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09/05/2017
The Czech Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a foreign national who was arrested on an Interpol warrant in view of possible extradition to Russia where he was found guilty of a criminal offense. The court said the Czech authorities erred in detaining the man since the said foreign national was granted asylum in Austria in 2004.
According to international treaties, asylum granted in one member state of the EU must be respected in all the others, the court ruled. The man has since been released, but experts say the case will serve as a legal precedent.
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09/05/2017
The average wage in the Czech Republic grew by 7.6 percent to 29, 346 crowns in the second quarter, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office. Minus inflation the growth is 5.3 percent which is the fastest wage growth registered in the last ten years.
According to analysts this reflects the exceptionally healthy state of the economy and low unemployment rate. They predict it will lead the central bank to effect another hike in interest rates in September.
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09/05/2017
The Czech Republic's national football team had a final chance to keep alive the slimmest of hopes of reaching the World Cup in Russia in 2018, but would have had to defeat Northern Ireland on Monday night in Belfast. Although the Czechs had hoped to dominate, it was Northern Ireland who went up, scoring two. It remained 2:0 until the final whistle. The defeat means that the Czechs can no longer finish better than third in their group and can no longer advance.
The only time the independent Czech Republic successfully qualified for the World Cup was in 2006 - a squad which featured the likes of players such as Pavel Nedvěd, Jan Koller, Milan Baroš, Karel Poborský or Petr Čech. That team won one match in the group stage, against the US, but lost against Ghana and Italy and did not advance.
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09/05/2017
Top seed Karolína Plíšková made quick work of American player Jennifer Brady on Monday at the US, losing just one game in the first set (6:1, 6:0) to clinch a spot in the quarterfinal at the US Open. Fellow Czech player Petra Kvitová qualified for the quarterfinals a day earlier.
Lucie Šafařová, however, did not advance, losing to Coco Vandewegh in straight sets.
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09/04/2017
State prosecutor Aleš Kopal is seeking unconditional sentences of between three and six years in prison for 10 people standing trial in the case of a collapsed bridge in Studénka in the district of Nový Jíčín in 2008, which was struck by a passenger train.
Eight people died in the accident, dozens of others were injured and damage amounted to around 180 million crowns. Those charged in the case include civil engineers from the firm contracted with the renovation of the bridge.
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09/04/2017
The Czech Republic and Slovakia have agreed to initiate a summit in Bratislava in October to discuss double standards by international food producers selling foodstuffs of varying quality under the same brand name across different EU countries. They took the decision at a joint government meeting in Lednice on Monday.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that both countries had agreed to take a tough stance on the issue, calling it a serious political problem. Inferior quality of some products in the Czech Republic and other former eastern bloc countries is true not only of some international food brands but also in building materials and some pharmaceutical products.
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09/04/2017
It will be do or die for the Czech national football team on Monday evening: the squad will have to beat competitors Northern Ireland to keep alive the slimmest of hopes of reaching the World Cup in Russia in 2018. Following a loss against Germany on Friday, the Czechs are currently seven points behind Northern Ireland, who are in second spot.
In order to keep alive their chances, the Czechs need not only to win on Monday night but also to later defeat San Marino and Azerbaijan. At the same time, Northern Ireland would have to lose not only on Monday but also against Germany and Norway for the Czechs to go ahead.
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09/04/2017
Tuesday is expected to be cloudy with a chance of rain but also sunny periods. Daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 20 degrees Celsius.
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09/04/2017
Czech climber Adam Ondra raised the bar in sport climbing in Norway on Sunday, completing a climb which could be rated 9c, which would make it the most difficult in the world. The 24-year-old Ondra had prepared for the climb, which took place at Flatanger cave, for a month. He had been back to Norway seven times.
The climber bolted the route of the climb in 2013, the Czech News Agency reported; he labelled the initiative “Project Hard”. He told ukclimbing.com that the route was much harder than anything else he had done, giving him hope it could be rated 9c.
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09/04/2017
All political parties with a realistic chance according to polls of clinching mandates in the lower house in the upcoming election in October have promised pay raises for teachers, according to a new study conducted by the IDEA think-tank of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Suggested increases range from 18 to as much as 52 percent, the author of the study, economist Daniel Münich, confirmed. The commitment to improving pay for Czech teachers is broader than in the past, he said, but none of the parties, he made clear, discussed where the additional funds would come from. The study addressed not only wage increases but also six other questions pertaining to the teaching profession.
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