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Current AffairsAgriculture minister's head rolls
Allegations that state officials, including Agriculture Minister Petr
Zgarba, had passed on inside information to land speculators have caused
heads to roll - first those of the entire board of the powerful Land Fund
and finally that of Minister Zgarba himself.
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Current AffairsCabinet agrees on Agriculture Minister's call to sack Land Fund board
The Cabinet on Wednesday accepted Agriculture Minister Petr Zgarba's
proposal that Parliament dismiss the entire board of the powerful Czech
Land Fund - the body responsible for the sale and management of
state-owned land. The proposed sacking of the Land Fund board - of which
Mr Zgarba is chairman - comes in reaction to outcry over the sale this
summer to "speculators" of property now worth hundreds of times
the asking price. More
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Parliamentary committee to investigate Unipetrol gets green light; 'Pirate
of Prague' Viktor Kozeny awaiting extradition ruling; Private doctors,
health-care facilities can expect VZP reimbursement next week; Consumer
price inflation up 2.2 percent in September - sharpest increase since
2000; Agriculture Minister looking to increase fines on retailers selling
'rotten' food
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Current AffairsCzech Republic getting greener as forest area increases by thousands of hectares every year
The Czech national anthem describes the Czech Republic as paradise on
earth, boasting waters murmuring through its meadows and forests rustling
over rocky hills. Well, it looks like the country is delivering on its
promises - in just forty years the area covered by forests has increased
by 50,000 hectares.
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Talking PointCzech farming 6 months after accession into the EU
The agriculture chapter was the most complicated part of the negotiations
before the accession of the Czech Republic into the EU in May this year.
The most criticism came down on Czech veterinary controls and the
fragmentary legislation governing them. For their part farmers feared new
competition, lower sales figures and even bankruptcy. Now, nearly 7 months
down the line, farmers are in a position to compare the situation with what
went before and evaluate how useful and fair the EU has been to the Czech
farming sector.
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