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The sex offenders register that politicians have been promising since 2022 may have to be postponed for the second time, iROZHLAS.cz reports.

The government began discussing the possibility of creating such a register in response to a case where a previously convicted sex offender from Liberec abused seven children at events that he was allowed to organise, despite the fact that he was twice convicted of raping minors in the past.

The Justice Ministry said last October that it had agreed on the details of the register and was already working on a concrete proposal. Originally, the register was supposed to launch at the beginning of this year, but this was later postponed to January 1, 2025.

Now, iROZHLAS.cz warns, even this new deadline may not be met, as the Justice Ministry has still not put forward a draft proposal, saying it won't be ready until at least September.

Two rooms and a corridor connecting the two on the fourth floor of Charles University's Faculty of Arts building in Prague are to serve as places of remembrance for the victims of December's mass shooting, starting from Friday and continuing until the end of the year. The faculty management has installed commemorative stones, flowers and a piano in the rooms so visitors can express their condolences and remember those they lost.

The December 21 mass shooting last year left 14 people dead and a further 25 injured. The faculty closed for about two months after the incident. The building reopened in February, with the exception of the fourth floor, where the shooting took place.

The SPOLU coalition (Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and TOP 09) has come first in a mock election to the European Parliament held at 265 secondary schools across Czechia this Tuesday and Wednesday.

SPOLU received 15.2 percent of the mock vote, followed by the coalition Oath and Motorists with 14.2 percent and the Pirate Party with 11.6 percent of the vote.

Some 22,880 secondary school students aged 15 and over took part in the voting, organized by the human rights NGO People in Need to popularize elections with first-time voters.

Production of passenger cars in Czechia increased by 14.4 percent year-on-year to a record 531,355 vehicles in the first four months of this year, the Czech Automobile Industry Association announced on Thursday.

The country’s biggest exporter, Škoda Auto, produced 330,175 cars in its domestic plants in the first four months, an increase of 11.2 percent.

Electric car production in Czechia fell by 29 percent to 39,600 between the beginning of January and the end of April.