Sunday, August 30, 2015

Prague Post

Zeman: Refugees should be promptly returned

President cites disease, terrorist sleeper cells as causes for concern

Zeman: Toppling Nečas is my biggest success

President also blames nerve disease for making him seem drunk

UN criticizes Czechs over refugees

Prague holds refugees too long in bad conditions

NGO for children won't get subsidy

Ministry says it cannot give 'exclusive and nontransparent support for a single organization'

Child crime rates drop, nobody knows why

But Czech girls are catching up with boys in delinquency

More foreigners get Czech citizenship

New rules allow people to keep their original citizenship

Gripen fighters return from Iceland

Czech fighter planes were on routine mission to protect Iceland's airspace

Dukovany unit shutting down for two months

ČEZ hopes to extend life of 30-year-old reactor for another 20 years

Highway to Dresden will open for 2016 Christmas markets

D8 motorway should have been completed in 2010; work began over 25 years ago

Friday news briefing — Aug. 28, 2015

Prague not to take special measures over dead refugees in Austria; Czech military base to host Ample Strike exercise again; Czech police action against shooter had defects

Anti-drug chief: Marijuana is no longer a soft drug

1960s pot is to current version like light beer is to whisky, expert claims

President Zeman grants no pardons

Only terminally ill convicts and exceptional cases will be considered

Former ministry official gets suspended sentence for corruption

Ex-ANO member Vladislav Koval says he was trying to set up a sting that went bad

US military convoy may cross Czech Republic

Three groups of vehicles are expected to from Germany to Hungary for NATO exercise

Thursday news briefing — Aug. 27, 2015

Czech growers lose 480 million Kč due to Russian import ban; Poll: ANO, CSSD would win Czech election with 21.6 percent each; Czech state fighting for 240 billion Kč in courts

Wednesday news briefing — Aug.26, 2015

Schwarzenberg joins hunger strike for communism victims; gov’t adopts action plan for digital market development; new home-building savings contracts down by 24 percent in H1

Škoda introducing greener Superb

Škoda Superb GreenLine goes 1,780 km on a single tank of diesel
Major street in Olomouc shut down when 70-year-old Soviet bomb found

Czech intelligence powers widened

President signed law allowing intelligence services to get tax and telecom info

Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 25, 2015

President Zeman to attend military parade in Bejing; Charles University offers free studies to Czech asylum holders; Czech army’s unused property section head faces prosecution

ČSA strike likely to be postponed

Court has asked flight attendants to ‘rethink’ the decision

Czechs losing more to Internet scams

Scams reported to police add up to over 1 billion Kč

ČSA flight attendants to strike against wage cuts

Union announces that attendants will not board planes for three days

Monday news briefing — Aug. 24, 2015

Vítkovice Holding's profit up by 62.5 percent; Czech police shelve Uherský Brod shooting massacre case; Czech court sentences mother to 17 years for murder of baby

Czech fighters end Icelandic mission

Iceland is a NATO member but has no military

More minors coming from Syria and Afghanistan

The number of lone underage refugees is rising in Czech Republic

Babiš: Stropnický would be good presidential candidate

Election is in 2018, but names are already being bandied about

Pirates announce plan of attack

 Czech Pirate Party to run in all regions in 2016 regional polls

Underage crime victims rising

More children, fewer adults are falling prey to criminals

Friday news briefing — Aug. 21, 2015

Austrian Sudeten Germans still interested in their Czech property; Czech gov’t approves programs within Health 2020 strategy; ČOI finds no poor-quality fuel in July for 1st time since 2001

Sobotka warns of Russia when remembering 1968 invasion

Czech prime minister draws parallels to current situation in Ukraine

Gang smuggled Peruvian cocaine in wine

80 to 90 percent pure cocaine was extracted from wine in the Czech Republic

Soviet occupation claimed over 400 lives

Real number may even be higher, as many documents are lost

Thursday news briefing — Aug. 20, 2015

Footballer Nedvěd to fly with President Zeman to China; Czech court takes prison director Libal into custodyCzech man sentenced for murder of elderly couple 

Giant wine cork stolen from roundabout

Bohemia Sekt offers 100 bottles of sparkling wine for its safe return

Temelín’s second unit back online

Both units had been shut down at once due to repairs and fuel replacement

Wednesday news briefing — Aug. 19, 2015

Czech cubism exhibition to be opened in cubist house in Prague; Czech university builds electro motorocycle, seeks producer; mosque windows broken in Czech city

Rath saga continues

Czech Police propose charges for suspects in Rath's other case

Shhh! We're calling up the reserves

LN: Czech military secretly beefing up size over migrant wave

Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 18, 2015

Lyčka is new head of government-sponsored Czech Centres; HN: Amazon to open new warehouse for returned goods in Prague; eman not against live broadcast of October 28 remembrance

Conservationists try to salvage ground squirrels

The small rodents used to be common but have been harmed by habitat loss

Lack of cooling caused Unipetrol blast

Officials downplay health effects of burning chemicals

Animal ‘protectors’ kill 13 mink

Attackers sprayed mink pink to make their fur useless

Monday news briefing — Aug. 17, 2015

Czech prison head arrested over suspected corruption; Czech secondary school students get 654 Kč allowance; Some 98 percent of exporters export goods, services to EU

Security council to meet over Česká pošta case

Bribery allegations surfaced regarding an ongoing lawsuit from 2010

Farm chemical use down

Czech Republic is supposed to use biological or physical methods when possible

Piping in Czech Unipetrol secured

Road reopening postponed, but situation is stable

Use of Czech soldiers mulled for border patrol

Czech president and chief-of-staff met to discuss numbers

Four firefighters units stay at Unipetrol

Cause of extensive fire is not yet known

15 people die on Czech roads in less than three days

Unusually hot weather cited as a factor in number of accidents

No acute danger after Czech chemical plant fire

Fire has been brought under control, allowed to burn out

Friday news briefing — Aug. 14, 2015

Lebanon affair rocks Czech military intelligence head; Czech football clubs fined for fans’ anti-Muslim display; Czech court must deal with Romany complaint against town again

Real estate agent must apologize to Romany woman

Judge rejects financial compensation in test case over discrimination

Ukrainian archive holds secrets of Great Terror

Many people from Czechoslovakia vanished in Ukraine in 1937–38

Police torch train

Czech police set train on fire as part of criminal investigation

First Syrian refugees coming in October

Families with sick children still have to undergo security screening

Thursday news briefing — Aug. 13, 2015

Czech cereal harvest to be 4.3 percent lower this year; Fire burning in Czech Unipetrol chemical plant; Temelín reactor containment meets tightness criteria

Police bought how many new vans?

Project uses EU funds to improve response for disasters

Temelín's second unit offline due to defect

Both units now offline again, but ČEZ has bought electricity to cover shortfall

Interior Ministry's budget rising

Migration concerns plus more police and firemen add up

Wednesday news briefing — Aug. 12, 2015

Czech military can deploy 2,600 soldiers to tackle refugees; Powers of Czech intelligence services may be widened;  statues of stoned women are in Prague in protest against Islam 

Disabled surrogate child wanted by no one

Children born to surrogate mothers have little legal protection

Jaguar shortlists Slovakia

PM Fico: Signing of memorandum with Jaguar is milestone

Tuesday news briefing — Aug. 11, 2015

German Ackermann-Gemeinde awards Schwarzenberg; Slovakia plans introduction of voluntary military service; Czech state selling jewelry confiscated from convicted tax fraud

Heat, drought cause spike in fires

Czech firefighters called to five-year record of 199 fires on Monday

Restitution deadline missed

Czech SPÚ fails to settle two fifths of church land return claims

Klaus: Immigration wave poses a ‘fundamental danger’

Former president calls for strict measures to refugees out of Europe

Government plans drought relief

Prague to spend 8 billion Kč from EU on fighting drought

Monday news briefing — Aug. 10, 2015

ČEPS raises H1 gross profit by 13.5 percent; Czech Supreme Court upholds six years for Indian for woman’s death; European lumberjack cup held in Czech town

Two minors arrested in fatal beating of homeless man

Police describe the attack as the most brutal they have ever seen

Small group shows support of refugees

Rally in support of refugees held before Czech detention center
Funds supports soldiers and their families in financial distress

Rally speaker accused of incitement to hatred

Man from Slovak nationalist group faces two years if convicted

Saturday was the hottest day of the year

But all-time record from 2012 remains unbroken

Dawn party gets new head

Czech war veteran Lidinský becomes leader of smallest party in Parliament

Prisoner complains he couldn’t observe Ramadan

Prison says it had no means to make special arrangements

Crocodile invading drug scene

Dangerous drug is coming from Poland, further east

Klaus, not Zeman, to attend Rhodos conference

Annual forum organized by úndesirable’ Russian was addressed by Zeman last year

First refugees arrive in new Czech detention camp

Detainees will no longer be allowed to wander freely in the town

Court: National Gallery must return Madonna painting

Decision on ownership of 14th century panel is likely to be appealed

Airport runway squirrels getting relocated

Vulnerable species has taken refuge in a dangerous place

Friday news briefing — Aug. 7, 2015

Former education minister to work for Czech football; South Bohemia police detain 26 refugees, probably Afghans; Czech Police investigate anti-immigrant posters

Arabs cleaning town in ‘reconciliation’

Efforts to keep Teplice orderly are backed on diplomatic level

Gang planned to kidnap Babiš’s child

Repsekt: Nine people were arrested in 2014; case had no political motivation

Police investigate anti-Muslim football banner

Team reportedly did not see full picture and calls foul on fans

Greenpeace making world’s biggest spill rag

Environmental group seeks to raise awareness of the folly of Arctic drilling

Thursday news briefing — Aug. 6, 2015

First refugees to arrive in Vyšní Lhoty Czech center on Friday; Czechs to help flood victims in Myanmar; Slovak owning 107 cars is on welfare


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