• Czech tourists died in Austrian Alps
    07/09/2018

    A Czech hiker reported missing in Austria has been found dead, local police wrote on their Twitter account on Monday. The 62-year-old tourist got lost in the Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps due to heavy fog. His body was discovered by rescuers on Monday.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Number of Czech dollar millionaires increases to 28,140
    07/09/2018

    The number of dollar millionaires in the Czech Republic has increased to 28,140, which is an increase of nearly 11 per cent on the previous year, according to figures released by the consultancy Capgemini on Monday.

    The combined wealth of Czech dollar millionaires increased by 13 per cent over the past year, to 68.5 billion US dollars. Among the main factors behind the growing number of wealthy Czechs is the country’s increasing GDP and growing real estate prices as well as the strengthening of local investment markets.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    07/09/2018

    Tuesday is expected to be overcast with scattered showers and daytime highs ranging between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Communists pledge to support minority government in confidence vote
    07/09/2018

    The Communist Party will support the newly-appointed government of ANO and the Social Democrats at its upcoming vote of confidence on Wednesday, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday, citing the pre-negotiated tolerance agreement between the Communists and the ANO Party.

    The leaders of the Communist Party and ANO, Vojtěch Filip and Andrej Babiš, are set to sign the tolerance agreement on Tuesday. The Communist Party linked its support to a number of conditions, including a minimum wage hike and support for a law taxing Church restitutions
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • More than 40 bands to perform at this year’s Masters of Rock
    07/09/2018

    More than 40 bands from all over the world are set to perform at the 16th annual Masters of Rock festival, which gets underway in Vizovice in south Moravia on Thursday.

    Among the main headliners of this year’s edition of Masters of Rock will be the German speed metal legend Helloween and metal group Powerwolf. The festival, which attracts around 25,000 visitors each year, will wrap up on Sunday with a performance by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Illegal migration to Germany via Czech Republic down since March
    07/09/2018

    The flow of illegal migrants to Germany through the Czech Republic has dropped since March, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček (Social Democrats) told the Czech News Agency, following a weekend meeting between German and Czech police officials.

    Hamáček, who is currently also acting as the Czech foreign minister, credited increased cooperation between the countries’ police forces for stemming the tide. He did not provide specific figures. But his overall assessment contradicted that of Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, who said the traffic was on the rise and has called for the Schengen border between Slovenia and Croatia to be protected by its own Frontex mission.

    Most illegal migrants travelling on the so-called Balkan Route pass through Slovenia and Austria before arriving in Germany.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Czech foreign trade surplus down by CZK 8.2bn y/y in May
    07/09/2018

    The Czech external trade balance in goods ended in a surplus of 6.9 billion crowns in May, down 8.2 billion crowns in annual terms, according to preliminary data published by the Czech Statistical Office on Monday.

    Year−on−year, the total balance was unfavourably influenced mainly by a decrease of surplus in 'motor vehicles' and a larger deficit in 'coke and refined petroleum products', 'other transport equipment' and 'chemicals and chemical products'. A lower deficit in 'computer, electronic and optical products' had the main positive effect on the total trade balance.

    From January to May, the trade balance surplus reached 80.9 billion crowns, a decrease of 13.2 billion crowns in annual terms. From the start of 2018, exports decreased by 2.6% year-on-year and imports increased by 0.6%.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Weather
    07/08/2018

    Monday should be mostly cloudy and moderately windy with daytime temperatures of between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius. Light showers are likely throughout the southern half of the Czech Republic, including Prague.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Prague archbishop vows to fight “scandalous” tax on restituted church property
    07/08/2018

    Cardinal Dominik Duka, the archbishop of Prague, has called the incoming ANO-Social Democrat coalition government’s plans to tax restituted church property "scandalous" and pledged to sue in court to prevent it from happening.

    Under a 2012 agreement on compensating churches for property seized by the Communists, over a period of 30 years the churches would receive 75 billion crowns worth of land and property and nearly 60 billion crowns in compensation.

    The Communists have conditioned their support for the minority coalition government of Prime Minister Andrei Babiš, which faces a confidence vote on July 11, on its support for the tax.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • PM Babiš to hold confidence vote on July 11
    07/08/2018

    Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said his centrist ANO party and the centre-left Social Democrats plan to sign a coalition agreement on Tuesday, and the Communists will sign a separate agreement the same day to tolerate his minority government.

    Mr Babiš will hold a confidence vote on Wednesday. ANO and the Social Democrats have only 93 seats in the 200-member lower house of Parliament and so will need the support of the Communists to win the vote.
    Author: Brian Kenety

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