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She told journalists that she has done so on personal grounds.

“It is her personal decision,” said Petr Hulinsky, head of the CSSD’s Prague branch.

Buzkova, who will turn 41 next week, was education minister in the previous CSSD-led government (2002-2006). She announced her withdrawal from high politics long before the June general election and she has been working as a lawyer since.

Later, however, she accepted the position of the CSSD’s leader in the local elections in Prague.

According to observers, the CSSD expected Buzkova, once the most popular politician, to attract voters. Later many blamed the CSSD’s failure in the local polls on Buzkova’s inactivity during the campaign.

With the coming Christmas break football fans will have a chance to reflecton the past season - both on the domestic scene and on the internationallevel, and many will no doubt be pleased to note progress by Petr Cech -the country’s No. 1 keeper who was seriously injured in October. Cechsuffered a skull fracture after a collision with Stephen Hunt in aReading-Chelsea match, an injury that left a shadow over the player’scareer. Originally, it was thought that Cech could be out for as much asyear before returning to the pitch. Now, the news has been carefully moreoptimistic.

It is a vicious circle: poor education -unemployment - bad housing. Despiteefforts to integrate the Roma community into Czech society, the Roma stillremain on the fringe of society, unable to break free of the constraintswhich pre-determine their place in life. A report by the Vienna-basedEuropean Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia says more effort needsto be undertaken across Europe to resolve this problem. Beate WinklerThe operative word in the latest report of the Vienna based centre is”segregation”. The centre criticizes the Czech Republic, …

The Czech foreign minister Alexandr Vondra appeared to confirm this weekwhat defence analysts have been speculating upon for some time: if theUnited States decides to place part of its missile defence system inEurope, the Czech Republic will almost certainly be asked to host a radarand tracking station, not a full-blown missile base. However there arestill many hurdles to be overcome before work on such a facility canbegin. The U.S. has been developing a national missile defence system since the1990s. The system is designed to track and shoot down incoming …

For the first time in its seven-year history, British coffee shop chain Coffeeheaven International, which has nine cafйs in the Czech Republic, is in the black this year. The company’s Czech operations have the same prospect set for next year, said Nikolaos Balamotis, the company’s new market development director.

Coffeeheaven, which is active in Central and Eastern European countries, today announced its interim financial results. The pre-tax loses for six months from April 1 to Sept. 30, 2006 for the company’s Czech subsidiary CHI Czech were £ 24,000 (Kи 994,780/Ђ 35,550) compared …

Regional governor Josef Puehringer and Upper Austrian councillor for the environment, Rudi Anschober, asked Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel to make from the issue “a prominent task” and to start taking specific steps.

“The policies of the Austrian government since the approval for use of Temelin have filled us with fears,” the Austrian news agency APA quotes from the letter of the regional politicians to Schuessel.

“No relevant reaction from the highest political level has followed,” said the letter. It criticises “bad strategy” by Environment Minister Josef Proell who allegedly bides his time until he receives the documentation from Prague on the basis of which the approval was issued.

The Senate approved the proposal under which the Social Democrats (CSSD) and the Civic Democrats (ODS) have agreed that the new system under which companies would pay sickness benefits to their employees in the first two weeks of their illness.

The deputies are expected to again discuss the bill with the Senate modifications at their current session.

According to the law that was to take effect as of this January, companies would pay sickness benefits to their employees in the first two weeks of their illness and their health insurance payments to the state would thus be lowered. The state would thus lose billions of crowns next year.

Subutex is an opiate narcotic which doctors frequently prescribe to helpheroin addicts kick their habit. But here in the Czech Republic, someaddicts have discovered ways to abuse the drug, which is also known asbuprenorphine. A government study recently confirmed a disturbing patternof subutex abuse, much of which happens in plain sight. At 3:30 pm on a weekday, commuters crisscross the central hall of Prague’smain railway station. To them, this seedy plaza is a bottleneck to getpast as quickly as possible. But for the drug users who linger by theentranceways, …

The Czech police deserve the prize for courses of traffic safety for children from the North Bohemian town of Usti nad Labem and for a study evaluating individual road accidents and charting their course, Barrot said.

The commission selected from 500 applicants who have signed a charter designed to contribute to safety at European roads.

The winners have best contributed to the EU effort to save 25,000 lives by 2010, which would cut the death toll by one half.

Barrot said earlier that since last autumn, the Czech Republic had recorded one of the biggest reduction of fatal accidents in Europe.

However, like the CSSD’s draft programme for a future government entitled Agenda 2010, the ODS considers its own document only the first proposal for the future discussions by the four parties that are expected to find a compromise and reach an agreement.

Party representatives will again meet on Friday.

“We have received their proposal and I must say that to our disappointment, we found out that it is the original draft programme of the three-party coalition government and that there is absolutely nothing new in it. As regards the reforms, they are described there only in general terms. It is evident that the document should be re-worked,” CSSD deputy chairman Sobotka said.