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08/07/2014
Czech beer producers appeared to face a reprieve from feared retaliatory sanctions from Russia. On Thursday, PM Dmitry Medvedev followed through on announced sanctions by President Vladimir Putin the previous day, listing a specific ban on fruits, vegetables, milk, dairy products, meat and fish imports from the EU as well as US, Norway, Canada and Australia. The ban, in reaction to sanctions imposed by the EU and US over Russian alleged intervention in eastern Ukraine, will last for one year. The head of the Czech Beer and Malt Association had stated a Russian embargo on Czech beer would immediately incur losses of hundreds of millions of crowns, and could lead to job cuts as well. The Czech Republic annually exports some 500 million crowns worth of beer to Russia.
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08/07/2014
Sparta Prague lost 2:0 to FC Malmö in the second leg of their Champions League third qualification round tie in Sweden on Wednesday night. The Czech club won the first leg 4:2 but lost the tie on the away goal rule, and was knocked out of the completion. Sparta will now enter the fourth qualification round of the Europa League.
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08/06/2014
A group of Czech MPs are planning to put forward legislation that would allow gays and lesbians living in registered partnership to adopt their partner’s child. MP Radka Maxová from the ANO party told reporters on Wednesday the bill, which should enter the legislative process later this week, was needed to allow registered partners take care of their children without fear of legal consequences. The legislation would however not make it possible for same-sex couples to adopt children from children’s homes and other institutions. There are around 900 children living in same-sex households in the Czech Republic, according to 2011 population census data.
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08/06/2014
The police have charged 24-year-old man who killed a woman in a hit-and-run incident of causing death through negligence, failure to provide assistance and driving under the influence of illegal drugs. The man, Marek Půček, allegedly drove his black BMW into a bus stop at Náměstí Kinských in Prague 5 at about 4:30 AM on Tuesday, hitting a 21-year-old woman who died at the scene. He abandoned the car and fled before turning himself in to the police on Tuesday evening after his photograph had appeared all over the media. He now faces up to eight years in prison if found guilty.
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08/06/2014
The Prague-based firm FutureLife, owned by Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš, has become the leader on the country’s assisted reproduction market following its acquisition of the Iscare clinic, the news website ihned.cz reported on Wednesday. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed but it is said to have reached hundreds of millions of crowns. In May, FutureLife acquired another two clinics specializing in reproductive medicine, Brno’s Reprofit International and the Prague-based GynCenter. The latest transaction is yet to be reviewed by the Czech anti-monopoly agency; if approved, Mr Babiš’s firm will control some 20 percent of the market with annual revenues of around 600 million crowns.
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08/06/2014
The Czech government on Wednesday approved support for biofuels for the period of 2015 to 2020. The support consists in breaks or exemptions from the excise tax on fuels with added renewable methanol. As an EU member state, the Czech Republic has pledged to replace 10 percent its petrol and diesel consumption with biofuels by the year 2020. The government will however decrease support for two types of biofuel, biodiesel B100 and ethanol E85, which will be subject to taxation, the Czech Agriculture Ministry said, quoting new EU regulations of state support for renewable energy sources as the reason.
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08/06/2014
Some 11,800 out of 22,500 members of the Czech Social Democratic Party have taken part in an internal referendum, a party spokesperson said on Wednesday. In the vote, they were asked whether ballot nominees should be approved by all party members in an electoral district, whether the party should adopt a 40-percent quota for women on ballots, and whether the number of public offices held by Social Democrat members should be limited. The results of the referendum are to be announced later on Wednesday.
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08/06/2014
Czech President Miloš Zeman has invited the recently elected President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, for an official visit of the Czech Republic, a spokesman for Mr Zeman said on Wednesday, adding that the Israeli head of state had accepted the invitation. The date of the visit has not been set. The Czech Republic is one of Israel’s closest allies in the EU while Mr Zeman is an outspoken critic of Islam. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka is set to visit Israel by the end of the year.
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08/06/2014
The Czech Republic will this year fail to source up to 24.4 billion crowns in EU funds, deputy regional development minister Daniel Braun told reporters on Wednesday. The programmes that are most threatened by the likely losses include the environment, research and development for innovations, and the northwest and Prague operational programmes. Ministry officials said the losses were partly due to the depreciation of the Czech crown by the Czech National Bank. The Czech Republic’s record of drawing EU funds is the worst of the entire bloc; last year, Czechs failed to source some 10 billion crowns.
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08/06/2014
The Czech industrial sector grew in June by 8.1 percent year on year, after a 2.5 percent growth registered in May, according to figures by the Czech Statistics Office released on Wednesday. The growth was mainly fuelled by increased output of the country’s automotive industry; the biggest Czech car manufacturer, Škoda Auto, posted an 74.9 percent surge of its operating profit in the first six months of the year which reached 11.7 billion crowns. The Czech Republic’s construction sector, meanwhile, returned to growth in June when it rose by 5.1 percent year on year.
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