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02/16/2014
Unaffiliated MP Jiří Pospíšil, who recently left the Civic Democratic Party citing mutual loss of confidence between him and his party colleagues, has confirmed getting an offer from rival center-right TOP 09 to run on their ballot in the European elections. Mr. Pospíšil said in an interview for commercial TV Prima that he was not planning to join any party in the foreseeable future and said that if he decided to run in the European elections he would run as an independent. Jiří Pospíšil, a former justice minister, who spent 14 years in the Civic Democratic Party, was widely considered one of the party’s most promising politicians, but his role was marginalized during the party’s last election conference where he failed to get elected to a deputy post.
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02/16/2014
A bus carrying fifty people crashed in the Klatovy region, west of Prague, early on Sunday morning. According to police sources the bus collided with a road maintenance truck and turned on its side. Seven people were reported injured, two of them children who suffered lighter injuries. Two adults were airlifted to hospital. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The police have reportedly ruled out the influence of alcohol.
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02/16/2014
Many Czech ski-resorts are facing serious financial difficulties due to the mild winter. Some have struggled to stay open and offer alternate programs but the lack of snow has led hundreds of visitors to cancel their winter holiday plans. Smaller resorts who are not able to produce artificial snow are the worst off. Špindlerův Mlýn in the Giant Mountains, the country’s most popular winter resort, alone reports it has not been affected by the mild winter. According to Mag Consulting winter resorts lost approximately 20 million crowns due to the lack of snow. A monitoring station in the Sumava Mountains eported a record temperature of 18 degrees Celsius on Saturday and a long term forecast predicts above zero temperatures in the coming four weeks.
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02/16/2014
Czech Eva Samkova won the women's snowboarding cross gold medal at the Sochi Olympics on Sunday. The 20-year-old, sporting a fake moustache on her top lip for good luck, dominated all three of her races on the Extreme Park course and crossed the line well clear in the final. Dominique Maltais of Canada took silver, while the bronze went to Chloe Trespeuch of France.
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02/16/2014
Switzerland beat the Czech Republic 1-0 Saturday night in the teams' final preliminary-round game. Simon Bodenmann scored in the first period and despite playing a fast, aggressive game the Czechs were unable to get past the Swiss goalie Jonas Hiller who made 26 saves. The Czech Republic went 1-2-0-0 in the preliminary round to finish in third place in Group C, ahead of only winless Latvia.
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02/15/2014
Environmental activists have criticized the government for failing to provide guarantees in its policy programme against the lifting of limits imposed on brown coal mining in north Bohemia. Representatives of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth said they were deeply discouraged by the fact that the new centre-left administration had vetoed a proposal by the environment minister, Richard Brabec, to protect villages in the north from the threat of industrial expansion. The mining limits were imposed in the early 1990s and have frequently come under attack from politicians and industry leaders who argue that at a time of growing unemployment jobs should be a top priority.
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02/15/2014
Justice Minister Helena Válková has launched disciplinary proceedings against the general director of the Czech Prison Service Petr Dohnal which may result in his dismissal, the ctk news agency reports. The minister says Dohnal tried to thwart an audit into the work of the prison service that she ordered by withholding crucial documents. Mr. Dohnal has rejected the accusations, saying that the audit was a pretext to get rid of him.
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02/15/2014
The wife of President Miloš Zeman, Ivana, is establishing a charity to help abused children. In an interview for Saturday’s Mladá fronta Dnes daily the First Lady said the issue of physically, mentally and sexually abused children had been marginalized despite the fact that it was a growing problem. According to official statistics 28 children died of physical abuse last year alone and 750 suffered sexual abuse. Mrs. Zemanová appealed to the public to be more vigilant with respect to what is going on in their neighborhood and not hesitate to report cases of suspected child abuse.
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02/15/2014
Agriculture Minister Marian Jurečka has defended his decision to make Lubomir Poul head of his office. Mr. Poul served as the head of the Office of the Government under the former centre-right prime minister Petr Nečas who resigned over a corruption scandal and now faces charges of bribery. Mr. Poul himself was briefly detained along with eight other people when the scandal broke but was not charged. Minister Jurečka said he had needed a good and reliable head of office when he took over the agriculture ministry and Mr. Poul was a long-serving and highly professional civil servant.
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02/15/2014
Several dozen residents from Prague’s Suchdol district, which houses the Palestinian embassy in Prague, turned up for the embassy’s open doors day on Saturday. The embassy organized the event in order to dispel security concerns in the wake of an explosion which killed the Palestinian ambassador to Prague on January 1st of this year. The police later found a number of unlicensed arms on the premises. The local authorities have asked for the embassy to be relocated.
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