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04/30/2015
The Norwegian child welfare service has taken initial steps to open the way for the adoption of the younger of two Czech brothers who were taken from their parents in 2011. Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said on Wednesday. The authorities took the step despite previous claim that adoption was not being considered. According to information received by the Czech Office for International Legal Protection of Children in April, the child welfare service asked the regional authorities to launch the proceedings that would enable the adoption of the younger son of Eva Michaláková. The boys were taken from their parents over alleged sexual abuse. Although charges were never filed in the case, the brothers have lived in separate foster homes since.
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04/30/2015
The Tampa Bay Lightning won Game 7 on home ice against the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday putting them into the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The goalies for both sides kept the puck out of the net for two periods but Detroit rookie Petr Mrázek was beaten in the third by a slapshot over the shoulder, top corner, by Braydon Coburn. Goaltending was a key factor throughout the match and the series, with Mrázek earning two shutouts against the Bolts. On Wednesday, Mrázek was named the game’s third star.
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04/29/2015
The world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, is set to take part in the Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava in May, the event’s organisers announced on Wednesday. It will be the seventh appearance at the country’s biggest athletics meeting for the Jamaican sprinter and a third appearance in the 200m race. Bolt will be attacking his own record of 19.83 seconds, which he set at the Golden Spike in 2008.
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04/29/2015
The European Commission has approved the first Czech operational programme aimed at drawing EU funds which covers entrepreneurship and innovation for competitiveness. Approval of the operational programme will make the Czech Republic eligible for eight billion euros (approximately 216 billion crowns) in EU funds. Altogether 4.4 billion euros will be provided from the European Fund for Regional Development. Reacting to the announcement, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said it was exceptionally good news for Czech businessmen, firms, academics and universities. According to several European Commission sources, the next operational programmes could be approved by mid-May.
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04/29/2015
Finance Minister Andrej Babiš says the gap in public spending should not exceed 70 billion crowns in 2016. He made the announcement on Wednesday in the lower house of the Czech Parliament. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said this was unacceptable for the ruling Social Democrats, adding that the finance minister had failed to discuss the proposal prior to presenting it in the lower house. The prime minister pointed out that the government had a commitment to increase defence spending and noted that a 70 billion crown deficit would mean freezing the salaries of public employees.
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04/29/2015
The lower house of the Czech Parliament on Wednesday passed an amendment that prevents new clients from entering the second pillar of the pension scheme introduced by the former centre-right cabinet of prime minister Petr Nečas. It is the first step in the process of scrapping the second pillar, which enabled people to put part of their pension funds into private insurance companies. According to critics it is disadvantageous for the vast majority of people and there was very little interest in it. Minister Sobotka on Wednesday supported the third pillar which represents voluntary savings, in accounts that can be set up and closed at will.
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04/29/2015
A Czech plane carrying a trauma team and ten tonnes of material aid to Nepal, which left Prague for Kathmandu in the early hours of Wednesday, was diverted to Delhi. According to Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek, the overloaded airport in Kathmandu will be ready to take the flight at around midnight on Wednesday. The team, which includes nine doctors, 10 nurses and 14 fire officers, is expected to spend two weeks in Nepal, which was struck by a devastating earthquake on Saturday. Czech citizens who were in the country when the disaster struck are due to fly back to Prague on the return flight.
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04/29/2015
Czech authorities have established contact with all Czechs who were travelling in Nepal at the time of the earthquake, Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said on Wednesday, adding that all of them were safe. Some 54 Czechs, along with another 48 EU citizens, will be evacuated on the plane which is bringing rescue team and material aid from Prague to Nepal. The plane left the Czech Republic in the early hours of Wednesday. Dozens of Czechs have already managed to leave the Himalayan state. According to the latest information, Saturday’s devastating earthquake claimed more than 5,000 lives.
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04/29/2015
The Czech Republic’s chief hygiene officer on Wednesday cancelled screenings for Ebola at the country’s five international airports. The checks were introduced in October 2014 after the outbreak of the deadly disease in Africa earlier that year. All passengers arriving at airports in Prague, Brno, Pardubice, Ostrava and Karlovy Vary were required to undergo the screening, ranging from filling in a form to undergoing a medical check-up at the airport. The Czech authorities registered several cases of suspected Ebola but all of them eventually tested negative for the disease.
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04/29/2015
Czechs have raised nearly 16 million crowns (approximately 583,000 euros) in public collections called by humanitarian organisations to help earthquake-stricken Nepal. The NGO People in Need has so far collected nine million crowns. It released one million for immediate relief and has a four-member team working in the affected area. The Czech government on Monday earmarked twenty million crowns in emergency aid to cover the cost of the Czech trauma team, and also pledged to send humanitarian aid.
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