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09/22/2017
The prime minister has called a meeting for Monday to tweak final details of the proposal for next year’s state budget.
The meeting will take place an hour before the regular cabinet meeting.
It will be attended by the heads of the government parties along with an extra two representatives each. The news was confirmed by cabinet spokesman Martin Ayrer.
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09/22/2017
Prague’s Municipal Court has dropped charges against five Czechs who had been accused of planning a terrorist attack on a train near Chuchle’s railway bridge in 2015.
The prosecution charged that the five, described as anarchists, had prepared and buried two Molotov cocktails containing polystyrene, cooking oil, and gasoline, near a location from where they had allegedly planned to firebomb a train transporting military equipment.
The prosecution argued the five had aimed to threaten lives in the attack. Three of the five charged faced potential sentences between 12 and 20 years in jail.
The lead judge overseeing the case explained that there were unanswered questions about steps taken by the police, which had lacked transparency. The use of undercover agents in the case was also questionable as they may have served the roles of agent provocateurs. Friday’s decision may still be appealed.
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09/22/2017
Future hockey hall of famer Jaromír Jágr will announce on October 5 which hockey team he will play with this season, according to reports citing KHL insider Aivis Kalnins, who in turn referred to the player’s agent.
Jágr, 45, has not received offers for a one-year-contract in the National Hockey League despite having a productive season last year. Earlier this week, Jágr said he would not agree to a team try-out in the NHL and that the KHL was also a possibility.
In mid-August, the forward said he had considered a return to the Czech Republic, where he would play for Kladno, a hockey club he owns. Playing in the Czech Republic would give him freedom to cancel his contract should an NHL offer come through or would allow him to play in the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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09/22/2017
The first Laver Cup tennis team competition pitting Europe against the rest of the world opens in Prague on Friday with Marin Cilic playing against Frances Tiafoe in Prague's 02 Arena.
In the three-day tournament, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, Tomáš Berdych, Alexander Zverev and Cilic will represent Europe, while John Isner, Sam Querrey, Jack Sock, Francis Tiafoe, Nick Kirgios and Denis Shapovalov will play for Team World.
On Friday, the singles matches Thiem vs Isner and Zverev vs Shapovalov and the doubles match of Nadal and Berdych against Kirgios and Sock will follow.
On Saturday, Nadal, Federer and Berdych will meet Querrey, Sock and Kyrgios in singles matches. Who will play against whom is to be announced only on Saturday morning.
The team reaching 13 points will win the Laver Cup.
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09/22/2017
In tennis, Czech player Barbora Strýcová has lost in the quarter finals of the Pan Pacific Open being played in Tokyo, Japan.
Strýcová lost 7:5, 3:6, 1:6 against Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenko.
Earlier, the 31 year old Czech had created a surprise by knocking out fourth seed, British player Jo Konta.
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09/21/2017
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has said it has lodged criminal cases against the last leading members of the Czechoslovak communist party for crimes with the Brno-based Supreme Court.
The cases are based on the deaths of 28 people of various nationalities on the borders with the then West Germany and Austria before the end of the communist regime in 1989.
Among those targeted in the proceedings are the former communist party general secretary Miloš Jakeš and former interior minister and prime minister Lubomír Strougal.
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09/21/2017
ANO leader Andrej Babiš and the election leader for the Social Democrats (ČSSD), Lubomír Zaorálek, are set for a pre-election head to head television debate on the eve of voting.
The two have accepted to take part in a face to face debate on commercial broadcaster TV Nova on the evening of October 19, according to the station.
At the same time public broadcaster, Czech Television, will be culminating a series of three thematic debates that week with leaders of 10 parties tipped to win the most votes.
Zaorálek said he did not think it was normal for the two debates on private and commercial channels to take place at the same time. He added that he did not want to avoid a debate with ANO’s Babiš on the latter’s support for allowing more foreign workers into the country to fill gaps on the labour market.
Elections to the lower house should take place on October 20 and 21.
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09/21/2017
The international watchdog Social Watch has criticised the Czech Republic for failing to clamp down on arms exports to authoritarian regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
In a press conference Thursday in Prague, the organisation said that the sales helped bolster regimes which oppressed their citizens and did not respect human rights. It also fuelled conflicts which fuelled emigration from such countries. The NGO observed that there are currently around 20 conflicts around the world with easy access to arms one of the fundamental factors in fuelling.
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09/21/2017
Five Czech researchers have been awarded prizes this year by one of the country’s main grant institutions, the Czech Science Foundation.
The five comprise an informatician, biochemist, astronomer, archaeologist, and a hydro biologist.
Three of the winners are women, which the head of the foundation, Alice Valkárová, said was a promising pointer for the future.
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09/21/2017
The Czech potato harvest this year looks like being up to 15 percent down on the excellent crop of 2016, according to the Czech Potato Association.
The crop this year looks as though it will total between 600,000 to 650,000 tonnes. That is down on the almost 700,000 tonnes collected in 2016. This year’s quality promises to be excellent, according to the association.
The crop looks especially good in the Czech potato heartland, the central Vysočina region, but other areas appear to have suffered from this year’s drought.
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