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10/04/2008
A new opinion poll suggests two thirds of Czechs are against the planned construction of a United States radar base in central Bohemia. Sixty-seven percent of respondents in a poll carried out by the CVVM agency in September said they were opposed to the radar, a figure in line with a number of earlier surveys on the issue. The Czech Republic has reached agreement with the US on the base, with the Czech Parliament due to vote on the matter later this year.
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10/04/2008
The Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych has reached the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo. Berdych, seeded ninth in the tournament, beat second seed Andy Roddick of the United States 6-7 7-5 7-6 to set up a clash with the Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro on Sunday. It is the 23-year-old Czech’s second final on the ATP tour this year.
Meanwhile, Radek Štěpánek was defeated in the semi-finals of the Metz Open in France on Saturday. The Czech lost 3-6 4-6 to Dmitry Tursunov of Russia.
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10/04/2008
The Czech folk singer Jaromír Nohavica began a tour of English speaking countries with a show in London on Friday night. Around 800 people attended the concert at the Islington Academy; the number of Slovaks in the audience equalled the number of Czechs, while there were also many Poles in the crowd. The month-long On the Road 2008 tour will also take Nohavica to Ireland, Canada and the United States.
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10/04/2008
The British rock group Primal Scream played at Prague’s Roxy club on Friday night. The band’s set drew heavily on their most recent album Beautiful Future, though it also featured a number of songs from earlier stages of their two-decade career. The Swiss group The Young Gods were also in action in Prague on Friday, performing the first of two acoustic shows at the city’s Akropolis.
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10/03/2008
Four people were killed and more than twenty injured when a bus, owned by the Czech firm Student Agency, crashed while travelling a regular route from Slovakia to the Czech Republic. The accident took place in the Slovak region of Trenčín on Friday, shortly after midnight: all four of those who died were Slovak nationals. In all, 47 passengers were aboard when the bus left the road and flipped onto its side. Police overseeing the investigation say the driver tested negative for alcohol; they are now looking into other possible reasons for the tragedy. Student Agency, meanwhile, announced it has put together a crisis management team to help survivors as well as the victims’ families.
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10/03/2008
The Czech Agrarian Chamber has revealed that the country’s farmers will use farm machinery to slow traffic on key roads in areas throughout the Czech Republic, including Prague, on October 13, to protest the proposed budget for the agriculture ministry next year. The protest will last two hours and will not affect the country’s highways. Agrarian Chamber representatives announced the move was in protest to lower direct payments from the state budget, dropping by 2.8 billion crowns. Last week, the government approved a proposal for the state budget in which the agriculture ministry will receive 4 billion crowns less than in 2008, part of the government’s austerity measures.
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10/03/2008
The head of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Václav Pačes, has suggested that renowned Czech chemist Antonín Holý would make a worthy candidate for the Nobel Prize. Speaking to ČTK, the Czech news agency, Mr Pačes said Mr Holý - recognised for his role in the development of drugs effective against Hepatitis B and HIV - could be nominated along with fellow researcher Erik De Clerq of Belgium. Mr Pačes told ČTK that he considered Mr Holý the sole Czech scientist suitable for such a nomination, although he indicated it was unclear which category would be more appropriate, chemistry or medicine. The academy has roughly four months to put together a proposal: the deadline for putting forward nominations is February 1.
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10/03/2008
The Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Petr Nečas has said that restrictions by some EU countries blocking the free movement of Czech labour were unnecessary, stating that just 71,000 Czechs worked in other EU countries last year. The minister also said that Czechs posed no threat to the labour markets in neighbouring Austria and Germany, which continue to apply restrictions. The Czech Republic has called on the European Commission to work on a report on the functioning of temporary measures that limit entry onto labour markets in some of the original EU member states.
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10/03/2008
The daily Právo has written that the head of the National Anti-Drug Centre Jiří Komorous is stepping down, a move confirmed, the paper writes, by police president Oldřich Martinů. Mr Komorous has headed the centre since 1995 and is expected to leave his post in one month. The official, occasionally a controversial figure for activities prior to 1989 (namely for applying for a post with the Communist era secret police, the StB) - is leaving at his own request. He has declined to comment the move so far.
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10/03/2008
Around 200 fans of the Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb threw cobblestones and bottles during a clash with police in the centre of Prague on Thursday evening. The incident came ahead of a UEFA Cup match against Sparta Prague. Dinamo fans made the Hitler salute on the city’s Old Town Square, before attacking police who were monitoring their route to Sparta’s stadium. A number of police officers and rioters were injured and around 20 arrests were made. Thursday’s clashes followed similar incidents in the Czech capital late Wednesday.
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