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10/09/2018
Prague Castle will host a Chinese Investment Forum from October 15 -17.
The president’s chancellor, Vratislav Mynář, told the CTK news agency the forum will be attended by some 250 guests from China, up to 150 guests from CEE countries and roughly 100 guests from the Czech Republic.
Mynář said President Zeman would be attending Tuesday’s gala evening.
After Chinese investments in the Czech Republic failed to meet expectations, the aim of the organizers is to make the forum more business-oriented and result driven.
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10/08/2018
The Czech intelligence service BIS played a big part in helping to identify and disconnect Hezbollah servers in the Czech Republic, other EU member states and the US, the agency’s head Michal Koudelka said in a press statement for the ctk news agency.
The cyber espionage group running them operated fake Facebook accounts in order to hack computers and acquire information.
It had been under surveillance since 2017.
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10/08/2018
Oyub Titiev a staunch defender of human rights in Chechnya, who has been in detention in Russia since January of this year, is the winner of the 2018 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly announced on Monday. Other nominees shortlisted were young Cuban democracy and human rights activist Rosa María Payá and prominent democracy and human rights defender in Bahrain Nabeel Rajab who is currently also imprisoned.
The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the PACE in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond.
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10/08/2018
Tuesday should be clear and sunny around the country with day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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10/08/2018
Politicians must work together to build trust in democratic governance and fight growing support for protest and anti-establishment parties and groupings not just in Europe but the world over, Deputy Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček said at the international conference Forum 2,000 currently underway in Prague.
Petříček said liberal democracy was still the best system of governance created by mankind, but it would have to be more efficient and faster in dealing with problems in order to regain trust.
He added that Czech politicians who had experienced the communist regime had a duty to keep reminding society that freedom and democracy were not to be taken for granted and must be defended and protected at all times.
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10/08/2018
President Miloš Zeman is to appoint Tomáš Petříček foreign minister on October 16th, the president’s spokesman announced on Monday.
Although the appointment had been expected already this week, it was reportedly postponed due to the fact that the president will be travelling to Slovakia to attend a Visegrad Group summit in Bratislava.
The Czech foreign ministry has been run on a temporary basis by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, after President Zeman refused to appoint the Social Democrat’s previous nominee Miroslav Poche to the post.
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10/08/2018
Coalition talks on the set-up of local councils are taking place around the country in the wake of the weekend communal elections.
ANO, which won in all the big cities with the exception of Prague and Liberec, is consolidating its position in the other municipalities.
In Prague, the Pirates Party, which came a close second, after the Civic Democrats, is negotiating a possible coalition deal with TOP 09, the Mayors and Independents and the new grouping Praha sobě.
It has offered the said parties four seats each on the council, while it would take two and the post of Prague mayor.
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10/08/2018
The Forum 2000 conference held under the theme “Democracy: In need of a critical update?” got underway in Prague on Sunday. The annual three-day conference, now in its 22nd year, is hosting a wide range of politicians, philosophers, authors, activists, entrepreneurs, artists and thinkers.
Among other topics, discussions will examine current social and economic challenges to democracy, growing populism and nationalism. Forum 2000 is looking to engage the younger generation to share their views on these issues and discuss ways to renew trust in democratic governance.
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10/08/2018
Unemployment in Prague fell to 2.1 percent in September, down 0.1 percentage points compared to August.
The Czech capital has the fourth-lowest unemployment rate among the regions, after those of Pardubice (at 1.9 percent) and Pilsen and South Bohemia (both at 2 percent).
The Moravian-Silesian Region has the highest rate of unemployment (at 4.6 percent) followed by the Ústí nad Labem region (at 4.5 percent).
That national unemployment rate is currently under 3 percent, the lowest level in 22 years.
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10/07/2018
President Miloš Zeman will present pop singer Michal David with state honours on October 28, the day marking the centenary of Czechoslovakia’s founding.
David, whose birth name is Vladimír Štancl, studied at the Prague Conservatory in the 1970s where he formed a jazz band. He became a major pop star in the 1980s with synthesizer-heavy disco tunes such as “Non stop”.
His made a comeback in 1998 when he composed and sang the "hymn" for the Czech national ice hockey team, which that year won the Nagano Winter Olympics. Since then, he has composed and produced several hit musicals.
Zeman said in an interview with the tabloid Blesk that he would be honouring David for his life’s work in making Czech people’s lives better.
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