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07/31/2009
The primary east-west thoroughfare in the Czech Republic, the D1 motorway, is to be closed for more than 24 hours during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. The Ministry of Transportation said Thursday that during that time, from September 26 to 27, the motorway is to serve as a car park for the more than 2,000 buses expected to bring up to 150,000 people to Brno for the pope’s mass. The ministry is working with police to prepare detours.
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07/31/2009
The Prague Stock Exchange reported its best July on record, with Czech shares up 18.66% to 1065.8 points according to the exchange’s primary index, the PX. According to experts, the speedy rise can be put down primarily to investors taking advantage of a jittery and pessimistic mood on the markets. The strongest growth in July could be seen in shares of the coal mining company New World Resources, up 31.9%. The largest company on the market, the ČEZ Group, was up 15.9% to 966 crowns.
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07/31/2009
Fire-fighters Thursday night dealt with an apparent arson attack on a restaurant in Prague’s Vinohrady district. Around 20 people had to be evacuated as flames threatened surrounding apartments and tram traffic on Korunní Street was stopped for a time. Damages are estimated at half a million crowns. The restaurant was closed at the time of the fire
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07/31/2009
Prosecutors seeking the indictment of Euro MP Miloslav Ransdorf have dropped their charges due the politician’s new immunity as a member of the European Parliament. Mr Ransdorf was charged with grievous bodily harm arising from negligence after he hit a pedestrian while driving in 2007. The European Parliament revoked Mr Ransdorf’s immunity in February, however police did not receive the documentation from Brussels until July, by which time the Communist Party politician had already been re-elected.
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07/31/2009
The Czech Republic and Poland have agreed to integrate their visa desks at certain consulates outside Europe in order to cut expenses. The foreign ministers of the two countries met Thursday to discuss the arrangement. While the countries will maintain their respective ambassadors in the nations in question, the Czech embassy in Poland said that in practice one ambassador may assume the duties of the other. Austria and Hungary employ a similar system at embassies in certain small countries.
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07/31/2009
Police in Hungary have arrested a Czech man they accuse of helping a group of Serbian nationals to enter France illegally. The Hungarian news agency MTI reported that five of the eight Serbians were children. The Hungarian/Serbian border is a frequent target for people trying to enter the EU illegally. On the same day border guards arrested one Serb attempting to take five Albanians, including two children, to Italy, and 995 individuals have been arrested for the same offence so far this year – almost as many as for the whole of 2008.
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07/30/2009
The value of investments in the Czech Republic has taken a year-on-year dive for the first half of 2009 to 10.5 billion crowns, the governmental investment agency CzechInvest has announced. The decline comes amid a growing number of investment projects, which increased for the same period from 16 to 140. CzechInvest says that nearly half of the new investments have been made in information technologies, and that investment in services and research and development have for the first time exceeded investments in manufacturing.
Meanwhile, higher unemployment levels in the country are increasing investor interest in Central and Western Bohemia, CzechInvest stated Thursday. Interest in business real estate has doubled in Plzeň for example, as companies find an advantageous pool of employees among growing numbers of unemployed but qualified workers.
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07/30/2009
Czech detectives in South Africa to question fugitive businessman Radovan Krejčíř have found their hotel room ransacked. Czech Television reported that the burglary took place after the detectives were picked up by Mr Krejčíř’s driver to arrange an informal meeting with him. South African police are investigating the break-in. Radovan Krejčíř is expected to testify in the case of his father, who the police believe was kidnapped in 2002 on account of his son’s debts and murdered. Mr Krejčíř himself is under prosecution in the Czech Republic for extensive property fraud and conspiracy to murder. He escaped police detention in June of 2005 and has been living in South Africa since 2007
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07/30/2009
The International Criminal Police Association, Interpol, has been searching for a 34-year-old Czech man, Vítězslav Mráček, who they say escaped from a Belgian prison. It emerged Thursday however that the Mr Mráček in question is apparently at home in the Czech Republic and has never been charged with a crime. According to the daily Právo, police became aware of a case of mistaken identity on Wednesday after visiting the alleged fugitive’s residence. Belgian authorities have stated that the escapee was serving a six-year sentence for larceny.
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07/30/2009
The automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto recorded a net profit drop of nearly 62% for the first half of 2009 compared with last year. 329,641 cars were sold, or 10.1% less than during the same period last year. The owner of Škoda, Volkswagen, reported even less positive results, with an 81% decline in profits in spite of a 6% rise in automobile sales.
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