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11/09/2017
The pace of price rises speeded up in the Czech Republic in October.
Year-on-year inflation climbed to 2.9 percent from September’s 2.7 percent, the Czech Statistical Office announced on Thursday. That is the highest rate since October 2012 and an indication of what some experts are warning is an overheated economy.
The main factors were the higher costs of food and non-alcoholic drinks. Utility charges and the costs of housing were also a major factor. Month-to-month, the inflation rate in October was 0.5 percent.
The Czech National Bank has a target yearly inflation figure of 2.0 percent.
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11/09/2017
The head of the ANO party, Andrej Babiš, has described as absurd suggestions made by Jiří Hlavatý, who was recently elected to the lower house on the ANO ticket, iDnes.cz reported. Mr. Hlavatý says the voters who cast their ballots for him to become an MP should pay for a by-election to fill his Senate seat. The wealthy businessman automatically lost his Senate mandate when he won election to the Chamber of Deputies.
Mr. Babiš said he too had not known that the two seats could not be held simultaneously and that everybody made mistakes. But he said it was absurd that Mr. Hlavatý was talking about running for the Senate again and wants voters to pay for the by-election.
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11/09/2017
The ashes of the first Czech winner of an Oscar, Ivan Jandl, are to be interred at a tomb at Prague’s Vyšehrad cemetery on Thursday. Jandl received the Academy Juvenile Award for his role in the 1948 film The Search, in which he played a nine-year-old Auschwitz survivor looking for his mother in post-war Germany. He was not allowed to travel to the US to collect the award in person.
The late child actor’s remains are being placed at Vyšehrad on the initiative of the Czech Association of Actors. Ivan Jandl did not continue as an actor but found work as an announcer on Czechoslovak Radio. He died in 1987.
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11/08/2017
The speaker of the last Chamber of Deputies, Jan Hamáček of the Social Democrats, has called the first meeting of the new one. MPs elected last month will, as expected, meet for a constituent session of the lower house on Monday November 20 from 13:00.
President Miloš Zeman had already announced that date for the first meeting of the new Chamber of Deputies. At 30 days after general elections it is the latest date for such a meeting permissible under the Czech Constitution.
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11/08/2017
All parties in the lower house should be represented on important committees and commissions, while the opposition ought to head the committee overseeing the security services, a number of groupings agreed on Wednesday. Representatives of the Civic Democrats, TOP 09, the Mayors and Independents and the Czech Pirate Party said they had reached accord on those demands following a meeting convened by Pirates’ leader Ivan Bartoš.
However, Jaroslav Faltýnek of election winners ANO said the division of places on Chamber of Deputies committees was based on the rules of the lower house.
Meanwhile other post-election talks continued on Wednesday. The Czech News Agency reported that ANO want to appoint Tomáš Hüner as minister of industry and trade in a minority government being assembled by party leader Andrej Babiš.
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11/08/2017
President Miloš Zeman says election winners ANO could form a government with the help of two other parties, the website Denik.cz reported on Wednesday. Speaking on a visit to the Liberec Region, the head of state said he believed Andrej Babiš’s party would not need to make three attempts to win approval in the lower house as a second grouping would join the Communists in allowing the formation of a minority government. However, Mr. Zeman did not name the second party.
The Communists have issued a number of demands to ANO in exchange for tolerating their planned minority cabinet, including a law on referendums.
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11/08/2017
The number of visitors who stayed in Czech hotels and other forms of accommodation increased by 5.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017 to reach seven million. There was an increase in the number of both international and domestic tourists, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Czech Statistics Office.
The total number of nights booked in Czech accommodation facilities between July and October was 19.9 million, a rise of 4.2 percent on the same period in 2016.
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11/08/2017
The Office of the President says it is planning to take legal action against a Brno local politician who claimed that President Miloš Zeman was suffering from cancer and only had months left to live. Svatopluk Bartík of the group Žít Brno made the claim on social media.
However, Mr. Zeman’s spokesman described the allegation as a disgusting lie and referred to Mr. Bartík as human garbage. He said the Office of the President would file a complaint and criminal charges against the Brno politician.
On Wednesday the president’s doctor, Miloslav Kalaš, described the claim as completely fabricated and baseless. Mr Zeman, who has been head of state since 2013, this week registered to run for a second term in office.
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11/08/2017
It should be overcast with temperatures of up to 8 degrees Celsius in the Czech Republic on Thursday. The following days are likely to see rain while snow is due in some parts of the country at the start of next week.
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11/08/2017
The Czech Republic’s footballers will take part in the China Cup next year, it was announced on Wednesday. They will face the hosts, Wales and Uruguay in the four-team international competition, which will be held in the last week of March in the city of Nanning.
The Czechs missed out on qualification for next year’s World Cup in Russia and may use the China Cup as preparation for their qualifying campaign for Euro 2020, which will begin in September.
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