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IN BRIEF
Several dozens of police officers in helmets trained a possible action against demonstrators during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meeting in Prague in September in the area of former barracks near Ostrava on Thursday.
The 2001 draft budget for the defence sector is "very tough," Defence Ministry Vladimir Vetchy (Social Democrat, CSSD) told the Chamber of Deputies defence and security committee on Thursday.
Miloslav Ransdorf, deputy chairman of the Communist Party (KSCM), said on Thursday that Austrian politicians' protests against the imminent activation of the Temelin nuclear power station are simply a means of drawing attention away from Austria's internal political problems.
Representatives of the Czech Supreme State Attorney's Office and the Slovak General Prosecutor's Office signed a memorandum on cooperation in Brno on Thursday. The document only gives legal footing to the already good cooperation, Czech Supreme State Attorney Marie Benesova, who hold talks with her Slovak counterpart Milan Hanzel, said.
The castle in Cesky Krumlov will host a social meeting between the representatives of the CEZ national utility power, operating the controversial Temelin nuclear power plant, and local mayors, Temelin' spokesman announced on Thursday.
(čtk)