The Czech authorities´s way of drawing EU subsidies is not transparent for the public, namely in the case of the Education Ministry. The EU´s current warning mainly highlights the shortcomings for which former ministers for the Green Party are to blame, Kambersky said.
This changes nothing about the fact that the chair is shaking under the incumbent minister, Josef Dobes (Public Affairs, VV). On his arrival at the ministry in mid-2010, Dobes sacked Jan Vitula, the ministry´s only expert in handling EU subsidies. Vitula is a member of the rival TOP 09 party, and Dobes puts his subordinate officials´ party affiliation [with the VV] above their professional competence, Kambersky writes.
By firing Vitula, Dobes took over responsibility for drawing and effective using EU subsidies. If the subsidies were really suspended now, admid the expected economic crisis, it would be clear who is to blame for it and who should resign, Kambersky concludes.
Elsewhere in Lidove noviny, Daniel Kaiser writes that corruption was an intensively discussed issue in the Czech Republic in 2011.
He asks whether the cabinet, which a few ministers were forced to leave under undignified circumstances, is a symptom of corruption or of a solution to it.
There are reasons for moderate optimism in this respect. The fact alone that ministers leave the cabinet on the very first serious suspicion is a novelty on the Czech scene, Kaiser writes.
The previously criticised situation where mechanisms for fighting corruption were kept toothless has changed as well. The Interior Ministry and the Supreme State Attorney´s Office have new heads who evidently seek to enhance anti-corruption mechanisms, Kaiser writes.
The prime minister and the finance minister, on their part, have cracked down on the influential network around the former general director of the CEZ energy utility (Martin Roman), that was considered untouchable for many years, Kaiser writes.
In Prague, the ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) have managed to eliminate local lobbyists´ control of the party, Kaiser says.
Last week, the cabinet definitively scrapped the suspicious huge tender for the removal of the old environmental damage, he writes.
The year 2011 was a year of creating conditions [for fighting corruption]. Until the end of its term of office [mid-2014], the cabinet will either use or waste a big chance it has, Kaiser adds.
In Mlada fronta Dnes, commentator Karel Steigerwald reacts to the threatening mass departures of doctors from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and southeast Europe [over low pay], which would be a disaster for the region.
A profession of a doctor is a life mission, but this does not apply to the millions of doctors planning to migrate across Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic, Steigerwald writes.
True, they have taken patients hostages. However they should be let go. It must be a nightmare for them to see that no one misses them at home. In addition, why should the smaller and richer part of Europe absorb doctors from the bigger and poorer part? Steigerwald asks.
In spite of this, the respective governments fear the threatening doctors, because they will leave hospitals full of dying people without medical care behind in their homelands, Steigerwald says.
For refusing to treat patients at home, the doctors should be denied air and train tickets as well as petrol on their way westwards. "They can´t reach the West on foot. Even if they set off, don´t give a single drop of water to these dark wanderers," Steigerwald suggests to people in post-communist countries.
Author: CTKwww.ctk.cz
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