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11/29/2014
The lights on a Christmas tree at a Christmas market on Prague’s Old Town Square were turned on for the first time this year on Saturday afternoon. The illuminations on the 26-metre pine tree were switched on by veteran actress Hana Maciuchová and Jakub Kohák, an entertainer and director of commercials. A tree at Prague Castle will be lit up on Sunday, the first of advent, by Ivana Zemanová, the wife of the president.
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11/29/2014
A new bill drafted by the Ministry of Health envisages a ban on smoking in restaurants in the Czech Republic. The legislation would bar smoking in places where food is prepared, which would mean most of the country’s pubs. It was this week sent to other ministries for review, the news site iDnes.cz reported. If it gains the necessary support, the law – which would also require bar operators to carry a non-alcoholic drink cheaper than beer – would come into effect the year after next. Several attempts to ban smoking in Czech hostelries have come nothing over the years.
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11/29/2014
Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger has posted data from his biological passport on the internet in a bid to clear his name of suggestions that he may have taken performance-enhancing drugs. The International Cycling Union suspended the 28-year-old in August over what it describes as very serious anomalies in his records for 2011 and 2012, when he was with the Astana team. Kreuziger, who finished fifth in last year’s Tour de France but missed this year’s race, says his biological passport shows he did not breach any limits. The Czech Olympic Committee cleared him of breaking anti-doping regulations in September but the International Cycling Union is contesting that ruling at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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11/29/2014
An unprecedented 60 percent of the State Cinematography Fund’s annual budget to support feature Czech film production is set to go to one movie, the news site Respekt.cz reported. Some CZK 15 million from the state agency’s CZK 25 million budget has been allocated to a film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová by director Filip Renč. Respekt wrote that the decision to award the support to the film was taken despite the fact it did poorly in an evaluation of all projects submitted. Mr. Renč last month received a high state honour from President Miloš Zeman, for whom he had made a campaign ad.
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11/29/2014
The Czech Republic’s state secretary for European affairs, Tomáš Prouza, has used Twitter to disparage UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to cut immigration. Evidently angered by Mr. Cameron’s suggestion that immigrants could only receive benefits after four years in the UK, Mr. Prouza on Friday tweeted a picture of Czech airman who served in the RAF during WWII with the words “These Czechs ‘worked’ in the #UK for less than four years. No benefits for them?” By Saturday morning his comment and photo had been retweeted around 1,500 times.
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11/29/2014
A close aide to President Miloš Zeman says the head of state is not indifferent to a steep fall in his public trust ratings. Speaking to Czech Television, the head of the Office of the President’s Foreign Affairs Department, Hynek Kmoníček, said Mr. Zeman would have to think about his communication strategy in order to explain his aims more clearly. A poll released last week suggested that trust in the president had fallen by a record 21 percent in one month following comments he made on China and Russia and an expletive-dotted live radio interview. Mr. Kmoníček said his boss’s “strong statements” occasionally overshadowed other important parts of his agenda that also merited attention.
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11/28/2014
Prague City Hall will not seek arbitration over the city’s controversial Opencard project, Mayor Adriana Krnáčová said. City Hall officials were planning to take the owner of the Opencard application, the firm EMS, to arbitration over the city’s alleged debt to the company. However, they will now wait for a court ruling in the case, Ms Krnáčová said. Since its introduction in 2006, the Opencard project, originally conceived as a smart multipurpose card, has cost the city some 1.2 billion crowns, and now serves as a public transport pass in the city. Five former City Hall employees have been sentenced on corruption charges in relation with the project.
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11/28/2014
A bridge on the D1 motorway in Ostrava is only safe for cars, vans and other vehicles of up to 3.6 tonne, a spokesman for the Czech Roads and Motorways Directory said, quoting the results of a mathematical analysis of the structure’s capacity. The bridge was built in 2010; however, after structural problems appeared on two bridges on the motorway several months ago, the directorate imposed a speed limit and prohibited trucks from entering the bridge.
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11/28/2014
The Czech Union of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners would like more young people to join their ranks in order to stop the steady decline in their numbers, the head of the union, Jan Hinterholzinger, said. The organization now has some 150,000 members, down from around 250,000 in the year 2000. Their numbers were even higher during communism when allotment gardening was one of the most popular pastimes. The average age of the union’s members is now between 60 and 70. The gardeners’ union would also like Parliament to pass legislation that would recognize gardening as a publicly beneficial activity, a status gardeners enjoy in several other EU countries.
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11/28/2014
The number of internet users in the Czech Republic exceeded seven million in October, a survey by the NetMonitor agency has found. Since last year, the Czech online population has grown by 200,000. The survey also found that 51 percent of Czech internet users are men while the most active users are in the 35 to 44 age group. The number of people accessing websites from their mobile devices has exceeded three million, an 8-percent increase since September.
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