布拉格11月3日电——捷克公共电视和广播电台的工作人员于周二发起了一日罢工，抗议政府削减经费并将资金转入国家预算的计划。他们称此举意在损害广播机构的独立性和生存能力。
PRAGUE, Nov 3 - Czech public television and radio workers launched a one-day strike on Tuesday against a government plan to cut financing and move funding to the state budget, which they call an attempt to hurt the broadcasters' independence and viability.
罢工导致广播受到限制。在艺术家和学生的支持下，公众抗议活动计划于周二下午举行。
The strike led to broadcast curbs. Public protests, backed by artists and students, were planned on Tuesday afternoon.
此次罢工使关于广播机构未来的争斗进一步升级。路透社新闻研究所2025年的一项调查发现，这些广播机构是该国受关注度最高、最受信赖的新闻来源之一。政府的法案在上个月通过了初步表决，目前正等待议会的进一步辩论。
The strike escalates a fight over the future of the broadcasters that a 2025 Reuters Institute survey found were among the country's most followed and most trusted news sources. The government's bill passed a preliminary vote last month and now awaits further debate in parliament.
捷克电视台的24小时新闻节目播出了昏暗的新闻编辑室画面，身着黑衣的主持人罕见地照着稿件宣读。
Czech Television's 24-hour news broadcast showed a darkened newsroom and moderators dressed in black reading, unusually, from a script.
由亿万富翁总理安德烈·巴比什领导的民粹主义政府得到了极右翼“自由与直接民主党”（SPD）和欧洲怀疑论政党“汽车党”的支持，该政府曾多次指责私营和公共媒体存在偏见。执政联盟希望在其改革方案中取消目前用于筹资的每月205捷克克朗（约合9.43美元）的家庭广播电视费。
The populist government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis, backed by the far-right SPD and eurosceptic Motorists parties, has frequently accused private and public media of bias. The coalition wants to cancel a 205-crown ($9.43) monthly household broadcasting fee — currently used for funding — in its overhaul.
反对党将这些拟议的改革与匈牙利在时任总理维克托·欧尔班领导下的改革进行了比较。欧尔班是巴比什的盟友，他扶持了一系列亲政府媒体。
Opposition parties have compared the proposed changes to reforms in Hungary under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a Babis ally who built an array of pro-government media.
罢工委员会成员、捷克电视台记者扬·莫拉切克表示：“如果这项提案获得通过，将赋予政府联盟在政治上影响两家公共媒体内容的工具。”
"This proposal, if passed, will give the government coalition tools to politically influence the content of both public media," Czech TV reporter Jan Molacek, a member of the strike committee, said.
执政党在上个月的一个周五意外提出了该法案，限制了辩论，并在周六凌晨前强行通过了初步表决。
The government parties introduced the bill unexpectedly on a Friday last month, curbing debate and forcing the preliminary vote before dawn on a Saturday.
批评人士表示，将资金转移到预算中会切断媒体与付费观众之间的联系，且资金决策将容易受到政治压力的影响。
CHANGES POSSIBLE IN FURTHER DEBATE Critics say the funding shift to the budget would remove the relationship of the media with paying viewers, and funding decisions would become open to political pressure.
作为变革的一部分，拟议削减15%的资金将使电视台的名义预算回到2008年的水平，电台则回到2005年的水平。媒体称这种削减令人难以承受。巴比什周一重申，政府只是在履行减轻人民财政负担的承诺。
A 15% financing cut proposed as part of the change would bring television's nominal budget to the level of 2008 and radio's to 2005. The media have called such cuts unbearable. Babis reiterated on Monday the government was merely meeting a promise to lighten the financial burden on people.
他表示：“不存在什么关于民主的争斗。没有人想要接管公共媒体或将其置于国家控制之下，”并补充称该法案可以在进一步辩论中做出修改。
"There is no fight over democracy. Nobody wants to take over the public media or bring them under state control," he said, adding changes to the bill could be made in further debate.
莫拉切克表示，改变资金筹集方式并非不可能，但必须建立在充分辩论的基础上，并有防范干预的法律保障作支撑。
Molacek said a funding change was not impossible, but needed to be based on a thorough debate and backed by legal safeguards against meddling.