Friday, 17 May 2013
National | Radio Prague
Planned university reform seeks to improve cooperation with industry

The Education Ministry is finalising reform legislation that should help universities adapt to the changing environment; the reform seeks, among other things, to diversify the universities and change their financing.

National | ČTK
Cabinet gives more money to anti-corruption police

The Czech government Wednesday added further CZK 69 million to the anti-corruption police unit's budget for 2013 based on a proposal submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Karolina Peake.
National | ČTK
NGO points to Hungarian neo-Nazi wrestler's planned Czech stay

The participants in Friday's martial sports tournament in Prague are to include Attila Petrovszki, a Hungarian contestant who openly claims his adherence to neo-Nazism, Czech server Romea.cz reported Wednesday, citing the Antifascist League's information.
National | ČTK
Chamber of Deputies parties want to know solar plant owners

Representatives of parties in the Czech Chamber of Deputies have agreed on drafting and submitting soon a bill to ascertain owners of solar power plants, but they did not agree on creating a commission of investigation called for by the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD).
National | ČTK
Dispute over St Vitus Cathedral in Prague may reopen

St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle still belongs to the church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk said on his webpage, pointing to the ruling by the Constitutional Court (US) from this year on a different case in which it questioned the state claim, but Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka has dismissed the claim.
National | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Czech Jews document tripling of online anti-Semitism

The Jewish Community of Prague documented a tripling of online instances of anti-Semitic hate speech last year. The increase, which the community links to a Jewish politician's presidential bid, among other factors, was documented in an annual report on anti-Semitism published Tuesday.

National | ČTK
Church restitution opponents write letter to Pope Francis

Opponents of the Czech law on the return of the churches' property confiscated by the communist regime have written a letter to Pope Francis in hope that his authority could prevent the Roman Catholic Church from the property takeover.
National | Radio Prague
Czech towns increasingly banning door-to-door sales

Given the growing number of salesmen who abuse the trust of elderly people in their own homes and force them into highly disadvantageous contracts, many Czech towns and cities are taking matters into their own hands and banning door-to-door sales altogether in order to protect their citizens.

Prague | ČTK
MfD: Prague sees growth in Russian, Chinese visitors

The total number of foreign tourists visiting Prague, mainly Russians as well as rich Chinese, has been rising despite the economic crisis, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes writes in its Prague supplement Tuesday.
National | ČTK
Some 120 weirs are dangerous to life in Czech Republic

There are some 120 dangerous weirs in the Czech Republic, roughly 50 of which need special elements for amateur or professional rescue, a Water Sports Rescue School representative said Tuesday.
Prague | Real Estate | ČTK
Prague's Eliška with 93.6m to be Czech tallest residential tower

Residence Eliška, which will be the Czech Republic's tallest purely residential tower after its completion, has reached its top height of 93.6 metres.
National | ČTK
Foreign minister discussing Syria, Serbia with Westerwelle

The situation in Syria and the recent agreement between Kosovo and Serbia were on the agenda of the talks between Czech and German foreign ministers Karel Schwarzenberg and Guido Westerwelle Tuesday.
National | ČTK
Greens care for gender equality most, SPOZ least of Czech parties

The Greens (SZ) promote gender equality most of all Czech political parties, both in society and in their own ranks, Forum 50% group said when declaring the Greens winners of the Party Open to Women contest Tuesday.
National | ČTK
Slovak ex-PM: Czechoslovakia's split was politicians' swindle

The division of Czechoslovakia into two countries at the end of 1992 without a public referendum was an election swindle of political parties that cheated citizens, former Slovak prime minister Iveta Radičová said in her new book that she presented in Bratislava Tuesday.
National | ČTK
President's team to check solar business

The team checking the Czech solar energy business, whose formation President Milos Zeman proposed, will focus on information exchange but its police part may investigate suspicious circumstances, Deputy Police President Vaclav Kucera, one of its members, told CTK Tuesday.