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06/15/2018
Social Democrat leader Jan Hamáček said on Friday that an internal party-wide referendum had approved forming a coalition government with Prime Minister-designate Andrej Babiš's ANO movement. Just under 60 per cent of Social Democrats voted in favour of the move.
Babiš told reporters that he will meet Hamáček on Sunday and hand over a list of proposed ministers cabinet to President Miloš Zeman. But his government will still need the support of the Communists.
Communist Party leaders earlier agreed to consider tolerating the new minority coalition government – but only if it agrees to include seven of the Communists’ own basic points in its programme. They also want Babiš to guarantee that a law enforcing these priorities would be discussed by the lower house of Parliament at least six months before the end of the term.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party is due to take a final decision on the matter at their meeting in two weeks.
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06/15/2018
The American snacks giant Mondelēz International, best known as the maker of Oreo cookies and Milka-branded chocolate for the European market, has announced a 200 millon dollar investment into in a biscuit manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic, with the aim of boosting sales growth in Europe.
The plant in Opava, in the northeast of the county, currently employ nearly 1,000 people, The American multinational said that it will add five production lines to the facility
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06/15/2018
Czech Prime Minister-designate Andrej Babiš (ANO) has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Slovakia at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in the latest chapter of a long-running dispute over whether he was falsely listed as an agent of Czechoslovakia’s communist-era police, the StB.
The Slovak-born billionaire maintains that while he did meet with the StB when he was an employee of a Czechoslovak foreign trade firm, he never pledged to cooperate with them.
In February, the Regional Court in Bratislava rejected Babiš’s petition arguing that he was wrongly listed as an StB agent in the records of the Slovak National Memory Institute (ÚPN), which handles historical archives.
That petition came in response to the Slovak Constitutional Court having last year overturned earlier verdicts from other courts which had accepted Mr. Babiš’s assertion he had been incorrectly listed.
Babiš had announced his intention to file suit at the court in Strasbourg on June 6, the same day on which he was re-appointed prime minister.
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06/15/2018
Saturday should be mostly sunny with highs of 26 degrees Celcius. Rain - and possibly thunderstorms - is expected on Sunday.
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06/15/2018
An escaped pet kangaroo who goes by the name of Bennett has been captured following the combined efforts of some 15 firemen and several police officers.
The metre-tall marsupial was found in an abandoned mining area in Paskov, in the northeast of the Czech Republic. The owner of the red-breasted kangaroo, a professional breeder, had apparently underestimated how high a fence he needed.
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06/15/2018
Ahead of the anniversary of the death of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen – the first person to reach the South Pole, in December 1911 – Czech travel agency Sen said that some 10 Czechs a year follow in his footsteps. The North Pole is more popular, attracting some 20 Czechs adventurers annually.
The numbers don’t take into account individuals who make arrangements outside of travel agencies. But with estimated costs of travelling to either pole exceeding twice the average Czech annual salary, their numbers likely could be counted on one hand, CTK reported.
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06/15/2018
Prague City Hall will contribute 200 million crowns to the Opatov district to aid its effort to renovate a workers’ hostel and convert it into affordable housing.
City Councillors also agreed on Thursday to distribute 122 million crowns among seven other Prague districts for similar projects, as part of an initiative introduced in 2015.
The Opatov workers’ hostel, called Hotel Sandra, is a priority because it is seen as a hotbed for criminality and vandalism, and “troublesome” for many years, district councillor Jan Říčař (ANO) said.
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06/15/2018
A second edition of the open air Arena festival, founded by the Forman brothers, got underway at Prague’s Smíchov embankment on Thursday evening.
The event started with a solo performance by the world-known Swiss tightrope walker David Dimitri. Over the course of ten days, the festival will offer several theatre performances, concerts, a dance hall as well as workshops for children.
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06/15/2018
Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych has reached the quarter-finals at Germany’s Stuttgart Open tournament. The 32-year-old Czech, who was seeded third, defeated Benoit Paire of France 7-6 and 6-4 and marked his first win in an ATP tournament since March. He fill face Canadian Milos Raonic in the next round.
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06/14/2018
Czech President Miloš Zeman burned giant red underpants in front of journalists at Prague Castle on Thursday. The meeting had been called by the president’s spokesman Jiří Ovčáček on Wednesday as a special press briefing without any further details.
The burning of the underpants referred to the case of the Ztohoven art group, which hoisted a large pair of red trunks over Prague Castle in place of the presidential standard in late 2015 in protest at the policies of Mr. Zeman.
The Czech head of state said during the press briefing that it was time to end the era of dirty laundry in politics.
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