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10/16/2008
Thieves posing as police officers stole a lorry full of cigarettes on Thursday morning. The driver said he was stopped on the motorway near Beroun in central Bohemia by two men in police reflective waistcoats driving a car with police markings and a flashing light. They tied the driver up and left him in the truck after transferring its cargo of cigarettes, worth CZK 3,000,000, to another vehicle.
On Wednesday another two “false policemen” kidnapped and robbed a waitress in Frýdek-Místek, north Moravia. She managed to escape and alerted the real police, who arrested them.
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10/16/2008
There are now 37,000 kilometres of cycle paths in the Czech Republic, 20,000 more than six years ago, CzechTourism said on Thursday. That distance is similar to the figure for Germany, which is over four times bigger, said the state agency. However, the quality of the Czech Republic’s cycle paths is another matter, said a representative of the transport research authority, adding that there was also a lack of supplementary services for cyclists in this country.
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10/16/2008
The legend that egg were mixed into the mortar during the building of Prague’s 14th century Charles Bridge could well be true, suggests new research. A sample of the original mortar was removed for testing during on-going renovation work on the famous landmark and the results bore out the myth, with milk proteins being discovered in a test described as almost as precise as human fingerprints.
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10/16/2008
The Czech Republic beat Slovenia 1:0 at home on Wednesday in a qualifier for the 2010 football World Cup, with the only goal of the game coming from a Libor Sionko header midway through the second half. Despite their first win of the campaign, the Czech team were criticised for an unimpressive performance. They now have four points from three games, and will expect to take three more when they travel to San Marino for their last outing of the year in a month’s time.
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10/16/2008
The Czech film Goat Story, which its makers say is the first computer generated imagery animated movie created in central Europe, has gone on general release in the Czech Republic. Subtitled Old Prague Legends, Goat Story has opened at 30 cinemas around the country.
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10/16/2008
Around 60 films are being screened in the five-day Music on Film Film on Music festival, which has begun at three Prague cinemas. The focus of this year’s festival, the fifth, is New York City.
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10/15/2008
The Czech government has criticized the extent of EU crisis intervention, arguing that it could lead to distortions on the market. Speaking on the eve of an EU summit on crisis aid to the financial sector, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said he was ready to be “tough” in using his veto to oppose any proposal put by eurozone countries to all 27 EU members that goes beyond the framework of “basic common sense”. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said the Czech Republic was prepared to increase the guarantee on savings accounts up to 100,000 euros only if other EU members backpedaled on providing blanket guarantees. On Tuesday the government approved a proposal to provide guarantees of up to 50,000 euros.
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10/15/2008
The opposition Social Democrats have tabled a proposal for a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Topolánek’s centre-right government. Lower house chairman Miloslav Vlček said the vote would most likely take place next Wednesday, October 22. The main opposition party has already forced three votes of no-confidence in the government but failed to overturn it each time. Now it is hoping that party infighting within the coalition and a highly publicized corruption scandal involving the ruling Civic Democrats could turn the scales in its favour. The no-confidence vote is to take place after the first round of Senate and regional elections due to be held this weekend.
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10/15/2008
One of the country's Second World War heroes, RAF pilot Stanislav Hlučka has died at the age of eighty-eight. Brigadier Hlučka, who received a number of state awards and distinctions for bravery, was arrested after the 1948 communist coup in Czechoslovakia and sentenced to a year in prison. After being released he was not allowed to return to the military and earned his living by manual labour. He was rehabilitated in the 1960s and allowed to return to the military. After the fall of communism he assisted in the rehabilitation of pilots who had been persecuted by the communists and received the Order of T. G. Masaryk.
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10/15/2008
The Christian Democrats of the Czech governing coalition have unveiled an internet project designed to increase awareness of the plight of political prisoners in Cuba. The project is called “prisoners of conscience -we know about you” and every day the party’s web site will profile the fate of one political prisoner. Although the Czech Republic approved the lifting of sanctions against Cuba in June of this year some Czech politicians consider this to have been a mistake, believing that diplomatic and business ties should not be reintroduced without democratic reforms in Cuba.
Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque warned on Tuesday that President Raul Castro would never renounce socialism, just days before Havana is to hold landmark talks with European Union leaders. The EU delegation will include French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg and EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel.
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