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Current AffairsGovernment to scrap eco-tender as finance minister refuses to back lowest bid
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas has announced his government will not name
a winner in a multi-billion public tender to clean up the country’s old
environmental pollution leftover from the communist days. The Prime
Minister made the announcement on Wednesday after Finance Minister Miroslav
Kalousek refused to back the lowest bid in the tender saying the price was
less than convincing. More
Current AffairsFuture of massive clean-up tender uncertain
The future of the Czech Republic’s largest public tender is uncertain
after the Finance Ministry revealed that three firms had bid between 57 and
65 billion crowns to remove environmental damage inherited from the
communist regime. Prime Minster Petr Nečas, as well as several other
cabinet ministers are increasingly receptive to arguments by the
project’s critics who warned the tender might become the country’s
“largest single corrupt deal”. More
Current AffairsTowns get new powers in fighting air pollution
The lower house of parliament on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill
which will provide local administrations with the means to fight air
pollution more effectively. In the event of a smog alert mayors can order
the biggest pollutants to scale down production, ban high-emissions cars
from city centres and scrap toll on ring roads in order to reduce the
amount of traffic. Town mayors and environment activists had long been
pushing for the amendment and Radio Prague asked Vojtěch Kotecký from
Friends of the Earth how effective he thinks it will be in practice. More
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