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12/12/2013
A stretch of the A-line of Prague’s metro had to be closed down for several hours on Thursday after a burst pipe flooded the lobby of Dejvická metro station. Although the line was re-opened in the afternoon hours emergency crews are still busy with clean-up work. The extent of the damage has yet to be estimated. Several buildings, including army headquarters in the vicinity of the metro station were left without water.
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12/12/2013
President Milos Zeman met with Interior Minister Martin Pecina on Thursday to discuss the situation in the police force in the wake of a development that has left the country with two police presidents. The former head of the force Petr Lessy was reinstated by the interior minister earlier this month after being cleared of criminal charges while the man who succeeded him in office, Martin Cervicek, refuses to give up his post. Minister Pecina, who has been criticized for not leaving the decision in the hands of the country’s next cabinet, said he would proceed within the bounds of the law to resolve the matter.
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12/12/2013
Police wiretappings between the former prime minister Petr Nečas and his then chief-of-staff Jana Nagyova reveal that Mr. Nečas bartered his signature on then-president Vaclav Klaus’ controversial amnesty in return for the president’s approval of the government’s austerity package. The former prime minister countersigned the amnesty which he knew to be highly controversial without discussing the matter with his government. He denied this in the past, saying that his signature on the presidential amnesty had been a mere formality.
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12/12/2013
A gas explosion in Plzen, west Bohemia, has left five people seriously injured, with one of them reported to be in critical condition. Two others suffered lighter injuries. The accident occurred after 11 pm on Wednesday night during emergency repair-work on the gas circuit. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
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12/12/2013
The population of the Czech Republic dropped by 2,300 to just over 10.5 million year on year, the Czech statistics office reported on Thursday. The number of new-borns was lower and the number of deaths higher than in the previous year, and the number of people who left the country surpassed the number of immigrants, the report said.
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12/12/2013
As of next year Czech women will have more freedom in choosing how they wish to give birth. Although doctors are still strictly against home births which they consider potentially extremely risky, a change of legislation will allow women to give birth in hospitals with only a midwife present. Under such circumstances the midwife’s fee would be covered by health insurance. Women who have given birth will also be able to ask to be released from hospital within hours. At present they remain hospitalized for three days in order to rule out post-natal complications to mother and child.
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12/12/2013
The famous Dancing House in Prague has been sold to the real estate company Pražská správa nemovitostí, owned by the businessman Václav Skala. The building, which was designed by the Canadian-American architect Franck Gehry and the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić, has been on sale for several months. The amount for which it was purchased has not been released, but according to the financial daily E15, it was more than a quarter of a billion crowns. Currently the building is being used for office space, and houses a café and restaurant.
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12/11/2013
Former deputy of the Prague High State Prosecutor, Libor Grygárek, has been charged with abuse of office. The Olomouc High State Prosecutor Ivo Ištvan, who filed charges, claims that Mr. Grygárek had information about money laundering, but failed to order an investigation. The prosecutor also suspects that he may have been done so for a financial compensation. Czech media reports indicate that the person behind the money laundering operation is most likely the well-know lobbyist Roman Janoušek, who is allegedly a personal friend of Mr. Grygárek. The accused became the deputy for the High State Prosecutor Vlastimil Rampula in 2007, becoming the interim head prosecutor in June 2012, having resigned from the post in August.
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12/11/2013
The Ombudsman of the Czech Republic, Pavel Varvařovský, has told his colleagues that he will be stepping down from his post on December 20. Mr. Varvařovský made the announcement on Wednesday without giving exact reasons for his departure. His deputy Stanislav Křeček will head the office until a new ombudsman is elected, which has to happen within 60 days of the resignation. Mr. Varvařovský was a Constitutional Court judge between 1994 and 2004, and took up the post of ombudsman in September 2010.
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12/11/2013
The Social Democrats, ANO and the Christian Democrats have reached agreement on a coalition deal. The document will be signed by party representatives on Thursday and made public the following day. The parties hammered out the deal late on Tuesday night after lengthy talks. On the issue of health fees, they have agreed to remove them for seeing a doctor but retain them for visits to accident and emergency. Regarding VAT, there will be a second lower rate covering medicines, books, nappies and children’s foods. The three parties are expected to focus on the division of portfolios next week when the leader of the Christian Democrats returns from an overseas trip.
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