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05/14/2018
The ANO party will not reveal its list of candidates for ministers in the next coalition government, ANO leader and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Monday. He was responding to calls from the Social Democrats for the list to be unveiled ahead of a Social Democratic Party referendum on whether the party should enter into a coalition government with ANO.
ANO will also need to address a recently voiced condition for tolerance from the Communist Party which wants the parties of the future government to commit not to increase the country’s presence in foreign missions.
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05/14/2018
Art historians from the Academy of Sciences have appealed to Prague councillors not to approve the demolition of Libeň Bridge dating back to 1928. City councillors are divided on the matter and are due to vote on it on Thursday.
Art historians have sent the city council an open letter asking councillors not to consider just the economic aspects of the decision but to take into account the cultural legacy which is at stake.
The bridge has been badly neglected and some councillors argue that pulling it down and building a new bridge would be less costly than saving the old one.
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05/14/2018
The Ministry of Finance has been fined for violating public tenders, Czech television reported on Monday.
The Antimonopoly Office is reported to have found violations in more than half a dozen cases and fined the ministry over 1.5 million crowns altogether.
The ministry rejects any wrongdoing and has taken the matter to the regional court in Brno.
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05/14/2018
MPs are considering legislative changes in a response to a major shortage of doctors working with the emergency services, Czech Television reported on Monday. Under a new proposal, young doctors who do not yet have the attestation that makes them full doctors would be allowed to serve with ambulance crews if they are overseen by an experienced colleague.
Rescue services in all regions of the country are suffering from a shortage of doctors. Or almost 1,000 in action at present only around 60 are young doctors, Czech Television said.
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05/14/2018
The Czech Republic have reached the quarter-finals of the Ice Hockey World Championships. Coach Josef Jandač’s team demolished France 6:0 and had their qualification secured when Sweden later beat Switzerland.
David Pastrňák and Roman Horák scored two apiece for the Czech Republic while Dmitrij Jaškin and Martin Nečas each found the net once in Sunday’s game. In their final Group A match the Czechs will face Austria later on Monday.
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05/13/2018
Following a period of unusually warm weather for the time of year, forecasters are predicting a return to normal. According to a regular four-week forecast issued by the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute, both temperatures and precipitation should be average for the time of year between now and mid-June.
The warmest week in the coming month should be the second week of June, the meteorologists say.
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05/13/2018
The Social Democrats say they have no intention of a written agreement with the Communist Party under which the latter would pledge support for a possible coalition of ANO and the Social Democrats. Martin Netolický, deputy chair of the Social Democrats, expressed their position on a TV debate show on Sunday. He said it would be up to ANO to deal with the Communists as the main party in the potential government.
Mr. Netolický also said it was not the Communists’ place to assess the names his party was putting forward for the cabinet as the party would not bear responsibility for governing the country.
Talks are ongoing about an ANO-Social Democrats minority government supported on key votes in the lower house by the Communists. This would give the latter a share of power for the first time since 1989.
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05/13/2018
State attorney Jaroslav Šaroch has questioned the police’s findings in the case of acting prime minister Andrej Babiš, the news site Novinky.cz reported on Sunday. Last week Mr. Šaroch rejected a petition from Mr. Babiš and six others facing fraud charges, who argued that the case against them was unfounded.
While the state attorney rejected their claim, he also wrote that the police’s conclusions were “not final and need not be completely credible”, Novinky.cz wrote, quoting Mr. Šaroch’s statement.
ANO leader Babiš is one of a number of people accused of abusing around CZK 50 million in European Union subsidies in connection with the Stork’s Nest complex near Prague. The acting PM denies any wrongdoing and describes the charges as fabricated.
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05/13/2018
Monday should be bright in the Czech Republic, with temperatures of up to 21 degrees Celsius. Rain and temperatures in the high teens are forecast from Tuesday until the end of the week.
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05/13/2018
Tiny electric cars will soon become available to hire in central Prague using a mobile phone application, the news site Echo24 reported. The company Re.volt will put the Chinese made, two-person vehicles into trial operation in the Prague 1 and Prague 2 districts from the start of June.
Users will be charged by the minute for the use of the yellow cars from manufacturer Si-an. Initially 20 of them will be available.
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