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A delegation of Czech MPs headed by Czech lower house of parliament deputy head Frantisek Brozik, will on Tuesday travel to Austria for talks with Austrian Environment Minister Wilhelm Molterer about the Temelin nuclear power plant.
The Czech National Bank (CNB) will issue on Wednesday silver coins worth 200 crowns each commemorating the forthcoming meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Prague in September.
Former anti-corruption service (SPOK) head Evzen Sirek will lodge a complaint against a decision of the Interior Ministry inspection to shelve his lawsuit against the investigator of a case due to which he lost his post as head of economic counter-intelligence, he announced on Monday.
Prague hospitals cannot but rely on the government promise to subsequently cover medical care for uninsured activists who will protest against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in late September.
The biggest Czech- Slovak military exercise since the split of the Czechoslovak federation in 1993 Blue Line 2000 began in the military area in Libava on Monday, spokesman for the ground forces announced.
The new multi-purpose hall in Prague-Hagibor which will host the ice hockey World Championships in 2003 will most probably be built and funded by a group of Finnish investors called Multi-Areena Praha, it ensued from an extraordinary meeting of the parties concerned.
(čtk)