It seems TOP 09 is ready to sink the government for the sake of Prague´s coordination of the national economic policy with the EU´s and its entry into the "wrongly constructed" euro zone.
TOP 09 has two reasons to promote this position - its leaders and ministers Karel Schwarzenberg and Miroslav Kalousek, Kaiser says.
Unfortunately, is is turning out that Schwarzenberg is incapable of thinking otherwise but within an imaginary German-Austrian framework and he cannot imagine Prague not joining the main stream in the EU, Kaiser writes.
Schwarzenberg´s cultural instincts are well complemented by political instincts of Kalousek, who is far from rejoicing at the prospect of Brussels supervising Czech state budgets. However, Kalousek knows that being a pro-European counterweight to the isolationist and spurned ODS may help strengthen TOP 09´s position on the right-wing of the political scene, Kaiser writes.
If PM Petr Necas (ODS) does not give in to TOP 09, it may turn out that TOP 09 would finally prefer staying in the cabinet without its demand being met, Kaiser writes.
Police President Petr Lessy is being criticised by Interior Minister Jan Kubice again, which is understandable because Lessy has been ostentatiously ignoring what he and Kubice agreed upon previously, Petr Kambersky writes elsewhere in Lidove noviny.
A dispute between a minister and the police chief is always a bad thing. A principled position would be defending the police and their head against political pressure. However, much indicates that it not Kubice, an unaffiliated minister, but Lessy, the police head, who has been working on a political order, Kambersky writes.
The fury with which the junior ruling Public Affairs (VV) party has been defending Lessy and struggling for Kubice´s unseating indicates that something stinks in this case, Kambersky writes.
The case of the overpriced Palace in Justice in Brno has been a farce since the beginning, Julie Hrstkova writes in Hospodarske noviny, referring to a giant fine of almost 2 billion crowns the tax office has imposed on the Brno Regional Court for the excessive costs of the newly completed palace.
In the beginning, the court signed the contract with the constructor without defining the project´s price. After the palace was completed, it turned out that the construction costs exceeded the exected price by more than a billion crowns. The anti-corruption police enquired into the project but "traditionally" failed to prove anyone´s guilt, Hrstkova writes.
Most recently a fine as high as the palace´s price has been imposed, she adds.
The approach of all institutions involved is embarrassing, mainly the information that if the regional court, as the investor, really had to pay the fine, the Justice Ministry would have to ask the Finance Ministry for the relevant sum, Hrstkova writes.
It is as if a black passenger, caught by an inspector, told him that he will pay a fine but only after he received it from the public transport company, since he has no money himself, Hrstkova writes.
rtj/t Author: CTK
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