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04/29/2008
In related news, police have said that they will be deploying more than 1000 officers to monitor the 35 events scheduled to mark May Day in Prague this year. A police spokesperson said that the majority of officers would be sent to monitor a meeting of far-right extremists on Střelecký Ostrov, and a demonstration on Wenceslas Square, being held by supporters of the Czech Communist Party. According to the Czech police, the number of events being staged this year is particularly high because the Prague Jewish Community alone will be organizing some 20 or so rallies in the vicinity of the town’s historic Jewish Quarter. Jewish groups are staging so many events so as to prevent other groups, especially neo-Nazis, from holding rallies in the city’s Jewish district.
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04/29/2008
The Czech crown jewels are being packed away on Tuesday, having been on public display for the last ten days. Over the last week and a half, over 30,000 people have visited Prague Castle to view the crown jewels, which only go on display on special occasions. This year, the jewels were shown to mark the 90th anniversary of an independent Czechoslovakia and President Václav Klaus’s re-election. Seven representatives of church and state gathered ten days ago to unlock the safe in which the jewels were held, they will meet again on Tuesday evening to return the crown jewels to their protective chamber within Prague’s Saint Vitus’ Cathedral.
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04/29/2008
The national airline CSA and Prague airport Letiště Praha could be privatized at the same time, the daily E15 wrote on Tuesday, citing Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Fuksa. Mr Fuksa told the paper that the government was willing to adopt a more flexible approach to the privatization of the two state assets, and would consider selling both companies at the same time. Czech private equity group Penta Investments as well as Indian industrial conglomerate Essar, in a joint venture with Germany’s Hochtief, are among the potential bidders in both companies, the daily said. Analysts say the airline’s value is between 4 billion and 6 billion crowns, while the state’s 92-percent stake in the airport is expected to generate between 80 billion and 100 billion crowns.
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04/29/2008
Former Czech international Ivan Hašek has rejected the job of Czech national football team coach in no uncertain terms. Mr Hašek was asked to take over when Karel Brückner stands down after Euro 2008. But on Monday he released a statement, which said that he had ‘absolutely no interest whatsoever’ in the job. Hašek’s snub follows a similar rejection last week from Slavia Prague coach Karel Jarolím. With Hašek and Jarolím both out of the picture, attention now turns to FK Teplice coach Petr Rada and Vitězslav Lavička, manager of the Czech Republic’s Under 21 side.
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04/28/2008
The signing of a Czech-American agreement on the siting of a US tracking radar on Czech soil is likely to be postponed to a later date; the American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will not arrive in Prague next Monday as previously planned, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zuzana Opletalová has said. Mrs Rice was originally scheduled to attend a conference on missile defence in Prague on May 5. Along with the main treaty, the Czech Republic and the US are also negotiating on the SOFA treaty, which specifies the presence of US troops in the country.
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04/28/2008
In related news, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said that the Czech Republic and the United States will sign both treaties on the US radar base on Czech soil in early June. The American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was originally scheduled to visit Prague next week, but has cancelled her visit. The two countries have therefore agreed to sign both documents together, Mr Topolánek added.
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04/28/2008
Czech members of Greenpeace on Monday occupied grounds in the Brdy military zone southwest of Prague where a US tracking radar is to be installed. Some 20 activists have put up tents at the site in protest against the planned stationing of the radar on Czech soil. According to the Greenpeace spokesperson they plan to stay there “as long as possible”. The activists have not been given an entrance permit by the military. Greenpeace members will provide more information on their anti-radar campaign at a news conference scheduled to take place on Monday.
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04/28/2008
The European Commission on Monday lowered its forecast of Czech economic growth for this year to 4.7 percent in its regular spring forecast. In autumn it predicted a 5 percent increase. The EC also considerably raised the estimate of consumer price growth for 2008 from 3.8 percent in November to 6.2 percent. Last year, the Czech economy grew by a record 6.5 percent while inflation amounted to 2.8 percent.
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04/28/2008
A total of 267 Czechs have applied for asylum in Canada in five months since the visa duty was abolished in October last year, according to the data released by the Canadian Embassy. Canada is not planning to re-introduce the visa requirements for Czech citizens, the embassy has said. Canada first lifted visa requirements for Czech citizens shortly after the fall of communism, but reintroduce them in 1997 in reaction to a flood of asylum seekers from the Czech Republic, mainly Romanies, on the grounds that Czechs were abusing the Canadian welfare system.
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04/28/2008
The Czech government decided on Monday to earmark 115 billion crowns to finance Czech participation in civilian missions of the European Union and other international organisations this year, which is three times more than last year. The highest sum, altogether 14 million crowns, will go to the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and 36 million crowns to finance civilian projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iraq, Kosovo, Liberia and Palestine.
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