For Orban, Necas is a very valuable ally. Orban, who recently chased an IMF-EU delegation away from Budapest and who has tense relations with Austria, Slovakia as well as Romania, and more and more also with the USA, rejoices at any high-ranking ally coming to Hungary, Palata writes.
Maybe Necas welcomes Hungary´s reluctant stand on further integration of the EU as another argument for him, in addition to the stands of Britain and Sweden. However, in the past weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed letters condemning human rights violation to two European states only - to Putin´s Russia and to Hungary, Palata points out.
If Necas does not want to follow the example of Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who says rigging elections in Russia is a matter of no one but Russia, he will have to seek another ally instead of Orban´s Hungary. Since being an ally of Hungary is starting to be problematic for a decent democratic country, Palata concludes.
Health Minister Leos Heger declared a crusade against corruption and money wasting in the health sector earlier this year, but he has failed to fulfil his promises such as to ban purchases of medicines and equipment via intermediaries, Jiri Leschtina writes in Hospodarske noviny.
Under Heger´s directive, hospitals should "reduce" purchases via intermediaries and should buy "mainly" from direct suppliers. By this formulation he actually sent a message to state hospitals and the companies that operate regional hospitals: let the leeches continue sucking! And the leaches go on sponging on the state, Leschtina writes.
The planned transformation of some hospitals to follow up-care institutes and the scrapping of redundant acute beds in hospitals has remained only a promise. However, the health care system will inevitably collapse without this promise being fulfilled, Leschtina says.
True, Heger has taken certain steps to bring more money to health care, such as the division of care into standard and paid extra care. However, he failed to take control of the gaps through which money leaks from the sector to intermediaries and politicians linked to them. It is them who have taken control of Heger, Leschtina adds.
Elsewhere in Hospodarske noviny, Adam Cerny recalls that the white Kladruby horse which the Czech Republic gave as a wedding present to British Prince William and his wife in April still stays in the Czech Republic.
Cerny refers to the 1970s, when Prague presented the Iranian shah with a tractor in turn of a Mercedes the shah had given to the then Czechoslovak president Ludvik Svoboda. There was no other choice for Prague as no car comparable to Mercedes was available in Czechoslovakia at the time, Cerny says.
True, the Kladruby horse is satisfied at his home stud farm in Kladruby nad Labem, central Bohemia. The British royal newlyweds are satisfied as well, Cerny continues.
How did the unforgettable former Russian PM Chernomyrdin put it? "We wanted to do our best, but the result was the same as always in the past," Cerny writes, citing Chernomyrdin.
Author: CTKwww.ctk.cz
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