A distraint of Prague City´s property was ordered on Friday afternoon for reasons yet unknown. The information surfaced on Sunday.
Given the annual budget of some 50 billion crowns, the sum that blocks the medieval Charles Bridge and other famous sites must be immense, Zverina says.
Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil (ODS) repeatedly criticised distraint orders, most recently on Saturday, Zverina writes.
Most probably, the sum that has not been paid will be ridiculously small as distraints are a tool of mafiosos, political struggle and unfair competition, Zverina says.
Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) admits that the city´s insolvency may be related to the election of Prague Civic Democratic Party´s (ODS) leadership scheduled for next weekend, Zverina writes.
Elsewhere in Lidove noviny, Daniel Kaiser notes that anti-communist resistance fighter Josef Masin, a member of a Czech group that fought its way to across the Czechoslovak border the West in the 1950, said Jan Palach is no personality to admire and commemorate.
Palach set himself on fire in protest against the 1968 occupation of the country by Soviet troops and died of his injuries within a few days.
Masin labelled Palach a psychologically fragile youth that imported bad practices from the East, referring to his ultimate sacrifice, Kaiser recalls.
But this view is very disputable and rude to Palach´s family, Kaiser says.
But the core of Masin´s position is somewhere else: active resistance is better than an act of martyrdom, Kaiser writes.
Thanks to Palach´s act a large part of society once publicly supported the ideas of freedom and truth but within a few months the whole country was dominated by defeatism, Kaiser says about 1969.
The authors of the draft bill that is to protect whistle-blowers may have good intentions, but a law will not solve the problem, Petr Honzejk writes in Hospodarske noviny.
There will always be ways of how to get rid of a whistle-blower, Honzejk says.
It would be possible to state in the law that a whistleblower cannot be sacked, like a union leader, but this would not be a good solution, he indicates.
Yet it is good that Deputy Prime Minister Karolina Peake (Public Affairs, VV) presented this proposal since it will provoke a public debate on whistleblowers, Honzejk writes.
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