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08/12/2017
President Miloš Zeman will appoint the winner of the upcoming parliamentary elections as the next prime minister, the presidential spokesman Jiří Ovčáček told the news site Aktuálně.cz on Saturday. Mr Ovčáček spoke in reaction to the police request to lift the parliamentary immunity of former Finance Minister and ANO parta leader Andrej Babiš and the deputy chairman of the party Jaroslav Faltýnek. The request is connected with 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 funding was supposed to be directed towards small and medium sized companies. Mr Ovčáček also questioned the fact that the police move came just two months ahead of the general elections in October.
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08/12/2017
Sunday is expected to be partly cloudy with occassional rain showers and daytime temperatures ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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08/12/2017
An exhibition dedicated to the famous footwear designer Manolo Blahnik got underway at Prague’s Kampa Museum on Friday. Entitled Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes, it explores the visionary designer’s 45 year long career, featuring more than 200 pairs of shoes and over 80 sketches by Blahnik from the 1970’s till today. Manolo Blahnik, whose father was born in Czechoslovakia, becoame world famous thanks to the series Sex in the City and the film Marie Antoinette.The travelling exhibition, which has already been on display in Milan and St Petersburg, will be on display in Prague until November 12.
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08/12/2017
Clean up work is underway in the village of Bohuslavice in north-east Bohemia where a gale-force wind damaged roofs on some eighty houses on Friday afternoon. No injuries h been reported. Firemen in the Hradec Králové region on Friday responded to over 200 emergency calls, clearing fallen trees from roads and rail tracks. Several villages in the north and eastern part of the country suffered power blackouts. Meteorologists on Saturday warned of heavy storms due to hit the north-eastern part of the country in the afternoon.
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08/11/2017
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given a warning for visitors to several districts of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to take special care after an escalation of gang violence there in recent weeks. The warning applies to the Norrebro, Bronshoj, Husum, and Tingbjerg districts. Copenhagen police introduced a stop and search regime in parts of the city in July with the area it applies to widened in August in response to the gang violence.
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08/11/2017
ANO leader Andrej Babiš said he was surprised by the police move to seek the lifting of his parliamentary immunity. He said he had recently been told that he would just be treated as a witness in the so-call Stork’s Nest affair. Babiš added that the move was part of a political battle and attempt to discredit him and preventing him from standing in elections to the lower house scheduled for October. ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltýnek said he would not prevent any moves to push ahead with the police investigation. He added that he had been expected to be treated as a witness as a former board member of the agro-chemical group Agrofert. He added he was being victimised by the police.
The lower house committee dealing with immunity issues is likely to meet on August 18. The first meeting of the lower house of parliament to deal with the issue is seen on September 5. The Stork’s Nest affair focuses of 50 million crowns in European funds for small and medium sized business claimed for a hotel and recreation centre linked to Andrej Babiš’ company Agrofert.
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08/11/2017
Škoda Auto models sold in Russia have been recalled by mother company, Volkswagen, due to technical problems. The recalls affects 3,463 cars in total with Octavia, Yeti, and Rapid models build by the Czech Republic’s biggest carmaker included. It is not the first time that Škoda cars sold in Russia have been subject to a recall this year. Earlier, a much bigger recall of 43,000 cars built between 2012 and 2016 included near all models in the Czech carmaker’s range.
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08/11/2017
A Czech university has announced the discovery of a new strain of rabbit fever. The discovery has been announced by the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno after the sudden deaths of scores of rabbits across the country in July. They found a previous version of the fever as well as a newer once which often lasts longer but appears to have a reduced death toll of up to 70 percent compared with the 90 percent death rate of the older fever. A vaccine against the new version is expected to be ready in August.
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08/11/2017
An insolvency manager has called for would be bidders for parts of one of the Czech Republic’s biggest engineering companies, Vítkovice Power Engineering, to register their interest by August 21. A court earlier this week approved the start of bankruptcy proceedings at the firm after they were requested by managers. They argued that attempts to keep the company alive through reorganisation were pointless. Vítkovice Power Engineering employs around 800 and is renowned for its nuclear engineering operations. Creditors have registered claims of around 71 billion crowns.
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08/11/2017
Registered partnerships between same sex couples have taken place 137 times in the first six months of 2017, 81 of those were between gay men and 56 between women. That’s a slight reduction on the first half of 2016. In the 11 years since registered partnerships were recognised there have been 2647 gay ‘marriages.’ Around a third of them are in Prague. Since a Constitutional Court ruling in middle of last year, 325 same sex couples have expressed interest in adopting children. The figures were compiled by the equal rights group, Proud.
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