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10/15/2008
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has ruled out that the document stating that Czech born writer Milan Kundera had reported an agent from the West to the communist authorities in 1950 could be fake. The institute’s spokesman Jiří Reichl said the document was obviously authentic and bore the signature of Jaroslav Rosický, a former member of the communist police who worked in the respective department at the time. The institute has however conceded that the evidence against Kundera is not absolute. That would require finding all survivors which the institute has been unable to do. Mr. Kundera, who lives in France, spoke to the media for the first time in 25 years to defend himself, telling the CTK news agency the allegations were fabricated lies intended to destroy his reputation.
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10/15/2008
President Vaclav Klaus is to pay a three day official visit to Ireland, the president’s office announced on Wednesday. Mr. Klaus is scheduled to meet with his Irish counterpart President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Brian Cowen. The Lisbon treaty, rejected by Irish voters in a referendum this year, is expected to be high on the agenda of the talks. President Klaus who remains strongly opposed to the treaty, welcomed the outcome of the Irish referendum saying “liberty and reason had defeated elitist plans and European bureaucracy”.
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10/15/2008
Stock prices on the Prague Bourse sank by 7.95 percent on Wednesday, pulling the PX index back below the 1,000-point mark after two days on the upside. The PX slumped to 998.8 points in another sell-off after an aggregate 21 percent gain on Monday and Tuesday caused by a global recovery in reaction to steps taken by governments and central banks to combat the financial crisis. All blue chips in Prague retreated on Wednesday, led by used-car dealer AAA Auto, down 14.84 percent, and developer Orco, off 14.57 percent.
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10/15/2008
Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech will miss Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Slovenia because of a thigh injury. The team’s spokesman said Wednesday morning’s practice had showed that the injury to Petr Čech's thigh muscle limited him to such a point that couldn't play at 100 percent. The Chelsea keeper, 26, sustained the injury during the Czech Republic's 2-1 loss to Poland on Saturday.
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10/14/2008
The government on Tuesday raised guarantees for bank deposits of up to 50,000 euros. Until now, clients’ savings accounts have been insured up to 25,000 euros, which is in line with the country’s banking law from 2001. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, EU ministers made a pledge to raise bank deposit guarantees across Europe, in order to renew confidence in banks hit by the crisis.
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10/14/2008
The Prague Stock Exchange opened Tuesday’s trading with a strong growth, following Monday's steep increase. Czech stock prices leapt 7.25 percent in early trading on Tuesday to 1,052.7 points. The market is gradually recovering from last Friday’s fall, when trading on the Prague bourse fell by a record 14.94 percent, the worst loss since the bourse was founded in 1993.
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10/14/2008
Entrepreneur Bohumír Ďuričko, who is in custody for murder, had in the past donated money to both the Civic and the Social Democrats, the daily Hospodářské Noviny reported on Tuesday. The paper highlights widespread allegations that Czech politicians have contacts with suspect individuals. Ďuričko, who is reported to have collaborated with the communist secret service, got into a heated dispute with the son of Václav Kočka, a rich entrepreneur and former advisor to opposition leader Jiří Paroubek and killed him at a restaurant where they had been invited to attend the opposition leader’s book launch. Although Mr. Paroubek had long gone by the time the shooting occurred, the incident has hurt his party’s image ahead of the Senate and local elections due to take place this weekend.
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10/14/2008
Czechs should be travelling to the United States without visas by the end of this year at the latest, the Czech ambassador to the EU Milena Vicenová has said, adding that the Czech-US agreement is to be announced on November 17. So far, only citizens of 15 older EU member states, with the exception of Greece, do not need a visa when travelling to the US. Among the member states that joined the EU in 2004 or later, Slovenia is the only country included in the visa-waiver programme.
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10/14/2008
The Christian Democratic Party has launched a project designed to point out the continuing violation of human rights in Cuba and other countries. Within the framework of the project entitled ‘Political prisoners, we know about you’, the party will present one foreign political prisoner every day on its website. So far, there are 35 people in the database, all of them from Cuba. The project was presented at a news conference on Tuesday by Minister Cyril Svoboda, who criticised the EU for the abolition of the sanctions towards Cuba.
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10/14/2008
Czech EU presidency in the first half of next year will require about 1.7 billion crowns from the state budget, according to the government draft budget for next year. Most money will be used for financing events organised by the office of the Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexander Vondra, as well as by the foreign and interior ministers. Some 15 million crowns will be used for security measures. The EU presidency is expected to cost the state budget altogether 3.3 billion crowns.
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