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09/06/2007
A wave of departure of professionals from the police force has begun to be offset by the arrival of new employees. Interior Minister Ivan Langer said on Thursday more people joined the force than left it in the months of July and August. At a press conference assessing the activities of police upper management on Thursday, the minister said the trend had changed. Mr Langer also stressed that the wages of 94 percent of police personnel had grown in the first half of 2007 compared to the same period last year.
Mr Langer's deputy stated that was partly the result of the new law on service. The new service law - valid since January - originally triggered the wave of departures from the police force due to the changes in service rules for police officers, prison guards, customs officers as well as members of the fire brigade. The legislation applies to about 72,000 people, including 47,000 members of the police force.
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09/06/2007
A Korean appeals court has ruled that the chairman of carmaker Hyundai, who was convicted of embezzling company funds, will not go to prison. Chung Mong-Koo's original sentence of three years in jail was suspended. Mr Chung had continued to run the Korean automaker after release on bail; investors had worried any absence could hurt the company's expansion plans in Korea and abroad. The Hyundai Motor Group chairman's legal troubles made headlines in the Czech Republic due to the construction of a new Hyundai factory in northern Moravia. The project, representing a 1.1 billion euro investment, began earlier this year. Once fully-operational, the plant is expected to manufacture 300,000 cars annually and to employ around 3,500 workers.
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09/06/2007
A new poll released by the Median agency - published on two internet servers - has suggested the ruling Civic Democrats have improved over their nearest rivals. According to the poll, if elections were held today they would be won by the right-of-centre party earning 35.2 percent of the vote. The party strengthened over rivals the Social Democrats, who slipped by 3.5 percentage points since July. In their current coalition with the Christian Democrats and the Greens, the Civic Democrats would now gain a majority of seats in the lower house. The poll suggests the opposition Communists would place third with 12.6 percent of the vote, followed by the Greens with 6.6 percent, and the Christian Democrats last, with 6.1 percent.
The survey also monitored voters' willingness to go to the polls: turnout would be 60 percent, or 5 percentage points less than the real figure during the national election last June.
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09/06/2007
The Czech Social Security Administration (CSSZ) has registered 510 people aged 100 and over: 428 women and 82 men, the office's spokeswoman has said. The oldest person in the Czech Republic is Marie Kraslova, South Bohemia: she celebrated her 108th birthday last November. The oldest man is 105 years of age. The number of people over 100 has grown in the Czech Republic: last November there were 404 people, compared to 354 in November 2005. Most of those aged over 100 live in Prague, followed by South Moravia.
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09/06/2007
Czech footballer Pavel Horvath, who plays for Sparta Prague, will have to pay a fine of 200,000 crowns (the equivalent of almost 10,000 US dollars) for a gesture in a recent match reminiscent of the Nazi salute. The gesture was made towards fans. A disciplinary commission of the Football Association of the Czech Republic reached the decision on Thursday that the salute had damaged the reputation of Czech football. The player has admitted the gesture was a mistake but denied it was meant as a racist act.
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09/05/2007
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel has tempered comments he made that were interpreted as a warning about the state of Polish democracy. Speaking at the launch of the Polish edition of his latest book Please Be Brief, Mr Havel caused a storm by saying it would be in the interest of Polish democracy if the country were to hold early elections as soon as possible and arranged for them to be monitored by international observers.
His remarks were criticised by commentators in Poland as a smear on the reputation of the country's democracy. Mr Havel later said that he had not intended his comments as an attack on Poland's political system, but maintained that international observers would help ease the tense situation surrounding the upcoming elections in Poland following the collapse of the rightist government led by the controversial Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kacynski.
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09/05/2007
A new survey by the highly respected Economist Intelligence Unit has placed the Czech Republic among the world's leading democracies. The London-based think tank ranked the Czech Republic in 18th place among an elite group of 28 fully functioning democratic societies. The report was compiled by a group of international experts on the basis of various criteria such as the electoral process, the functioning of government, and political participation. The Czech Republic scored better than many other countries in the region, including Slovakia and Hungary, which the report described as "flawed" democracies.
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09/05/2007
The Czech government has decided to set up a special commission for the development of the Brdy area, the site of a controversial proposed US radar base. The government announced its decision on Wednesday after meeting with the mayors of municipalities in the central Bohemian region. It said hundreds of millions of crowns would be invested in the area regardless of whether the American radar base was eventually built there. Most of the 15 mayors who attended the meeting said they welcomed the prospect of investment into the economically neglected region, but insisted that this would not change their opposition to the proposed radar.
The United States wants to construct a radar facility in Brdy as part of a missile defence system aimed at countering possible attacks from so-called rogue states such as Iran. Polls show that a majority of Czechs are against the proposal even though it has the tentative support of the centre-right government. A final decision on the base is expected early next year.
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09/05/2007
The aktualne.cz news website has reported that Czech public spending debt should increase by 95 billion Czech crowns or 4.6 billion US dollars next year. Referring to data in the draft state budget released by the Ministry of Finance on Monday, the website reported that there will be a marked rise in investment into the transport infrastructure, although the Education Ministry and the Czech Academy of Sciences would receive less money. Aktualne.cz also reckons that public spending in 2008 will reach 2.95 percent of GDP, just below the crucial 3-percent limit set by the EU for the adoption of the euro.
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09/05/2007
The Czech Labour Minister Petr Necas said on Wednesday that he thinks the first phase of his proposed pension reforms could be passed by parliament before the end of this year. Mr Necas says he hopes to reach a cross-party consensus on the reforms before putting them before parliament for approval. Among other things, the mooted reforms include raising the state pension age and increasing the obligatory number of years people should be making pension contributions before being entitled to retire.
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