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In this week’s business news: Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek has
presented three different options for state budget cuts, the Labor Ministry
has announced a tender for the new welfare payment cards, direct flights
between Prague and Abu Dhabi will be launched in September, for the third
time this year, a Czech travel agency files for bankruptcy, and a Czech
daily writes that Vietnamese small business owners are often blackmailed
into paying protection money. More
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In this week’s Business News: falling fortunes for Sazka, foreign labour
leaves Czech market, threats and promises in ad revenue battle, insurance
payouts double in 2010, and Czech company lines up British army contract. More
Current AffairsImmigration activists protest against degrading conditions for non-EU work applicants
There is nothing that foreigners in the Czech Republic dread more than a
trip to the foreign police. The horror stories are endless – long lines,
no English, unpleasant officials and a general lack of efficiency. On
Thursday morning an NGO in support of the rights of migrants organized a
protest event outside one of Prague’s foreign police offices to highlight
the degrading conditions foreign nationals are subjected to in order to be
able to live and work in the Czech Republic.
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Current AffairsLower house passes wide-ranging amendment to law on foreigners
In response to directives from the European Commission, the lower house of
Parliament has passed new legislation regarding the employment and
residence of foreigners in the Czech Republic. Foreigners will be required
to have sufficient health insurance and their residency permits will have
to have biometric information, such as fingerprints. Also, foreigners
facing deportation will be able to request an asylum hearing. To find out
more about the new bill and what it will mean for foreigners in the Czech
Republic, Radio Prague spoke to Lucie Sládková who heads the
International Organisation for Migration. More
Current AffairsEx-policeman sentenced to jail for brutal assault on Vietnamese that ended in death
A Brno court on Tuesday sentenced a former police officer to three and a
half years in prison for a brutal assault on a Vietnamese national which
took place in January 2009. The man later died of serious internal
injuries. The court also handed a two-and-a- half year sentence to the
victim’s flatmate for participating in the attack. Two other policemen,
who were standing by but did not interfere, landed conditional sentences.
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