-
05/23/2018
President Miloš Zeman has set the date for the upcoming Senate and local elections, which will be held on October 5 and 6. The date is yet to be confirmed by the acting Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
Czechs will vote on 27 senatorial posts that will replace one third of the 81 members of Parliament’s upper house. Senators are voted in for a six-year term and one-third of the seats come up for re-election every two years. A second round is held in case no candidate achieves an absolute majority.
-
05/23/2018
The Czech Republic currently meets two out of four conditions for joining the euro zone, according to the European Commission’s Convergence Report reviewing member states’ progress towards euro adoption released on Wednesday.
The report concludes that the Czech Republic fulfils the criteria on public finances and long-term interest rate but doesn’t meet the price stability and the exchange rate criteria.
Along with the Czech Republic, the report covers another six EU member states that are legally committed to adopting the euro, which include Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden. The single European currency is currently used by 19 EU member states.
-
05/23/2018
The South Korean Hyundai plant in Nošovice posted a net profit to the tune of 6.69 billion crowns in 2017, a drop by 21 percent on the previous year, according to the company yearly report released on Wednesday.
The car plant in north Moravia, which produced 356,700 vehicles last year, will downsize its production in 2018, due to a slowdown of orders on the European market.
-
05/23/2018
US Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson is set to receive the Crystal Globe for his outstanding contribution to world cinema at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the festival organizers announced on Wednesday. Among other guests will be Danish actress Trine Dyrholm to present her film Nico, in which she played the lead role as Andy Warhol’s muse.
This year’s 53rd edition of the festival will take place from June 29 to July 7.
-
05/23/2018
Miloš Říha is likely to be named as the new head coach of the Czech national ice hockey team, the daily Sport reported on Wednesday. The Czech Ice Hockey Association will appoint him at a meeting in June, but according to the daily, they have already agreed on future cooperation.
Mr Říha will replace former coach Josef Jandač, who stepped down after the world championships and he is heading to KHL’s Magnitogorsk.
-
05/23/2018
Four people, including one Czech national, were arrested by Spanish police in the town of Benidorm near Valencia over illegal drug distribution, a Spanish website diarioinformacion.com reported on Wednesday.
The police seized 64 packages of cocaine and 400 pills of Viagra, which the group was planning to sell.
-
05/23/2018
A major Czech drinks maker is considering introducing deposits for plastic bottles, Czech Television reported. Karlovarské minerální vody, which sells the mineral water Mattoni, produced a study with the Institute of Circular Economics suggesting that a full third of plastic bottles in the Czech Republic are not recycled.
The drinks manufacturer said in January that it was considering bringing in deposits for PET bottles. It has commissioned an economic analysis of such a move that should be published in the autumn.
However, the Ministry of the Environment is on the fence about the idea. A spokesperson said it welcomed moves to limit the dumping of wasted but was also concerned that bottle deposits could impact the current system.
-
05/23/2018
The company R2G has made what appears to be a record acquisition for a Czech investor in the United States, iHned.cz reported. R2G has bought First Quality Nonwovens from the group First Quality Enterprises, which has factories in the US and China and supplies fabrics for hygiene products, at a cost of an estimated USD 500,000, the equivalent of almost CZK 11 billion.
R2G plans to merge First Quality Nonwovens with the Czech-based Pegas Nonwovens, which it acquired recently, to create PFNonwovens, iHned.cz reported.
-
05/22/2018
Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, says Europe should not be a protectorate of the United States but should contribute more financially to its own defence. He made the comment in Prague, where he was taking part in a public debate with Lanny Davis, a Democrat and ex-White House special counsel.
Mr. Bannon said the US had fought on Europe’s behalf in the two world wars and the Cold War. He said Europeans should be ashamed with regard to the present situation and ought to become a partner to the US in military matters.
-
05/22/2018
A move to hold a lower house discussion on President Miloš Zeman’s comments about the nerve agent Novichok was rejected on Tuesday by MPs from ANO, Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Communists. Members of the opposition say they will now attempt to push through a special session on the matter.
The Christian Democrats’ Jan Bartošek said President Zeman had harmed the Czech Republic internationally and served Russian propaganda by suggesting that a small amount of Novichok had been produced and tested in this country.
Communist leader Vojtěch Filip said the debate call was a move by those who were offended because their presidential candidate had been defeated.
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 2523
- 2524
- 2525
- 2526
- 2527
- 2528
- 2529
- 2530
- 2531
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »