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01/24/2014
The Office for the Protection of Competition on Friday approved the takeover of 22 Tesco locations in north Moravia by the Czech retail chain Hruška. Tesco Stores ČR acquired the network in 2011 but decided to sell them earlier this year. The firm, which operates 230 stores, 19 gas stations and seven department stores in the country, posted a loss of more than a billion crowns in the past fiscal year. Hruška, meanwhile, runs one of the largest Czech retail networks, and reported a profit of 131 million crowns last year.
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01/24/2014
The Czech police have announced they are searching for two men who stole a shipment of 2,630 iPhones 5S 16 GB worth over 30 million crowns on the D2 motorway between Brno and the Slovak border. The robbery took place in mid-December, a police spokesman said. The robbers dressed up as police patrolmen and pulled over the van, carrying the phones destined for the Slovak market; they bound the crew, took the phones and drove off. The police are also searching for any witnesses who might have seen the robbery.
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01/24/2014
Filming of the Czech version of the British hit series The Office began in Brno on Friday. The country’s public broadcaster Czech TV bought the rights for the first six episodes that should be aired in the second half of the year. The series is being shot at an office centre in Brno, the seat of the fictional Paper and Print company. The start of the filming was planned for Thursday but was delayed to an injury of actor Václav Kopta who plays the main character, David Brent.
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01/24/2014
Curators at the Regional Museum in Olomouc have discovered a rare piece of textile proceeding from the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, the museum’s director told reporters on Friday. The fragment was discovered by chance while going through a collection that was curated by a former employee. The cloth, which was separated from the mummy in 1886, originally belonged to a Viennese photographer, the director said, adding that curators had had no idea how it ended in the museum’s collection. The rare textile will now be examined by experts before it is displayed to the public in March.
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01/24/2014
The Czech national football team has been seeded in Pot 2 for the upcoming draw of the EURO 2016 qualification, along with Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine and four other teams. The strongest national sides including titleholders Spain are seeded in Pot 1. One team from each pot will be drawn into nine qualifications groups at a ceremony on February 23. 53 European teams will enter qualification competing for 23 spots at the final tournament to be played in France.
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01/24/2014
Meteorologists on Friday warned of severe frost that will hit the Czech Republic at the weekend. Temperatures at night are expected to drop to around -12 degrees Celsius. Freezing temperatures should hit Moravia on Friday night; in western Czech Republic, frost is expected a day later. The forecasters said young children as well as the elderly should limit time spent outdoors.
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01/23/2014
President Miloš Zeman will appoint the new centre-left cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka to office on Wednesday, January 29, his office said in a press release today. The incoming coalition government of Social Democrats, ANO and the Christian Democrats has a comfortable 111-seat majority in the lower house. Under a coalition deal signed late last year, the Social Democrats will hold eight ministerial posts, the ANO party six and the Christian Democrats three.
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01/23/2014
President Miloš Zeman has been meeting with more nominees for ministerial posts in the new center-left government. Despite having voiced objections to several candidates in the government line-up the one-on-one meetings with individual nominees are proceeding without a hitch and the president has given no indication that he would refuse to accept any of the nominations.
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01/23/2014
The outgoing Czech foreign minister, Jan Kohout, has expressed shock over the escalation of street violence in Kiev, Ukraine, urging President Yanukovych to end the bloodshed, release the detained activists and engage in genuine dialogue with the opposition in order to resolve the crisis. Mr. Kohout also called on the authorities to cancel the validity of laws passed last week which restrict freedom of speech and assembly and which intensified public protests in the streets of the Ukrainian capital. In a statement released on Thursday the Czech Foreign Ministry said the Czech Republic supported the transformation processes in Ukraine and would continue to do so. According to official reports three activists are reported to have been killed in the street violence on Wednesday, anti-government protesters say as many as seven people may have died in the clashes.
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01/23/2014
The likely next Czech foreign minister, Lubomír Zaorálek, says he plans to invite Vitali Klitschko and perhaps other Ukrainian opposition leaders to Prague. However, Mr. Zaorálek told Thursday’s edition of Lidové noviny that he did not regard it as a mistake that President Miloš Zeman had invited Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, to Prague during a visit to Kiev in October. The Czech Republic needs to speak to both sides, said Mr. Zaorálek.
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