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05/15/2006
A tragic accident between the Bohemian towns of Ceska Budejovice and Tabor has left two people dead and eight injured. The accident occurred on Monday afternoon, when a lorry crashed into eight vehicles that stood at a traffic light on a stretch of the E55 motorway where a bridge was under reconstruction. The cause of the accident has yet to be determined, though police suspect the 25 year old lorry driver was simply inattentive and failed to respect the speed limit.
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05/15/2006
The Czech newspaper, Mlada Fronta Dnes, has printed two promissory notes that allegedly prove that the Social Democratic Party owes millions of crowns to a controversial businessman. Radovan Krejcir claims he loaned 60 million crowns (some 2.5 million US dollars) to the party four years ago in order to help finance its election campaign. He says the two promissory notes were signed by the former Social Democrat leader Stanislav Gross in 2002. The Social Democrats have rejected the allegations and Mr Gross says the signatures are forged.
The police have also expressed doubt at the authenticity of the promissory notes. During a police raid in March, a fax was found holding clear instructions on how to forge a promissory note. They included a detailed explanation of the graphic design, the colour, and personal information on Mr Gross. Radovan Krejcir currently lives on the Seychelles. He fled the Czech Republic last year as he is wanted on a number of charges including tax evasion and conspiracy to murder.
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05/15/2006
The Czech Republic already "consumed" most of the advantages that membership in the European Union brings before it joined the EU, President Vaclav Klaus said on Monday. Speaking at a seminar at Prague's Carolinum, Mr Klaus said the country's expenses have been outweighing the benefits of EU membership ever since EU accession two years ago. The union has moved from a phase of liberalisation to one of centralisation; as a result, Czech citizens are now struggling with excessive paper work, and abundance in legislation, the president said.
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05/15/2006
The Czech government has decided to free 234 million crowns (a little over 10 million US dollars) from the state budget to purchase over 93 hectares of land in an industrial zone close to the north-western town of Most. The owner of the land has sued the Czech state for granting the construction of an aluminium works in the zone. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Prime Minister Paroubek said the state hopes to buy the land in an out-of-court settlement.
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05/15/2006
Every tenth Czech has an alcohol problem, a leading expert on alcoholism warned on Monday. Dr Petr Popov from the General Faculty Hospital in Prague says he has also been recording a rise in the number of alcoholic women and children. For every one man, there are two women undergoing treatment today. With an annual consumption of ten litres per person, Czechs are believed to be among the highest consumers of spirits in Europe.
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05/15/2006
The Czech ice hockey team have secured a place in the last eight of the World Championships in Latvia with a win over Canada. The Czechs were 3:0 ahead after just 14 minutes of Sunday's game and then held on to secure a deserved 6:4 victory.
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05/15/2006
Czech cyclist Jan Hruska has been suspended from racing for two weeks. Mr Hruska was one of 40 riders due to take part in the Tour of Catalonia, who underwent blood testing on Monday. Following the health checks, he was the only one not permitted to race, Reuters news agency reported. The 3 Molinas Resort rider is a former winner of two stages of the Tour of Italy. His most recent success was last week, when he took the overall victory in the Clasica Alcobendas stage race in Spain. The Tour of Catalonia finishes on Sunday.
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05/14/2006
Former Prime Minister and one-time leader of the Social Democrats, Milos Zeman, has warned against the possibility of creating a grand coalition following the June elections. Speaking at the Social Democratic congress over the weekend, Zeman said that the Social Democrats should avoid a so-called opposition agreement with the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, and should instead opt for a minority Social Democratic government. Former Prime Minister Zeman speaks with a degree of experience, because following the 1998 elections he formed a government based on an opposition agreement made with the Civic Democratic Party.
Milos Zeman has also declared his support for the current Social Democratic Party leader, Jiri Paroubek, stating that he has the life experience and maturity that have sometimes been lacking in the past.
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05/14/2006
Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has suggested that the leader of the Green Party, Martin Bursik, has some explaining to do regarding his personal property and the financing of the Green Party's election campaign, and that as a result, the Social Democrats would find it difficult to negotiate with Bursik following the elections. However, Paroubek stated that his party will not disregard cooperation with other Green Party members. Martin Bursik has reacted by saying that his finances are in order, and that if Paroubek has some personal problem with him, it should be clear that Green Party members chose him as a leader, and possible coalition negotiations can not take place with other figures inside the Green Party. Martin Bursik is facing accusations that he purchased property in Prague for ten times less than its estimated market value, a charge Bursik denies. The Green Party is expected to play a key role if the upcoming elections result in the need to form a coalition government.
Meanwhile, some members of the Green Party have publicized a letter criticizing internal communications within their party. These critics have also asked that all financial support for the Greens be clarified and publicized. The seventeen signatories insist that their letter does not mean that the Green Party suffers from internal divisions, and they have publicly stated their support for Martin Bursik. Among the critics are the Greens' Pardubice candidate Pavel Krivak, and the journalist Petr Uhl.
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05/14/2006
Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has been elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party at a special congress held over the weekend. 479 of 521 party members, or ninety-two percent of the party delegates voted for Paroubek to replace Bohuslav Sobotka, who was the Social Democratic Party's provisional chairman after the resignation of former Prime Minister Stanislav Gross last year. Jiri Paroubek admitted that his election is in large part a public declaration of the Social Democratic Party's unity before the upcoming elections. Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek declared that his immediate goal now is to win the June elections and prevent a possible coalition of Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and the Green Party.
Social Democratic Party delegates also voted for Zdenek Skromach to be the new vice-chairman of the party. Eighty-nine percent of delegates voted for Skromach, who ran with the support of Prime Minister Paroubek and was the only candidate for the position of vice-chairman.
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