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08/15/2013
Work has fully resumed along a highly-disputed stretch of the D1 highway which is undergoing reconstruction. The firm responsible for repairing this stretch of the road halted work on it several weeks ago on the argument that it was in a much worse state of disrepair than previously thought and demanded more money from the investor. Although a threat from the transport minister to terminate the firm’s contract resulted in some renewed activity, little progress was made. Now the Czech Road and Highway Directorate has promised to pay the firm an additional 5 to 6 million crowns to cover the extra costs and the reconstruction work appears to be back on track.
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08/15/2013
The filming of the Hollywood movie Child 44 will restrict traffic on the B line of the Prague metro over the weekend, the city’s transport authority reported. The stations Anděl and Smíchovské nádraží will be closed to the public in the night hours between 10 pm to 8am from Friday to Monday and also from 8 am to 10 am when trains will only pass through these stations. The metro has arranged a replacement bus service for passengers. The movie Child 44, produced by Ridley Scott, and directed by Daniel Espinoza, is being shot in Prague and other parts of the country, including Kladno and the former military base in Ralsko.
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08/15/2013
Czech athlete Zuzana Hejnova has won the 400 metres hurdles final at the World Championships in Moscow with a time of 52.83. Dalilah Muhammad of the United States was second in 54.09 and her compatriot and 2011 world champion Lashinda Demus came third in 54.27.
The 26-year-old Czech athlete was aiming for the gold after a hugely successful year in which she won all eight races she competed in, including five in the Diamond League. At the Diamond League meeting in London Hejnova crossed the line on 53:07 seconds.
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08/15/2013
The Czech Republic drew 1:1 with Hungary in a soccer friendly in Budapest on Wednesday night. The Czechs took the lead in the middle of the first half when striker Libor Kozák of Lazio found the net for his first international goal, before the hosts replied through a penalty after the break. It was Michal Bílek’s men’s last warm-up game before key World Cup qualifiers against Armenia and Italy next month; with six of 10 games played, the Czechs lie third in their qualification group for the World Cup in Brazil, one point behind second-placed Bulgaria.
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08/14/2013
The Czech Republic’s longest recession on record has come to an end. According to preliminary figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Wednesday, the economy grew by 0.7 percent in the second quarter of the year – the first growth recorded after six straight quarters of contraction. The upturn has largely been driven by exports, which increased by 1.4 percent in the April to June period.
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08/14/2013
Former defence minister Vlasta Parkanová has published transcriptions of the police’s interrogations of all of the witnesses and accused persons in a case in which she faces charges of authorising an overpriced contract to purchase military planes. The former minister refused to comment on the materials, which she posted on her own website. Among the witnesses questioned are one-time chief of staff and current minister of defence, Vlastimil Picek, and former prime minister Petr Nečas, who was labour minister at the time the purchase was signed off on in 2009, under the government of Mirek Topolánek. Police say the contract for CASA planes was overpriced by over CZK 650 million and last year charged Mrs. Parkanová with abuse of office and breach of trust.
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08/14/2013
The chancellor to President Miloš Zeman, Vratislav Mynář, has said he will help raise funds for the next election campaign of the Citizens’ Rights Party–Zemanites, Czech Radio reported. Representatives of some other parties say it would be unethical for the official, who is a state employee, to act as a fundraiser for the grouping. Mr. Mynář is planning to run as a candidate for the Zemanites, who currently have no seats in the lower house, and says he will only quit his post if he wins election. One newspaper has reported that the president himself will be the face of the party’s campaign.
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08/14/2013
Martin Pecina, who is interim interior minister in a caretaker cabinet installed by President Zeman, has said he would accept an offer to stand for the Zemanites in the next elections, the Czech News Agency reported. Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman and Regional Development Minister František Lukl said they would consider such an offer. Other members of cabinet, such as Finance Minister Jan Fischer and Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, ruled out standing for the party. Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok, who formally handed in his resignation on Tuesday, has said he will not remain in politics when he actually steps down.
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08/14/2013
Czechs who worked in Slovakia or for Slovak firms prior to the split of Czechoslovakia look set to see their old-age pensions brought up to the level of those received in the Czech Republic. The Senate’s Constitutional and Legal Committee on Wednesday approved the change, which will see such retirees receive a supplement to their Czech pensions. A European Union court had ruled that such top-ups contravened EU practice; however, the Czech Constitutional Court said the EU had made no provision for pension disparities in the case of the breakup of a shared state.
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08/14/2013
Parents of severely handicapped children who are old enough to qualify for independent state support are still obliged to contribute to their maintenance, according to a ruling made by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. It was hearing a complaint from a woman seeking financial support from her estranged husband for their 30-year-old daughter, who she looks after. The case will now be heard again by the Prague Regional Court, which previously ruled in favour of the father.
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