If the government and parliament meddle in people's lives and encroach upon their rights, the Constitutional Court should slap their wrists, Kambersky writes. However, who will slap the wrists of Constitutional Court judges if they meddle in the work of the government and parliament? he asks. This is the big problem as the judges behaved like politicians when delivering the verdict, CzechRep, USA to agree on radar treaty in couple of days ...
Czechs want to help create European care for elderly policy ... Kambersky writes. When former politicians were nominated to the Constitutional Court, some observers warned that the court might be politicised.
The court really seems to be thinking politically: as there will be probably not enough votes in the court to cancel the general fees for the health care, we will comply with the opposition's request at least in this. Politicians may like this attitude as they think in a similar way - quid pro quo. But the public does not, Kambersky concludes. No one but the triumphant opposition understands the Constitutional Court's explanation that the abolition of sickness benefits in the first three days is anti-constitutional, Martin Zverina writes in Lidove noviny. However, the measure was not motivated by the government's immoral monstrosity, but by the effort to scale down absenteeism, Zverina writes. The court's explanation that the government did not put up sufficient effort to reduce the problem is purely political and it has nothing in common with the constitution or constitutional character of the cause, he adds. The Social Democrats are wrong when claiming that the Czech Republic is plagued by serious poverty, Pavel Kohout writes about Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek's plan to reintroduce tax zones if he comes to power in Lidove noviny. In fact, a mere 10 percent of Czechs are below the poverty line, while the EU average is 16 percent, Kohout writes. Moreover, the Czech Republic is a country with a very low income inequality, similarly to Sweden, Denmark or, for that matter, Belarus, he adds. Paroubek's proposed increase in the taxes of incomes of the people with higher education will never solve any social problems. In fact, the state has enough money, but it is unable to use it effectively, Kohout writes. Instead of rising taxes, it should focus on preventing the incredible squandering of public money at all levels of the civil service, he adds.
(Ceske Noviny)
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