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07/14/2015
Blues musician Stan “the Man” Wolarz, a long-term fixture on the Prague music scene, died on Monday, according to a posting on his band’s Facebook page. The guitar player was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and began playing in groups in the city in the mid-1960s. Following a move to Prague he founded the Bohemian Blues Band and supported many visiting musicians, including Bo Diddley, Mick Taylor and Edgar and Johnny Winter.
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07/14/2015
Two buildings at Prague Castle are to be restituted to the Roman Catholic Church. The Mocker Houses and the Saint George’s Convent are being transferred under a memorandum signed last week between President Miloš Zeman and the head of the Czech Catholic Church, Dominik Duka, the former’s spokesman said on Tuesday. Under the deal, the church has committed to renovating the two buildings within five years and dropping its claims to other buildings at Prague Castle. Under a 2012 law, CZK 75 billion in assets seized under the communist regime are being handed back to churches. They are also receiving CZK 60 billion in lieu of properties not being returned.
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07/14/2015
The Czech soccer captain Tomáš Rosický will miss the start of next season due to injury, the manager of his club Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, told journalists. The midfielder, who is 34, was injured in a Euro 2016 qualifier between the Czech Republic and Iceland last month and will be out for four to five more weeks. There has been speculation that his former club Sparta Prague are trying to secure a deal for Rosický, who has signed a one-year contract extension with Arsenal but is not a regular starter with the English Premier League side.
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07/14/2015
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, is still in favour of the Czech Republic adopting the single European currency, the euro, his spokesman Jiří Ovčáček said at a news conference on Tuesday. However, that would mean that Czech tax payers would have to pay the debts of Greece. Mr. Zeman therefore favours a Greek exit from the Eurozone as the most reasonable solution to the country’s crisis, said Mr. Ovčáček. Greece has repeatedly failed to solve its problems and it is not reasonable to believe its promises, according to the Czech president.
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07/14/2015
The country’s Interior Ministry expects the arrival of between 5,000 and 7,000 illegal migrants in the Czech Republic next year, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on Monday. As a result, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has agreed the ministry should get an added financial injection of 230 million crowns this year to deal with the growing numbers. The ministry expects to hire an additional 600 - 800 state employees, including police officers, to tackle conditions. Next year, the ministry expects it will need an added billion crowns.
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07/14/2015
A 21-year-old man wanted for a recent shooting in Brno-Žebětín and a hold-up at grocery store is in custody. In the shooting, the young man opened fire at a 74-year-old motorist; a last second move apparently saved the driver’s life. The suspect fled to neighboring Slovakia where he was subsequently arrested and returned to the Czech Republic. If found guilty, the youth faces a sentence of up to 20 years behind bars.
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07/13/2015
Czech President Miloš Zeman has expressed the conviction that “one day” the Czech Army will be required to secure the country’s borders in response to the migration problem. He made the comments after the ceremonial unveiling of a new bust of the late French president Francois Mitterand. Mr Zeman said a greater influx of refugees from Ukraine could not be ruled out but said he would be willing to accept a limited wave. He called Ukrainians “culturally close” and “willing to work instead of accepting social benefits”.
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07/13/2015
The Czech government has come out staunchly against the idea that the Czech Republic could act as a guarantor for any loans to Greece under a proposed bailout agreed by the Eurozone countries, both Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and the country’s finance minister, Andrej Babiš, made clear after meeting on Monday. Europe is considering a short-term loan for Greece from the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, as part of a proposed bailout package; the mechanism applies to all 28 member states. In the Czech Republic’s case that would mean guaranteeing 1.13 percent of said loan. Finance Minister Babiš stated on Monday that the European Council had said the EFSM would not be used after 2013; he added the Czech Republic was against the mechanism being used now. Earlier, the Czech News Agency quoted the State Secretary for European Affairs Tomáš Prouza as saying the country could be called upon to provide a guarantee.
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07/13/2015
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has approved legislation which would make it possible to hold state wide referenda on the basis of public petitions which gathered at least 250 thousand signatures. The news was revealed by the Minister for Human Rights Jiří Dienstbier. The minister suggested the bill could find the necessary approval in Parliament; some, including the country’s ombudswoman, Anna Šabatová, expressed reservations over the bill “as is”: in her view a minimum of 100 thousand signatures would suffice.
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07/13/2015
The highly-respected guitarist, composer and singer Otakar Petřina died at the weekend, members of his family have confirmed. Petřina, who composed for performers such as Václav Neckář, Petra Janů, or Luboš Pospíšil, was 66. As a young man, Petřina studied at the Prague Conservatory and was later a member of the Rokoko Cabaret Theatre and of the Czechoslovak Radio Dance Orchestra. Some of the hits he penned were Nautilus, Motorest nebo Marilyn, and Good-Bye. Under the Communist regime, he was banned from performing for 14 years and was allowed only studio work.
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