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10/06/2006
The daily Mlada Fronta Dnes claims that Jews were to have been the target of a planned terrorist attack in Prague. Quoting unidentified sources close to the country's intelligence services the daily reported that Islamic terrorists planned to kidnap dozens of Jews from a Prague synagogue and hold them hostage before murdering them. The paper does not say whether any arrests were made or specify the identity of the extremists. On September 23rd the Czech government tightened security measures around various sites in the Czech capital saying that the country faced the most serious threat of a terrorist attack ever, but gave no further details. Government officials have refused to comment on the Mlada Fronta Dnes report.
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10/06/2006
Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer, who sharply criticized a year long delay in the expansion of the Schengen border-free zone at a meeting of EU interior ministers on Thursday, has said the Czech Republic would continue to push for the original date to be kept. The delay is allegedly caused by technical difficulties in setting up a new police data base for the expanded region. Mr. Langer said the Czech Republic supports a Portuguese proposal to upgrade the existing police data-base for the time being while simultaneously working on the new one. He said this would be worthwhile despite the fact that it would incur additional costs, because the delay itself would be very costly for the newcomer states. For instance 600 border policemen would have to be kept at the border instead of being moved elsewhere. A final decision is to be made in December.
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10/05/2006
President Vaclav Klaus is going to meet Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on Friday to discuss the current political situation after Mr Topolanek's minority cabinet did not receive confirmation from the lower house of parliament on Tuesday. Prime Minister and Civic Democrat chief Mirek Topolanek says he believes he will be re-appointed by the president. Former Prime Minister and chairman of the Social Democrats Jiri Paroubek says he believes the chance should now be his as he claims to have secured majority support in parliament.
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10/05/2006
The Communist Party has said it should now be the Social Democrats' turn to try and put together a new cabinet after the minority Civic Democrat government of Mirek Topolanek failed to get confidence from the lower house this week. Under the Czech constitution President Vaclav Klaus is obliged to appoint a new prime minister after the current government resigns but he said through a spokesman that he will not do that until after the local and Senate elections due in a few weeks' time are over. The Social Democrats came second in the June general election, trailing after the right-of-centre Civic Democats.
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10/05/2006
The leadership of the Christian Democrats has called on all the party's deputies to sign a pledge that they will not back any government dependent on the support of the Communist Party. The party's acting head Jan Kasal says he does not expect any of the 13 MPs to refuse to sign it, not even former Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda, who recently indicated he would like the party to discuss and possibly reassess its resolution preventing the party's participation in any government that would depend on the Communists.
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10/05/2006
One of the country's most influential and controversial businessmen did not report to Prague's Pankrac prison on Thursday to serve a five-year sentence, citing serious health reasons. His medical report will now be examined by the prison authority. The 35-year old Tomas Pitr, considered to be one the wealthiest Czech businessmen, was found guilty of large-scale tax fraud earlier this year.
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10/05/2006
Czech police say they have detained a 45-year-old Spanish man suspected of double murder in his home country. A spokeswoman for the counter-organised crime unit said that last June, the man, allegedly a contract killer, shot dead a man and a woman in Spain. The suspect has been remanded in custody and a court will decide on his extradition to Spain. The Czech police arrested the man in cooperation with their Spanish colleagues outside a block of flats in the town of Caslav in Central Bohemia where he was in hiding. Spain issued a European arrest warrant for him last month.
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10/05/2006
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has called on the Senate to approve possible proposals by the lower house which would speed up the process of calling an early election. Himself a former Senator, Mr Topolanek called on his former colleagues on Thursday to facilitate a solution to the current political situation which would lead to early elections. The prime minister approached the upper house two days after his minority right-of-centre government failed to get confirmation from the lower house.
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10/05/2006
The government has decided that the world-renowned Czech mathematician Jaroslav Kurzweil will be awarded the Czech Brain award for outstanding contribution to Czech science. Professor Kurzweil is a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Perron integral, also known as the Henstock-Kurzweil integral.
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10/05/2006
Former Czech and Czechoslovak President, Vaclav Havel, is celebrating his 70th birthday on Thursday. Some one thousand people attended a private birthday party in Prague on Wednesday, including former Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski, playwright Tom Stoppard, Czech singer Karel Gott, and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek. A former anti-communist dissident and playwright, Vaclav Havel was the country's first president after the fall of the communist regime and held the post until 2003.
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