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04/09/2014
The tax authorities have fined the Office of the Government more than half a billion crowns for paying an excessively high sum to a company for audiovisual services during the Czech presidency of the EU in 2009, Právo reported on Wednesday. The Office of the Government is considering appealing, the newspaper said. An official told Czech Television the fine could prove fatal to the institution, as it was many times its annual budget. Investigators said the company ProMoPro had received over CZK 380 million more than it should have for the provision of audiovisual services. No tender was held for the contract. Twelve people have been charged in connection with the matter.
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04/09/2014
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, says the recently reelected Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, is a genuine leader, a type lacking in contemporary politics. Mr. Zeman made the comment in a message of congratulations to Mr. Orban after his Fidesz party came first in elections at the weekend. Mr. Zeman wrote that the strength of support regularly won by the party showed that Hungarians also regarded Mr. Orban as a genuine leader.
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04/09/2014
The head of the European Commission, Jose Barroso, and the president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, have turned down invitations to attend an EU Eastern Partnership conference at Prague Castle on April 24 and 25, Lidové noviny reported on Wednesday. The EU’s foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, is also not coming, the newspaper said. Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said the senior EU officials were currently preoccupied by the Ukraine crisis. Mr. Van Rompuy is due in Prague on April 30, the eve of the 10th anniversary of Czech accession to the EU.
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04/09/2014
A tribute concert to the late Czech protest singer Karel Kryl was held at the Grand Hall of Prague’s Lucerna on Tuesday night. Artists such as Tomáš Klus, Aneta Langerová, Markéta Irglová and Michal Hrůza performed songs written by Kryl, who was born 70 years ago this Saturday. After the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia the anti-communist musician emigrated to West Germany, from where he broadcast to his compatriots on Radio Free Europe. He died in 1994 at the age of 49.
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04/09/2014
The annual rate of Czech consumer price inflation stayed at 0.2 percent in March, unchanged from its rate in February, the Czech Statistics Office announced on Wednesday. Price rises were slightly lower than most economic analysts expected. The biggest factors in pushing up prices were the cost of food and non-alcoholic drinks. Ongoing cuts in the price of electricity and natural gas forced through by the national energy regulator last year have helped to subdue inflationary pressure. The latest figures will again tend to vindicate the Czech National Bank’s assertion that its weak crown policy is not pushing up prices for consumers.
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04/09/2014
A near 800 page book about Prague under the Nazi Protectorate was awarded the book of the year prize at the annual Magnesia Litera awards on Tuesday night. Author Jiří Padevět’s Průvodce protectorátní Prahou (Guide to Protectorate Prague) lists key localities where the Nazi authorities, collaborators, and opponents were located as well as details of how and where key incidents, such as the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich and Prague uprising at the end of the war, took place. Many of the photographs used in the book were being made public for the first time.
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04/08/2014
The Czech military could send up to 250 soldiers, who were originally to be deployed in Mali, to the U.N. mission in the Central African Republic, army chief-of-staff Petr Pavel told the ctk news agency on Tuesday. On a visit to Prague last week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka to consider sending Czech soldiers to the planned U.N. peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic where violent clashes between Christians and Muslims have so far claimed hundreds of lives and left one million people displaced. Defense Minister Martin Stropnický said he would consult the matter with the Foreign Ministry and present the government with a proposal as soon as possible.
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04/08/2014
The parties running in elections to the European Parliament were given numbers in a draw organized by the state electoral commission on Tuesday. The numbers determine the order of the ballots which voters will receive and parties will be able to use the numbers in their campaigns. In total, 38 groupings are running in the EP elections scheduled for May 23-24.
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04/08/2014
The opposition party Dawn has launched a petition calling for the tightening of EU immigration policy. Dawn’s chairman Tomio Okamura told reporters on Tuesday that his party would not tolerate illegal immigration and it would like to introduce strict quotas for legal migrants. "The Czech Republic does not need unadaptable foreigners or religious fanatics, they need us, they want to sponge off our system," Okamura said, adding that there are millions of the unemployed people in Europe whom their governments should help instead of supporting foreigners. Dawn members are collecting signatures all over the Czech Republic.
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04/08/2014
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka is to meet with Petr Dohnal, the former head of the Prison Service who was recalled from his post last week by Justice Minister Helena Válková. The justice minister cited loss of trust in Mr. Dohnal and in his abilities to reform the prison service successfully. The dismissed head of the prison service says he will attack her decision in court, considering it unjust and ungrounded. The prime minister has said he wants to hear both sides of the story.
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