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It is a well-known fact that the traditional Czech heavy Christmas menu is
a burden on the digestive system. Fewer people know, though, that fat is
not only bad for the gall-bladder and arteries but can also cause problems
to the sewage system. Especially in densely populated areas the sewer pipes
and sewage treatment plants experience something of a fat overdose at
Christmas time. The problem is faced by all cities and some have already
taken measures against it. More
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
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In this week’s business news: the unexpected resignation of ČEZ CEO
Martin Roman, the opening of the first gas pipeline between the Czech
Republic and Poland, the Czech Finance Ministry to launch a pilot issue of
retail bonds and Czechs increasingly sceptical with regard to the future of
the Eurozone. 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
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