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12/07/2017
The regional court in Nový Jičín has acquitted all 10 people standing trial in the case of a collapsed bridge in Studénka which caused a serious train crash in 2008. The bridge collapsed just minutes before a passenger train ploughed into the debris. Eight people died in the accident, dozens of others were injured and the damage amounted to around 180 million crowns.
The judge ruled that since experts were unable to say what exactly caused the bridge to collapse he could not attach the blame to any given person. Those charged in the case include civil engineers from the firm contracted with the renovation of the bridge. Families of the victims have expressed deep disappointment over the verdict.
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12/07/2017
The Czech Republic’s foreign trade surplus in October slumped by five billion crowns year-on-year to 9.7 billion crowns, according to preliminary data released by the Czech Statists Office on Thursday.Compared to the previous month, exports in October increased by 0.7 percent and imports by 2.2 percent.
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12/07/2017
The Czech Senate on Wednesday rejected a draft amendment to the constitutional bill on security that was aimed at allowing legal gun owners to use their weapons if called onto act in cases where members of the public were at risk.It said such a change was unnecessary and could be abused.
The draft amendment was submitted to the Senate by the previous chamber of deputies before October's general elections in reaction to the EU directive clamping down on firearms possession.
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12/06/2017
The new US ambassador to the Czech Republic, Stephen King, has offered his credentials to the Czech president Miloš Zeman and may now officially assume his duties. Mr King, a rich Republican businessman with no previous diplomatic experience, met with the Czech head of state at Prague Castle on Wednesday.
Stephen King, who is 75, worked for the FBI early in his career and was an investigator for the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. According to US media reports, King is personally connected with some close advisors to US president Donald Trump.
The president on Wednesday accepted credentials of another three newly appointed ambassadors. The diplomats are from Tunisia, Malaysia and Lebanon.
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12/06/2017
A 42-year-old Czech citizen was sentenced to more than three years in prison for drug trafficking in Germany. During a routine road check, the police discovered nine kilos of drugs inside the vehicle with a street value of 35,000 euros.
The man told the police that the drugs were to be sold in the Czech Republic and that his accomplices had acquired them in the Netherlands.
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12/06/2017
Despite retail sales growth in October being slightly behind market expectations, analysts expect a record year for the retail sector. Consumer confidence in the economy is the highest in the history of the Czech Republic.
According to the figures released by Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday, Czech retail sales, with the exception of cars, in October slowed down to 6.3 percent compared with the same month a year earlier.
Fuels, non-food and food-sales rose higher, with the highest growth in sales recorded over the Internet and via mail order firms.
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12/06/2017
The Parliamentary Defense Committee has recommended the lower house to approve the defense budget for next year, envisaging expenditure of 58.9 billion crowns. The figure is 6.4 billion higher than in the previous year.
The money will allocated for instance for the salaries of new soldiers or for the purchase of ammunition, according to a draft budget presented by the Defense Ministry on Wednesday.
The budget is likely to grow further in the following year to 66.6 billion and in 2020 to 77.3 billion crowns. Despite the increase, the level of spending is expected to reach only 1.35 percent of GDP in 2020, while the current government coalition agreed to ensure that the Czech Republic earmarks 1.4% of GDP by 2020.
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12/06/2017
President Miloš Zeman appointed ANO chairman Andrej Babiš as prime minister of the Czech Republic. The move is the first step toward the formation of a government to replace the outgoing cabinet headed by Bohuslav Sobotka.
At a ceremony at Prague Castle on Wednesday, Mr Babiš highlighted the country’s role in the fight of illegal migration, saying that the government needs to take a more active approach in dealing with illegal migrant smuggling.
Mr. Babiš is planning to form a minority government that also includes a number of non-ANO members. Five of the party’s ministers in the previous government are to remain there in the new formation.
President Zeman plans to hold talks with Mr. Babiš’s new ministerial nominees before appointing the new government in a week’s time. It will then have to undergo a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies within 30 days.
At present only the Communist Party have said they will, under certain conditions, tolerate a minority ANO cabinet
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12/06/2017
Thursday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime highs ranging between one and five degrees Celsius.
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12/06/2017
Several non-governmental organisations have called on ANO party leader and future Prime Minister Andrej Babiš not to scrap the post of minister for human rights and minorities in his new government.
Abolishing the post would complicate enforcement of equal opportunities and fight against discrimination. The organisation representatives made the appeal on Wednesday during an event at the Milada Horáková monument in Prague.
Mr Babiš has made clear he didn’t want to keep the post of human rights minister in his cabinet. It is not yet clear who will be in charge of the human rights and minorities agenda.
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