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02/05/2008
Czechs traveling to the United States could be able to do so without a visa by the end of the year. On Tuesday, the magazine European Voice suggested that the Czech Republic could be included in the US visa-waiver programme alongside five other EU countries by the end of 2008. The magazine speculated that Malta, Cyprus, Hungary, Estonia and Greece would also be included in the visa-waiver programme, while the Czech Republic’s neighbours Slovakia and Poland would both have to wait longer. The speculation coincides with the visit of Richard Barth, the head of US Homeland Security, who is in Prague this week to discuss a Czech-US memorandum on border security.
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02/05/2008
The Czech Interior Ministry has said that it plans to cut the number of employees by 20% by the end of the year. On Tuesday, a ministry spokesperson said that the redundancies were part of a complete financial overhaul. The Interior Ministry also plans to sell off property, belonging both to the Czech police force, and to the ministry itself. It hopes to raise some 800 million CZK (40 million USD) through such cost-cutting measures. A representative of the ministry has said that the redundancies and sale of property are necessary to cut expenses, and so that the ministry’s best employees can be better remunerated.
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02/05/2008
Czech police have detained a Hungarian national who was reported dead by his wife in 2001. The unnamed individual is now wanted back in Hungary on charges of fraud, said police in Budapest Tuesday. The man’s wife said that he had drowned while windsurfing on holiday in Greece, she is now being questioned by police in Hungary as an accomplice. The man had taken out several life insurance policies in 2000, worth more than 200 million forints (1.15 million USD), and he also bought travel insurance before going to Greece, Hungarian police said in a statement. His wife had subsequently tried to cash the insurance policies without success.
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02/05/2008
The Czech Lower House postponed a debate on whether healthcare fees should be abolished on Tuesday. It also put-off a debate on whether smoking should be banned in the country’s restaurants. The debates were both rescheduled due to the absence of the Health Minister, Tomáš Julínek, who is ill, and not expected back before next week. Instead, the Lower House discussed the status of Kosovo during most of Tuesday’s sitting.
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02/05/2008
Foreign trade enjoyed a record surplus last year, to the tune of 86.1 billion CZK (4.31 billion USD). The Czech Statistical Office unveiled the figure on Tuesday, adding that this was over twice the surplus recorded in 2006. Exports of machinery and transportation were responsible for a large portion of the surplus, while chemical and food producers had a relatively poor year in 2007. Exports were up 15% year on year in 2007, while imports grew by 13.1%.
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02/05/2008
The publishing house Albatros has filed charges against an unnamed individual for printing and distributing a version of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ in Czech, which they deem illegal. The publishers have also called upon the supermarket chain Tesco to stop selling this version of the latest Harry Potter book. Albatros own the rights to the Harry Potter series in Czech, and have previously taken a rival publishing house to court over the publication of a pirate version of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, a case which Albatros subsequently won. Tesco has said that is will not stop selling the copies of the book that it has in its warehouses, to which Albatros has responded that it may press charges.
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02/05/2008
The Czech football team lost 1:0 in a friendly against Greece on Tuesday. The Greeks’ winning goal came ten minutes before the whistle and was scored by Dimitris Salpigidis. Both trainers fielded a team of younger, less-experienced players, with six players making their debut for the Czech side alone. The game was placed in Nicosia, Cyprus, to a crowd of 850.
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02/04/2008
A neo-Nazi demonstration is scheduled to take place in Plzeň on March 1. Far-right activists were originally planning to march through Plzeň on January 19, the anniversary of the first transport of Jews from the city in 1942. The town’s authorities had originally allowed the march to take place, but in the face of strong media pressure, they cancelled the event, only two days before it was due to take place. The radicals plan to march past the Great Synagogue in Plzeň, as it was planned before.
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02/04/2008
Presidential candidate Jan Švejnar has made his campaign budget public on Monday. This comes in light of comments made by Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, who questioned the funding of Mr Švejnar’s campaign. Speaking in a televised debate on Sunday, Mr Topolánek said that the campaign could be linked to corruption, suggesting there was a connection between Mr Švejnar’s seat on the supervisory board of ČSOB bank and his campaign’s funding. He also suggested that Mr Švejnar must have spent much more on his campaign than the officially declared half a million crowns. Jan Švejnar, who is financing his own campaign, said the costs have so far amounted to 750 thousand crowns.
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02/04/2008
The Czech Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust has called on the government to find a new location for a pig farm built on the site of a wartime concentration camp for Romanies in Lety, south Bohemia. Last week, the Czech authorities were reprimanded for the second time by the European Parliament over the controversial issue. Romany organizations have been calling for the farm's relocation for many years. The committee said on Monday it would like to see a dignified monument erected on the site in honour of the camp’s victims. According to historical documents over 300 people died in the camp and another 500 ended up in the Auschwitz extermination camp.
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