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07/10/2013
The Czech Republic’s gross government dept decreased in the second quarter of this year by 37.5 billion crowns to 1.678 trillion. One of the main reasons for the decline was the repayment of 62.9-billion-crowns worth of state-issued bonds. Although this is a significant quarterly decrease, the debt did increase in comparison to December of last year by 10.5 billion crowns.
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07/10/2013
World famous jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will perform with the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra on Wednesday night at the Municipal House in Prauge. The concert is part of the Prague Proms musical program that includes both classical music and jazz performances. As part of the Proms series, Prague audience had a chance to hear actor and singer F. Murray Abraham earlier this month. Prague Proms are also host a free open-air concert on Wenceslas Square on Sunday evening.
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07/10/2013
The Czech Film and Television Academy has announced that the next annual academy awards, formerly known as the Czech Lion, will not be held at the traditional venue – the Lucerna ballroom in Prague. After twenty years, the academy is looking for a new location for the award ceremony, which is scheduled for 22 February of next year. The director of the academy, Ivo Mathé, said that in the future the award ceremony needs to be more elegant and be more of a tribute to Czech cinematography rather than a showcase of the sponsors. The academy will possible also need to come up with a new name, since producer Petr Vachler who holds the rights to the Czech Lion trademark refused to sell it to the academy for the price they had offered.
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07/10/2013
During preparations for the installation of new plumbing in the center of Prague, archeologists discovered the remains of a large farm house from the beginning of the 13th century. Only a few meters below street level on Rytířská street, a building 70 meters long and eight meters wide was uncovered. Archeologists from the Prague City Museum said that this building was larger than most built at the time. They were able to recover brickwork from the outer wall of the building as well as the remains of a medieval stove.
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07/09/2013
The campaign account of unsuccessful presidential candidate Jan Fischer has received over CZK 5 million in donations in the last week. A former interim prime minister, Mr. Fischer is set to become minister of finance and deputy prime minister in a caretaker cabinet headed by Jiří Rusnok. Mr. Fischer had pledged to clear his campaign debts – which recently stood at around CZK 5 million – before taking up the new post; he said the names of his sponsors were made public on his presidential campaign website.
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07/09/2013
Jan Fischer’s selection means the line-up of the Rusnok cabinet is complete. The interim government will be appointed on Wednesday, from which point it will have 30 days to win a confidence vote in the lower house. If, as many expect, it fails to win backing, President Miloš Zeman can task a new prime minister with forming a government. However, there is no deadline under which he would have to take such a step. If the president’s second nominee is also unsuccessful, the chair of the lower house gets to choose a prime minister.
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07/09/2013
Only five of the 17 members of the outgoing cabinet of Petr Nečas paid a farewell visit to President Zeman at Prague Castle on Monday evening. Among those who failed to attend were all of the ministers from the TOP 09 party, while among those who did was Vlastimil Picek, who will hold on to the defence portfolio in the cabinet of Jiří Rusnok. Mr. Nečas’s government, which was due to rule until next spring, fell last month after his close aide was charged in connection with a spying and corruption scandal.
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07/09/2013
The Supreme State Attorney’s Office has dismissed police charges against the former minister of health Tomáš Julínek. He had been facing charges of abuse of office and breach of trust for outsourcing air rescue services to a private company. However, a spokesperson for the Supreme State Attorney’s Office said the police would need to produce more evidence if they want to pursue the matter further. Mr. Julínek, who was arrested in April, has described as absurd the accusation that he cost the state nearly CZK 800 million by getting private contractors to supply air rescue services; they had previously been provided by the defence and interior ministries via the army and the police.
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07/09/2013
Officials in České Budějovice organised a public meeting on Tuesday in a bid to resolve racial tensions in the South Bohemian city, which has recently seen two large demonstrations against the Roma minority. The gathering, at a local sports arena, was attended by around 600 people. At the weekend over 150 people were detained during violent protests that centred on a neighbourhood in the city with a high percentage of Roma residents; the clashes followed a fight at a children’s playground there last month.
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07/09/2013
Fifteen percent of Czechs have encountered bribery in the public sector in the last year, suggests a new survey released by the watchdog group Transparency International. In the same report, 21 percent of Slovaks said they had come across bribery in the public sector in the previous 12 months, while the figure for the U.K. was five percent. The poll indicates that bribery is worst in the health sector in the Czech Republic, with over half of respondents saying they had given a bribe in order to receive better or speedier medical treatment.
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