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11/28/2007
A court in Prague has cleared former IT minister Vladimir Mlynar of charges of misusing information and abuse of office. Vladimir Mlynar was the Czech IT minister between 2003 and 2005. In October 2003, the IT Ministry spent 3.5 million crowns (or almost 200,000 US dollars) on founding a company that would run a website with information on the Czech Republic. After the Finance Ministry warned Mr Mlynar in February 2004 that such a procedure is not legal, he withdrew the contract but was still charged with mishandling the ministry’s funds. Mr Mlynar was then prosecuted and sentenced to 5.5 years in jail by a first-instance court earlier this year.
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11/28/2007
In the first ten months of 2007, 100 new cases of HIV-positive persons were registered in the Czech Republic. The total number of HIV-positive Czech nationals is now 1,020 while 230 Czechs have full-blown AIDS and 130 of them have died of it, according to Miroslav Hlavaty, the director of a Prague-based NGO helping HIV victims. It is estimated, however, that the real number of HIV-positive persons in the country may be up to ten times higher. The NGO Dum Svetla, or the House of Light, which provides accommodation for HIV- positive people, was visited on Tuesday by the American ambassador Richard Graber ahead of the upcoming World AIDS Day.
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11/28/2007
The lower house of the Czech parliament passed an amendment to the current education law on Tuesday that should make it easier for foreigners to study in the Czech Republic. According to the new regulation, EU citizens as well as foreigners with visas for more than 90 days will be able to attend Czech schools. Children of illegal immigrants should also be able to go to primary school. The Chamber of Deputies passed the new regulation for a second time, after it was rejected by the Senate. It will now be reviewed by the President.
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11/28/2007
A court in Prague ruled on Wednesday that members of both chambers of the Czech parliament have to pay fares for privately-owned transport services. Until now, all MPs and senators were entitled to free rides on public transport by the law. The court ruling was passed in a case of a private transport service suing the Czech Republic for having to transport two parliamentarians – Josef Zieleniec and Igor Petrov - from Prague to Brno. The show-case ride was set up last year by the two politicians and the transport company owner so that the regulation on free MP rides could be contested before court. According to Josef Zieleniec, the current rule of free rides is absurd and interferes with property rights.
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11/28/2007
Vienna International Airport confirmed on Wednesday its interest in the privatisation of Prague’s Ruzyne airport. Prague airport has more passengers than any other airport in the 10 new EU member countries and one of its long-term objectives is reach a similar number of travellers as Vienna. Last year, Prague’s Ruzyne airport dispatched 11.5 passengers while 17 million people travelled through the Austrian capital.
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11/28/2007
Catarrhal fever has been registered for the first time ever in the Czech Republic. An animal infected with this contagious disease that affects sheep, goats and cattle, was detected on Wednesday on a farm near Cheb, western Bohemia, close to the border with Germany. Veterinarians say that measures have been taken to prevent the disease from spreading further on. Catarrhal fever does not kill the infected animals, and they do not have to be slaughtered either.
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11/28/2007
Slavia Prague drew 1:1 with Steaua Bucharest in the group stage of the football Champions League on Tuesday. Despite steady pressure by the Romanian club in the first half, Slavia only conceded one goal and managed to score an equalizer 15 minutes before the end of the game. With one more match to go, Slavia Prague secured third position in Champions League’s Group H and will play in the UEFA Cup next year.
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11/27/2007
The leadership of the Czech Green Party is to nominate Ondrej Liska for the post of education minister. Former education minister Dana Kuchtova made the announcement to journalists on Monday night, adding that Mr Liska was not the candidate she had voted for. Mr Liska won the support of the Green Party leadership by four votes to three. The Greens have been split over who should replace Mrs Kuchtova at the head of Education Ministry ever since she resigned two months ago. Head of the party Martin Bursik said that the decision should be made by the Green Party leadership, while others, such as Mrs Kuchtova, thought that the choice should fall to the party’s national council, who were behind another candidate, Olga Zubova.
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11/27/2007
Czech president Vaclav Klaus has reacted to Mr Liska’s nomination by questioning whether someone so young would be able to run the Education Ministry effectively. Mr Klaus voiced his opinion in an address to students of Brno’s Masaryk University, telling undergraduates that the thirty-year-old Liska was ‘not much older than they were’. Mr Klaus said that he foresaw difficulties in Mr Liska’s dealings with the sixty and seventy-year-old rectors of the Czech Republic’s biggest universities, and that for this reason, he would only be able to appoint Mr Liska against his better judgement.
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11/27/2007
Prime minister Mirek Topolanek, however, has said that he is convinced Ondrej Liska is the right man for the education minister’s job. He said that he thought Mr Liska would be more than capable of coping with all ministerial tasks. The prime minister added that he and President Vaclav Klaus had agreed to appoint Mr Liska as education minister next week. Leader of the Greens Martin Bursik is to discuss the appointment with members of the party’s national council on Sunday.
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