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09/02/2013
Czech TV management is reported to have fired the head of the station’s New Media department Pavlína Kvapilová. Kvapilová, who has held the post since the section was established in October of 2011, recently stood up for colleague Daniela Drtinová who was abruptly taken off a high-profile Czech TV currents affairs programme. There has been speculation that Drtinová was replaced under political pressure due to her tough interviewing style. Kvapilová has refused to comment on the development.
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09/02/2013
The new school year began in the Czech Republic on Monday for 1.2 million pupils of elementary and secondary schools as well as conservatories. Some 112,000 first-graders started school this year, which is 7,000 more than last September. Secondary schools, meanwhile, have 19,000 fewer students than last year. One of the changes introduced to school curricula is that pupils will have to take a second foreign language starting in the 8th grade of elementary schools.
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09/02/2013
Two thirds of Czechs are unhappy with the state of the economy which they describe as bad to very bad. According to the results of a survey conducted by the CVVM polling agency 55 percent of respondents said they expected a further deterioration of the economy; over 30 percent predicted stagnation and only six percent of respondents said they expected an improvement. Despite indications that the longest recession in the country’s modern history appears to be over, Czechs are more pessimistic in their predictions that their counterparts in Poland, Hungary or Slovakia.
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09/02/2013
One in three Czechs lie in their CV, but the majority of employers never bother to verify the information given, according to the outcome of a study conducted by Screening Solutions. The agency says that one in three Czechs stretch the truth in the amount of work experience they have and the responsibilities they shouldered in their previous positions. Some also lie about their education, providing their would-be-employer with a fake diploma. According to Screening Solutions 55 percent of Czech employers fail to verify the information given and if they make any attempt to get further details they rely on the references provided in the CV.
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09/01/2013
The police have moved against squatters who on Saturday occupied a derelict building in Pohořelec, near Prague Castle. A unit of the riot police with dogs removed the occupants while 27 people have been detained, the news agency ČTK reported. Several dozen people gathered outside the building and protested against the police action. Squatters occupied several unmaintained buildings in the capital on Saturday to highlight the issues of dilapidating historical heritage and the unavailability of low-cost housing. They said they would vacate all of them before the end of the day but remained in one that is located in a popular tourist area in the vicinity of Prague Castle. A spokesman for the squatters said they wanted to reach agreement with the owner of the structure; however, the proprietors asked the police for assistance.
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09/01/2013
MPs elected in the upcoming early general election could change the controversial church property restitution deal, President Miloš Zeman has said. In his appearance in a Prima TV talk show on Sunday, the president suggested amendments to the respective legislation would be faster and more effective way of dealing with the issue, particularly with financial compensations earmarked for the churches, than holding a referendum, a move proposed by the Communists.
Under the deal, as approved by the lower house last year, Czech churches and religious groups are to get back property, confiscated by the communist regime, worth 75 billion crowns. They are also set to receive financial compensation of more than 60 billion crowns over the period of 30 years.
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09/01/2013
President Zeman on Sunday said he was planning to nominate Radovan Suchánek for the post of a Constitutional Court judge. Mr Suchánek is a professor of constitutional law at Prague’s Charles University, and works as a legal advisor to the Social Democrat party. Mr Zeman said he would nominate the candidate provided the court’s chairman, Pavel Rychteský, raises no objections. The nomination must be approved by the Senate which last month rejected another candidate, Jan Sváček. The Czech Constitutional Court is currently functioning with 14 instead of 15 judges stipulated by the Constitution. The mandates of another two judges will expire later this year.
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09/01/2013
Charges against 31 people involved in last year’s methanol scandal will be raised in the autumn, a prosecutor in Zlín told the Czech news agency ČTK on Sunday. The accused face charges of manufacturing and distributing methanol-laced bootleg liquor which killed over 40 people, mainly in the north-east of the country; seven of the accused face charges of intentionally endangering public safety, a crime which carries up to 20 years in prison. Three people are awaiting the trial in custody.
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09/01/2013
The French film Les Apaches by Thierry de Peretti was awarded the main prize at the 10th annual international festival of first features and student films Fresh Film Fest, held in Prague. The jury said the film, which depicts the lives of five teenagers on Corsica, managed to reveal what remains hidden under the surface. 145 films were shown during the festival which started on Wednesday.
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09/01/2013
A record attendance of 16,000 spectators saw an open-air performance of Bedřich Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride in Prague on Sunday. The opera was staged in an amphitheatre located in a valley on the outskirts of the capital; the event’s tradition goes back to 1913, and was revived eight years ago.
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