Summary of newspapers of the previous day - 3. 11. 2008

European politicians in Prague: Agreement has to be reached on other conservation of climate in Copenhagen

Key politicians and other representatives responsible for European policy of climate conservation and participating in the world negotiations on a new agreement on climate conservation, which should be closed at a climatic summit of UNO in Copenhagen in December 2008, met at one-day conference in Prague on Friday. Together with Czech Minister of Environment Martin Bursík also his Swedish colleague Andrea Carlgren, Danish Ministress for Climate and Energetics Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Environment Stavros Dimas, French Ambassador for Climate Brice Lalonde and one of a key representatives of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Michael Zammit Cutajar addressed the meeting.

Consideration to election results

Let´s try only to resume this year´s development in the agriculture department which touches directly members of the Agrarian Chamber. In April we got to know from the media that the Premier with a minister declared a reform of agricultural policy. I am sure that none of other twenty six countries of the European Union proceeds in such a way towards a decisive majority. The Minister of Agriculture says in the Preamble that he is different from his predecessors and that he does not subject to agrarian lobby. So, he does not discuss the reform with those to whom it concerns, and he publishes reform steps after when everybody have already cognizance of them. There is no analogy of that abroad.

Conference looks for efficient tools to create of agricultural policy

Creation of efficient agricultural policy – this was a topic of Friday´s workshop organized by the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization in frame of preparations for our coming presidency in the EU. The workshop was addressed by a director of Directorate of OECD for Trade and Agriculture and a top world agricultural economist Stefan Tangermann, an Ambassador of the CR at OECD Karel Dyba and others. The workshop was opened by a Deputy-Minister of Agriculture Jiří Urban. According to him there were several reasons to organize such a workshop.

MŽP: Proposal of representative Jakubková goes against quality of environment

The Ministry of Environment of the CR (MŽP) is surprised by a proposal of a representative Věra Jakubková who reputedly came an agreement with transporters on a compromise option of limitation of trucks according to which trucks would pay a higher toll rate on Friday; however, a ban of expedition would not refer to them. It was stated by a spokesman of MŽP Jakub Kašpar. Now when the toll is only in highways and roads of the trans-European network, according his words, a radical increase in toll rate at a certain time would lead to shift of trucks from highways to parallel roads of second classes which are conducted in prevailing majority through municipalities.