News From The Czech Republic
Czech News 31.07.2014 - 22.07.2014
01.08.2014 07:49
CR: 31.07.2014
Czech PM meets with Austrian chancellor
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann arrived in Prague on Thursday for talks with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. On the agenda was the discussion of plans to improve cross-border transport infrastructure including the modernization...
Czech News 22.07.2014 - 17.07.2014
23.07.2014 07:59
CR: 22.07.2014
Zaorálek calls on Moscow to aid crash investigation and cease sending weapons and gunmen to eastern Ukraine
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek, says the Russian Federation should provide assistance to an independent investigation into the crash of a...
Czech pop singer fights for life after Ostrava pub brawl
18.07.2014 08:55
CR: Czech pop singer Michal Hrůza was taken to hospital in critical condition early on Thursday after sustaining a serious brain injury in a pub fight in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava. The 43-year-old musician has undergone brain surgery, but doctors say the prognosis is uncertain.
Michal...
Czech military reassessing defense tactics at Bagram base amidst growing terrorist attacks
18.07.2014 08:53
CR: Czech soldiers guarding the Bagram military base in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, are repelling an increasing number of attacks from Taliban insurgents. Tuesday’ terrorist attack in the close vicinity of the base killed four Czech servicemen and a fifth, who was gravely injured in the...
Czech finance minister makes about turn on nuclear expansion
18.07.2014 08:51
CR: Only three months after the Temelin nuclear tender was scrapped, chances that the Czech Republic will swiftly restart preparations to build new reactors have revived with one of the main critics of the former Temelin tender now backing nuclear expansion.
Andrej Babiš, photo: CTKFinance...
Chad Bryant: the complexities and contradictions of Czech nationalism under Nazi rule
18.07.2014 08:51
CR: A vast amount has been written about the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the German occupation, but we tend to focus on the more dramatic events – the occupation itself, the assassination of the Nazi ruler Reinhard Heydrich or the destruction of the villages of Lidice and...
Minister of Industry and Trade counts half year achievements
18.07.2014 08:49
CR: Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka continued his ministry tour on Wednesday with a stop off at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, under the tutelage of fellow Social Democrat Jan Mládek.
Jan Mládek, photo: Filip JandourekThere is little doubt that the ministry was very much a second...
Centre-right opposition: broader consensus needed on civil service bill
18.07.2014 08:48
CR: MPs returned to their seats on Tuesday to debate, above all, a much-needed civil service bill, designed to reform the civil service along apolitical lines, cutting out cronyism and corruption to which it was susceptible in the past. The Czech Republic, to its embarrassment, is the only...
Czech News 17.07.2014 - 10.07.2014
18.07.2014 08:38
CR: 17.07.2014
Hundreds attend soldier’s funeral
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of one of the five soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan last week. Sergeant David Benes was laid to rest in his home town of Chomutov, north Bohemia, on Thursday. A mass served in the Church...
Slovak president rejects return of “Made in Czechoslovakia” label
11.07.2014 09:34
CR: Andrej Kiska, the new president of Slovakia, has rejected the idea of reviving the long-defunct “Made in Czechoslovakia” label for both Czech-made and Slovak-made products. The comments came during an official two-day visit by the Slovak president to the Czech Republic at which a wide...