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03/13/2015
Industrial production climbed by 2.9 percent in January compared with a year earlier, according to figures released Friday by the Czech Statistical Office. That is a slowdown from the 7.3 percent growth announced for December. When the latest figures are corrected for the number of working days and other distortions, January’s growth comes in at a higher 5.5 percent. The number of new orders rose by 1.1 percent in January. The biggest rises in production came from the car making and electrical equipment sectors.
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03/13/2015
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka hit out at ANO leader and minister of finance Andrej Babiš during his congress speech. Sobotka said the billionaire owner of the Agrofert company is permanently at risk of being in conflict of interest because of his ongoing connections with the company and with his media empire, which includes two of the country’s biggest daily papers and one of the main radio stations. Sobotka said such a concentration of power had not been seen since 1989. Sobotka’s speech was in some sense a payback for Babiš’s attacks on his government partners two weeks ago at the ANO party meeting.
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03/13/2015
The congress of the biggest Czech government party, the Social Democrats, began in Prague on Friday with 713 party delegates attending. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka running unopposed, was re-elected as party chairman, receiving support from 85 percent of delegates. The main focus of the two-day meeting will therefore be on the contest to fill the post of first deputy chairman and the raft of deputy chairman positions. Minister of Interior Milan Chovanec is the front runner to fill the second most significant party post with the backing of Sobotka. Former leader of Social Democrat lawmakers in the lower house Jeroným Tejc and minister Jiří Dienstbier are also running for the coveted post. The congress was last held two years ago in 2013.
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03/13/2015
Czech Ondřej Moravec took the bronze medal in the world championship 20 kilometre biathlon event at Kontiolahti, Finland. It is the second medal from the event for Moravec, who last week clinched gold in the mixed relay. The Czech, who received one minute penalty, finished 40.5 seconds behind the winner, Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen. Martin Fourcade of France took the silver medal.
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03/13/2015
The UN has asked the Czech army to fill three vacant posts at its mission headquarters in the Golan Heights this year, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Friday, quoting army chief of staff Petr Pavel. Czech President Miloš Zeman has long supported the deployment of Czech soldiers in the Golan Heights and had previously offered to send a 150-strong military contingent to the region. International observers have been monitoring the border between Syria and Israel since 1974. The situation in the Golan Heights has considerably worsened due to the conflict in Syria.
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03/12/2015
The Czech national football squad has reached the 16th spot in FIFA rankings. It is the best placing for the Czech national team since October 2009, when it was 15th. The Czech team, led by coach Pavel Vrba, has been steadily climbing up the rankings since the start of the Euro qualification in September 2014. They next face Latvia in qualification for the European Championship.
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03/12/2015
The operating profit of the biggest Czech car-maker Škoda Auto increased by 56.6 percent to 817 million euros last year, the German concern Volkswagen announced in its annual report, published on Thursday. Škoda Auto’s sales last year increased by 13.9 percent to 11.76 billion year-on-year. The Czech car-maker previously announced that its 2014 sales increased by 12.7 percent to 1.037 million units, exceeding the one million level for the first time in history. A total of 281,400 cars were sold at the company’s largest market in China. Sales also went up in Central and Eastern Europe.
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03/12/2015
The Czech president is the only EU head of state to have confirmed attendance at a WWII memorial parade in Moscow on 9 May, the website EUObserver.com reported on Thursday, adding that the Czech head of state is a sympathiser of Vladimir Putin. The German chancellor Angela Merkel has declined Vladimir Putin’s invitation to attend the event marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis due to tensions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. According to EUObserver, other EU states to boycott the event include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. US president Barack Obama has also said he won’t be attending.
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03/12/2015
More than 50 percent of Czechs are happy with the way democracy is working in the Czech Republic, according to a poll by the CVVM agency published on Thursday. Fifty-five percent of respondents said democracy was the best form of government, which is a seven-percent rise on the last survey, carried out in October 2014. Only 41 percent of Czechs said they were unhappy with the way democracy was operating in the country, which is the lowest figure in the history of the measuring.
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03/12/2015
The ramp of a quad chairlift in the country’s biggest skiing centre in Špindlerův Mlýn in the Krkonoše Mountains collapsed on Thursday. No one was hurt in the incident, since the chairlift operators noticed cracking sounds coming from the building, where the ramp was located, and managed to evacuate people from the site before it collapsed. The operation of the chairlift has been suspended and the cause of the accident is being investigated.
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