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09/25/2007
The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has been fined 100,000 crowns, or more than 5,000 U.S. dollars, by the anti-monopoly office for the manner in which it selected a company to supply it with an information system. When choosing the supplier last year, the ministry omitted to announce a public competition for the order worth of 50 million crowns. The ministry was already punished last year for a similar offence and paid a fine of 500,000 crowns, or over 25,000 U.S. dollars.
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09/25/2007
Czech neo-Nazis are planning to march through Josefov, the Prague Jewish Quarter, on 10th November. That day marks the 69th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the Nazi-inspired pogrom on Jews throughout Germany and Austria that took place in November 1938. According to the daily Hospodarske noviny, the march has been granted permission by Prague City Hall whose officials claim that they could not ban the march as it was officially announced as a protest against the Czech mission in Iraq.
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09/25/2007
The Czech car-maker Skoda Auto will pay its sole stockholder, the German Volkswagen Group, a dividend of 8.4 billion crowns, or more than 430 million U.S. dollars, the Czech company announced on Tuesday. Last year, Skoda Auto's profit reached a record of 11.06 billion crowns (566 U.S. dollars). The car producer, based in Mlada Boleslav, some 50 km Northeast to Prague, sold more than 550.000 cars last year which is 11.7 percent more than in 2005.
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09/25/2007
A travel agency based in Usti nad Labem, North Bohemia, was offering its clients to go hunting for the Northern Lynx, which is a strictly protected animal in the Czech Republic. According to the daily Mlada fronta Dnes, the hunt was advertised on the internet and was supposed to take place in the beginning of next year. The owner of the travel agency said that his agency was only acting on behalf of a hunting company. The case is under investigation by the Czech environment inspection.
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09/25/2007
The Czech national basketball women's team on Monday beat Israel 75:43, scoring their first victory at the European Championship held in Italy. After the opening passages of the game, the Czech team got the upper hand and gradually opened up an unassailable lead. The Czechs, who are European Champions, are yet to face Turkey and Latvia in group A.
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09/24/2007
The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, has lashed out at journalists accusing them of bias, betrayal and corrupt practices and calling for a law which would regulate press freedom. At his regular Monday press briefing the prime minister verbally attacked individual members of the press saying that they had attempted to blackmail him by threatening to write whatever they wanted if he did not answer their questions. He said some of the articles delving into his private life were scandalous and had clearly been commissioned by his main rival opposition leader Jiri Paroubek and he accused the press of buying classified information from the police. The prime minister said that while he was inclined to be broad minded the present circumstances called for a law which would regulate press freedom.
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09/24/2007
Addressing a UN conference on climate change in New York President Klaus questioned the need for immediate action on global warming. He said that the degree of global warming over the past years, decades and centuries was negligible in the historical perspective and argued that it was not even proven that human activity had caused it. He argued that the international community was under the sway of ambitious environmentalists who promoted their "highly speculative hypothesis" to justify curtailing personal freedom and economic growth but who in actual fact had very little proof to support their claims. The president's words have evoked concern back in Prague where politicians fear that Mr. Klaus' singular opinions on climate change might harm the Czech Republic's chances of gaining a seat on the UN Security Council. The environment minister, Martin Bursik, stressed that the Czech president was not speaking on behalf of the Czech government and environment groups have described Mr. Klaus' views as totally misguided.
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09/24/2007
Archive materials newly come to light suggest that in the hard-line 1950s the communist secret police abducted Czechs who had fled the country, smuggling them back to their homeland for years of imprisonment. At least two dozen people were forcibly brought back in this manner to face torture and show trials. One such case was the forced repatriation of the former Social Democrat deputy Bohumil Lausman in 1949. Lausman left Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1948 coup but was brought back in 1953. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and died under suspicious circumstances ten years later. Other kidnappings were planned but never carried out.
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09/24/2007
The European Union's newest members risk losing some of the funds reserved for them in the bloc's joint budget because they are failing to use it quickly enough, the European Commission said Monday. The 10 countries which joined the bloc in May 2004, the Czech Republic included, have only used up 57 percent of the money that was reserved for their regional development projects. However, under existing rules they have only two years to use the money, meaning that funds budgeted in 2005 have to be used by the end of 2007. The EC has urged these countries to improve their administrative management so that they can make use of the EU funds available to them before they expire.
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09/24/2007
The Girl in Pink, a 1916 painting by Cubist painter Josef Capek has been sold for 12 million crowns (614,000 US dollars), the second-highest price ever fetched at auction for a Czech painting. The painting was put on the market by a private collector whose entire art collection was confiscated by the communist authorities and returned to him after 1989. Josef Capek, brother of the Czech playwright Karel Capek, was an outstanding representative of Czech Cubism. He was arrested by the Nazis and died in a concentration camp in 1945.
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