• Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou votes against nuclear waster storage site
    06/17/2018

    The inhabitants of Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, a village in the Vysočina region between Bohemia and Moravia, voted overwhelmingly against the construction of a nuclear waste storage site on their land in a referendum on Saturday.

    Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou is one of nine Czech locations being considered by experts for the purposes of a nuclear waste store. About 45 percent of the village’s inhabitants took part in the vote, which makes the referendum valid.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • French president, Czech PM to mark Czech Armed Forces Memorial Day in Darney
    06/17/2018

    French President Emmanuel Macron, along with Czech and Slovak prime ministers Andrej Babiš and Petr Pellegrini, will attend a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak armed forces, the French weekly Vosges matin wrote this week.

    The event will take place on June 30 at a memorial site in Darney in the north-east of France, where some 6,000 Czechoslovak legionaries swore allegiance to the emerging Czechoslovakia on June 30, 1918.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech actress Gabriela Vránová dies at 78
    06/16/2018

    Czech film and theatre actress Gabriela Vránová has died at the age of 78, her son announced on Saturday.

    The well-know actress spent the best part of her career at the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague, but she also performed in dozens of films and TV series and frequently worked for Czech Radio.

    She was also respected for her work as a voice artist, for which she received the František Filipovský award for lifelong mastery.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech-US couple announce comeback at Wimbledon
    06/16/2018

    Czech tennis player Lucie Šafářová and her US doubles partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands have announced a comeback after a one-year pause caused by Mattek-Sands knee injury. Šafářová announced on Saturday that she will pair up with her US partner at Wimbledon, which gets underway in July.

    The pair last played together at the French Open in 2017, picking up their fifth Grand Slam title. Mattek-Sands subsequently suffered a serious knee injury during her second-round singles match at Wimbledon, which kept her out of action for almost a year.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech PPF acquires Serbia’s Telenor banka
    06/16/2018

    The Czech-based investment group PPF will acquire 100 percent in Serbia’s Telenor banka, which is part of the Telenor Group. The deal is part of an acquisition of Telenor’s telecommunication assets in Central and Eastern Europe, namely in Hungary, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia. PPF, owned by the Czech Republic’s richest man, announced the news on Friday.

    The deal still needs to be approved by the National Bank of Serbia and the relevant antimonopoly authorities. With over 390,000 clients, Telenor ranks among the second ten largest banks on the Serbian market.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    06/16/2018

    Sunday will be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 24 to 28 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech Republic scores another victory in Diag Human arbitration battle
    06/16/2018

    The Czech Republic has achieved another victory in its international arbitration battle with the blood product company Diag Human, the Ministry of Health announced in a press release on Friday.

    The Dutch Supreme Court has dismissed a complaint from the company over alleged damages amounting to around 13 billion crowns (approximately 500 million euros).

    Diag Human has been conducting a drawn out series of legal actions against the Czech Republic over a blood plasma deal it sealed with the state in the early 1990s. It was already awarded 327 million crowns in 1997.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Social Democrats not to support former leader Jiří Paroubek in Senate elections
    06/16/2018

    The Social Democratic Party will not support its former chairman, Jiří Paroubek, in the Senate elections due to take place in the autumn, the party decided on Friday. Mr. Paroubek wanted to run as an independent candidate with the support of the Social Democrats for the Senate seat in the region of the Ostrava region.

    Jiří Paroubek, who is now 66, headed the Social Democratic Party from 2006 to 2010 and served as Prime Minister between 2005 and 2006. After leaving the Social Democrats in 2011, he established his own left-oriented party LEV 21, which failed to win seats in the lower house in the past general election.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Babiš not to nominate Poche as foreign minister candidate
    06/16/2018

    Prime Minister Andrej Babiš will not suggest Social Democrat MEP Miroslav Poche as a candidate for the post of foreign minister. Mr Babiš told the daily Právo on Saturday that the reason was Poche’s stance on migrants.

    Prime Minister Babiš se set to present President Zeman with the new cabinet line-up on Sunday. He plans to ask the lower house for a vote on confidence on July 11. President Zeman has opposed the Social Democrat’s choice of foreign minister, arguing that Poche backed immigrants coming to the country and has been critical of Israel.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Second body found in Vltava River that of missing geocacher
    06/15/2018

    The body of a man discovered on Friday afternoon in the Vltava River in central Prague has been confirmed to be that of a 28-year-old geocaching enthusiast who had been missing since Saturday.

    The grim discovery near Slovanský Island came less than a week after the body of another geocacher – a woman, also 28, who had taken part in the same GPS treasure hunt as the missing man – was found a bit farther downstream, near the Jirásek Bridge.

    There had been a torrential downpour on the day the two went missing. The woman had become trapped while in a sewer system looking for hidden GPS treasure, unaware of the dangerously fast-rising water level. Two others in their group survived.
    Author: Brian Kenety

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