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09/25/2014
Attending the UN General Assembly in New York, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaorálek met briefly with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday night to discuss the Islamic State threat and the situation in Ukraine. The Czech foreign minister said he had confirmed Prague’s commitment to the international effort to break the power of the IS by all means available. The two officials also discussed the present situation in Ukraine, the need to avert a humanitarian crisis during the winter and help create conditions for the country’s future democratic development.
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09/25/2014
A court of arbitration, part of the Czech Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday resolved the long lasting dispute between the building firm Metrostav and Prague City Hall over Blanka tunnel compex, ordering the city to pay the remaining billion crowns to the construction company. The sum will be used to cover the construction of a new bridge in Prague-Troja area, which is part of the project. The Blanka tunnel, designed to channel traffic from the city centre, is expected to cost Prague some 36 billion crowns. It has been criticized as an overpriced and non-transparent project. The tunnel was originally meant to be opened in May but the opening has been postponed.
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09/24/2014
Former Minister for Human Rights and Minorities, Michael Kocáb, has initiated a petition to distance himself from the attitude of president Miloš Zeman and the government toward the situation in Ukraine. The petition calls on politicians to actively support Ukraine’s sovereignty and to express their disagreement with Russia’s interference into Ukrainian affairs. The petition has been signed by some 1500 people so far, including priest and theologian Tomáš Halík or documentary filmmaker Olga Sommerová.
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09/24/2014
The European Police Office (Europol) has arrested more than 1,000 people in what was allegedly the single largest assault on organized crime in Europe. The operations were carried out over nine days in 34 countries, including the Czech Republic. According to Europol director Rob Wainwright, the Operation Archimedes targeted all kinds of crime, ranging from drug trafficking to illegal immigration, tax fraud, counterfeiting and theft, netting large amounts of drugs and saving 30 Romanian children from being trafficked.
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09/24/2014
Soldiers from the Czech Republic are taking part in an international military exercise, Anaconda, at the training grounds in northern Poland, which was launched on Wednesday. The ten-day exercise involves 12,500 soldiers from Poland and eight other NATO allies, including the US and the Baltic states. The operations should examine the readiness of allied forces to react to security threats in light of the military conflict in Ukraine.
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09/24/2014
The Office of the President on Wednesday received an envelope containing a suspicious white powder and a threatening letter addressed to President Miloš Zeman. Police, firemen and explosives experts were called to investigate the suspect delivery. President Zeman is currently on a visit to the Zlín region and was not in residence at the time when the package arrived. Police said tests are now being carried out to establish what the substance is.
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09/24/2014
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday also passed a draft bill establishing a third level of the value added tax. The 10-percent rate would apply to books, medicine and baby food as of January 2015. The Czech Republic currently has two VAT rates of 21 and 15 percent. The proposal was put forward mainly to benefit pensioners and families with children by lowering the prices of the selected goods.
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09/24/2014
The biggest national betting and lottery firm and paymaster for Czech sport, Sazka, has joined the European lottery Eurojakpot. According to the Czech News Agency, Sazka has already been given permission for the move by the Ministry of Finance. Seventeen countries currently participate in the Eurojackpot lottery, which was launched in 2012. The largest ever recorded win in the Eurojackpot draw amounted to 1.7 billion crowns (approximately 61 million Euros) and went to a Finnish winner.
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09/24/2014
Czech avant-garde art from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London during November. The art collection includes paintings by Toyen, Karel Teige and Jindřich Štyrský, which were created in the interwar period. The auction is expected to fetch around 1.7 million Euros (roughly 60 million crowns). Highlights from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection will be exhibited in Prague at the end of October. A previous auction of Czech avant-garde and modern art at Sotheby’s in 2011 resulted in a record price of 11.1 million pounds, twice as much than the auction house had estimated.
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09/24/2014
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed an amendment to the income tax bill, raising tax relief for the second child and following children. The amendment also reintroduces relief for working pensioners and reduces it for the self-employed by curbing their automatic write-offs of tax against expenses. The draft bill also reimposes tax on payments to of pensioners who earn more than CZK 840.000 a year from work. The bill will now be discussed by the Senate. If passed and signed by president Miloš Zeman, it will take effect next year.
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