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07/23/2015
Wednesday’s tragic train accident at a rail crossing in Studenka, Moravia, has claimed a third victim. One of the three people in critical condition in Ostrava’s Teaching Hospital died during the night, a hospital spokesman reported on Thursday. Two people were killed and 18 injured when a high speed Pendolino train travelling at 160 km per hour hit a truck which ignored the red lights and got trapped on the tracks by the falling gates. The Polish truck driver who miraculously escaped injury was questioned by police and charged with endangering life. He could face a jail term of 10 years.
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07/23/2015
The Czech National Bank’s low crown policy could be prolonged with interventions in the currency markets during 2017, the head of the bank’s currency and statistical section Tomáš Holub said in an interview with the business daily Hospodářské Noviny onn Thursday. The central bank had previously indicated the policy would come to an end in 2016. The bank launched its low crown policy with interventions to prevent the crown strengthening beyond 27 crowns to the euro in November 2013. The move is aimed at boosting economic growth and moving inflation towards the 2.0 percent target.
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07/23/2015
Jiří Kajínek, regarded as the most famous Czech prisoner after being given a life sentence in 1998 for organising contract killings and one attempted murder, has been refused a retrial. Plzeň’s regional court refused the application on Thursday with the same judge, Tomáš Bouček, who refused two previous applications from 54-year-old Kajínek, handing down the latest ruling. A film about Kajínek, including his numerous escapes from prison, was made in 2010.
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07/23/2015
Former Czech Constitutional Court judge Ivana Janu is to be the new head of the Office for Protection of Private Data. She was selected for the post by the upper house of Parliament, on the nomination of a group of Christian Democrat senators. Janu will take office in September replacing Igor Nemec who has served two terms in office and was not able to seek re-election. In her address to the Senate Janu stressed the growing importance of the office in defending people´s privacy which she said was threatened by an increasing number various registers serving public institutions and by people’s careless attitude in using social websites.
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07/22/2015
Czechs are experiencing a record-breaking heatwave. According to the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute July 22nd was the warmest day of the year with the highest temperature recorded in Husinec-Řeži near Prague where afternoon highs reached 39.2 degrees Celsius. Temperature records were broken at 127 out of 138 monitoring stations around the country. The highest temperature ever recorded in the country was 40.4 degrees Celsius in the town of Dobřichovice on August 20th 2012.
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07/22/2015
The government has failed to agree on a proposed legislation which should enable up to 4,000 miners to go into early retirement – by up to five years earlier than the present pension law allows. The proposal put forward by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs would allow miners who have completed 3,300 work shifts below ground to file for early retirement. The measure is seen as a means of easing the social impact of planned mine closures. However the Ministry of Finance insists that mine owners should carry part of the burden. The issue is to be taken up again in September.
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07/22/2015
The Czech government on Wednesday approved the establishment of an industrial zone in Karviné which would attract investors and create up to 2,000 new jobs in a region with traditionally high unemployment. The zone which should spread over an area of 90 hectares is to be constructed between 2016 and 2018 with a financial injection from the state amounting to 750 million crowns. The overall cost of the enterprise is estimated at 1.2 billion crowns. The zone is to be built on the site of former brown coal mines.
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07/22/2015
Police have recovered a stolen oil-painting by the Czech painter Jan Preisler which had been missing for 19 years. The painting, Study for Bathing, assessed at 8 million crowns, was stolen from an exhibition in the town of Chrudim in August of 1996. It was in the ownership of the National Gallery at the time. The police reportedly intercepted a planned sale to a private owner.
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07/22/2015
The rail-track between Ostrava and Hranice will remain closed for the rest of the day in the wake of the accident. Passengers have been asked to use replacement busses while work on clearing the track is underway. Police and rail inspectors are now at work on the site. The material damage has been estimated at 160 million crowns. People directly affected can file insurance claims at the Generali insurance company.
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07/22/2015
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and other members of the cabinet have expressed shock over Wednesday’s tragic train crash in which two people were killed and 13 injured. The prime minister, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec and the governor of the Moravia-Silesia region Miroslav Novak visited the site of the accident shortly after the tragedy. The prime minister praised the work of the emergency crews, fire fighters and police for their highly professional response to the emergency and the speed with which they managed to release people trapped in the wreckage. He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and said the government was ready to offer assistance to those in need.
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