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09/27/2007
The D1 motorway linking Prague to the Czech Republic's second city Brno was closed for nine hours on Thursday after a car crashed into an articulated lorry near the town of Velke Mezirici. The driver of the car, described by police as a sixty-two-year-old foreign man, was declared dead at the scene of the accident.
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09/27/2007
Czech police are investigating the parents of a four-year-old boy from the Moravian town of Frydek Mistek for suspected criminal neglect. The boy, suffering from epilepsy, cannot talk, cannot chew food and is used to drinking water from the floor. The parents were recently evicted from their flat and had been living with the child in a makeshift shelter by a stream. According to a report by the Czech Press Agency (CTK), the boy lacks basic hygiene skills and does not react when somebody calls him by his name. A spokeswoman for the police told CTKthat the child was now with a foster family.
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09/27/2007
Czech car manufacturer Skoda Auto has said that it is going to expand the capacities of its plants in Kvasiny and Vrchlabi, eastern Bohemia. The facility in Kvasiny should be used to produce Skoda Roomsters and Superbs as well as the Yeti SUV. The plant in Vrchlabi will manufacture new cars introduced by parent company Volkswagen at the Frankfurt motor show. Skoda also announced that it intends to increase its output of Skoda Octavia cars using its plant in the Slovak capital Bratislava. The company said that investments in the plants should create new jobs, but did not give any specific figures. At present, the carmaker employs around 28,000 people.
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09/27/2007
Czech household debt rose in the month of August to 648 billion Czech crowns or 33 billion US dollars according to figures released by the Czech National Bank. The amount owed by Czech households to banks and financial institutions therefore rose by16 billion crowns (approx. 820 million US dollars) in comparison with the previous month and by 157 million crowns compared with the same period in 2006.
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09/27/2007
The Czech Republic's men's tennis team have been drawn at home to face Belgium in the Davis Cup first round. They made it to the elite World Group of the competition by narrowly beating a Switzerland team that contained world number one Roger Federer 3:2 last weekend. The tie will be played on the weekend of 8-10 February when the Czechs will be looking for there first victory at this stage of the competition since 2002.
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09/26/2007
The lower house has voted to strip opposition MP Josef Vondruska of immunity so he can face criminal charges. The MP is suspected of having mistreated prisoners as a prison guard in communist Czechoslovakia. 151 of 154 deputies present voted in favour. The Communist Party MP has dismissed accusations but said he did not wish to avoid prosecution. Fellow CommunistParty deputies left the chamber ahead of the vote. Citing a file on Mr Vondruska, mandate and immunity committee head Miloslav Kala said that Mr Vondruska had tortured a dissident in the 1980s; the former prison-guard allegedly punched the prisoner in the face and beat him repeatedly with a truncheon.
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09/26/2007
In related news, another MP, Ondrej Plasil of the Civic Democratic Party, was also stripped of immunity on Wednesday to face charges for drink driving. The MP failed to pass a breathalyser test after being stopped by police in August. The MP has admitted his mistake.
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09/26/2007
The anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) has released a report revealing that corruption levels in the Czech Republic have dropped to their lowest in almost a decade. The report - comparing 179 countries - ranks the Czech Republic at the same level as in 1997: 41st, together with Italy. According to TI, after a several year rise corruption in the Czech Republic began to level off in 2003. Analysts attribute the drop to several factors including pressure by the watchdog group, positive economic growth, the better-functioning of some institutions, and the Czech Republic's joining the European Union.
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09/26/2007
A new poll conducted by the STEM agency has suggested that the number of Czechs opposed to a US radar base on Czech territory has lessened, although those against the project remain firmly in the majority. According to the poll, 49 percent are now "against" while those "in favour" number 22 percent. Around half of those surveyed said they would be willing to change their mind on the radar issue if they were provided more information. Most polls until now have suggested that around two-thirds of Czechs were against the idea of a US base on Czech soil.
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09/26/2007
Former Social Democrat prime minister Stanislav Gross is facing a legal complaint on the suspicion of insider dealing in connection with the purchase of shares. The complaint was filed by Jiri Jehlicka, of the Central Registry of Debtors (CERD), running web pages and an anti-corruption hotline. According to Mr Jehlicka, Mr Gross may have abused information while in politics in a business deal that has now seen him acquire a reported 300 million crowns (more than 15 million US dollars) worth of shares in energy producer Moravia Energo. Mr Gross himself has valued the shares at a tenth of that amount. The opposition Social Democrats have called on the former prime minister to explain his holdings, with party deputy leader Bohuslav Sobotka saying that although Mr Gross was now a private citizen it was in his interest, as a former prime minister, not to keep information secret.
It has been almost three years since a financial scandal forced Stanislav Gross - then the youngest prime minister in Europe - from office. Mr Gross was unable to explain where he obtained 1.2 million crowns for the purchase of his apartment.
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