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11/06/2019
Customs officers have arrested six individuals in South Moravia who are suspected of trafficking drugs. More than ten kilograms of narcotics and tens of thousands of ecstasy tablets were found during the raid, the Czech News Agency reports. Five of the individuals are facing charges and could receive sentences of up to 18 years in prison if found guilty.
Police started investigating the case in April, when two suspicious packages containing more than four kilograms of crystallised MDMA were discovered at a postal station in Prague. According to the spokeswoman of the South Moravian Customs Administration Lada Temňáková, Czech authorities worked together with America’s Drug Enforcement Administration on the case. She says that aside from the USA some packages were also destined for Australia.
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11/06/2019
Some schools in the Czech Republic are closed on Wednesday while others are offering only partial services due to a one-day strike. Union leaders called the action after the government rejected their demand of a 10-percent rise next year in basic salaries for teachers and others working in the schools sector.
The unions said on Monday that around 6,000 schools would take part, which would be over half the entire number in the country.
The government offered teachers an 8-percent pay rise from January, with 2 percent more to be at the discretion of principals.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday morning, Education Minister Robert Plaga (ANO) described the strike as a debacle for the trade unions. According to him there is no mass support for the strike and that many teachers had joined in the action not because of the trade unions’ demands, but because they want to see an increase in the education budget.
Meanwhile, trade unionists say that in spring the government had promised a pay increase of 15 percent.
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11/06/2019
Slavia Prague drew 0:0 with Barcelona away on Tuesday night in the Champions League. The hosts’ captain Lionel Messi hit the post with a shot in the first half and the Czech side’s goalkeeper Ondřej Kolář kept out a number of other chances.
The result leaves Slavia on two points at the bottom of their group. The Czech league champions will welcome Inter Milan in their next outing in the competition in a fortnight’s time before facing Borussia Dortmund in their final group game on December 10.
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11/05/2019
At a summit in Prague on Tuesday, representatives of 16 European Union states issued a joint declaration calling for no reduction in the amount spent on cohesion policy in the EU budget for the period 2021 to 2027.
The Friends of Cohesion group also demanded an end to all budget rebates – which chiefly benefit states from Western Europe – and for its members to obtain greater flexibility in handling money from EU funds.
The Friends of Cohesion alliance mainly comprises countries from the eastern part of the EU.
On the side lines of the main summit in Prague, Visegrad Four leaders called the EU budget framework for 2021 to 2027 unjust. They said its planned cut in cohesion spending would make worse off states poorer and better off states richer.
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11/05/2019
Petr Pavel says he may run for president in future under certain circumstances. The retired army general told news site Echo24 he would stand if a candidate entered the race that would push the country even closer toward Russia and make the Czech Republic more like Hungary.
The one-time chairman of the NATO Military Committee made similar statements in other freshly published media interviews.
General Pavel told Reflex that he would run in certain circumstances as a “civic responsibility”. He added that he was not ashamed of his membership of the Communist Party prior to 1989; this fact is seen as potentially disqualifying him with a section of the electorate.
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11/05/2019
A freshly published opinion poll suggests that government leaders ANO enjoy 33.1 percent voter support. The STEM survey indicates that the Pirate Party would have received 12.2 percent backing if elections had been held last month, ahead of the Civic Democrats on 10.5 percent.
The poll indicates the Christian Democrats would scrape past the 5 percent threshold, though two other parties now in the lower house, TOP 09 and the Mayors and Independents, would not.
By contrast the new Tricolour party, with 4.2 percent in the survey, would be close to winning seats.
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11/05/2019
Patrik Schick has been left out of the Czech football squad for the country’s final qualifying games for the 2020 European Championship. Trainer Jaroslav Šilhavý did name the Leipzig forward, who is injured, as a possible late squad addition but he is unlikely to be called up.
There are no previously uncapped players in the group to face Kosovo at home on November 14 and Bulgaria away three days later. The Czechs are currently three points behind leaders England and one point ahead of Kosovo in their qualifying group.
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11/05/2019
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with temperatures reaching up to 11 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected for the remainder of the week.
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11/05/2019
MEP Mikuláš Peksa has stood down as deputy chair of the Czech Pirate Party. He announced the step on Tuesday in protest at the fact that Jakub Michálek had defended his post as deputy chair of the opposition grouping in a vote that concluded on Monday evening.
Mr. Michálek had been accused of arrogant behaviour and the psychological harassment of subordinates. He denied the accusation, saying only that he placed high demands on people.
Mr. Michálek had earlier said he would not stand again for leadership position in the Pirates a congress in January.
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11/05/2019
Communist Party MP Stanislav Grospič has apologised for statements he made regarding the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. He came in for strong criticism two weeks ago when he said that what had occurred was not an occupation and that most of those who died were victims of road accidents.
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Grospič said that he was sorry about the way his words had been perceived and apologised greatly for them.
He made the original comments before a vote making August 21, the anniversary of the invasion, a significant day in the calendar. Only one Communist MP voted for the motion, with the rest abstaining.
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