sport/news digest

A blockade of border crossings between Austria and South Bohemia, announced for Friday, September 8, by the Upper Austrian initiatives against the Temelin nuclear power station should not be the last, the spokeswoman for the Upper Austrian non-party Platform Against Nuclear Danger Ulrike Puehringer said in Vienna on Wednesday.
Sixty-three percent of Czech are stricter about the morals of politicians than of the rest of the population, a poll published on Wednesday by the IVVM polling agency shows.
The government on Wednesday approved guidelines for a law on packaging and discarded packaging and containers, and a law on biocides, which would regulate trade in chemicals against diseases and weeds in the Czech Republic, cabinet spokesman said Wednesday.
The World Bank hopes that its September annual meeting in Prague will pass calmly regardless of the announced protests against globalisation, WB Vice-President Jean-Francois Rischard said on Wednesday.
Some 1000 Czech and German policemen took part in the Boris two- day joint security operation which covered 317 kilometres of the border between North Bohemia and Saxony, North Bohemian police announced on Wednesday.
The Communist Union of Youth, the Socialist Workers organisation and other groups are joining forces to launch a campaign against IMF and the World Bank, Communist Youth leader Josef Gottwald said on Wednesday.
(čtk)