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02/26/2014
The Czech government will provide treatment to 23 Ukrainians injured during the bloody anti-government protests in Kiev, a spokesman for the Czech Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Czech authorities will on Thursday dispatch to airplanes to bring the injured protesters to Prague. The costs of the programme have been estimated at 10 million crowns. The Ukrainian citizens, who mostly suffered gunshot wounds, will be treated in Prague’s Motol and General University hospitals.
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02/26/2014
Former army generals cleared of property mismanagement charges
The Czech Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared two former army generals Rostislav Mazurek and Radoslav Rotrekl of property mismanagement charges. The men had landed suspended sentences over their roles in overseeing dubious acquisitions of hats, towels, shirts and other material for the Czech army. The top court however said the former generals were in charge of strategic planning rather than acquisitions; the court also found the men had no personal gain from the purchases.
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02/26/2014
Family members, army officials, veterans and members of the public bid last farewell to Miroslav Štandera, a WWII veteran of the Royal Air Force, in Plzeň on Wednesday. General Štandera died on Wednesday at the age of 95; he was the last surviving Czech fighter pilot who took part in the Battle of Britain. Czech Air Force commander Libor Štěfánik said Mr Štandera’s demise marked the end of a significant generation of Czech pilots who fought the Nazis during the Second World War.
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02/26/2014
Czech President Miloš Zeman addressed a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. In his first address to MEPs, Mr Zeman expressed support for the earliest possible adoption of the euro by the Czech Republic. He also criticized what he considers as the EU’s excessive bureaucracy, transfers of MEPs between Brussels and Strasbourg, the architecture of EU buildings and other issues. The Czech president later met with the European Parliament speaker, Martin Schulz, as well as Czech MEPs.
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02/26/2014
The mobile phone operator Telefónica Czech Republic’s net profit dropped by 16 percent to 5.7 billion crowns last year, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The firm’s revenues decreased by 6.5 percent to 47.37 billion crowns; however, the number of its clients rose by 130,000, reaching 5.1 million. The company’s management will propose a dividend between 18 and 30 crowns per share. Telefónica, the largest Czech mobile operator, was last year acquired by the PPF investment group.
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02/26/2014
Prague City Hall on Wednesday launched a massive blackout exercise simulating a 72-hour long power outage, the authorities said. The police, fire fighters and other parts of the city’s emergency response systems are testing Prague’s preparedness for similar situations. The exercise, which will not affect life in the city, will end at 6 PM on Friday; institutions such as government offices and foreign embassies which do not fall under the authority of the capital are not included in the simulation.
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02/26/2014
Around 300 people gathered on Prague’s Old Town Square on Tuesday evening to mark the 66th anniversary of the Communist takeover of power in Czechoslovakia. People holding candles formed a circle around the square in order to pay tribute both to the thousands of victims of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia and to the recent victims of violence in Ukraine. On February 25 1948, President Edvard Beneš accepted the resignations of 12 non-Communist government ministers and names replacements put forward by Communist PM Klement Gottwald, bringing an end to democracy in the country for over four decades.
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02/25/2014
The Civic Democrats’ campaign for elections to the European Parliament will centre on the rejection of the euro, the party’s freshly unveiled electoral leader Jan Zahradil said on Tuesday. The erstwhile main Czech right-wing party will also push a demand to close the European Parliament’s second home in Strasbourg and a freeze on energy prices. Second on the Civic Democrats’ ticket is Evžen Tošenovský, while Eva Zamrazilová is third.
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02/25/2014
Communist Party MP Marta Semelová could face criminal charges over contentious comments she made on a Czech Television interview programme. The deputy said that the testimony of 1950 show trial victim Milada Horáková had not been forced. She also asserted that the 1968 Soviet-led invasion had actually represented “international assistance”. Two hate speech complaints have been filed against Ms. Semelová with the state attorney’s office in Brno, one from a local mayor, one from the civic group ProtiAlt. Other Communist Party members have distanced themselves from the MP’s statements.
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02/25/2014
Detectives from Prague’s anti-corruption and financial crime unit have begun investigating last year’s halting of work on the Blanka tunnel complex in the city, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. At the end of last week, officers acting on the basis of a criminal requested that City Hall hand over documents relating to the huge building project. The anti- corruption unit believe that councilors’ decision to halt construction may have unlawful, the latter said. The current Prague authorities say the contract for the over-budget tunnel job signed by their predecessors was never valid. They have requested talks with the justice minister over the matter, which is also being investigated by a police organised crime unit.
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