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02/25/2014
Some 68 percent of Czechs are opposed to the razing of villages to allow for coal mining, suggests an opinion poll carried out by the Ipsos agency for the environmental group Greenpeace and released on Tuesday. Two-thirds of respondents said they were in favour of existing limits on mining remaining in place. Six percent of those surveyed said they were for the use of compulsory purchase orders to allow for new mines to be opened.
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02/25/2014
Tuesday marks the 45th anniversary of the self-immolation of Jan Zajíc in response to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops and the “normalization” period that followed. Aged 18, Zajíc set himself on fire on 25 February 1969 as he felt a similar move by Jan Palach the previous month had failed to shake the indifference and apathy of Czechoslovak society in the wake of the occupation.
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02/25/2014
Vladimír Růžička has indicated that he would be willing to replace Alois Hadamczik as Czech ice hockey trainer. Hadamczik stood down on Monday, after the Czech Republic were knocked out in the quarter-finals at the Winter Olympics. In an interview for a radio station on Tuesday, Růžička said he would likely accept the post; however, he has not yet been approached by the Czech Ice Hockey Association and would need to discuss the matter with his club Slavia Prague. He helmed Czech teams that lifted the World Championships title in 2005 and 2010.
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02/25/2014
The new Czech soccer trainer Pavel Vrba has called up no new players for his first game in charge, a friendly against Norway next Wednesday. Midfielders Jaroslav Plašil and Petr Jiráček have not been included in the squad, though it does feature stalwarts Petr Čech and Tomas Rosický, who is Czech captain. David Lafata and Matěj Vydra are the only strikers selected.
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02/25/2014
This meteorological winter looks like becoming one of the warmest since records began, according to experts from the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute. Meteorological winter runs from December 1 until the end of February. That period has been as mild as at present only three times in the last 80 years. In recent weeks, the temperature has hovered around 10 degrees Celsius; it is expected to remain there in the coming days.
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02/24/2014
Five former employees at Prague’s City Hall were handed suspended sentences on Monday, ranging between one to three years in prison. The Municipal Court found the five guilty of wrongdoing in the Opencard case – specifically that they had signed disadvantageous contracts with producer Haguess for the implementation of the multi-purpose card. The system reportedly cost around 1.25 billion crowns. The card is used primarily as a transit pass but is also used in libraries. Monday’s ruling may be appealed.
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02/24/2014
The oldest known Holocaust survivor, Prague-born pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, has died at the age of 110. Born in 1903, she was from a German speaking Jewish family and knew such figures as Franz Kafka and Max Brod. The Nazis interned her at the Terezín concentration camp, where she was to take part in over 100 concerts, in 1943. After the war Herz-Sommer lived in Israel for four decades before moving to London, where she passed away on Sunday.
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02/24/2014
Reporter Martin Veselovský announced on Monday that he will be leaving Události, komentáře – a respected news and analysis programme broadcast daily on Czech TV. Mr Veselovský, who is also a top name at Czech Radio’s flagship Radiožurnál, indicated that after six years on the show he was seeking a professional change. Události, komentáře in a relatively short space of time has now lost two seasoned anchors along with three editors. Mr Veselovský will leave the show at the end of March.
In related news, Daniela Drtinová who left Události, komentáře earlier, and was given her own interview show, announced she will also be leaving the public broadcaster.
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02/24/2014
A new poll conducted by the CVVM agency suggests that two-fifths of Czechs at the beginning of February followed events in Ukraine. According to the survey, 63 percent had a favorable opinion of protestors and the 55 percent of the opposition in the conflict; by contrast only 10 percent said the same of Ukraine’s then-government or 11 percent of now ousted president Viktor Yanukovych. The CVVM survey was conducted from February 3 to 10.
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02/24/2014
Czech President Miloš Zeman appointed 85 university professors, the president’s office announced on Monday. The step was taken last week. The candidates waited months for the appointment as the president had intended to give up his power to grant professorship after last year´s controversy over the appointment of literary scholar Martin C. Putna. The head-of-state opted to appoint the candidates in the end after a new bill, aiming to transfer the power to the head of the Senate, was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies.
In mid-January, Mr Zeman said if the bill failed in parliament, he would sign the appointment decrees but he would empower the education minister to present them to professors. University rectors agreed the procedure although it is provisory. Education Minister Marcel Chládek has proposed several alternative solutions, including one which says that professors can be appointed either by the Senate chairperson, the education minister or universities themselves.
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