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12/12/2007
Czech authorities cannot charge firms and individuals with the breach of European law if that law was not published in Czech at the time of the breach. A spokesperson for the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno made the announcement on Wednesday, adding that the ruling could have an influence on dozens of cases here in the Czech Republic. The ruling was made by the European Court of Justice, which recently solved a dispute between the Czech-owned firm Skoma-Lux, and the Customs and Excise office in Olomouc, Moravia. The European Court decided in favour of the firm, which complained that it had been fined for breaching a regulation which was not published in Czech at the time.
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12/12/2007
Around 60 politicians and academics have launched a petition calling on the public not to pay the health fees that will be imposed as of January 2008. Patients have to pay for their healthcare under a government reform package approved in August. The opposition Social Democrats immediately filed a complaint against healthcare fees with the Constitutional Court. The new petition calls on Czech citizens not to pay the fees until the Constitutional Court rules on the matter. Signatories of the petition so far include a number of Social Democrat MPs, journalists, historians and writers. As of January next year, Czechs will pay 30 crowns each time they visit the doctor, and 60 crowns for each day that they spend in hospital. A limit of 5000 CZK per year has been put on any individual’s spending on healthcare; any amount over that will be reimbursed.
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12/12/2007
The Czech president Vaclav Klaus has signed an amendment which grants foreigners better access to education in the Czech Republic. According to the amendment, not only EU citizens, but all those with residency permits for longer than 90 days will be able to attend Czech schools under the same conditions as Czech students. Children of foreigners illegally living in the Czech Republic will also be able to attend elementary schools. The previous law gave only EU citizens or people with permanent residency the right to study at Czech schools, but human rights organizations said that this denied children their right to an education, and breached the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.
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12/12/2007
Former president Vaclav Havel’s new play ‘Odchazeni’ (‘Leaving’) may not be premiered in Prague’s Divadlo na Vinohradech after all. Mr Havel told Mlada Fronta on Wednesday that the theatre was having ‘technical and operational problems’ with the staging of the play, but that negotiations with the theatre were still ongoing. A spokesperson for Divadlo na Vinohradech said that there had been no disagreement between the theatre management and Havel’s appointed director, David Radok, but that difficulties had been encountered in the staging of the play. ‘Odchazeni’ was originally to be premiered at the National Theatre in Prague, but Mr Havel withdrew the play from the theatre, when it refused to cast his wife, Dagmar Havlova, in one of the leading roles. The former president’s highly-anticipated new play is expected to be premiered next May.
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12/12/2007
The Czech National Library has announced that, due to public interest, it would like to prolong the exhibition of the Devil’s Bible, or Codex Gigas. It was originally meant to be shown in Prague until January 6, but due to the interest the book has generated, the library would like to continue exhibiting it until March of next year. Over 35,000 people have bought a ticket to see the bible since it was put on display in September, and ticket sales have been limited to no more than 60 per hour. The Swedish state, which owns the bible, has agreed to loan out the manuscript for longer. A spokesperson for the library said it was now up to the Czech Ministry of Finance to decide whether to fund the exhibition for an extended period of time.
The Devil’s Bible originates from the turn of the 13th century, it was written near Chrudim, eastern Bohemia. It was taken by Swedish soldiers at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, and has belonged to the Swedish state since that time.
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12/12/2007
Three Czech towns, Prague, Cesky Krumlov and Telc are celebrating 15 years on the UNESCO list of world heritage sites. The historic centres of the three towns were added to UNESCO’s list at a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in December 1992. This was the first time that the Czech Republic had featured on UNESCO’s list of heritage sites, over the last 15 years, a further 9 Czech towns have made the list.
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12/11/2007
Jan Svejnar is set to announce next week whether he will stand for president in elections in February. Speaking after a meeting with senators from the Christian Democrats on Tuesday, he said he would make a decision on the basis of the outcome of talks conducted by the leaderships of various parties. The Social Democrats and the Greens have already expressed support for Mr Svejnar, while the Communists have not ruled out backing him.
Jan Svejnar was born in Czechoslovakia but has spent most of his life in the USA, where he is a professor of economics.
The two houses of the Czech Parliament will take part in the presidential vote on February 8; the only candidate so far is the incumbent, Vaclav Klaus of the Civic Democrats.
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12/11/2007
Three children from Afghanistan have arrived in the Czech Republic, where they will undergo essential heart surgery. The youngest of the children is one and a half; the others are aged six and eight. The three arrived in Prague on a Czech Army plane carrying field hospital staff and chemical weapons specialists home from Kabul. The children, who are accompanied by family members, are expected to remain in the Czech Republic for one to three months. Over 110 children from crisis zones have received treatment in the Czech Republic since 1993.
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12/11/2007
Fast food stalls selling grilled sausages and other foods are set to disappear from Prague’s Wenceslas Square in the next few years, Lidove noviny reported. The city’s authorities have decided to remove the stalls because they attract homeless people who root in nearby bins for discarded food. Two stands at the very bottom of the square will be first to disappear, in the middle of next year; they should all be gone by 2010, by which time the whole of Wenceslas Square should have been remodelled.
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12/11/2007
The Prague police will be 770 members short by the end of this year, the director of the city’s force Petr Zelasko said on Tuesday. That figure represents a short-fall of around ten percent. Mr Zelasko said police management would endeavour to ensure that citizens would not be affected by the fact so many places are unfilled, but he admitted it would be apparent. At the national level 5,000 police jobs will be empty. Many officers left the force following the introduction of a new law on police service.
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