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02/11/2008
Former dissident and foreign minister Jiří Dientsbier, who was named as a potential candidate by the Communist Party in the second round of presidential elections, said he would only run for the post if Jan Švejnar backed out of the race and if he himself received broad support across the political spectrum. Ombudsman Otakar Motejl, whose name was also floated by the Communists, made a similar statement. The chairman of the Constitutional Court Pavel Rychetský, MEP Jana Bobošíková and the head of the Czech Academy of Sciences Václav Pačes were also included on the Communists’ list of possible presidential candidates.
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02/11/2008
President Václav Klaus signed into law a new amendment under which the Czech Republic may limit the access of Bulgarians and Romanians to its labour market. The limitation will also concern citizens of other countries that will join the European Union in future. Bulgarians and Romanians have been able to work freely in the Czech Republic since last January, when their countries became members of the EU.
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02/11/2008
The Czech cabinet has approved a pension reform bill that would gradually increase the retirement age to 65 years. The first stage of the pension reform could be debated in the lower house in March. At present males usually retire at the age of 61, childless females at the age of 60 and mothers earlier, according to the number of children. The reform bill also wants to extend the obligatory social insurance period to 35 years. Under the new bill, mothers of two or more children would still have a chance to retire earlier.
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02/10/2008
After lawmakers failed to elect a new head of state in the first presidential election on Saturday, the next ballot will take place on Friday, February 15. The date was agreed on by the leaders of the five political parties represented in Parliament and the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Miloslav Vlček, who presides over joint sessions of the lower house and the Senate. Both the incumbent Václav Klaus, who gained 139 votes in the final election on Saturday, falling just one vote short of re-election, and challenger Jan Švejnar, have said they will stay in the running.
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02/10/2008
The communists have revealed their own candidates for the second presidential ballot. The proposed presidential hopefuls include ombudsman Otakar Motejl, former dissident and foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier, the chairman of the Constitutional Court Pavel Rychteský, MEP Jana Bobošíková and the head of the Czech Academy of Sciences Václav Pačes. The head of the Communist Party Vojtěch Filip said on Sunday that these public figures have sufficient public support and stand a good chance of being elected. The nomination comes as a setback for the Greens and the opposition Social Democrats who were hoping to win the support of the communist lawmakers for their own presidential candidate, Jan Švejnar.
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02/10/2008
The film ‘Little Girl Blue’ by Alice Nellis won ten nominations for the Český lev movie awards on Saturday. The film, known as ‘Tajnosti’ in Czech, was nominated for the best picture, best director, best screenplay, best cinematography, best actor, best actress, best supporting actress, best film editing, best musical score and best sound editing, covering 10 out of 12 categories of the Český lev film awards. ‘Little Girl Blue’ also won the Critics Award for 2007 while another successful Czech movie made last year, Empties, or Vratné láhve, won 9 nominations. The Český lev film awards for 2007 will be presented on March 1.
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02/10/2008
The government will probably raise retirement pensions in a response to high inflation, deputy Finance Minister Edvard Janota told Czech TV on Sunday. Retirement, disability and survivorship pensions in the Czech Republic are raised each year on January 1; this year they were increased by 3.9 percent, or 11 billion crowns. Mr Janota said the government will consider an extraordinary increase of the pensions by another five billion crowns, or more than 282 million US dollars.
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02/10/2008
MEP Bernd Posselt was elected on Sunday the leader of Sudenten Germans – former German-speaking citizens of Czechoslovakia who were expelled from the country after WWII. Mr Posselt, who is 51, said he would focus on improving the relations between the Sudeten Germans and Czechs; he also wants to speed up the establishment of a Sudeten German museum in Munich. The Sudeten German community consists of roughly 200,000 Germans with Bohemian and Moravian roots.
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02/10/2008
About 120 far-right radicals marched in Krnov, Silesia, on Saturday, in memory of two skinheads who died five years ago in a fire. The event, which saw the radicals march with lit torches, was organized by Národní odpor, or National Resistance, which the authorities consider a neo-Nazi umbrella group. A spokesperson for the Krnov police said on Saturday that no incidents took place during the march.
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02/10/2008
Thieves stole laptops, cameras and 1,200 euros in cash belonging to the officials of the International Ski Federation and the German ARD TV crew from a hotel in Liberec, North Bohemia, during a World Cup event in ski-jumping on Sunday. A police spokesperson said the damage was worth several hundred thousand crowns. The management of the four-star Zlatý lev hotel in Liberec, where the incident happened, said they would compensate their guests for the stolen property.
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