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The police are searching for the identity of a foreigner suffering from amnesia. The man is believed to be in his thirties and speaks fluent German. He turned up at a police station in the town of Lednice, south Moravia, to ask for help. He had no identity papers or documents of any kind which could provide a clue. He says he has no idea how he came to be in the Czech Republic. The man is blond, blue-eyed and measures 187 centimetres. The police have asked the public for assistance.

Three Czech political parties who are holding talks on forming a centre-right coalition government agreed on Tuesday on introducing tuition fees at Czech public universities. Negotiators for the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and Public Affairs said the fees should not exceed 10,000 crowns, or 450 US dollars, per semester. Students would be able to pay the fees after graduation to make sure socially challenged students are not excluded from higher education. Social Democrat leader Bohuslav Sobotka reacted by saying his party would do everything in its power to prevent tuition fees from being approved in the lower house. Following the recent general elections, the Civic Democrat leader, Petr Nečas, is holding negotiations on forming the new government with the conservative party TOP 09 and Public Affairs. Analysts believe the new government could be formed within a month’s time.

The unemployment rate in the Czech Republic in May dropped to 8.7 percent, a decrease of 0.5 percent compared to the previous month, according to government figures released on Tuesday. Some 515,000 Czechs sought employment in May, which represented more that 15 workers per one vacancy. Last May, however, the unemployment rate was lower, at 7.9 percent. Analysts say seasonal employment, new jobs as well as community work contributed to the lower jobless rate in the third consecutive month; they point out however that fewer people were able to find jobs in May than in the previous month.

The Civic Democratic party’s local branch in the city of České Budějovice, southern Bohemia, is facing disbanding over a suspicious enrolment of new party members, a Civic Democrat party spokesman said on Tuesday. The branch has 80 members, 60 of whom joined the party last year in three waves, while most of them live elsewhere. While local party leaders reject allegations they’d formally accepted new party members to gain more voting power within the party structures, the Civic Democrat leadership is to decide whether the branch will be disbanded. Last year, another Civic Democrat local branch was disbanded after 300 new members joined within three days.