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11/26/2007
Two film producers have received suspended sentences from a court in Prague for attempting to blackmail producer Deana Jakubiskova-Horvathova by taking a copy of the film Bathory, directed by her husband Juraj Jakubisko. Jan Milic and Karel Lupomesky demanded half a million crowns from the couple for the return of the film after stealing it from an editing suite at Prague’s Barrandov studios. The Jakubiskos, who are Slovak, are now planning to file a civil suit for damages against the blackmailers.
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11/26/2007
The Czech tractor maker Zetor is hoping to triple production in the next five years. The company is hiring 300 new employees after increasing production capacity at its Brno plant, and plans to roll out 15,000 tractors a year. The majority owner of Zetor, the Slovak group HTC, has daughter companies which sell its tractors in Poland, Ireland, Germany and other states. Ninety percent of its exports go to the EU.
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11/26/2007
Coal-generated heat could cost 20 percent more from the beginning of next year, the Czech Energy Regulatory Office said on Monday. Meanwhile, gas-powered heating plants may increase prices by up to almost 17 percent, representatives of the state body said.
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11/26/2007
The renowned campaigner against alcohol dependency Jaroslav Skala has died at the age of 91. Dr Skala established a support group for alcoholics and treatment centre in Prague in the late 1940s, before in 1951 opening what has been described as the world’s first sobering-up station for the inebriated.
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11/26/2007
The world champion skier Sarka Zahrobska finished second in a slalom World Cup race at Canada’s Panorama on Sunday. It was the fourth time the 22-year-old from the Krkonose Mountains has reached the podium in a World Cup event. Zahrobska is fourth overall in this season’s standings.
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11/26/2007
Slavia Prague will face Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League on Tuesday night without two of their most important players, captain Stanislav Vlcek and the experienced Vladimir Smicer. Both are injured. Slavia beat the Romanians in Prague and have four points from four games in Group H, whereas Steaua have none. Third place would guarantee Slavia a place in the latter stages of the UEFA Cup and spell that rare phenomenon – a Czech club in European action after Christmas.
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11/25/2007
Head of the Green Party, Martin Bursik, has said that he is willing to negotiate with his senior coalition partner the Civic Democrats on the subject of next year’s presidential elections. But, he has emphasised, that the Civic Democrats’ candidate for the post, the current president Vaclav Klaus, will not be receiving the endorsement of the Greens. The Green Party find Mr Klaus’s views on global warming particularly unacceptable, and their leader, Mr Bursik has previously accused President Klaus of ‘living on another planet’. Mr Klaus is reported as wanting to negotiate with the Greens about his presidential bid, but the party has already come out in support of his potential rival, the economist Jan Svejnar. The Civic Democrats unanimously voted for Mr Klaus to represent them as their presidential candidate at their party conference on Saturday. Some factions of the party want prime minister Mirek Topolanek to put pressure on his coalition partners - the Christian Democrats and the Greens - so that they back Mr Klaus for the presidency as well.
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11/25/2007
The search for a new education minister, which has been dividing the Czech Green Party for the last two months, has claimed another victim. Dalibor Strasky has resigned from his post as chairman of the Green’s National Council, unhappy with the lack of influence the council has been able to exert on the selection procedure. The head of the Green Party Martin Bursik has said that he wants the party leadership, alongside Green Party mps, to decide who should become the next education minister. He has dismissed the National Council’s favoured candidate, Olga Zubova, saying he would rather appoint someone with more experience in the education sector.
The post of education minister has been open since Dana Kuchtova resigned at the beginning of October. The search for a successor has split the Green Party, with some mps calling for Mrs Kuchtova to be reinstated. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has said that he wants the Greens to decide upon a candidate by the end of next week.
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11/25/2007
Czech households can expect to pay up to 10% more for their electricity next year, said Josef Firt of the Energy Regulatory Office in an interview with Czech Television on Sunday. He attributed this to the increased cost of electricity distribution, as well as the rise in cost of base load power. In the interview with Czech Television’s Vaclav Moravec, Mr Firt said that gas prices would also rise in 2008. But, he said this price-increase would be below the rate of inflation, which the Czech National Bank has predicted will be between 4.4% and 5.8% next year.
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11/25/2007
In more business news, the number of credit cards issued in the third quarter of this year was up by more than 25% on last year’s figures. There are now more than 1 million credit cards in use in the Czech Republic, alongside some 8.3 million debit cards. In the last three months alone, over 300,000 new credit cards have been issued. According to Jan Carny of MasterCard, more dynamic growth is expected in the sector in coming years.
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