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04/22/2015
Prague hotels have upped their prices by between 12 and 20 percent at the start of May for the ice hockey world championships being hosted by the capital and Ostrava. The price hikes were announced by the Czech Association of Travel Agencies. The biggest demand has come at the end the championships which continue until May 17. The association warned that hotels which had exaggerated their price rises were being shunned. Championship organisers expect 600,000 fans to be attracted to games.
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04/22/2015
In football, Czech manager Zdeněk Zeman has ended his stint at top Italian league club Cagliari for the second time this season. Sixty-seven year old Zeman was dismissed on Tuesday. Cagliari are currently next to bottom in the Seria A league. Zeman guided the club between June and December last year and was brought back again at the start of March. The team only picked up one point in the five games played under Zeman. Zeman in the past has piloted top Italian teams such as Rome, Lazio, and Naples.
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04/22/2015
The funeral service for former Social Democrat (ČSSD) prime minister Stanislav Gross was held at Prague’s Vyšehrad church on Wednesday morning. The ceremony was attended by current premier Bohuslav Sobotka, foreign minister Lubomír Zaorálek, and interior minister Milan Chovanec and other top members of the party from Gross’ time in power. Gross died last week at the age of 45, apparently from the effects of a paralysing nerve condition. He became prime minister in 2004 at the age of 34 but was forced to resign in the following year after a scandal over how he paid for a Prague flat. He later regreted his series of lies and half truths and said that he should have admitted that the flat was bought from his expenses as a member of parliament.
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04/22/2015
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, says Russia is unlikely to attack the Baltic States as the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, is not suicidal. Mr. Zeman said in an interview for AP that Mr. Putin was aware of the consequences of attacking any members of NATO. He said the response in such an instance would be not just political and economic but military. President Zeman has opposed Western sanctions on Russia imposed in response to its actions in Ukraine.
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04/22/2015
The playoffs final series in the domestic ice hockey Extraliga is set to go to a seventh, deciding match after Třinec beat Litvínov 6:3 on Tuesday evening to make it 3:3 on games. The champions will be crowned on Thursday, when the series returns to Třinec’s arena. At one point Litvínov, who have never won the Extraliga in over 50 years of existence, were 3:1 up on games in the best-of-seven series.
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04/21/2015
The liquidator handling the collapsed German company Viktoriagruppe has rejected all of the Czech state’s claims against the firm. The decision was made public by Pavel Hortig, the head of the Office for Government Representation in Property Affairs, which is acting on behalf of the Czech Republic in the matter. Viktoriagruppe was holding diesel worth CZK 1.5 billion crowns from the Czech state’s reserves when it went bust. Mr. Hortig said his agency would take legal action against German liquidator Mirko Moellen if he does not comply with its requests.
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04/21/2015
Terezie Kaslová, the granddaughter of legendary journalist Ferdinand Peroutka, has filed a lawsuit against the Czech state over comments made about him by President Miloš Zeman. Mr. Zeman insists Peroutka wrote an article entitled Hitler is a gentleman, though his office has been unable to produce the piece. The Ferdinand Peroutka Society denies it ever existed and says a quote attributed to the journalist by Mr. Zeman came from somebody else. The president’s spokesman said on Tuesday that Czech history would be on trial in the case.
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04/21/2015
A Czech man is facing deportation from the United States after a security breach at a military facility in the country, AP reported. The agency said it was not clear why Petr Cífka had attempted to drive a truck into the Picatinny Arsenal U.S. Army installation in New Jersey State last Friday. A US Army official told CBS New York that the 46-year-old had an expired passport. He was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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04/21/2015
The Czech economy should grow by around 2.5 percent annually in the coming year, according to a regular Ministry of Finance survey compiling the views of 20 institutions in the field of economics. Gross domestic product should expand by 2.4 percent in 2015, 2.6 percent in the following two years and 2.5 percent in 2018, according to the experts consulted. The Ministry of Finance itself expects growth of 2.7 percent this year.
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04/21/2015
A cross-party group of female MPs has called on the Czech government to support quotas for women in politics. Deputies from the Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats, the Communists and the Greens want it to be obligatory for candidates lists in elections to be half made up of women. They say that a century after women got the vote only around a fifth of elected representatives in the Czech Republic are female. The government is already planning to discuss legislation that would make it compulsory for the first two names on candidates lists to be a man and a woman; at least one of the following three names would have to belong to a woman.
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