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09/26/2017
The winner of the main category in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists this year was Karina Movsesjan, an 18-year-old from the Czech town of Karlovy Vary. Her research was in the field of cancer inception and explored how a particular protein mutates.
Movsesjan is a student of biotechnology at Masaryk University in Brno. She was one of around 120 teenagers from around the continent who attended this year’s edition of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in the Estonian capital Tallinn.
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09/26/2017
The Czech Republic has been judged the world’s unhealthiest country by Clinic Compare, a UK clinic comparison website. It collated information from the World Health Organization, the CIA World Factbook and the World Lung Association and ranked each state according to three factors: alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption and obesity levels.
The study’s authors said residents of the Czech Republic consumed an average of 13.7 litres of pure alcohol annually and ranked 11th highest in per capita cigarettes smoked a year. Russia came second in the survey, followed by Slovenia, Belarus and Slovakia.
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09/26/2017
Actress Květa Fialová died on Tuesday at the age of 88 after a career of almost seven decades. Born in what is today Slovakia, she was known for her stage, film and television work.
Fialová was hired by Jan Werich for his Divadlo ABC theatre in the late 1950s and appeared in a host of popular movies, including Lemonade Joe, Dinner for Adela and Closely Observed Trains.
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09/26/2017
Seven parties would win seats in the Czech parliament according to the latest poll taken by the CVVM agency and released with less than a month to go ahead of elections.
The poll puts ANO in the lead with 30.9 percent, followed by the Social Democrats at 13.1 percent with the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in third place with 11.1 percent. The right of centre Civic Democrats are seen with 9.1 percent support and the Christian Democrats with 6.2 percent.
The poll, carried out at the start of September, also tips the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party of Tomio Okamura to enter parliament with 7.3 percent support and the Pirates also with 6.4 percent.
Elections to the lower house take place on 20 and 21 October.
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09/26/2017
Czech film director Jiří Mádl says filming of comedy drama in which Jan Tříska was due to take part in before his death will continue as a tribute to the actor.
The film, with the working title Na Střeše, is a comedy about life in the Vietnamese community in Prague and was due to start filming with Tříska on Monday. The actor’s death was announced the same day following injuries after he fell from Prague’s Charles Bridge at the weekend.
Mádl said Tříska, 80, had a ritual of walking on the bridge before shooting films, adding that he had prepared for the session and tried out all the costumes.
Tříska emerged as a talented actor in the 1960s and left for Canada and later the US in 1977. He was a major figure in both Czech and international films.
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09/25/2017
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has assured his Czech counterpart that the rights of Czechs living and working in Britain will be assured following Brexit.
Johnson was in Prague on September 25 for talks with Lubomír Zaorálek in what the British minister described as a first stop on a round of European capitals to explain the British position outlined by prime minister Teresa May on Florence, Italy, three days earlier.
Johnson said Britain greatly appreciated the contribution of the estimated 45,000 Czechs in the UK. He added that London wanted to retain current strong trade relations with the Czech Republic.
PM May outlined the prospect of an extra transitional two year membership of the EU single market for Britain in Florence before final Brexit trade terms took effect.
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09/25/2017
The Cabinet on Monday approved a memorandum over the future of the auto industry in the Czech Republic. The three-page memorandum seeks how to realise an already finalized action plan setting out the challenges and opportunities for the auto production and parts sector in the country.
Car production is the single most important industrial sector in the Czech Republic, with three car makers active and many more jobs linked to the dozens of components companies.
The sector is at a crucial crossroads with moves towards electric cars and driverless vehicles with those changes demanding more electronics and digitalisation than ever before.
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09/25/2017
The Czech Cabinet meeting September 25 made final preparations for the 2018 budget.
Most of the major issues had been settled, such as a 475 crown a month increase in pensions and 10 percent increase in wages for state workers, but some outstanding issues have still to be cleared up.
These include how much extra funding can be found for universities. It was eventually decided that 3 billion crowns extra would be found for them.
The target budget deficit for 2018 is 50 billion crowns with more money for spending facilitated by an increase in the expectation of tax and other earnings as a result of the country’s strong economic performance.
A new government formed after elections at the end of October could adjust next year’s budget.
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09/25/2017
Czech president Miloš Zeman on Monday sent a telegram of congratulations to German Chancellor Angela Merkel following her victory in parliamentary elections.
Zeman also thanked her for the friendly neighbourly relations developed between the two countries noting though that he and Merkel had different opinions on some key issues.
Merkel’s CDU-CSU won the elections but with a drop in support. She faces forging a new coalition after the Social Democrats vowed to go into opposition after their support slumped to 20.5 percent.
In his message, Zeman made no reference to the strong showing of the far right AfD, which has for the first time won seats in parliament after becoming the third biggest party.
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09/25/2017
Czech actor Jan Tříska has died at the age of 80, the news server IDnes reported Monday citing director Jiří Madl.
Tříska was in a serious condition in hospital following a fall from Prague’s Charles Bridge over the weekend.
Tříska was rated one of the most talented actors to emerge in the 1960s. He emigrated to Canada in 1977 and onto the United States where he lived in Los Angeles.
Třiska was known for his many Czech film roles, such as the school teacher in the Oscar nominated film Obecná Škola, and his stage performances, such as his performance in Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Police say they are treating Saturday's fall as an accident but are also seeking witnesses to what happened.
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