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The state attorney’s office has filed charges against former transport minister and de-facto leader of the junior coalition partner Public Affairs Vít Bárta.
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Czechs gave the best “grades” to city councils and President Václav Klaus in last year’s “school report”, according to a poll conducted by the polling agency STEM at the end of the year and released Friday.
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Health Minister Leoš Heger (TOP 09) said yesterday that cuts in the number of doctors and nurses in hospitals will not affect patients.
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The Brno Regional Court mitigated the sentences imposed on six members of the outlawed ultra-right Workers’ Party (DS) over extremist statements made on May Day 2009, lifting the fines given to four of them yesterday.
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Most Social Democrat senators will support a bill paving the way for direct presidential elections, Senate Chairman Milan Štěch said after a traditional New Year’s lunch he had with President Václav Klaus and Chamber of Deputies head Miroslava Němcová yesterday.
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The Education Ministry may see its EU funding suspended over irregularities in public procurement. Auditors from Brussels have advised suspending all further payments from the Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme until the irregularities are investigated and explained. The EC audit revealed shortcomings in the control system and in several projects carried out both by regions and the ministry.
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Two-thirds of Czechs believe that the fight against corruption is no more intense now than in the past, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute STEM and released yesterday.
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The junior government Public Affairs (VV) has taken a reserved stance on the EU’s current anti-crisis plan, saying that the Czech Republic should not send any money to the rescue fund unless it knows the precise conditions of the aid, VV Chairman Radek John said yesterday.
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The junior ruling Public Affairs (VV) wants a referendum to decide on whether Czechs should contribute to the eurozone’s rescue fund, VV Chairman Radek John said at a press conference yesterday.
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Former Defence Minister Martin Barták yesterday indicated in an open letter to Public Affairs (VV) Chairman Radek John, former interior minister, that John might be behind the “fabrication” of the Tara case in which Barták is suspected of corruption.
