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10/13/2017
The Škoda Auto brand and that of Volkswagen and Spanish manufacturing unit SEAT should be more clearly distinguished from each other according to the general manager of the Volkswagen Group, Matthias Müller.
The move should, it is claimed, help reduce conflicts and tension between the companies targeting the same mass market. Production should be targeted at 14 different customer segments, according to the declaration made to managers in Volkswagen’s home city of Wolfsburg.
Media reports have recently suggested tension within the group particular focused on suspicions that the success of Škoda Auto could be coming at the expense of other Volkswagen companies .
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10/13/2017
A row has broken out at the top of Czech football with the head of the reigning champions, Slavia Prague, warning that it will refuse to allow players to be released to play for the national team.
The warning has come from Slavia head Jaroslav Tvrdík, who said he was disgusted by the attacks on national manager, Karel Jarolím, by the deputy chairman of the football association, Roman Berbr.
Jarolím was confirmed in his position on Tuesday in spite of the Czech failure to qualify for next year’s World Cup in Russia. Berbr, according to the news site Aktualne.cz, has continued his attacks on the manager and said that the only reason he has not been sacked is that the contract is difficult to terminate.
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10/12/2017
Prague is considering a campaign aimed at alerting tourists to sharp practices by currency exchange booths and those offering currency exchange on the streets. The move is being weighed following a similar one already carried out targeting dishonest taxi drivers. It could include leaflets in hotels and tourist hotspots.
Tougher moves, regulating the exchange rate offered, have been proposed by the Pirates party. The Czech National Bank is the main organ regulating exchange offices and has increased the number of checks and actions taken against them over recent years.
Many tourists exchanging money at such offices or on the street are unaware of what the official exchange rate is or what Czech bank notes look like, making them easy prey to conmen and sharp traders.
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10/12/2017
Andrej Babiš reacted to the Slovak court ruling about his alleged StB agent past saying he was disappointed that it will once again be the subject of court deliberations.
The leader of the Czech ANO party, which is leading the polls just over a week ahead of Czech elections to the lower house of parliament, said the decision by the Constitutional Court would be used against him by political rivals. He added that he would seek to protect his name in the courts.
Babiš was originally cleared of being of being an StB agent by two lower Slovak courts although archive material suggested that he was. Some Czech politicians reacted by saying Babiš had not place in top politics after such a court ruling.
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10/12/2017
A comparison of 21 food products sold in five countries, including the Czech Republic, has showed differences in most of them.
The examination of the contents of food sold in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary was carried out by a Prague university with the results released on Thursday. It found only seven of the products were totally the same. There were small variations for three products. And for 11 products the variations were considerable. In most cases, the quality of food offered in Germany was superior. The latest results are likely to bolster the campaign by Czech and other Central European countries against dual quality foodstuffs being sold in the same packaging across the European Union.
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10/12/2017
The weather on Friday should be cloudy with sunny intervals across most of the country. Top daytime temperatures will range between 15 to 19 degrees Celsius.
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10/12/2017
The Czech upper house, the Senate, has condemned head of state Miloš Zeman’s comments to the Council of Europe parliaemntary assembly over Crimea.
It said his words appeared to legitimise the Russian annexation of Crimea. The final resolution said that Zeman should respect the lines of Czech foreign policy. A tougher resolution that the president had damaged the reputation of the Czech Republic was not adopted.
Zeman said that the annexation was now a fait accompli and suggested that Russia might compensate Ukraine through deliveries of natural gas or oil.
Zeman’s spokesman later commented that the president’s comments this week was not meant to legitimise the annexation but were a considered and realistic evaluation of the current situation.
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10/12/2017
Corruption watchdog and good government promoter, Transparency International, has released the results of its monitoring of Czech political parties’ openness about their funding and spending ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections.
Director David Ondráčka said the results broadly showed parties such as The Greens and Pirates as being the most open.
Traditional parties, such as the Social Democrats and Civic Democrats, occupied a mid-ranking position. The Realist party, the SPO party linked to president Miloš Zeman, and Freedom party scored worst.
Elections to the lower house of parliament take place on October 20 and 21.
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10/12/2017
The deputy mayor of Jihlava, ANO’s Jana Mayerová, has been charged by police in connection with the so-called Stork’s Nest Affair, the Czech daily Dnes reported on Thursday.
The paper said the report was based on comments from the mayor herself. The affair focuses on ANO party leader, Andrej Babiš, with suspicions that 50 million crowns in EU funds were misused in the development of a hotel and congress centre linked with Babiš’ party.
The mayor, who has long been ill, says she is considering resignation.
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10/12/2017
The Slovak Constitutional Court on Thursday cancelled earlier court decisions ruling that Czech leader of the party ANO was wrongly referred to as an agent of the former communist secret police, the StB.
The court was addressing a complaint from the Nation’s Memory Institute surrounding the past of Babiš. The institute, which manages and interprets the archives from the communist era and before, had objected to an earlier court ruling that ANO leader Babiš did not collaborate with the StB.
Part of the evidence for the former verdict was based on witness statements from former StB agents. Babiš has repeatedly denied accusations that he collaborated with the StB in spite of archive material that suggested he did. The court cast doubt on the previous evidence of StB agents in Babiš’ favour.
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