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Czech police renew check of solar plant purchase
The Czech anti-corruption police are again investigating the circumstances of a purchase of solar power plants by the CEZ majority energy utility from the Amun.Re firm, their spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej told CTK today. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek (TOP 09) told Czech Television (CT) earlier today he is “deeply shocked” that the police shelved the case, [...]
Firms With Unknown Owners Enjoying Public Contracts
Companies whose ownership is not entirely clear have acquired public contracts for Kc 123 bn in the Czech Republic in the past four years, daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) reported last week, referring to a project of association zIndex which monitors the transparency of public tenders. From 1,638 companies that were checked, 277 were companies with [...]
Rising Social Gap with Middle Class in Decline
The middle class has been economically declining and the social gap growing in the Czech Republic, daily Pravo writes today in reaction to fresh statistical figures. “Ten percent of the lowest-income households have a net monthly income of less than 6000 crowns per capita. Another 20 percent have 8350 crowns per capita and month,” CSOB [...]
Necas and Zavadil meet over unemployment issue
The surging unemployment rate that was close to record high values in January has forced two irreconcilable rivals, Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas and trade union head Jaroslav Zavadil, to secretly meet in the Chamber of Deputies and discuss it on Tuesday, daily Pravo writes today. Necas refused to meet Zavadil, chairman of the CMKOS, [...]
Czech tennis player suspended for doping
Czech tennis player Barbora Zahlavova Strycova has been suspended for six months for doping. It was the International Tennis Federation (ITF) that took the decision Thursday. Zahlavova Strycova tested positive for sibutramine in October. “She is suspended from competing during a period of six months, from 16 October 2012 to midnight 13 April 2013″, the [...]
Trains nearly collide – again
Another case of two trains nearly colliding on the same track, third in the past two weeks, occurred in the Czech Republic today, Rail Inspection spokesman Martin Drapal told CTK. In the Adamov railway station, the arriving Gustav Klimt EuroCity express train, which was heading from Graz, Austria, to Prague, ended up on a track [...]
Less than half of Czechs satisfied with health care
Some 41 percent of Czechs are satisfied, while 22 percent are dissatisfied with the health care they are provided, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM polling institute last December and released today. Some 36 percent have adopted a neutral position on the quality of health care. About 33 percent of Czechs are of [...]
Some prisoners released by mistake within Czech amnesty
Czech judges have by mistake released minimally three prisoners to whom the amnesty that outgoing President Vaclav Klaus announced on New Year’s Day does not apply, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. The judges did not have enough time to deal with the cases and they had no opportunity to get prepared for the [...]
Kulhanek – designer of the Czech banknotes dies
Well-known Czech graphic artist Oldrich Kulhanek, winner of domestic and foreign awards, who also designed the present Czech banknotes, died suddenly this morning at the age of 72, his family told CTK. Born in Prague in 1940, Kulhanek is known for masterpieces with figural motifs focusing on faces and hands in various situations. Under the [...]
The Daily SK
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- Slovakia has EUR 29.5M Frozen in Health Insurer Dispute 2013/05/24
- Bratislava: Ibiza Fiesta Party, Saturday, 25 May 2013/05/23
- Slovakia Condemned again for Roma Discrimination 2013/05/23
- Softer Punishments for Drug Users 2013/05/23
- Czech-Slovak Military Co-operation Takes Shape 2013/05/23
- Slovakia To Tax Subsidised Renewable Energy Sources 2013/05/22
- Slovakia Scraps Scrap Metal Buying Due to Soaring Crime 2013/05/21
- Slovak Military Intelligence Assets Siphoned Off 2013/05/21
- New Law Obliges Slovaks to Announce Stays Abroad 2013/05/20
