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09/11/2017
The Czech Foreign Ministry has said that no Czechs are among victims of Hurricane Irma which hit Florida and the Caribbean. The ministry was responding to a query by the Czech News Agency; spokeswoman Irena Valentová said neither the embassy nor any consulates in the US or Cuba had registered any Czech nationals being in danger.
The Foreign Ministry has strongly recommended that Czechs not travel to stricken areas. According to the ministry, there are around 1,000 Czech nationals in the state of Florida – members of the expat community as well as tourists.
US President Donald J. Trump has declared a state of emergency in the state. Following landfall by the hurricane, millions of people were evacuated from their homes to safer areas; three people were reported killed in the hurricane.
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09/11/2017
Twenty-six people were evacuated from their homes in an apartment building in Prague 10 on Sunday night. Police, including pyrotechnics and other specialists were called by the family of a military items collector, worried about a device in his home being a possible landmine. On closer inspection, the item was revealed to be an alternator, but investigators found large amount of munitions and a radioactive item. Two other sites, in or near the town of Roztoky, were also searched. Police have not released additional details about the radioactive find.
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09/11/2017
Plans to revamp Prague’s Wenceslas Square have been given final approval after 12 long years of debate, the news site idnes reported on Monday.
The project, by award winning Prague architect Jakub Cigler, envisages a traffic-free zone with more greenery, more space for pedestrians, a wider promenade and more outdoor seating arrangements.
The trams currently cutting through the square will be rerouted and car traffic will be severely restricted.
Work on the square is expected to start next year.
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09/11/2017
The parties of the ruling coalition have agreed on a 15 percent wage hike for teachers and a 10 percent wage hike for other public sector employees as of November 1. Agreement on the salary increase was reached after Finance Minister Ivan Pilny raised the projected revenues for 2018 by 21 billion crowns. This was made possible due to an upgrade of the country’s growth estimate from 2.9 to 3.1 percent. Even so, ministers will have to find an additional 8 billion crowns to deliver on their promise. The coalition parties on Monday did not reach a consensus on whether universities will receive the additional 4.5 billion they asked for.
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09/10/2017
Trade unions from around the country are to gather in Prague next Thursday for consultations ahead of the annual negotiations on wage hikes.
The trade union leadership should make a recommendation regarding the demands to be made.
Trade unions in the public sector are already on strike alert demanding that the government deliver on its promise to raise teachers’ wages by 15 percent as of November and by 10 percent for other public sector employees.
Thursday’s gathering will be attended by trade union representatives from Germany, Austria and Slovakia.
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09/10/2017
Finance Minister Ivan Pilný from the ANO party has increased the revenues chapter in the 2018 draft budget by 21 billion crowns.
The minister confirmed this in a debate on Czech Television on Sunday, saying the ministry had upgraded its growth estimate for 2018 from 2.9 to 3.1 percent.
However the additional finances would still not cover the proposed wage hike for public sector employees. According to Pilny the budget would still be short of approximately 8 billion crowns.
The finance minister dismissed the prime minister’s proposal that this money could come from finances saved by individual ministries as unrealistic, saying ministry officials had made it clear they would spend their entire budgets.
The coalition parties are to meet on Monday to debate the proposed wage hikes.
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09/10/2017
Czech Television has acquired hereto unpublished documents indicating that the European Parliament and the foreign ministers of individual EU member states publicly opposed the persecution of dissidents in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Czech public television was granted access to documents in Italian and Belgian archives in which the European Parliament and individual ministers call on the Czechoslovak authorities to respect human rights and condemn the threats, beatings and imprisonment which the communist secret police applied in trying to squash resistance to the regime in the 1970s and 1980s.
The pressure on the regime mounted particularly after the death of Charter 77 spokesman, philosopher Jan Patocka who died in 1977 after a number of brutal interrogations at the hands of the communist secret police.
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09/10/2017
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered showers, particularly in the eastern parts of the country, and day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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09/10/2017
The Czech Republic has a higher suicide rate than the EU and world average, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Mental Health.
Four people a day commit suicide in the Czech Republic, approximately 1,500 people a year die by their own hand.
Suicide is the most frequent cause of death young girls between 15 and 19 and it is accountable for 30 percent of deaths of young women between 20 and 29.
Mental health experts criticize the fact that the Czech Republic lacks an effective help network and prevention program.
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09/10/2017
Christian Democratic Party leader Pavel Bělobrádek has ruled out the possibility that his party would enter into a coalition with a politician charged with fraud.
He was referring to the leader of the ANO party Andrej Babiš whom the lower house stripped of his parliamentary immunity this week opening the way for criminal prosecution.
The police want to charge Mr. Babiš with subsidy fraud and harming the financial interests of the EU in connection with a 50 million crown subsidy acquired for the Stork’s Nest farm.
Opinion polls suggest that his ANO party will win October’s general elections by a large margin.
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