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08/13/2007
Meanwhile, the results of an opinion poll conducted by the Median agency indicate that 55 percent of Czechs understand and accept the need for reform. Only ten percent of Czechs strictly oppose it. The highest rate of support comes from people aged 18 to 24. Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Necas said this was "encouraging news".
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08/13/2007
Petr Zelenka, a male nurse who is charged with deliberately killing eight people with a lethal doze of the blood-thinning drug heparin has confessed that he administered the drug to 17 patients altogether, injecting the drug on twenty four different occasions. In one case a patient received three dozes before the drug killed him. The hospital in question is now reviewing its medical records to ascertain whether Zelenka did not kill even more people than previously thought. He faces life imprisonment, although his defence lawyers claim he is mentally ill.
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08/13/2007
A team of American experts are inspecting the Brdy military area south-west of Prague which has been selected as a potential site for a US radar base in the Czech Republic. The main goal of the four day mission is to inspect the geological conditions, as well as the infrastructure and transport network. Prague and Washington are holding talks on the possible installation of a radar in Brdy as part of the US missile defence programme, but no commitment has as yet been made. In the Czech Republic such a project would have to be approved by Parliament. Municipalities in the region are strongly opposed to it and opinion polls suggest that the majority of Czechs do not want a US radar in the country.
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08/13/2007
At a press conference marking the fifth anniversary of the devastating 2002 floods, mayor of Prague Pavel Bem said that the city hall had invested two billion crowns into flood protection. He said that 95 percent of the city was now protected from a disaster of such magnitude and that in the event of a flood the new flood protection system could be erected within 24 hours. Forty billion crowns have gone into construction and reconstruction work.
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08/13/2007
Industrial production in the Czech Republic rose by 1.0 percent in June from the previous month, according to seasonally adjusted figures released Monday by the Czech Statistics Office. On an annual basis, production in June was up 6.9 percent, after rising 7.5 percent in May. Transport equipment, electronic and optic devices led industrial production in June as well as the manufacture and repair of machinery.
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08/12/2007
The key witness in the corruption investigation involving the deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek, his former secretary Marcela Urbanova, is to be charged with giving false testimony. Petr Coufal, the head of an inspection team from the Brno State Attorney's Office who reviewed the case said on Czech Television on Sunday that he was convinced that Urbanova had lied in order to damage the deputy prime minister. Jihlava state attorney Arif Salichov halted the case last week on the grounds of lack of evidence and dubious witnesses. Coufal said that he was convinced that Salichov had made the right decision, adding that if Urbanova was telling the truth then fifteen other witnesses, one of them an Evangelical priest, were lying. The Jihlava state attorney himself allegedly received a death threat, warning him not to halt the investigation.
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08/12/2007
The highly controversial corruption investigation, involving the deputy prime minister has resulted in a war of words between two groups of state attorneys. The Prerov office which originally dealt with the case has filed a complaint against the Jihlava office, to which the case was later transferred on the order of the chief state attorney. The dispute erupted when Jihlava State Attorney Arif Salichov accused his Prerov colleagues of having conducted a biased investigation aimed at finding the deputy prime minister guilty at any cost. Six attorneys at the Prerov office subsequently left the Czech Association of State Attorneys angered that the union had not spoken out in their defense. The Brno State Attorney's Office which is to deal with the complaint said it would asses the matter by the end of August.
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08/12/2007
Over 200 young people protested in the streets of Jablonec nad Nisou on Saturday accusing the police of having stood by idly while their friend drowned. The incident took place late at night when a group of secondary school students were returning from a night out. One of them jumped into the local dam on a dare and tried to swim across. When his friends saw that he was in trouble they called the police hot line and despite the fact that a police car was on the spot in five minutes the officers allegedly made no attempt to dive in and try to find him. The police claim that it was pitch dark when they arrived and they couldn't see anyone on the waters surface. The boy's friends say they should have dived in anyway and tried to save him. The incident is being investigated.
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08/12/2007
The leaders of the governing coalition are to meet on Monday for some last-minute fine-tuning of the government-proposed reform package. The fiscal reforms aim to reduce the deficit in public finances to below three percent of GDP and have been rejected outright by the opposition for being "too radical". Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has linked his cabinet's future to the reform package and is determined to push it through. However given the ruling coalition's slim majority in the lower house, it is essential for the three governing parties to iron out their differences on the proposal and support it as one man. Parliament is to open debate on the proposed reforms next Tuesday.
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08/12/2007
The Communist Party says it may join the Social Democrats in filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court regarding the government proposed reforms should they make it through Parliament. Deputy party leader Jiri Dolejs has criticized the plan to introduce fees for medical services saying it violates that article of the Constitution which guarantees free medical care on the basis of insurance. The leader of the opposition Social Democrats Jiri Paroubek has promised to strike down what he called "bad fiscal reforms" as soon as his party returned to power. He said that the centre right government's reform plan would lower the living standard of 90 percent of Czechs.
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