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The proposal is part of a comprehensive bill that it is to implement the recommendations by the Congress commission investigating the circumstances of the 9/11 attacks.

The bill, based on earlier legislation submitted by Senator George Voinovich, is backed by the U.S. Administration.

However, it is not yet clear when the law may be passed or its final version.

Under the bill, the list of the current 27 countries with visa-free regime could be enlarged by other countries on condition of increased security measures on entry to and departure from the USA.

Along with issuance of special …

The draft note has been prepared but the Czechs and Americans are clarifying certain details, Pojar said.

The parliament and the public will probably be acquainted with the text of the agreement only after it is sent to the USA, he added.

“It is not in diplomatic habits for such notes to be publicly debated,” Pojar said.

In this phase of the negotiations the government is responsible for the talks. In addition, both sides want to keep certain parts of the preliminary agreements secret, Pojar added.

At present, Czech diplomats are discussing with the Americans the question of preliminary …

They can also submit official requests in Polish and local sign names can be bilingual.

Similar conditions are to be valid also for Slovaks who can communicate in their mother tongue with official institutions throughout the Czech Republic.

“The Charter relates to the Polish language in the Moravian and Silesian Region in the towns and villages with over ten percent of members of an ethnic minority. It also relates to Slovaks across the Czech Republic,” Milan Pospisil, secretary of the government council for ethnic minorities, said.

However, the situation does not much change as the Czech …

Balancing one’s private life and career is a problem faced by people inmany parts of the world today. Lifestyles here in the Czech Republic havechanged hugely in the last two decades - with work-life balance a newconcept to many. So how are Czechs doing when it comes to balancing thetwo? Work-life balance is a problem which particularly affects Czech women, whooften stay in the office for long hours before coming home to do most ofthe housework, and look after the children. But Nina Bosnicova from theGender Studies Institute says if employers were more flexible towardsfemale employees, both parties …

Prague’s metro system is often praised by visitors to the city; it is fast,reliable and - with three intersecting lines - unusually easy to navigate.Opened in May 1974, the capital’s underground now carries around a millionand a half passengers a day. It has been extended several times inrecent years - but changes planned for the next half decade or so shouldbe the most radical yet. Radovan SteinerThe C (red) line is being extended northwards, with three new stations(Letnany is the final stop) due to be opened in the middle of next year.But that advance will surely be overshadowed by the opening …

There was a huge development in a scandal surrounding a large militarycontract on Tuesday, when Swedish TV broadcast secretly made recordings offormer Czech foreign minister Jan Kavan. He says that Czech politicianstook bribes linked to a deal to purchase Gripen supersonic jets from theBritish-Swedish consortium BAE Systems/Saab. In the end the Czech Republicleased rather than bought the planes, but the allegations remain. Andsuspicions of corruption have been fanned by Mr Kavan’s implication that aCzech police investigation could be influenced. Jan KavanThis is an excerpt from the Swedish TV documentary, …

The Skrivanek translation agency is one of the biggest providers oflanguage services in Central and Eastern Europe. This Czech-ownedmultinational firm looks a lot different today than it did when thecompany owner and founder Pavel Skrivanek established a small translationservice fifteen years ago.”I started the company by myself in 1992. It was a one man show at thestart and it now has 360 administrative staff. The company has more thanfifty offices in three continents. In its first month we had sales ofaround 10,000 crowns. Now we have monthly sales of about forty millioncrowns.”The rapid growth …

The Supreme State Attorney’s Office in Prague received a complaint of blackmail against Roztoky Mayor Olga Vavшнnovб on Feb. 27, according to information provided to Czech Business Weekly (CBW) by a source who wished to remain anonymous and refused to disclose the name of the complainant.

The legal complaint is in response to a CBW article published Feb. 5, 2007. The article, “Brash Cash,” described how Vavшнnovб promised development company Trigema that she’d surrender her right to appeal after the final approval (kolaudaиnн rozhodnutн) for the Academic Hotel & Congress Centre based …

The deputies decided at the meeting that by the end of March they would draft an amendment to the law on conflict of interests designed to facilitate access to information on politicians’ property, Hasek said.

The CSSD deputies will submit their property statements even though the current law does not bind them to do so and they also count with the fact that the public will be able to see them, Hasek said.

The amendment to the law on conflict of interests should facilitate access to the property statements of politicians, judges and other elected and appointed officials, Hasek said, adding that government members were appointed politicians.

They told reporters they are convinced that the parliaments’ participation in the Melk process would improve mutual trust and help spread more information on the issue in public.

In the Melk agreement from 2000 the Czech Republic pledged to upgrade Temelin’s safety in exchange for Austria’s not blocking its then EU accession negotiations and preventing further blockades of borders by anti-atom opponents.

Gusenbauer said that only better transparency can prevent animosities on both sides as well as further blockades of border crossings by Austrian anti-atom activists.

Topolanek said he …