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12/20/2017
A proposed district of government buildings could be created in Prague’s Holešovice district, by the Nádraží Holešovice Metro station, the city’s mayor, Adriana Krnáčová, and Ondřej Boháč of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development told journalists on Wednesday.
As many as four ministries could be located in the district, which has been proposed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of ANO and features in the party’s policy programme for government.
Buildings in central Prague that currently house ministries could serve as museums or galleries, Mr. Babiš says.
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12/20/2017
Snow is expected in the Czech Republic on Thursday, along with temperatures of up to 3 degrees Celsius. More snow is forecast for the remainder of the week.
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12/20/2017
The enhanced position of Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Communists, with whom the ANO government are cooperating in the Chamber of Deputies, represents a threat to freedom and democracy in the Czech Republic, says the head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Dominik Duka.
Explaining his comments, the primate referred to some nominees to head lower house committees, including the Communists’ Zdeněk Ondráček, who while a member of a police riot squad took part in violent clampdowns on protestors prior to the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
In an interview for Czech Television, Cardinal Duka also said that the opposition parties were behaving like the democratic groupings in Czechoslovakia in 1948, when the Communist Party took power.
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12/20/2017
The former Czech football captain Tomáš Rosický has retired from the game. Speaking at a news conference in Prague on Wednesday, the playmaker, who is 37, said his body had been telling him for a long time that he could not continue and that he no longer had anything to offer on the pitch.
Rosický played for Sparta Prague, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal in a career that was frequently blighted by injury. He lifted the Bundesliga title with Dortmund and picked up two FA Cup winners medals with Arsenal. He earned 105 international caps, scoring 23 goals for the Czech Republic.
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12/20/2017
Prague police are searching for a man who failed to return a rented Ferrari worth six million crowns (the equivalent of roughly 233,000 euros) and left only a retainer of a quarter million.
The police confirmed that the suspect, now wanted for fraud, had rented before; they would not say whether his identity had been confirmed or if he had used false documents.
The police posted a picture of the suspect and have asked members of the public for help. If apprehended and found guilty the suspect could face up to 10 years in jail.
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12/20/2017
A vote to elect a new chairman of the standing parliamentary commission overseeing the police general inspectorate (GIBS) will have to be repeated, the speaker of the lower house Radek Vondráček made clear on Wednesday, citing “confusion” in a second secret vote on Tuesday.
The Communist Party’s nominee Zdeněk Ondráček was originally thought to have been elected before a technical issue came to light, casting the result of the vote in doubt.
His election, seen as highly controversial because of Mr Ondráček’s role as a communist-era police officer who took part in a clampdown on student demonstrators in 1989, prompted dozens of people to protest in front of Parliament on Tuesday evening before the announcement was made.
A third attempt to elect the nominee as chairman will take place in mid-January.
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12/19/2017
Lawmakers passed the state budget proposal for 2018 after more than six hours of debate on Tuesday; 140 of 199 MPs present voted in favour. Next year's budget is counting on a deficit of 50 billion crowns. Revenues should be 1314.5 billion crowns and expenditures 1364.5 billion in 2018.
The budget, prepared by the former Social Democrat-led government, saw 31 Civic Democrat and TOP 09 MPs vote against.
The opposition parties criticized the budget for what they charge is a needlessly high deficit at a time of economic growth, arguing the government should have proposed a balanced budget instead.
The bill must now be signed by the president.
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12/19/2017
In a second secret vote, lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies elected Communist Party MP Zdeněk Ondráček to head the standing parliamentary commission overseeing GIBS – the police general inspectorate. The news was confirmed by ANO party member Martin Kolovratník.
Mr Ondráček’s nomination was previously called “problematic” by the prime minister and was opposed by presidential candidate Michal Horáček, who wrote a letter to the prime minster to protest that Mr Ondráček had been a member of a Communist-era police unit which clamped down on student demonstrators in 1989.
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12/19/2017
Dignitaries and relatives of victims on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the Christmas market attack in Berlin last year which killed 12 people, including Czech national Naďa Čižmárová, and left 56 others injured.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at the ceremony, pledged to help those who had suffered injury or lost loved ones. She also spoke of the necessity to improve how authorities responded to similar attacks.
On December 19, 2016, a Tunisian asylum seeker went on a rampage, driving a stolen truck into pedestrians at the crowded Christmas market; he was later shot dead in Italy.
On Tuesday, Berlin's Mayor Michael Mueller unveiled a memorial at the site of the attack with the names of those who had died and an almost 17-meter gash filled with a gold-coloured metal, representing the tragedy and lives lost.
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12/19/2017
Wednesday is expected to be cloudy with daytime highs of just 0 degrees Celsius.
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