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09/21/2004
About a dozen Czech rock bands will play for a benefit concert this Sunday for the "We don't talk to Communists" group which is calling for the Communist party to be declared illegal. Writer and former dissident Petr Placak, one of the event's organisers, told journalists on Tuesday that in addition to the concerts, several avant-garde theatre groups would also stage productions. The event will take place in an abandoned former factory in Prague's Karlin district, close to the city centre. A "We don't talk to communists" concert was first performed last year, on November 17, the anniversary of the brutal intervention by communist police against a peaceful students' demonstration in Prague in 1989, which led to the so-called Velvet Revolution.
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09/21/2004
The Finance Ministry has announced it has tightened spending in next year's state budget draft to lower the projected deficit for 2005 by roughly one billion crowns, or around 35 million euros. The ministry made the announcement ahead of this Tuesday's government meeting on the state budget.
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09/21/2004
A fault in the cooling system at the Temelin nuclear power station, which prompted authorities to shut down a reactor on Monday, will take at least a week to fix, a plant spokesman said. It was the second reactor shut down in a month.
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09/20/2004
Czech member of European Parliament Jana Bobosikova has requested that her colleague Vladimir Zelezny apologise for his statements about her and her family made in the Czech media last week, in which he criticised her for hiring her husband as her assistant in the European Parliament and accused her of betraying her party's principles. Mrs Bobosikova has threatened to sue Mr Zelezny for slander if he fails to explain his remarks over the next seven days. The public falling-out between both Euro MPs sharply contrasts their professional relationship earlier in the year when both successfully ran for European parliament under the banner of the so-called Independents.
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09/20/2004
The chairman of the Doctors' Trade Union, Milan Kubek, has revealed that the unions will organise a token strike unless Health Minister Milada Emmerova accepts demands to introduce an independent wage scale system in the health sector. Mr Kubek told journalists on Monday that he was hoping he would be able to meet with the health minister as early as next week, and if that failed, to ask Prime Minister Stanislav Gross for a meeting. The Doctors' Trade Union chairman said that the lack of progress in talks between the government and the unions last week led to the decision to increase pressure on the government.
The unions are dissatisfied because 2004 marks the first time since 1998 that health care employees' real incomes have fallen.
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09/20/2004
A court in the north Bohemian city of Usti nad Labem has ruled the municipality does not have to pay any compensation to the Cervenaks, a Romani family that was suing the city for damages allegedly suffered in 1993. For the Cervenak family the heart of the dispute was the loss of city-owned apartments that followed after family members moved to Slovakia. When family members began returning to Usti nad Labem within a matter of days, they found they were unable to return to their original homes.
Cervenak family members contended they were never properly compensated for the property they had given up, although they were later given some accommodation by the city after the president's office intervened, and received 900, 000 crowns from the Czech state in an out-of-court settlement after the family took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Five out of eight family members withdrew their current lawsuit in Usti nad Labem last month, leaving just three plaintiffs in Monday's ruling. The trio had been asking for compensation of 8 million crowns, or roughly 270, 000 euros.
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09/20/2004
The weekend brought Czech athletes two gold medals at the Paralympics in Greece. Czech swimmer Martin Kovar won the 100 metre free style on Sunday in 1:43,51 - setting a new world record, while Veronika Foltova won the discus. Meanwhile, 29-year-old cyclist Jiri Jezek won the silver medal in the cycling race, narrowly beaten by Spaniard Robert Alcaideo.
The results put the Czech Republic in ninth place in the overall medal standings.
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09/20/2004
The Temelin nuclear power station has reported a reduction in output on the first unit following problems with cooling. Temelin staff reportedly discovered leaks in the generator cooling circuits in the non-nuclear part of the power station.
The defects may take a week or longer to repair. The second unit is running on full output.
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09/19/2004
A conference in Prague aimed at supporting the Cuban dissident movement has called for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. The event, which has brought together several former European and American heads of state and government, is organized by the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba at the initiative of the former president Vaclav Havel. Representatives of several countries at the summit said that their governments should instruct their embassies in Cuba to help those persons who work for the establishment of democratic values on the island. The former Czech president Vaclav Havel described Cuba as a giant prison and called for international mobilization to help bring about change. "We have to ring alarm bells," Mr. Havel said, "with every additional signature and every new conference we make another step towards freedom in Cuba."
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09/19/2004
The Czech coalition government is finalizing the details of the draft state budget for 2005. After coalition leaders agreed to reduce the budget deficit by ten billion crowns last week, Cabinet ministers are now debating where the money should be saved. Several ministries have offered to make budget cuts but the Cabinet is still about two and a half billion crowns short of the target figure. Christian Democratic Party leader Miroslav Kalousek has urged ministers to consider further reducing the number of state employees. The draft budget proposal is expected to be ready by Tuesday.
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