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09/26/2007
In related news, a spokeswoman for the anti-corruption and organised crime unit has said that members of the unit have begun an investigation into Mr Gross' holdings, despite not having received an official complaint against the former prime minister yet. The spokeswoman said the unit had begun investigating on its "own initiative".
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09/26/2007
The Czech capital Prague, Brno, south Moravia and Olomouc and Ostrava in north Moravia, are all likely to see informal meetings between EU ministers during the Czech presidency of the EU in 2009. The information was released by the office of the government on Wednesday. Of 11 scheduled informal meetings of EU ministers, seven are to take place in regions and the remaining four in Prague. The deputy prime minister in charge of European Affairs, Alexandr Vondra, discussed the regions' roles in the Czech EU presidency with representatives of the Czech Association of Regions on Wednesday. A final decision on the chosen sites is to be made on October 10th.
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09/26/2007
The Green Party has announced it will decide on a successor to outgoing Education Minister Dana Kuchtova on October 7th. This Tuesday, after hours of deliberation amongst the Greens, Ms Kuchtova announced she would step down next week; she had faced increasing pressure following mistakes jeopardising the education sector's ability to draw EU funds. Ms Kuchtova admitted it was not clear who would replace her and said it was uncertain whether the candidate would be a Green Party member. The outgoing minister, who is also a Green Party deputy leader, said she would be able to help her successor for a period of about three weeks.
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09/26/2007
The possession of child pornography will, in all likelihood, soon be a criminal offence in the Czech Republic: on Wednesday the lower house overruled reservations by the Senate, approving a planned amendment to the Penal Code. Under the legislation, anyone possessing photographic, film, computer, electronic pornographic material featuring minors could face up to two years in prison. The legislation will now have to be signed into law by the president. The lower house first passed the amendment in June, but the Senate returned it for reappraisal, fearing the bill might easily be abused or misapplied.
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09/26/2007
Two days after Czech President Vaclav Klaus gave a speech challenging the human impact on climate change at a conference on global warming in New York, his predecessor Vaclav Havel has written an editorial in the International Herald Tribune arguing the impact of global warming must not be ignored. He writes that it is the human race and not the planet which is at risk and says that scientific studies have shown that "changes in temperature and energy cycles on a planetary scale" could prove dangerous "for people on all continents". Mr Havel and Mr Klaus were well-known for differing political views in the past; Vaclav Klaus succeeded Mr Havel as Czech president in February 2003.
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09/26/2007
Ice hockey's Detroit Red Wings, home to Czech goalie Dominik Hasek, demolished Jaromir Jagr's New York Rangers in an NHL preseason match on Tuesday. Hasek's Red Wings went up 1:0 just 28 seconds into the game. Hasek made 18 saves for Detroit in the game, allowing the Rangers' lone goal with less than three minutes left. Jarmoir Jagr assisted on the goal, which was scored by Scott Gomez.
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09/25/2007
Minister of Education Dana Kuchtova stepped down on Tuesday after being accused of failing to draw sufficient money from European Union funds. The Green Party politician has been criticized by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek as well as Michaela Sojdrova, the head of Parliament's Education Committee, for not being able to draw about 60 billion crowns, or three billion U.S. dollars, for research and education programmes from the funds of the EU. Green Party chairman Martin Bursik said, however, that Ms Kuchtova can rely on the support of Green Party leadership and deputies. It is yet not clear who will replace Dana Kuchtova as education minister.
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09/25/2007
At a conference on global warming held in New York on Monday by U.N. Secretary General Ba Ki-moon, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said that the rise in temperatures is small in a historical context. The rise in temperatures in the recent years, decades and centuries, according to the Czech President, has been small, and its impact on mankind and its activities is negligible. Vaclav Klaus also said that the threat of hypothetical future global warming is based solely on speculation. The Czech president has been criticized by some Czech politicians, including Martin Bursik, the head of the Green Party, who said that Mr Klaus' speech could weaken the position of the Czech Republic during negotiations on global climate change.
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09/25/2007
Lebanese-born Swedish citizen Oussama Kassir, who was arrested two years ago at Prague airport, has been extradited to the United States. U.S. authorities accuse him of supporting terrorism in connection with his intentions to fund a terrorist training camp in Oregon. The decision to extradite Mr Kassir to the U.S. was approved by Czech courts earlier this year, and Czech Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil has now confirmed their decision. Due to the terrorism charges, Oussama Kassir is facing a life sentence in the United States.
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09/25/2007
Jiri Paroubek has invited the governing Civic Democrats to start negotiating about him possibly becoming the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies. The head of the opposition Social Democrats told the daily Mlada fronta Dnes that in exchange for Civic Democratic support of his candidacy, he is ready to discuss a number of issues to do with the Czech presidency of the European Union that will begin in January next year. Mr Paroubek denied, however, that he is willing to support Vaclav Klaus, the incumbent president and the honorary chairman of the Civic Democrats, at the next presidential elections.
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