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08/15/2014
Some 1400 soldiers from the Czech Republic and 11 other NATO allies including Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, and the US, will take part in international military air training in the Czech Republic in September. Thirty airplanes and helicopters, including Gripen and F-16 fighter jets, as well as 50 ground military vehicles will be used in the training. Ample Strike 2014 will be similar to previous operations such as Flying Rhino, but for the first time it will be held under the auspices of the Czech Army. It will take place from September 3 to 15.
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08/15/2014
Czech cyclist Zdeněk Štybar, who suffered a crash during a sprint in the Eneco Tour in Belgium on Thursday, should be released from the hospital during the weekend. The crash, which saw Štybar lose several teeth, forced him to withdraw from the race. Medical examinations showed no serious injuries and Štybar’s participation in the Spanish Vuelta in September should not be threatened.
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08/15/2014
President Miloš Zeman will name 15 new judges on Friday. The ceremony will take place at Prague Castle. The candidates, nine of them men, will fill various posts at the regional courts all over the country. Most of the new judges have previously worked as lawyers, only three of them are candidate judges. Among the nominees is Filip Dientsbier, an expert on administrative law from Palacký University in Olomouc, who will be heading to the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno.
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08/15/2014
Dozens of people gathered in Prague on Thursday evening to support Palestinians and call for the end of the Gaza Strip blockade. The event was held by the “Not in Our Name! Initiative for a Just Peace in the Middle East.” The protesters met at the top of Wenceslas Square, some of them carrying banners with anti-Israeli slogans. Former foreign minister Jan Kavan also attended, calling for protests to continue. The march ended at the Israeli embassy, with the demonstrators lighting candles for the victims of the conflict in the Gaza Strip. No incidents were reported.
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08/15/2014
The European Commission may withhold hundreds of millions of crowns in subsidies for the Czech operational programme Education for Competitiveness, the daily Lidové Noviny reported on Friday. According to the daily, the Ministry of Education has received a letter from EU auditors, who say the system needs to be significantly improved. The review took place in May, checking up on some fifty projects and revealing problems mainly in the system of internal control. The Education for Competitiveness operational programme has faced problems for years. The Czech Ministry of Education will now have two months to answer the EU criticism.
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08/15/2014
Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomír Zaorálek is attending an extraordinary session of Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Friday. EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss current situation in Iraq, Libya and Ukraine following the latest political and security developments. The ministers are also assessing current humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip. After arriving in Brussels on Friday, Mr Zaorálek told reporters that Russia could easily calm down the situation in Ukraine by ceasing the supply of soldiers and weapons to the east of the country. The meeting in Brussels follows a call by key member states to respond to Iraqi Kurd appeals for weapons in the face of a jihadist onslaught in northern Iraq. Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek earlier this week announced plans to send weapons to the Kurdish forces in Iraq to assist their struggle against the jihadist group Islamic State. According to the Reuters news agency Prague could start supplying weapons to Kurds at the end of August.
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08/15/2014
American actor Elijah Wood, known for his roles in numerous films, including The Lord of the Rings and Sin City, was applauded by thousands of attendees at the Trutnoff Open Air Festival which kicked off on Thursday. Wood is attending as part of a project titled Wooden Wisdom & DJ Fitz. The actor received a hand-carved wooden pipe from organisers as a gift. Trutnoff is one of the Czech Republic’s best-known music festivals with a more than 30-year-long tradition. The festival has ties to the former underground scene in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and was often attended by late president Václav Havel or the late poet Martin Jirous. The legendary Patti Smith is performing at the festival this year; Thursday saw performances by the seminal Czech punk group Visací zámek and others.
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08/15/2014
Czech javelin thrower Barbora Špotaková made history on Thursday by winning her first European Championship title, the only major title she had missed in her collection of medals until now. The two-time Olympic champion pulled off the win on her fifth-round throw of 64.41 metres in Zurich’s Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday evening. The victory puts her one better than her coach, legend Jan Železný, who won three Olympic gold and three world championships during his career but never secured the European Championship title.
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08/14/2014
Two Czech chefs, Jan Davídek and Antonín Bradáč, have won the international competition known as the Thailand Culinary Challenge. The duo, who went by the team name of Czech Chefs and were the only European representatives to compete, beat other elite teams from countries including China, South Korea, the USA, and Malaysia. The top prize was 10 thousand US dollars. The competition took place over two days, with the chefs preparing national cuisine on the first day, and Thai cuisine on the second.
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08/14/2014
The opposition Civic Democrats have rented andbegun moving to a new party headquarters in the Prague city centre, from its previous office at Pankrác plain. The 700 square metre space, complete with a downstairs reception area, and work areas for some 20 head office employees, will cost the party almost 200,000 crowns per month. The lease signed is for a three-year period, but the head of the right-wing party, Petr Fiala, made clear he hoped the site would be home to the Civic Democrats for longer. The party rented its former headquarters at Pankrác for five years. The new office will come into regular use in September.
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