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12/03/2014
David Uhlíř, an expert on civil law, is set to become a judge at the Czech Constitutional Court, after the Senate approved his nomination on Wednesday. Mr. Uhlíř, who is 60 years old, is a deputy head of the Czech Bar Association and also teaches at Charles University’s Law Faculty. Mr Uhlíř will replace Ivana Janů, whose mandate expired in mid-September. The Czech Constitutional Court is currently functioning with 14 instead of 15 judges as stipulated by the Constitution.
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12/03/2014
A series of blasts took place on Wednesday morning in the munitions depot at Vrbětice in south Moravia, which was destroyed in mid-October by a devastating explosion. Villages in the close vicinity of the munitions store have had to be evacuated for safety reasons and clean-up work at the site had to be interrupted. Pyrotechnics are now searching the premises, using an armoured vehicle and a remote control drone. The former military munitions depot belonged to a private company which had leased the storage site.
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12/03/2014
The placing of the Czech Republic on a regular global list assessing perceived corruption in the public sector has improved slightly. In the latest rankings released by corruption watchdog Transparency International on Wednesday, the Czech Republic is in 53rd position, compared to 57th last year. Among the 28 countries of the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland the Czech Republic is ranked 25th.
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12/02/2014
The Czech Republic is planning to contribute 150 soldiers to NATO’s new Spearhead Force next year, the country’s foreign minister, Lubomír Zaorálek, said after a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. The government will decide on their deployment in concrete operations and inform Parliament if it does so. The creation of the Spearhead Force is an interim measure; at a summit in September NATO agreed to create a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which will begin operations in 2016 and could quickly mobilise if an alliance country comes under attack in Eastern Europe.
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12/02/2014
Disgraced doctor Jaroslav Barták has received an 18-year jail term for conspiracy to murder three people and to blackmail three others. He was already serving a 12-year sentence for raping and blackmailing a number of his assistants when he committed the latest crime. Mr. Barták’s intended victims were former military intelligence chief Andor Šándor, lawyer Oldřich Choděra and Orthodox priest Eugen Freimann. He hoped to raise over CZK80 million via blackmail that he would use to fund his escape from prison. The once prominent doctor has appealed Tuesday’s verdict.
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12/02/2014
The authorities in Plzeň are considering moving a monument to the late Czech president Vaclav Havel that has been repeatedly damaged. The West Bohemian city joined a number of others in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in getting a Havel’s Place memorial spot at the end of October. However, a glass love heart, referencing the symbol the writer commonly attached to his signature, was removed from it soon afterwards. A replacement was also taken. Plzeň City Hall will consider a safer spot for the monument in spring, Mayor Martin Zrzavecký said.
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12/02/2014
Pay-rises for MPs and senators should in future be decided on by the government rather than legislators, the minister of finance, Andrej Babiš, said on Tuesday. His ANO party and government partners the Social Democrats are in favour of a 1 percent pay-rise next year, with the latter’s chairman, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, calling for a lower house debate on the issue next month. A four-year freeze agreed by a previous centre-right government envisaged an increase of 26% from 2015. A Chamber of Deputies budget committee recently suggested a pay rise of 14%, a figure President Miloš Zeman described as greedy and pledged to veto.
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12/02/2014
Tuesday is the first time that adverse weather conditions have ever halted all tram services in Prague, a spokesperson for the public transport authority said. While frozen rain on overhead lines caused the majority of routes to be closed on Monday evening, no trams left the city’s depots on Tuesday morning. They have been replaced by emergency bus services.
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12/02/2014
Frozen rain has severely hampered public transport in the Czech Republic since Monday evening. Rail transport has been particularly hard hit, with few trains running around Prague, in Central Bohemia and parts of Moravia. Hundreds of passengers were trapped inside trains on Monday night due to frozen overhead lines. No trams are running in Prague or Olomouc. In Brno most trams are operating but practically all the city’s trolleybuses have been halted. Road transport has in the main not been affected. Thousands of households are without power and the number of injuries caused by falls has been higher than usual.
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12/02/2014
Lenka Zogatová, an important figure on the Brno arts scene and in recent times director of the Czech Centre in Bratislava, has died. Zogatová organised illicit concerts by alternative musicians in Brno in the 1980s, including a legendary show by the singer Nico, who she passed off to the authorities as being from Jihlava but singing in English. A theatre studies graduate, she also worked at HaDivadlo and the National Theatre Brno after the fall of communism.
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