Europe Intelligence Wire articles from May 2006, page 5

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Govt to propose 37 new judges to president.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The government decided today to propose 37 candidates for judges to President Vaclav Klaus who is to appoint them. Out of the proposed candidates, 31 are trainee judges who have not turned...

Vesecka to decide whether release of Kubice's report was crime.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds statement by Surpeme State Attorney's Office spokesman in paras 3-4. -------------------- Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecka will check whether the release of classified information...

Kovona Karvina posts Kc40m loss in 2005.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Ostrava, North Moravia, May 31 (CTK) - Kovona Karvina, a steel-maker which the mining company OKD sold to the firm Senapol this year in April, posted a Kc40.2m loss for last year and its revenues reached some...

Most mutual funds posts losses this year.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Money market funds are the only open-end mutual funds that have been making profit this year, while equity, bond and balanced funds are all in the red on average, according to statistics...

Ostrovska teparenska nets Kc4.3m in 2005.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Ostrov, West Bohemia, May 31 (CTK) - Heat producer Ostrovska teplarenska, whose majority owner is the town, netted Kc4.3m last year, down Kc800,000 year-on-year, but does not plan to pay dividends, CEO Tibor...

Tax Freedom Day falls on June 1 this year in Slovakia.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Bratislava, May 31 (CTK) - Tax Freedom Day, that is the day when people stop earning to pay taxes and start earning for themselves, will be June 1 this year in Slovakia, while it was June 7 last year, Martin...

Paroubek again criticises ODS, Kubice, defends Kocka.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - PM Jiri Paroubek, the senior ruling Social Democrats' (CSSD) head, today again accused the senior opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) of having politically abused a part of police to influence...

Japanese investors make mostly cars, electronics in CzechRep.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Usti nad Labem/northern Bohemia, Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Japanese company IPS Alpha today officially confirmed its plan to build a plant to produce LCD displays worth more than Kc2.6bn in the Czech Republic,...

Slovak crown back at morning levels after fall.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Bratislava, May 31 (CTK) - The Slovak crown after the open at Sk37.795/EUR today fell all the way to the level of Sk37.90/EUR but at the close of trading corrected and ended at Sk37.785/EUR, Tatra banka dealer...

RM-System down 1.19 pct.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The off-exchange RM-System fell further today led by Unipetrol which shed 5.14 percent to Kc195.4, and the PK 30 index closed 1.19 percent lower at 2,164.55 points, RM-System said....

Green Party deletes Holubova from candidates' list.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Updates, changes headline, adds further info, statements throughout the text. -------------------- Prague/Ostrava, North Moravia, May 31 (CTK) - The Green Party election commissioner today deleted Eva Holubova,...

Japan's IPS Alpha confirms plan to invest in CzechRep.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds paras 4-6. -------------------- Usti nad Labem, northern Bohemia, May 31 (CTK) - Japanese company IPS Alpha has officially confirmed today its plan to build a new plant to produce LCD displays in the Czech...

Crown seesaws to euro, loses to dollar to Kc21.98/$.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The Czech currency moved up and down to the euro today, at first shedding almost ten hellers to Kc28.26/EUR, then rising to Kc28.17/EUR before noon, and trading for Kc28.22/EUR in the...

Pojistovna CS nets Kc187m in 2005, down from Kc2.3bn in 2004.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Insurer Pojistovna Ceske sporitelny (PCS) generated a net profit of 187m in 2005, against Kc2.28bn in 2004, Ceska sporitelna spokeswoman Klara Gajduskova told CTK today. The profit in 2004...

Shares on BCPP sink to levels from Oct 2005.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Shares on the Prague Stock Exchange (BCPP) after another wave of selloffs today returned to levels from end-October 2005 and the PX index slid down by 1.84 percent to 1,328.7 points, the...

Makyta Puchov makes net profit of Sk7.15m in 2005.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Zilina, central Slovakia/Puchov, western Slovakia, May 31 (CTK) - Slovak textile company Makyta Puchov made a net profit worth Sk7.15m last year against a profit of Sk7.6m in 2004, Miroslav Macak of the company...

Paroubek challenges ODS pledges made to voters.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - PM Jiri Paroubek, chairman of the senior ruling Social Democrats (CSSD), said today the Agreement with Voters the senior opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) launched today "makes the party...

Thousands join competition of non-supporters of KSCM.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Thousands of people have joined the competition launched by the Shirt Against Communism civic group and resting in voters collecting the highest possible number of unused election ballots...

Foreigner given suspended sentence for causing fatal accident.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - A 21-year-old Polish man was today given a two-year suspended sentence with a four-year probation for having caused a fatal accident in Prague which claimed one life, the Prague district...

Daily results of open-end mutual funds.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Following are the prices of open-end mutual funds (OPFs). Fund Manager Net asset value per certificate *) Daily yield (%) Cesky fond pen.trh ING Inv.Mgmt 1475.51 0.00 Cesky fond obligaci...

Charter 77 signatories support Vietnamese dissidents.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Signatories of the Charter 77 human rights manifesto have written an open letter to Vietnamese dissidents to express support for their struggle for democracy and freedom in Vietnam, Vaclav...

End of election campaign sharp, but not exceptionally - analysts.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Politicians' vocabulary has toughened recently, at the close of the election campaign, but still it is not exceptionally aggressive or confrontational, compared with the past and the...

German film director considers new legal steps against ODS.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - German film director Wolfgang Becker is allegedly considering new legal steps against the Czech opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) using his comedy Good Bye, Lenin! in its election...

Released BIS report not connected to Kubice - spokesman.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The information on the economy and organised crime the BIS counter-intelligence service released recently does not have any link to the report PM Jiri Paroubek (Social Democrats, CSSD) has...

Minister Nemec compares Kubice's procedure with Benesova's.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Justice Minister Pavel Nemec (Freedom Union-DEU, US-DEU) called today on politicians not to abuse in the June 2-3 election campaign the report by Jan Kubice, police squad for uncovering...

Vesecka to decide whether release of Kubice's report was crime.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Updates in paras 1, 2, adds paras 3,6 -------------------- Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Supreme State Attorney's Office has started to check whether the release of classified information by elite police unit head Jan...

Dailies MfD, LN planning special election issues.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The dailies Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) and Lidove noviny (LN) want to produce special issues on Saturday, the final day of the June 2-3 elections, but other dailies are not planning such a...

Kocka family rented summer villa after Mrazek - Euro Online.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The family of Vaclav Kocka has rented a recreational villa which controversial businessman Frantisek Mrazek, who was murdered in January, used earlier in the mid-1990s, the Euro OnLine...

CTK's Business News in Brief.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) CEZ announces auction for virtual electricity --------------------------------------------- Prague - Power company CEZ today announced an auction for the sale of eight units of a virtual power plant as in...

Results of Slovak soccer league.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Bratislava, May 31 (CTK) - Results of Slovak soccer league last round matches played today: Artmedia Bratislava vs Inter Bratislava 1-0, Dubnica vs Banska Bystrica 0-0, Puchov vs Nitra 1-0, Ruzomberok vs Trencin...

Paroubek again criticises ODS, Kubice, defends Kocka.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek's statements in paras 5-6, last two paras. -------------------- Prague, May 31 (CTK) - PM Jiri Paroubek, the senior ruling Social Democrats' (CSSD) head, today again accused the...

Fifty people plus Martians protest against Communist influence.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - About 50 people met in Prague today to demonstrate against what they called the influence the junior opposition Communists (KSCM) have on the current government, against corruption and...

Gasparovic wishes Czechs good luck in elections.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic, who is on a short visit to Prague today, wished Czechs good luck in the general election on June 2-3, but he refused to say what election result would in...

CSSD to file criminal complaint against ODS campaign in Moravia.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Ostrava, North Moravia, May 31 (CTK) - The Social Democrats (CSSD) said today they will file a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator over scare mongering in reaction to the Civic Democrats (ODS)...

Summary of CTK General News in English, May 31, 21:00.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague - Police organised crime unit (UOOZ) head Jan Kubice, who pointed to ties between politicians and organised crime a few days ago, stated that his actions have nothing to do with the general election held...

Summary of CTK Business News in English, May 31, 21:00.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague - Debts of Czech households in banks and financial institutions increased by roughly Kc7bn month-on-month to nearly Kc445.1bn in April, according to revised figures, the Czech National Bank (CNB) said...

Topolanek rules out grand coalition - Austrian press.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Vienna, May 31 (CTK) - The forming of a grand coalition between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (CSSD) after the June 2-3 polls in the Czech Republic is "basically out of the question," senior...

BIS has no information on ties between PM, govt, mafia - Paroubek.
May 31, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, May 31 (CTK) - The counter-intelligence service (BIS) has no information proving that the prime minister or other members of the government are linked to organised crime, PM Jiri Paroubek (Social...

Failed asylum seekers 'have conned their way into jobs'.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Simon McGee Political Editor FAILED asylum seekers have managed to con their way into jobs in the NHS and local councils, according to a new report which shows GBP111m of taxpayers' money has been dished out as a...

Prescott affair 'breached Ministry rules'.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Handbook revelation amid pressure to quit Simon McGee Political Editor ANOTHER embarrassment emerged last night to rock John Prescott's ailing political career, as it was revealed the conduct of his affair with a...

Churches charity gives GBP150,000 to Minster appeal.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Paul Jeeves A CHARITY dedicated to the restoration of York's churches has donated GBP150,000 towards the development campaign for the city's Minster. Members of the Feoffees of St Michaels, Spurriergate, have...

Readers vote for giant glass orb as gateway to Yorkshire.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Alexandra Wood IT'S been described as "timeless" and "inspired" - and Yorkshire Post readers want it to become a new gateway to Yorkshire. Our latest online poll on a massive new sculpture for the Humber Bridge...

GBP8m eco-office starts to take shape.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Julie Hemmings AN environmentally-friendly office in York which will be the biggest building of its kind in Europe is starting to take shape. By the time the new Eco-Depot at Hazel Court in James Street is...

Couple's anguish after IVF race blunder.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Fertility clinic mistake led to mixed-race twins James Reed A WHITE couple from Yorkshire who had mixed-race twins after a mix-up at a fertility clinic have described the mistake as a "nightmare" they will have to...

Hi-tech first for woodland cemetery.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Lizzie Murphy A Yorkshire cemetery is employing microchip technology to identify graves instead of using conventional headstones. Tarn Moor Memorial Woodland, near Skipton, is the first burial site in the...

More police help desks face axe.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Yorkshire force to cut station services in GBP1m cash squeeze Simon McGee Political Editor A YORKSHIRE police force that has already earmarked a dozen stations for closure to the public intends to shut down another...

Fingerprint scanners keep tabs on reading habits at a primary school.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Lizzie Murphy PUPILS at a West Yorkshire primary school can now be monitored for their choice of reading material after the launch of a new hi-tech library that scans children's thumb prints to identify them. ...

Artist returns to city with Echo of the past.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Julie Hemmings ANOTHER installation by acclaimed artist Susie MacMurray is taking shape at a venue in York. Flock - a wall covered in black turkey feathers - was one of the highlights when York Art Gallery...

3,286 yobs told to surrender their passports.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Crackdown on football hooligans Kate O'Hara MORE than 3,000 football hooligans had until last night to surrender their passports to police ahead of the World Cup finals in Germany. About 3,286 people with...

The Who 'live' at Leeds again - 36 years later.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Andrew Robinson ROCK band The Who are to return to the venue where their classic Live at Leeds album was recorded 36 years ago. The band will launch their UK tour at the 2,000-capacity Refectory at Leeds...

Bracelet proves a lucky charm for Africa aid worker.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Sybil Ryalls brings aid to some of the world's poorest people, despite a condition which causes amnesia and a deadly allergy. Health Correspondent Mike Waites reports on her work and a piece of jewellery that helps...

Police alert after 'spiked drinks' scare.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Lucy Harvey SIX teenagers from a small South Yorkshire mining village are believed to have had their drinks spiked with alcohol or drugs in the last fortnight, prompting police to issue a safety warning. The...

Aid worker held in Israel arrives home.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Lizzie Murphy A BRADFORD charity worker jailed by Israeli authorities before being released without charge has arrived back in England after being deported. Ayaz Ali, 36, of Birmingham-based Islamic Relief...

Profits boost as Standard prepares for vote.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Standard Life unveiled a boost ahead of today's vote on demutualisation by revealing it made profits from new business of GBP30m in the first quarter of 2006 - compared with GBP33m for the whole of 2005. Chief...

Aggressive selling sees FTSE tumble.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) More than GBP34bn was wiped off the value of the UK's leading companies yesterday as the FTSE 100 Index plunged 2.4 per cent lower. Stock markets around the world were hit by aggressive selling as fears over...

We won't be sold cheaply, says BAA as Ferrovial raises offer.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Airports operator BAA insisted yesterday it would not be sold "on the cheap" after rejecting a new offer worth GBP9.73bn from Spanish firm Ferrovial. The proposal, which adds almost GBP1bn to the value of...

Record losses shrugged off by Vodafone.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) GBP14.85bn deficit but market happy Graeme Evans Vodafone embarked on a new strategy last night as it sought to draw a line under the acquisition spree that left it with record losses of GBP14.85bn. The world's...

US order delays hurting Pace.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Ros Snowdon Deputy City Editor TV SET-TOP box company Pace Micro Technology saw its shares plunge yesterday following the news that further delays in US orders will result in a GBP15m loss in the current financial...

Sir Peter's GBP50m backing for new businesses.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) David Parkin Business Editor ENTREPRENEUR and philanthropist Sir Peter Vardy has launched a new GBP50m venture to support growing companies and a property investment business. Three months after selling motor...

Headingley plays host to star-studded county combat.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) YORKSHIRE CRICKET WITH SAM WHEELER CRICKET'S central contract system has denuded the county game of many star names, but Headingley will be brimming with stellar quality when Yorkshire host Hampshire today. ...

England show their hunger.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Eriksson's side fail to impress for much of first half against Hungary but turn on style after interval England 3 Hungary 1 International Richard Sutcliffe at Old Trafford ON A night when the Three Lions should...

Castleford have eye on relegation rivals Wigan.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) AS events elsewhere begin to conspire against them, Castleford Tigers are bracing themselves for the survival battle which lies before them over the closing months of the Engage Super League season. Harlequins'...

Life after England for McGrath.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Yorkshire star prospers after international axe Yorkshire Cricket with Sam Wheeler SOME players plummet into an irreversible decline when they are discarded by the international selectors but Anthony McGrath has...

Cash constraints force Butler to move.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Ian Appleyard ROTHERHAM United manager Alan Knill admits that financial limitations at Millmoor resulted in striker Martin Butler's departure to League Two club Walsall. Butler rejected the opportunity to stay...

Ritchie set for summer sales.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Players have 21 days to sign new deals as Barnsley chief is given go-ahead to spend BARNSLEY manager Andy Ritchie has been given the go-ahead to mount a summer recruitment drive by chairman Gordon Shepherd. ...

Stately homes need to blow away the cobwebs.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Ahead of the reopening of Beningbrough Hall, National Trust general director Fiona Reynolds tells Sarah Freeman why the country's historic properties have to be brought into the 21st century Once, visitors to the...

Breaking the cycle of child abuse.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) With a third of all crimes of sexual abuse carried out by under 18s, Sarah Freeman reports on a Yorkshire project dealing with the repercussions For some, childhood innocence is a luxury never to be experienced. ...

Prescott's role is at an end.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) A Minister without credibility THOSE who came to praise John Prescott yesterday may not have intended to bury him, but their comments had the ring of the political obituary about them. All Mr Prescott's...

Time for the axe to fall on these incompetents.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) From: Paul Whitaker, Apperley Lane, Rawdon, Leeds. WHEN Charles I climbed the steps to his execution, he is reported to have said to the axeman something along the lines of "Well, this certainly concentrates the...

Cameron fails to put boot into bankrupt Blair.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Bernard Ingham EVERY time ex-Chancellor Kenneth Clarke opens his mouth, I think of ex-Chancellor Denis Healey. Just as Healey is most certainly the best Labour Prime Minister we never had, so I believe Clarke is...

Strange bedfellows attempt to bring Hamas to heel.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) CHRISTOPHER BLUTH Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Studies at the University of Leeds. NOBODY would have thought this day would come. The Israeli Ministry of Defence has announced that it would...

'His only crime has been to serve New Labour too loyally'.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) AUSTIN MITCHELL Austin Mitchell is Labour MP for Great Grimsby. IT'S crunch time for Labour's one and only working-class hero, John Prescott. Yet most of the anti-Prezza prejudice being whipped up comes from...

Pet polecat burned alive in arson attack.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) By Geoff Fox SICK arsonists have torched a garden shed killing a young boy's pet polecat. Six-month-old Bambi was burned alive after yobs set fire to the wooden building in the garden of Tracy Davis's...

Pub red-carded on eve of World Cup.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Boozer in licence mess-up By Paul Robinson THIRSTY drinkers in a village near Leeds have been left high and dry after police chiefs called time on their local pub. The popular Old Masons Arms, on...

TINY THIEVES' TERROR TRAIL.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Victims scared to speak out against burglars - some as young as 10 Exclusive By Bruce Smith Crime Reporter A GANG of young burglars are terrorising a Leeds estate. The gang is believed to be responsible...

Supermarket booze fears for World Cup.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Stores are telling fans to stock up on cheap drink, warns licensees' leader BY PETER LAZENBY CHEAP booze from supermarkets could cause a major headache during the World Cup, according to the leader of...

No legal move to save city's bid for supercasino.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) By Paul Robinson COUNCIL chiefs in Leeds have ruled out taking legal action in an attempt to rescue the city's hopes of becoming the home of Britain's first supercasino. However, the local authority is...

Multi-million-pound sporting opportunity.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Have your say on plans to replace old leisure centres By DAVID MARSH PLANS have been revealed for two new multi-million-pound sports complexes to replace ageing leisure centres in Leeds. And council...

Bed tax a turn-off for tourists, say hoteliers.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) BY DEBBIE LEIGH HOTELIERS across Leeds reacted angrily to reports that the introduction of "tourist taxes" is being considered, saying they would severely damage the industry. An independent inquiry to...

Imperial War Museum ambition of Cambodian trauma artist.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) TRAUMATISED by the Cambodian genocide, Moortown artist Julie Marder uses her paintings as therapy. And she hopes the Imperial War Museum will accept an exhibition of her work. Meanwhile, she is...

Boxer Steve is a star in Hungary.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Eastern Europe TV crew shadows world champ ahead of big fight By Tony Gardner BECOMING a world title holder has hardly made him a household name with West Yorkshire fight fans. But mention the name Steve...

Shopping park swoop on 'dangerous drivers'.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) By Peter Lazenby POLICE sealed off a retail park where around 20 high-powered cars were being used in "extremely dangerous" manouvres. Police cars blocked the entrance, trapping drivers and vehicles. ...

Good advice from the Rogue Trader.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) Nick Leeson to give talk on making the right employment decisions BY ALISON BELLAMY THE rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank in 1995, is in Leeds today to talk to business leaders...about how to spot a...

Thumper the fallen fawn finds a new home...a rescue centre dog kennel.
May 31, 2006... (From Yorkshire Evening Post) BY ALISON BELLAMY THUMPER the wild deer who was pulled from a canal is being nursed back to health... in a dog kennel. The animal was rescued from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on Sunday evening after...