by Rex Wockner
International News
The European Commission is planning to file a complaint against the Czech Republic over its failure to include the EC anti-discrimination directive in its national law.
Among much else, the directive mandates protections for GLB people in areas such as employment, education, health care and social benefits.
The Czech Republic is the only member nation of the European Union not to have taken the step, which should have been completed before the country joined the EU in 2004, said the Czech News Agency (CTK).
Failure to implement the directive – which passed Parliament once but was vetoed by President Vaclav Klaus – could result in a large fine levied by the European Court of Justice, CTK said.
