Summary of newsmakers of the previous days – 9.-11.9.2006

Ministry of Agriculture wants to make drawing money from EU funds more efficient

The Ministry of Agriculture in government program declaration considers as its priorities efficient drawing accessible finances from the EU, evening up of direct payments to farmers and simplification of rules for small and middle entrepreneurs in the country. It was reported by Jiří Felčárek from the department of communication of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Beer will obviously rise in price, the EU wants higher tax from the Czech Republic

Golden beverage will possibly rise in price in the future. The European Union wants so that the Czech Republic and other six EU states incre ase consumption tax on beer. Then the state would collect roughly by 30 hallers more from half a liter than at present. The increase should be by about a fifth. The tax should be increased somewhere from the year 2008 to 2010. The Ministry of Finances does not agree with the proposal.

Waste from Europe infested Ivory coast

Government of West-African state Ivory coast offered resignation due to toxic waste from Europe which poisoned mere than 1500 inhabitants of Abidžan. On African political scene an unusual step has happened. The government of former French colony confessed to responsibility for depositing of toxic waste which had killed three local inhabitants and other more than one and half thousand of people had hurt, and offered resignation. However, the opposition claims that the government just tries to get rid of reliability for a serious contamination of large area. According to west diplomats the country can get, thanks to this step, in a political crisis.

Reputedly global warming will return the Earth in time of dinosaurs

Global warming in next hundred years could cause return of temperatures registered at the last time in time of dinosaurs and could lead to extinction as much as a half of plant and animal species. The agency Reuters wrote it today with reference British scientists. A level of carbon dioxide will reach the highest value over the last 24 million years and the average global temperatures will be the highest over the last ten million years, said Chris Thomas from university in York.

Source: Agris, 10.09.2006