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10/14/2017
Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime temperatures ranging between 18 ad 22 degrees Celsius.
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10/14/2017
Czech singer Karel Gott received the Golden Hen (Goldene Henne) award for lifetime achievement in Leipzig on Friday night. The singer, who is 78, has a huge fan base in Germany, where he is known as ‘the Golden Voice of Prague,’ and has been regularly appearing on German TV shows. Goldene Henne is Germany’s biggest audience award and has been presented since 1995. Gott is the second Czech to receive the prize. In 2009 it was awarded to the late Czech president Václav Havel in recognition of his life-time political work.
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10/13/2017
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka insists that a solution to the problem of double product quality, over all foodstuffs, in the EU countries requires a revision of the directive on dishonest commercial practices. Sobotka made the statement on Friday at the summit 'Equal quality of products for all', held in Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava.
The summit, convened by the Czech and Slovak governments, is attended by the Prime Ministers of the countries of the Visegrad Group, composed of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, and representatives of the European Commission.
Mr Sobotka stressed that several tests showed that the double quality of the products is not a casual phenomenon, but rather a widespread practice. He added that he considered it positive that it had been agreed that the solution to this problem should be sought jointly within the framework of the European Union and with the active participation of the European Commission.
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10/13/2017
The new chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic will be American conductor of Russian descent Semyon Bychkov, the Czech News Agency reports, citing two sources familiar with the decision-making process. The Philharmonic is reportedly due to introduce the new chief conductor at a press conference on Monday. On the day, a new contract with the conductor will also be signed.
Bychkov was guest conductor with the philharmonic last season; the Czech Philharmonic was looking for a chief conductor following the death of Jiří Bělohlávek in May of this year.
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10/13/2017
Agriculture Minister and regional council member for Olomouc Marian Jurečka has requested the regional governor to not help fund an upcoming visit by the head-of-state - set to take place in November.
The president regularly travels to regions in the Czech Republic as a means of meeting with local representatives, businesses and others. Critics have charged the visits are tantamount to a pre-election campaign. The regional governorship covered costs in the hundreds of thousands of crowns for four previous visits.
The Czech president recently scratched a planned visit to Zlín after the governor there, Jiří Čunek, made clear his office would only cover the costs for the delegations’ lunch and dinner up to a maximum 30,000 crowns.
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10/13/2017
Saturday is expected to be sunny; daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 19 degrees Celsius.
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10/13/2017
Two brothers, aged 20 and 23, who held up a traditional spring event in a village in the Zlín area and tried to make off with almost 100,000 crowns in a cash box and fired at organizers in pursuit with an air pistol, have been recommended to face trial. Police completed their investigation after five months.
The brothers have admitted their guilt, a spokeswoman for the regional police branch confirmed.
In the hold up, the two had prepared a get-away car without license plates. They also had pepper spray but were nevertheless stopped at their vehicle; if found guilty, the two could face up to five years in prison.
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10/13/2017
Euro MP Pavel Telička has said he sees no reason to give up his mandate despite his departure from the ANO party. He said that he would continue to meet goals he ran on in 2014. He told journalists on Friday there were no signals from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe that he should step down.
Mr Telička said that originally he had seen eye-to-eye on many issues with ANO party leader Andrej Babiš but made clear their paths had since diverged on issues such as the adoption of the European currency and EU integration.
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10/13/2017
World War II veteran Arnošt Polák, a Czech who served with the British RAF, has died at the age of 94. The news was announced on Thursday by the Czech Embassy in London. The group captain passed away on September 27th; he had received a Medal for Bravery from the Czech head of state weeks earlier.
Polák had served with the Czechoslovak-manned 311th bomber squadron, flying in the Vickers Wellington and B-24 Liberator, Euro.cz reported.
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10/13/2017
Czech President Miloš Zeman has expressed doubts that threats by US President Donald Trump against North Korea aren’t ridiculous as opposed to productive; he made the comments in an interview for broadcaster TV Barrandov in which he was asked about the situation in North Korea.
The president added that sanctions against the Kim regime were not working and reiterated an earlier comment that the stand-off against North Korea could be resolved by a commando who would take the leader out. There were reports recently that South Korea was planning to put together a strike team capable of taking out North Korea’s leadership.
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