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Current AffairsTraffic and road safety bill hits hurdle - again
Czech roads have one of the worst reputations in Europe thanks to an
appalling number of road accidents and related fatalities every year.
Although legislators have now spent almost two years trying to agree on an
overhaul in legislation improving the situation, they're not quite there
yet. More
Current AffairsLower House decides to clamp down on reckless drivers with point system
In about a year's time, drivers in the Czech Republic could face much
stricter road controls and new traffic regulations. After a two year
battle, the Transport Ministry has managed to push through a proposal to
introduce a points system. If approved by the Senate and signed by the
President, it could come into effect on July 1, 2006.
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Letter from PragueLookout: a garbage can!
I recently heard a Czech driver complain "if everything in this
country worked like our tow away services we'd be 25 years ahead of
Switzerland". I knew what he was talking about. On my way to work
every morning I see the police in action - progressing steadily down the
street, taking pictures of licence plates and then pointing out one
vehicle after another to the tow away truck driver. Those who don't get
towed away get the Canadian boot. Despite this, the next morning the
no-parking area is full of parked cars again.
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Current AffairsRoxy nightclub faces up to future without dance parties
For the past decade, the award-winning Roxy nightclub in the centre of
Prague has established itself as the main venue for alternative dance
parties, which have become a major cultural phenomenon here since the
1990s. The club is considered by some to be one of the best in Europe and
it has attracted many internationally renowned dance acts and DJs such as
The Shamen and Asian Dub Foundation. This weekend, however, Prague
partygoers will dance the night way in the Roxy for the last time. This is
because the city authorities have bowed to complaints about noise levels
and ordered the club to stop playing music after 10.00 p.m.
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Over 85 percent of company managers believe PM Gross 'untrustworthy', 75
percent support 'flat tax'; New Cabinet to focus on pension reform, lower
taxes, bankruptcy and conflict-of-interest laws; Metro line to be extended
—almost—to Ruzyne airport; EU anti-trust ministers agree to ban certain
sales techniques used by hypermarkets; Compromise on highway fees agreed
in Brussels
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One on OneMiroslav Firt - points system essential to improve safety on Czech roads
Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on One is Miroslav Firt, in charge
of international relations at one of the country's biggest motoring
organisations, the UAMK. Miroslav went to school in the United States, and
his work now takes him across Europe, concentrating on the issue of road
safety, not something it seems the Czechs are particularly good at.
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It's been an eventful week for the Czech Republic in terms of European
Union affairs, the Czech health-care system, and small businesses, with
changes to the EU's Stability and Growth Pact agreed and two complaints
against the Czech state filed in Brussels.
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Cesky Telecom reports profit in 2004; Ombudsman says land owners due $350m
in compensation; French restrictions on Czech workers may be lifted in
2006; Private companies to prepare 'eStat' plan to cut Czech bureaucracy;
Industrial production up in December
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