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10/04/2006
The Social Democrats have called on to President Vaclav Klaus not to delay talks on the establishment of a new government. Following the failure of the minority Civic Democrat government to get a vote of confidence in Parliament on Tuesday, President Klaus said he would take steps to appoint a new prime minister designate after the senate and local elections on October 21 and 22.
When it comes to entrusting someone with the task of forming a new cabinet, the president faces no time limit and is free to pick whoever appears to have the biggest chance of carrying out the task.
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10/04/2006
Czech soldiers from the anti-chemical unit will help guard next month's NATO summit in Latvia, the cabinet, which is expected to resign next week, decided on Wednesday. Twenty-seven experts on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons will be deployed to Riga, where they will serve from November 21 to December 9. The Czech contingent will be part of a multi-national unit but its expenses paid for by the Czech Republic, the Defence Ministry said.
The government also decided to send three specialists on pyrotechnics to Lebanon. The team is to take part in the UN's peace-keeping unit UNIFIL.
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10/04/2006
Police say a memorial at Terezin has been vandalised and a bronze plaque commemorating the victims of fascism has disappeared. The fascists turned Terezin into a Jewish ghetto and the fortress town in North Bohemia was also the site of a Nazi labour camp. The plaque disappeared from the bank of the Ohre River into which the fascists threw the ashes of 22,000 perished Jewish prisoners in November 1944.
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10/04/2006
Foreign Minister Alexandr Vondra has said that the possibility of a US anti-missile base being built in the Czech Republic need not be discussed at a special meeting of the lower house of parliament. The minister was reacting to a request by Communist MPs to hold the meeting next Friday to decide on a new law on a referendum they propose to hold on the issue. Mr Vondra says members of the Bush administration told him during a recent visit to New York that a decision on what country will host the US base will not be made before the end of this year.
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10/04/2006
Minister Vondra, on Wednesday, also released a number of statistics involving Czechs abroad. The number of Czechs committing offences involving narcotics is on a dramatic rise, he says, with 45 people arrested this year alone. In the summer months, 90 citizens passed away compared to 107 in the same period last year. While the number of hospitalised Czech tourists has decreased (168 as opposed to 132 in 2005), the number of accidents has risen by 23 to reach almost three hundred (295 accidents).
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10/04/2006
An exhibition has just opened in the Romanian Embassy in Prague, featuring over two dozen state honours received by former Czech president Vaclav Havel. The medals and honours are from 24 countries and were given to the former dissident and human rights activist in the period from 1989-2005. The exhibition will close on October 12. Vaclav Havel turns 70 this Thursday.
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10/04/2006
Czech tennis player Jiri Novak defeated British number one Andy Murray in the second round of the Japan Open men's singles in Tokyo on Wednesday. Novak won the Japan Open championship in 2004 with a victory over US player Taylor Dent.
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10/03/2006
The minority Civic Democrat government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has not survived a vote of confidence in the lower house. In the 200 member lower house ninety-nine deputies voted against the government, ninety-six voted in favor and five were not present. Prime Minister Topolanek said his cabinet would most likely resign in one week from now at its session on Wednesday October 11th. He said his party would continue to push for early elections.
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10/03/2006
In line with Czech law it will now be up to the president to appoint a new prime minister designate who will be entrusted with the task of forming a new cabinet. The country's inconclusive June general elections produced an even division of forces between the right and left parties in the lower house which resulted in a drawn-out political crisis. It would appear that neither of the two strongest parties on the Czech political scene - the Civic or Social Democrats - are in a position to form a new government with the smaller parties in Parliament. Political analysts have not yet entirely ruled out a grand coalition or a caretaker-type government made up of experts. The president is free to pick whoever appears to have the biggest chance of forming a new cabinet.
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10/03/2006
The Czech Republic will have to pay the EU a 150 million crown fine ( 5,13 million euros) for exceeding the annual milk quota set by the EC. A spokesman for the European Commission said Czech dairy farmers had exceeded the limit by 17,000 tons. Eight other EU countries will have to pay similar penalties - altogether to the tune of 377 million euros.
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