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11/13/2014
A number of NGOs active in the field of human rights and minorities have issued a joint declaration which points to what they call persisting discrimination of Romany children in the Czech education system. The declaration, initiated by the Open Society Fund Prague, was released on the seventh anniversary of a verdict by the European Court of Human Rights which ruled in favour of a group of Czech Romanies who claimed their children were discriminated against by the state because they had automatically been placed in special schools. The NGOs, among them Amnesty International, the League of Human Rights, IQ Roma and Coexistence, point out that seven years after this verdict was passed Romany children make up a third of all pupils at schools for children with special needs.
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11/13/2014
The Prague Freedom Foundation will present US Senator Roger Wicker with its first Defender of Freedom Award on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia. The Senator is being so honoured for his support for maintaining Radio Free Europe broadcasts to the western Balkans. The award is to be presented on November 17th at a concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Washington. It will be attended by the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, and the former US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, among others.
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11/13/2014
Representatives of the ANO party, the Social Democrats and the three-way grouping of the Green Party, the Christian Democrats and Mayors and Independents have signed a coalition agreement on administrating Prague. Adriana Krnáčová of the ANO party, which won the local elections in Prague, will be the city’s new mayor, the first woman ever in the city’s top post. ANO will hold the city’s finances, security, health and housing. The Social Democrats will be responsible for transport, social policy, European funds and education while the three-way Coalition will get the departments of environment, culture and infrastructure.
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11/13/2014
Czech and German police have broken up an international pervitin producing gang, which operated in Prague and Leipzig. The German Federal Criminal Police Office made the announcement on Thursday. It said German police arrested seven people, who were found in possession of 2.9 tonnes of chlorefedrine, a chemical drug used for manufacturing pervitin. That quantity would be sufficient to make 2.3 tonnes of the drug, which could be sold on the black market for roughly five billion crowns (184 million Euros).
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11/13/2014
The American Kronos Quartet is set to perform on Thursday in Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall. The concert will mark the 40th anniversary of the legendary string quartet. Kronos specializes in contemporary classical music and has cooperated with many minimalist composers including Arvo Part, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The Kronos Quartet has collected a series of awards, including the Grammy.
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11/12/2014
A painting by Otakar Kubín entitled “Cubist Figure” sold for 4.9 million crowns (GBP 140,000 pounds) at auction, which is held at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday. The auction house is holding a sale of modern art from Europe and the Mediterranean, including the collection of Mary and Roy Cullen, who have amassed over a 100 pieces by Czech avant-garde artists.
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11/12/2014
The annual profits of the state-owned Czech power giant ČEZ in the first three quarters of 2014 dropped by 38 percent to 19.6 billion crowns. The company’s turnover has dropped by nine percent to 147 billion year-on-year. According ČEZ, the downfall is caused mainly by the decreasing electricity prices and a mild winter, which depressed demands for electricity and heat.
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11/12/2014
Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek arrived in Beirut on Wednesday for a two-day visit of Lebanon and Jordan. Mr Zaorálek held talks with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil and the Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri. Czech Foreign Minister said the Czech Republic was ready to support Lebanon in its fight against Islamic radicals by providing military aid. The foreign ministers have also discussed potential areas of cooperation on the economic front, as well as continuing humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
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11/12/2014
A record number of Czechs, 68 percent, regard their living standard as good, suggests a survey carried out by the STEM agency in October. Ten percent of respondents have improved their opinion on their living standard, which is the highest increase registered since monitoring started. According to the poll, people with a higher education tend to be more satisfied with their living standard. The same level of optimism was last recorded in 2007 and 1996, when 65 percent of Czechs said they regarded their living standard as good.
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11/12/2014
The government on Wednesday announced its plan to abolish the second pillar of the pension insurance scheme, introduced by the former centre-right cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Nečas, by January 2016. The so-called second pillar of the pension scheme allows people to put part of their pension funds into private insurance companies. Bohuslav Sobotka told the Czech News Agency on Wednesday that the scheme was disadvantageous for the vast majority of people and there was very little interest in it. People who joined the second pillar should get their investments back by the end of 2016. Scrapping the second pillar of the pension scheme was one of the election promises of the ruling coalition.
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