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08/25/2017
The fresh world javelin champion Barbora Špotáková says the next Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 are a major motivation for her to continue her career at the age of 36. The Czech athlete, who triumphed at the Beijing and London Olympics, said on Friday that she was also looking forward to the Continental Cup in Ostrava next year.
At an end-of-season meeting with journalists on Friday Špotáková said she had planned to bring all 10 or her major international trophies but had lost the key to the cabinet in which they were stored.
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08/25/2017
The anti-corruption police have filed charges against three civil servants at the Trade and Industry Ministry in connection with suspected abuse of office, the ctk news agency reported on Friday.
The case reportedly concerns waiving public tenders and irregularities in an agreement between the Industry Ministry and the Czech-Moravian Development Bank on the setting up of a guarantee fund within the Enterprises and Innovations operational programme 2007-2013.
The three have been charged with breach of trust and harming the financial interests of the EU.
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08/25/2017
The weekend should bring a tropical heatwave with day temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius in places.
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08/25/2017
Czech nationals abroad who want to vote in October’s parliamentary elections will be able to cast their ballot at 109 polling stations the world over, according to information released by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
People living abroad can register to vote at their respective embassy and should do so no later than September 10th.
Czechs who will be abroad at the time of the vote will need to get an election pass before leaving the country. The elections are scheduled for Friday, October 20th and Saturday October 21st.
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08/25/2017
The Czech central bank will not get the power over the country's mortgage market it wanted to deflate a bubble it sees developing in the housing market, the Reuters news agency reported on Friday.
Lawmakers dropped a bill that would have extended the authority of the Czech National Bank in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The central bank has said repeatedly that Czech property prices seem overvalued and recommended banks adjust lending policies accordingly.
Since April, the bank has recommended that mortgages should not exceed 90 percent of property values and that no more than 15 percent of customers should be given loans worth more than 80 percent of a property's value.
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08/25/2017
Retired Czech footballer and Juventus Vice-President Pavel Nedvěd says the Chinese energy company CEFC failed to meet the conditions of a contract under which it was to pay him 600 thousand euros for promoting football in China.
Nedvěd has handed the matter over to his lawyer.
Jaroslav Tvrdík, who represents CEFC in Europe, said the company had signed two contracts with Nedvěd, had paid him in full for one service rendered and was ready to pay 50 percent for the other because all the conditions of the second contract had not been met.
Nedvěd denies this, saying he had fulfilled his obligations in full.
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08/24/2017
Creditors of the bankrupt coal mining company OKD on Thursday approved a reorganization plan for the firm’s future.
The company’s mines and assets will be placed in a newly-founded successor company which is to be sold to the state firm Prisko for 80 million crowns.
Mining will be phased out gradually as will lay-offs of miners and office staff. The plan still needs to be approved by an insolvency court.
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08/24/2017
The Czech Environment Ministry has approved lithium mining in the Sokolov region in north-western Bohemia, where an estimated 5,400 tons of lithium lies in former tailings ponds, the news site Novinky.cz reported on Thursday.
The move has sparked protests from villages in the area which will be affected by the activity. The mayor of Horni Slavkov told Novinky he was upset that the ministry had not ruled out the transport of the mined lithium by road which would adversely affect living conditions in the area. The mayors of the villages concerned are pushing for rail transport to be the only option allowed.
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08/24/2017
The Czech veterinary authorities have started destroying thousands of laying hens at a farm in Pohořelice, southern Moravia, following a salmonella outbreak.
35,000 of around 60,000 hens have so far been destroyed and the market chain Lidl has taken all egg deliveries from the farm off its shelves.
People have been asked to return eggs already purchased at the market chain. This concerns eggs with an expiry date up to September 11th. The salmonella was detected due to health problems at a children’s camp.
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08/24/2017
Friday should bring partly cloudy to clear skies with day temperatures between 25 and 29 degrees Celsius. Temperatures over the weekend could reach 34 degrees in places.
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