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06/29/2019
The amount of drug overdoses in the Czech Republic has experienced a year-on-year decrease, according to the country's Institute of Health Information and Statistics. The Czech Republic is also the EU member state with the lowest rate of overdoses resulting in death. Statisticans registered 89 deaths, around a quarter of which were the results of suicides caused by pill overdose. Other major causes of overdose deaths in the country are through the use of methamphetamine and opioid drugs.
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06/29/2019
The consolidated profit of the country's third largest company, Agrofert, sank by 63.5 percent to CZK 1.67 billion in 2018, the holding's press spokesman Karel Hanzelka told the Czech News Agency on Friday. He said the main reason behind the decrease in profits are losses in Agrofert's chemical and food production segments, this mainly due to reduced performance of the affiliated German bakery group Lienken.
The holding was founded and majority owned by current Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš until 2017, when he agreed to put his shares into a trust fund following the passing of a law that seeked to prevent a possible conflict of interest known as 'Lex Babiš'. However, a recently leaked European Commission preliminary audit found that he still has influence on the company and warned of a possible conflict of interest.
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06/29/2019
American filmstar Julianne Moore was awarded the Crystal Globe at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday. The screening of After the Wedding, the new film which features her in one of the leading roles, kicked off the festival. KVIFF President Jiří Bartoška, as well as its artistic director Eva Zaoralová, were also honoured in the opening ceremony. On Sunday, attendees can look forward to catching a glimpse of another Oscar holder, Casey Affleck, who will personally present his directorial debut Light of My Life.
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06/29/2019
Prague's gay pride march, Prague Pride, will take place on 10 August, the Czech News Agency Reports. The march, which has been taking place annually since 2011, will be the closing event of the week long LGBT Festival that starts on 5 August. At least 30,000 people are expected to take part this year.
Organisers Prague Pride are advocates for the legalisation of gay marriage, which is currently being debated in the Chamber of Deputies.
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06/29/2019
In an interview published in Mladá fronta Dnes, President Miloš Zeman expressed serious doubt about whether Michal Šmarda will replace the current Culture Minister Antonín Staněk. Mr. Šmarda was officially proposed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, but he is a nominee of the Social Democrats, who stress their coalition treaty right to have five ministers in the cabinet. They have threatened to resign from government if the change does not go ahead. President Zeman, went on to say that even if the party were to exit the coalition, he does not expect Andrej Babiš’s government to fall. Instead he said it would only lead to a cabinet reshuffle, with the government being supported by the Freedom and Direct Democracy party.
The president’s plan is now to reconcile the current culture minister with Social Democrat leader Jan Hamáček by hosting a meeting between them in his Lány country residence on July 12.
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06/28/2019
The latest Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) poll shows the ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš would win 29 percent of the vote if elections were held now, up a percentage point since May.
The Pirate Party would get 17 percent of the vote, up 3.5 percentage points since the last poll.
In third place are the Civic Democrats (15 percent), in fourth are the Communists (9 percent) and in fifth are the Social Democrats (7.5 percent) – all of which have lost about 2 percentage points in support.
The CVVM poll was collected from 8 to 17 June, more than a week before the anti- Babiš demonstration at Letná Plain that drew nearly 300,000 protestors.
The far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party gained 1.5 percentage points since May, at 6.5 percent.
At or below the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament were the Christian Democrats (5 percent), Party of Mayors and Independents (4.5 percent), Top 09 (3 percent) and Greens (1 percent).
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06/28/2019
President Miloš Zeman is due to discuss naming a new Minister of Culture on Tuesday with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and Social Democrat Party leader Jan Hamáček.
The current minister, Antonín Staněk, had announced in late May he would step down. He did so under pressure following protests among cultural official and figures.
They had objected to Staněk sacking the heads of the National Gallery in Prague and Museum of Art in Olomouc – without giving a proper explanation for his decision.
Thus far, President Zeman has refused to accept Staněk’s resignation and to appoint the Social Democrats’ candidate, Michal Šmarda.
The president argues Staněk should not be punished for revealing alleged economic malpractice at the Ministry of Culture.
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06/28/2019
Czech authorities said on Friday they had detected 14 cases of salmonella-infected poultry from Poland in the past month.
In total, some 21 tons of infected meat were discovered. This includes two cases of Czech-produced meat.
Earlier this year bad Polish beef ended up in 11 countries, including the Czech Republic. In response, authorities here implemented blanket checks on imported Polish beef.
The mandatory controls ended in late March, after Warsaw guaranteed no cattle meat unfit for human consumption would reach the market.
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06/28/2019
Saturday is set to hot and sunny, with average daytime highs of between 27 to 30 degrees Celsius. Sunday should be a real scorcher, with highs of 36 degrees Celsius and no cloud cover.
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06/28/2019
Prime Ministers of the central European countries comprising the Visegrad Four are in Prague on Friday to discuss Sunday’s extraordinary European Council on Sunday, in Brussels.
Czech PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) said he and his counterparts from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary are particularly concerned as to who the next heads of the European Council, EU Commission, and central bank will be.
Earlier this week, Babiš said it was important that none of the so-called “spitzenkandidats” – leaders of the parties in the European Parliament that did best in elections in May – received majority support.
He argues Jean-Claude Juncker’s successor should not comment on political matters but rather focus on implementing European Council conclusions.
Sunday’s extraordinary meeting in Brussels comes just two days before the constituent meeting of the newly elected European Parliament.
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