It used to be said the atmosphere will improve as soon as the first big fish is arrested, but this year has shown that this need not be so, Petracek writes.
He writes that then trade and industry minister Martin Kocourek (Civic Democrats, ODS) made a statement that would have ended in the "curiosities" column a couple of years ago, but he ceased to be minister two days later this year.
Kocourek explained strange money manipulations saying he "rerouted" millions of crowns to his mother´s account not to have to share them with his wife he was divorcing.
Kocourek is not the sole senior official to have been removed from his position over suspicious behaviour. Has anyone forecast this? No, these are no breakthrough events, but pieces of a mosaic and it can be felt that something is changing, Petracek writes.
However, it is still too early to base a forecast of developments for better on this, he says.
In another commentary in Lidove noviny, Zbynek Petracek deals with the question of what the Czech generation that did not experience the Soviet Union (USSR) thinks of Russia and says the experience of the generations that forcibly spent a part of their life on the side of the USSR need not be universal and determining.
Does the new generation consider Russia a normal country defending its interests like President Vaclav Klaus does, or does it see the influence of Soviet (or even older) genes in the steps it takes, Petracek asks.
The relationship of Vladimir Putin´s Russia to the sovereignty of Georgia, the pressure it exerts on Ukraine and the Baltic countries, its toying with oil supplies, the dividing of Europe into more (Germany) and less friendly countries arouse concern, Petracek writes.
He says it is important to find out whether the feeling of concern only depends on whether the particular person has a generational experience with the Soviet Union.
Jiri Hanak writes in Pravo he considers Education Minister Josef Dobes (Public Affairs, VV) politically dead, though not yet buried because the European Union is already preparing halting EU subsidies to Czech education.
Hanak writes that he concedes one mitigating circumstance. The EU´s suspicion that its money is being wasted may have been partially caused by Dobes´s predecessors and also regions that establish secondary schools.
However, Dobes whom President Vaclav Klaus has called "the best post-communist education minister" has been in office for one and a half years, Hanak writes.
If he has not noticed anything and if he has not redressed anything, he is a minister that is good for nothing, Hanak writes.
The Czech Republic has even the best president and the best government now, Hanak writes ironically.
Klaus has already offered himself as a voluntary gravedigger of the euro and the government says "send us subsidies, but do not want anything from us," Hanak writes about the government´s reluctance to offer a loan to the International Monetary Fund over the euro zone´s crisis.
Author: CTKwww.ctk.cz
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