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12/17/2014
The Czech Republic will provide communist-era secret police documents related to Slovak citizens to Slovakia, according to an agreement between the Czech Republic’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Security Forces Archive and Slovakia’s Nation’s Memory Institute, signed in the Slovak capital on Wednesday. The digitalized documents will initially only be available for researchers of the Slovak institute, its chair, Ondrej Krajňák, told reporters. The volume of documents to be transferred has not been determined, according to Czech officials who said it would depend on requests from their Slovak colleagues.
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12/17/2014
The firm Uniles, part of the Agrofert Group owned exclusively by Finance Minister and ANO party leader Andrej Babiš, has won eight logging and sales contracts from the state-owned forestry firm Lesy ČR. That is more than any other company bidding for a total of 30 five-year contracts from the state-owned firm. Under the contracts, Uniles is entitled to annually log some 300,000 cubic metres of wood in state-owned forests. Mr Babiš has come under criticism over the contracts for his firm; the opposition Civic Democrats said this was a case of a massive conflict of interest.
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12/17/2014
The Czech-based car manufacturer is planning to let go some 500 agency workers in March, a spokesman for the company said, giving decreasing demand for its new models at the reason. The carmaker, which produces Toyota, Peugeot, and Citroen models, now employs around 3,700 workers, some 800 of whom have been hired through agencies. However, the firm expects to produce some 220,000 cars next year, some 10 percent less than previously thought.
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12/17/2014
No blasts have been heard for the last five days at the munitions depot in Vrbětice, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The latest spontaneous explosion occurred last Friday night. Pyrotechnics experts will only start clearing the site and removing remaining ammunitions after nine days of calm, the police said. The depot, where around 7,000 tonnes of munitions were stored, first exploded in mid-October, killing two people. Continuing blasts have prevented experts from clearing the depot and removing the ammunition to a safe location. The inhabitants of nearby villages have been repeatedly evacuated because of the explosions.
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12/17/2014
The Czech National Bank has fined ČSOB bank for refusing to accept or exchange damaged notes, iDnes.cz reported. The CZK 300,000 fine comes three years after the central bank ordered ČSOB to take in damaged notes following complaints from customers of Česká pošta post offices, which with ČSOB cooperates. The Czech National Bank sent staff to attempt to use damaged notes at branches of Česká pošta, which runs ČSOB’s Era and Poštovní spořitelna accounts, and around a third were rejected.
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12/16/2014
A retrospective of work by Czech artist Milan Grygar entitled Visual and Acoustic is set to open at the City of Prague Gallery on Wednesday. The show concentrates on Grygar’s work – which combines visual art and sound elements – from the mid-1960s until the present day. The artist, who was born in 1926, attended a preview on Tuesday. In a long career he has also produced graphic works and created 175 film posters between 1961 and 1989.
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12/16/2014
The Czech men’s tennis number one Tomáš Berdych has hired Daniel Vallverdu as his new coach. The Venezuelan former player previously worked with Andy Murray for four years. Berdych, who is 29, made the announcement on his Facebook page on Tuesday, adding that he would no longer be working with his hitherto coaches Tomáš Krupa and David Vydra.
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12/16/2014
Some 228 different species have reproduced at Prague Zoo this year, which is a record. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, the zoo’s director, Miroslav Bobek, said a total of 1,227 young had been born at the institution since the start of 2014. He said many of the species were endangered and very difficult to breed.
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12/16/2014
It will cost the state up to CZK 20 million to put a munitions depot at the village of Květná into operation, the minister of defence, Martin Stropnický, said on Tuesday after visiting the site, which is north of Brno. The transfer to Květná of munitions from a store in Vrbětice, eastern Moravia, where two buildings have blown up in recent months, could begin in January. There could be a permanent depot in Květná for such situations in future, the minister said.
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12/16/2014
Multifaceted relations between the two states could lead Chinese businesses to see the Czech Republic as a gateway to the European Union, the Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, said in Belgrade on Tuesday after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Li Kequiang. The two leaders were attending a summit of 16 Central and Eastern European states and China. Mr. Sobotka said relations between Prague and Beijing could include economic, cultural and healthcare cooperation, as well as a dialogue on human rights and the rule of law.
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