newspaper by the agency Median, indicates 68 percent of Czechs would choose Mr Obama.
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10/29/2008
The lower house of the Czech Parliament officially recognized the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, when deputies voted to acknowledge the treaty on which the court was founded. The Czech Republic was the only EU state not to have recognised the international court, which handles serious crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Czech parliament was reluctant to pass the agreement earlier due to doubts whether it was consistent with the Czech constitutional order and the protection of Czech citizens by the state. It was approved by the Senate in July of this year.
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10/29/2008
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday opened a debate on two Czech-US treaties setting the legal framework for the siting of a US tracking radar on Czech soil. Along with ten interceptor missiles in Poland the tracking radar in the Brdy military area, southwest of Prague, would form part of a broader US missile defense shield intended to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missile attacks from states like Iran. The centre-right government on Wednesday won a motion for Parliament to open debate on the two treaties despite fierce opposition from the left-wing parties. A vote is expected to take place some time in December and due to a number of rebels in the governing coalition its outcome is uncertain.
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10/29/2008
Meanwhile contrary to expectations, the Senate has postponed its debate on the US radar until December, when the upper chamber will reflect the outcome of last weekend’s elections to a third of the Senate. Senate chairman Přemysl Sobotka of the Civic Democrats said that his party had initiated the delay for ethical reasons since in the present set up it could be accused of taking an unfair advantage. The Civic Democrats, the strongest party in government, suffered a crushing defeat in the elections losing nine mandates. However with 44 seats in the upper chamber the governing coalition should still have enough votes to get the radar treaties approved.
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10/29/2008
The Czech Republic ranks 14th on a list of states whose consumption levels are outstripping environmental renewal. A World Wildlife Fund report said on Wednesday that Earth's natural resources were being depleted so quickly that "two planets" would be required to sustain current lifestyles within a generation. Emissions from fossil fuels were among the top culprits cited. The United States and Australia rank among the five countries with the largest environmental “footprint” per person, along with the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Denmark.
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10/29/2008
The association of Muslims living in the Czech Republic is preparing to file a lawsuit in connection with the screening of the controversial film Fitna at a neo-Nazi gathering in the centre of Prague on Tuesday. The film by the ultra-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders is a denunciation of Islam as a fundamentalist religion that incites violence against other cultures. Tuesday’s gathering in the city centre was organized by the ultra-right National Party and was eventually dissolved by the police on the grounds of its racist and xenophobic content. Thirteen people were detained for questioning. The association of Czech Muslims said it would ask the Interior Ministry to review the party’s registration on the grounds that its statutes alone are in violation of the law.
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