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Current AffairsNuclear power plant employees demand higher wages
When the Czech Republic's two nuclear power plants Temelin and Dukovany
make the headlines it is usually to do with nuclear safety standards or
environmental issues. On Tuesday the plants' employees urged journalists
to talk about an entirely different matter - their wages.
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Although all the main dailies lead with different stories today, they all
feature the same photo of Czech cross-country skier Katerina Neumannova
hugging her baby after winning a competition in Austria just five months
after giving birth.
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Unemployment rate stagnates at 9.9 percent in November. GDP grows by record
3.4 percent in third quarter driven by household consumption. November
marks the end of deflationary development in the Czech Republic. Four
bidders interested in two Czech brown coal mines. US Boeing asks
government to pay Aero's debts, threatens to exit. Government makes a deal
with mobile operators to speed up payments for UMTS licences in return for
delay in launch of services. Telecommunications Office calls a public
tender for three FWA licences in Prague.
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Foreign trade development suggests a recovery. President Klaus has vetoed
one of fiscal reform bills. Financial market supervision to be entrusted
to one institution instead of the existing four. The Czech Republic fails
to make it on Hyundai's shortlist for new car plant. Unipetrol
privatisation has been postponed again. Czechs will face a series of price
hikes from the New Year - including telephone, gas, and electricity. But
before that, they may experience a blackout on the Christmas Eve.
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Today's Czech dailies lead with a variety of stories: PRAVO reports that
gas and electricity prices are to rise from the beginning of January,
LIDOVE NOVINY says MPs have crudely insulted Education Minister Petra
Buzkova, while MLADA FRONTA DNES leads with the story that children's
hospitals around the Czech Republic are to be closed.
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Business NewsRow looming between EU and Czech Republic over coal mine sale
A sharp conflict is looming between the Czech Republic and the European
Commission. The Commission does not like the way the Czech government has
been conducting a public tender for the privatisation of the
Severoceske doly and Sokolovska uhelna coal mining companies. The
Commission sees the tender conditions as seriously discriminatory and says
it suspects covert state aid.
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Current Affairs"Temelin expansion" claims cause shock, anger in non-nuclear Austria
A minor diplomatic storm appears to be brewing between Prague and Vienna,
after reports emerged in the Czech media that the Czech Republic was
planning to expand the Temelin nuclear power plant, which opened in
October 2000. Austria's ambassador to Prague has spoken of his country's
grave concern at the prospect of more reactors being built at Temelin. The
Czech government, meanwhile, has tried to downplay the affair.
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Czech dailies do not find a common main domestic story today. While MLADA
FRONTA DNES leads with a report on another fatal accident on a pedestrian
crossing, LIDOVE NOVINY writes about potential Czech participation in a
new television station to be launched in Iraq in February, and PRAVO on
its front page discusses the question of remuneration for members of
supervisory boards of state-run companies.
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Unemployment falls to below 10 percent. Food prices push Czech inflation slightly higher, reversing trend. Industrial production sees increase in September. Seasonally adjusted construction output at constant prices up 0.2% m-o-m. Government offers more money to bail out indebted hospitals. Czech farmers seek exception from EU bone-meal ban. Official: report of Czech illegal workers in U.S. exaggerated. North Moravian municipalities against planned nuclear plant. Czech Railways to lease Prague's main station to Grandi Stazioni of Italy.
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Five bidders shortlisted in coalmine privatisation. CEZ excluded from Czech
coal mine sale. Central Bank softens minimum reserves requirement for
banks. Czech government keeps 2004 economic outlook but cuts budget gap
forecast.
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