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09/14/2017
Czechs are marking 80 years since the death of Czechoslovakia’s first president T. G. Masaryk.
Masaryk had great merit in bringing about the establishment of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks after WWI and as the country’s first president laid down the foundations of democracy.
Dubbed the Father of the Nation, Masaryk was a much loved and respected politician and is revered to this day.
Events are being held around the country to mark the anniversary of his death.
The main commemorative event will take place on Hradčany Square in Prague beneath the statue of Czechoslovakia’s first president.
The National Museum has opened an exhibition titled The phenomenon Masaryk and a remembrance act will also take place at Lány Chateau where the president spent much of his time.
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09/14/2017
President Miloš Zeman is set to meet with ANO party leader Andrej Babiš at Prague Castle on Thursday. The two politicians will be discussing the so-called Stork’s Nest affair surrounding the former finance minister.
The head of ANO along with his deputy Jaroslav Faltýnek, are being investigated over the suspect drawing of EU funds for Babiš’s Stork’s Nest farm and conference centre linked to his massive agro-chemical firm Agrofert. The president has repeatedly stood up in Mr Babiš’s support.
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09/13/2017
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday ratified the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada.
The deal removes customs duties and industrial fees between EU countries and Canada, which would make Czech entrepreneurs more active on the Canadian market.
The sectors that could benefit most from the CETA agreement in the Czech Republic are engineering, metallurgy and the chemical industry.
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09/13/2017
Police on Wednesday received confirmation from the lower house that they can launch criminal proceedings against the ANO party leader, Andrej Babiš, and his deputy Jaroslav Faltýnek, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday citing spokeswoman Štěpánka Zenklová of the Metropolitan Public Prosecutor's Office in Prague.
The police had asked the lower house to waive the deputies’ parliamentary immunity with regard to the so-called Stork’s Nest affair, where a company belonging to Babiš‘ large agro-chemical group Agrofert applied for a 50 million crown European grant for work on a recreation and hotel complex. The fund was intended to help small and medium sized companies.
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09/13/2017
The digitally restored version of Miloš Forman’s debut feature Černý Petr or Black Peter is set to have its premiere in Prague on Thursday at Kino Lucerna.
The restoration was undertaken by the Czech National Film Archive, in cooperation with cinematographer Jan Malíř and sound designer Pavel Rejholec, along with Ivan Passer, who worked on the film as assistant director.
The new digital version of Black Peter premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, where it won an award 53 years ago. On Thursday, it will be screened in Kolín, where it was shot in the summer of 1963.
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09/13/2017
The United States have re-sold old weapons from central and Eastern Europe to Syria, despite guaranteeing to be the end user, the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism reported on Wednesday. Some of the weapons were reportedly purchased in the Czech Republic. According to the Czech journalists, who cooperated with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, such a procedure would be a breach of the arms trade agreement. The report, which cites publicly available documents, claims that the American Defence Ministry bought assault rifles, mortar shells and other military technique worth 500 billion crowns and subsequently re-sold them to Syrian rebels fighting ISIS.
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09/13/2017
The Czech Republic will lack around 800 medical specialists in 2020, the Union of Private Practitioners warned at a press conference on Wednesday. According to data provided by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, the number of doctors will drop by 1200 within the next three years.
The union of Private Practitioners says the main reasons behind the outflow of doctors are lack of finances and increasing bureaucracy. Smaller towns and villages are most likely to be affected by the lack of specialists.
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09/13/2017
Thursday is set to be cloudy with occasional rain showers and daytime temperatures ranging between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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09/13/2017
The Czech Film and television Academy has selected Bába z ledu or Ice Mother, a new feature film by acclaimed director Bohdan Sláma, as the Czech candidate for the 2018 Academy Awards.
The romantic comedy, shot in a Czech-Slovak-French coproduction, has won the Best Script award in the category of foreign films at the Tribeca film festival in New York.
The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced in January and the ceremony itself will take place on March 3, 2018, in Los Angeles.
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09/13/2017
The current account of the Czech Republic’s balance of payments, a broad measure of goods and money flowing in and out of the country, showed a surplus of around 7.6 billion crowns in the first quarter of 2017, the Czech National Bank announced on Wednesday. The surplus for the first six months of the year totals 90 billion crowns.
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