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06/14/2008
A group of nationalists gathered in the north Bohemian town of Děčín on Saturday afternoon. The demonstration was officially announced as a protest against legalization of drugs. More than one hundred nationalists marched from the railway station to the city centre, carrying black flags and banners. The march was accompanied by several dozen police officers to prevent any clashes with anarchists. The event had been approved by the town authorities.
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06/14/2008
Czech Cardinal Miloslav Vlk will resume his office on Monday after spending two weeks in a spa town in southern Bohemia. Cardinal Vlk, who is 76, collapsed last month after suffering heavy exhaustion and he had to be hospitalised. The head of the Czech Catholic Church was diagnosed with a heart problem last year and underwent surgery to have a pacemaker fitted. He has recently released a statement on his website, saying he though it highly likely that he would be standing down from his function at the end of the year.
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06/14/2008
The Czech military has fenced off the site of the planned US radar base in the Brdy military zone, which was occupied until recently by Greenpeace activists in protest against the base. From now on the area will be permanently guarded by the military police. The spot height 718, which was chosen as a site for the radar, has been surrounded with a three km long wire fence.
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06/14/2008
Prague’s museums and galleries are opening their door to the public free of charge from 5pm to midnight on Saturday as part of the fifth annual Museum Night. Fifty-one institutions, including the National Gallery, are taking part in the event, organised by the National Museum. Prague’s transport authority is laying on extra buses for visitors.
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06/13/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said that Ireland's apparent rejection of the EU reform treaty, while a complication for the European Union, will not threaten the standard functioning of the 27-member bloc. The Czech leader stressed that the final results and further steps would need to be discussed at the European Council meeting in Brussels. EU leaders meet next week. The prime minister also stressed the “No” vote needed to be taken no less seriously than the rejection of the original EU constitution, turned down by French and Dutch voters in 2005. He did make clear at a press onference on Friday that the Czech Republic would continue preparing for its EU presidency as planned for January 1 next year. The Lisbon Treaty was meant to reform the functioning of the EU, introducing a long-term president of the European Council as well as a stronger foreign policy head. To be adopted the treaty needed to be ratified in all 27 EU states.
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06/13/2008
The lower house has established a commission with the aim of helping to prepare a draft property settlement between the Church and state. The results are to be presented by the end of the year. The lower house moved to establish the commission after the government proved unable to push through its own property settlement recently. That legislation was blocked by the opposition as well as three rebel coalition MPs including the Civic Democrats’ Vlastimil Tlustý. They have argued the government used incorrect data in calculating the compensation sum of 83 billion crowns. The prime minister disagreed but backed formation of the commission. The body is to have a total of 12 members across the political spectrum (four from the opposition Social Democrats, four from the ruling Civic Democrats, two from the Communist Party, while coalition members the Christian Democrats and Greens will have one each).
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06/13/2008
A special session planned in the lower house on Friday was blocked by a majority of MPs. The opposition Social Democrats and Communist Party were aiming to debate the state of the Czech judiciary in connection with steps taken by officials including the supreme state attorney in a high profile corruption case. Most members of the ruling coalition were against, arguing such a session would interfere with the judiciary’s independence. The vote came up short seeing support from 98 out of 199 deputies present. Two coalition MPs - Věra Jakubková and Olga Zubová of the Green Party – did vote in favour.
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06/13/2008
Czech dailies Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta Dnes have reported that sixty percent of roads in the Czech Republic are high-risk, based on statistics on traffic accidents between the years 2003-2005. The project, part of the European Road Assessment Programme, takes the form of a map highlighting traffic density as well as accident frequency in areas. Most high-risk routes are primary roads. Multi-lane routes, meanwhile, have been assessed as the safest. Statistically, some of the most dangerous routes in the country include a road connecting Prague with nearby Kladno, as well as a route from Prague to Mělník, north of the capital. The map did not focus on the situation in the capital city.
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06/13/2008
Several thousand employees at three state hospitals in Brno, Moravia, are to join a strike planned for late June. The manner of joining the strike is still being negotiated, but workers at one of the facilities will cease work for one hour on the day – that is on June 24th. Workers are protesting conditions in the health sector, including reforms planned by the health ministry. One of the hospitals is fighting for its survival, expected to be closed under current plans. Regional hospitals in the area, meanwhile, will reportedly not be taking part in the strike.
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06/13/2008
Czech doctors, in an extraordinary operation at the Vinohrady hospital this week, managed to save the mangled leg of a patient who had suffered a car crash. Doctors managed to save the 31-year-old patient’s foot after it was practically severed at the ankle, through extensive reconstructive surgery. Specialists were able to reconnect severed veins, arteries and nerves. Afterwards one of the surgeons said such operations are “once in a decade”. The patient is now in recovery.
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