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On Tuesday, the executive committee of the Czech Football Association voted to resign en masse from their posts. This move comes after the arrest and detention of the association's president, Frantisek Chvalovksy, who is on remand pending trial for alleged fraud totalling around thirty million US dollars. By .

Former SS officer Julius Viel has been found guilty by a German court and sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting dead 7 Jewish prisoners from the Terezin concentration camp in March 1945. 56 years have passed since the event, Viel is now 83 years old, and some people ask whether there is any sense in punishing such an old man after more than half a century. According to the German media this is the last Nazi war crime trial. asked the secretary of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Tomas Kraus,

The Czech Ministry Foreign Affairs recently announced the winners of their annual essay contest. All university and secondary school students throughout the Czech Republic are eligible to participate in this competition, which tries to promote awareness and understanding of the European Union. Radio Prague's was at the conference, and she spoke to the Foreign Ministry's Maria Satarova and the author of the winning entry, Jan Jiha.

On Monday, EU enlargement commissioner Gunter Verheugen revealed that prior to EU expansion, the European Commission may propose a seven-year transitional period where the free movement of labour from candidate countries would be prevented. On the other side of the divide, the purchase of property in candidate countries by current EU residents would be also not be permitted. has this report.

The Czech Republic's Chief State Prosecutor has called for a re-trial of Libor Novak. The former deputy chairman of the Civic Democratic Party has already stood trial on charges of tax evasion connected to the party's financing. Novak was acquitted last year, but the prosecutor claims that not all the witnesses had been heard and that not all the evidence had been considered. This is just one of many cases of suspicious financing of political parties in the Czech Republic and scandals have been linked to practically all of them. asked the vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vlasta Stepova, whether this situation was unique to the Czech Republic.

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