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Prague, Nov 3 (CTK) – The Czech Chamber of Deputies will hold anextraordinary session in November to discuss the international financialcrisis and namely a bill on bank saving deposits, Radana Jurankova, head ofthe Chamber of Deputies organisational committee, told CTK Monday. The session that will take place on November 11 was convoked by Chamber ofDeputies chairman Miloslav Vlcek (senior opposition Social Democrats, CSSD)at the Social Democrat deputies’ request , Jurankova said. It will also discuss the future of the Injury Hospital in Brno, southMoravia, she said. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek (junior government Christian Democrats,KDU-CSL) said last week that the government wanted to convoke anextraordinary session of the Chamber of Deputies with the main point on theagenda being an amendment toContinue Reading

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The Liberec town hall has to figure out who is going to operate the Ještěd and Vesec ski resorts after the February world cup in cross-country skiing. The resorts, which the state rewarded with a CZK 1.1 billion investment in preparation for the championship, are no longer considered a lucrative investment. The company Snowhill, which is scheduled to take over the resorts’ management after the ski championship, is seeking new terms for the contract, according to Liberec Town Hall. “The events came in reaction to changes in Snowhill ownership. I don’t want to make early judgments, as negotiations haven’t finished and there are still a few options left. But it can’t be ruled out that Snowhill will leave both skiContinue Reading

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Czech Facebook users target ČSSD politicians. (ČTK) The group ADIOS, Antioranžovočervení diletantsky intuitivně operující sabotéři (Anti-orange-red saboteurs operating intuitively in a dilettantish manner) do not rack their brain over political correctness. The group unites those “who wept or drank all night over the results of the elections and who openly avow that there has been enough of populism and demagogy, we know from whom, and who do not mind paying thirty crowns for a doctor’s appointment and love only small cats”.* In the virtual space, the group’s original manifesto reacts to the results of the recent elections. While in the real world ČSSD [whose party colour is orange] won the voters’ favour, the situation on the networking site Facebook.com isContinue Reading

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Marta Procházková, a 63-year-old woman, spent three weeks in two Czech hospitals. She went through four different departments and she met with unwillingness and the arrogance of nurses in all of them. Unlike other people, she made notes of what they said, which she later gave to the online daily Týden.cz. The nurses’ directors object: They say they only receive thank you letters. Marta Procházková from Selenice in the Nymburk region had a conflict with the staff already on the first day of her stay at the department of internal medicine in Městec Králové hospital in central Bohemia. She asked one of the nurses, if she could put a new role of toilet paper in the bathroom. “She [the nurse]Continue Reading

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On Monday, the weekly Respekt published a long article by Adam Hradilek, a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, and journalist Petr Třešňák, accusing Czech writer Milan Kundera of reporting Miroslav Dvořáček, a young aviation student who deserted the army and escaped to Germany in February 1949. Dvořáček then became an agent for the Czechoslovak intelligence service supported by the US and was sent back to Czechoslovakia on a mission in December 1949 and again in March 1950. He met his friend, student Iva Militká in Prague, and she let him store his suitcase in her student dorm room and promised to put him up for the night. A state police report from 14 March 1950Continue Reading

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Charles University and the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) are the only two Czech universities which have ranked among 500 best universities in the world this year. The international ranking THES (Times Higher Education Supplement) of the British daily The Times, which has evaluated over 600 universities from all over the globe, ranks the oldest Czech university traditionally among 300 best schools, at 261st position. The school has climbed by 30 positions since last year. ČVUT occupies the 414th position on the scale. “We have been cooperating with the evaluators from the Times since last year. We were therefore very pleased that we ranked at such a good position this year and that in a global competition we are on parContinue Reading