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12/05/2017
Influential businessman Roman Janoušek may avoid serving the remainder of a prison term for hit and run after being ruled to be an invalid by the Regional Court in Brno, Czech Radio reported on Tuesday. The court made a decision to that effect last year on the basis of two expert medical reports that said Mr. Janoušek’s state of health had deteriorated.
The Municipal Court in Prague was to decide on whether to release him from rest of his jail term but that judgement will now be made in Brno, Czech Radio said.
Mr. Janoušek was sentenced to four and a half years following a high profile hit and run incident in 2012. Wiretaps published in the Czech media gave the impression that he had held considerable influence over politicians in the capital.
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12/05/2017
Czechs around the country are set to mark the eve of St. Nicholas Day later on Tuesday. People dress up as St. Nicholas (in Czech Mikuláš), an angel and a devil and in trios take to the streets and visit children, notionally rewarding them for being good with sweets and punishing them for bad behaviour with coal or potatoes.
The St. Nicholas tradition, which is also celebrated in different form in other European countries, dates back to the Middle Ages.
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12/05/2017
It should be overcast on Wednesday with temperatures of up to 4 degrees Celsius. The second half of the week is likely to see snow in some parts of the country.
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12/05/2017
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will present in person the Czech premiere of his documentary Human Flow in Prague next week, the head of the Czech National Gallery Jiří Fajt said on Tuesday. Mr. Fajt said that the well-known, Berlin-based dissident would also be involved in two National Gallery exhibitions in the New Year. The exhibition of his Law of the Journey, a huge installation in the form of a refugee boat, will conclude in January.
Ai Weiwei filmed Human Flow, which focuses on the migrant crisis, at around two dozen places around the world in a one-year period. The first Czech screening will take place at the Lucerna cinema on December 14.
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12/05/2017
The Communist Party’s deputies group has rejected a call from ANO to replace their nominee for head of the commission that oversees the General Inspectorate of the Security Services, Zdeněk Ondráček. ANO made the call after presidential candidate Michal Horáček pointed out that the Communist Party MP had taken part in a clampdown on demonstrators during the 1989 Velvet Revolution as a member of a riot squad.
On Monday ANO’s second in command Jaroslav Faltýnek asked the Communists to come up with a different candidate for the post, which involves oversight of the police.
The Communist Party look set to help facilitate the establishment of a minority ANO government.
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12/05/2017
In the National Hockey League in Monday, forward Jakub Voráček helped his team the Philadelphia Flyers snap a 10-game skid, picking up three assists against the Calgary Flames. The Flyers won the game by a score of 5-2. Neither Michael Frolík nor Jaromír Jágr were able to pick up points for the Flames.
Elsewhere, David Pastrňák picked up a goal and David Krejčí an assist for the Boston Bruins but it wasn’t enough. The Bruins lost to Nashville 5-3.
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12/05/2017
Around 160 people took part in a demonstration at the Transgas building in Prague, slated for demolition to make way for new apartments. Protestors are laying blame for the planned demolition of the complex of buildings, an example of Brutalist architecture, with outgoing Culture Minister Daniel Herman. The Culture Ministry refused to name the building a cultural heritage site.
Protestors called the decision for the building to be torn down “immoral”.
Monday’s demonstration was organized by Architektura 489, the Old Prague Club and others.
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12/04/2017
The country’s incoming prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has said he will begin looking for support for his minority government beginning the week before Christmas. Mr Babiš issued a statement at a press conference in Prague following a meeting of ¨ the proposed cabinet in Prague. Currently, it is unclear whether Babiš will find enough support. His ANO Party has a more seats in the chamber than any other (78) but still falls short of the minimum 101 needed for the slimmest of majorities.
The ANO leader said he would negotiate with the other parties in the lower house in the order they finished in the election in October, which means his first talks will be with the Civic Democrats.
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12/04/2017
Immunologist Ivo Hána, one of the most leading names in the field in the former Czechoslovakia as well as the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 89. His family released the news to the Czech News Agency.
Professor Hána received the state honour, the Order of Merit, from President Václav Klaus in 2008.
Hána was the honorary chairman of the Czech Immunological Society; in the 1980s he worked at Prague’s General Teaching Hospital and also headed the immunization centre for WHO in several developing countries.
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12/04/2017
President Miloš Zeman will officially accept the resignation of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobokta’s government on Tuesday.
Later this week, the head of state is to meet with ministerial nominees and will name the new government next week.
After the government is named, the new prime minister, Andrej Babiš, will have 30 days to ask the Chamber of Deputies for backing in a confidence vote. Mr Babiš has made clear he will ask for the vote in January.
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