The Ministry of Industry and Trade will receive around CZK 1 billion more in 2017 than this year from the state coffers, Industry Minister Jan Mládek told reporters on Tuesday after a meeting with Finance Minister Andrej Babiš. Mr Mládek’s department will next year receive CZK 30.7 billion. The Ministry...
Blog
Czech households spend most of their income on living expenses
Czech households spend the biggest share of their income on living expenses, according to the results of a study by the Czech Statistics Office comparing household spending in the years 1995 to 2015. ...
Russian artist gives Havel-linked prize to group accused of killing police
Russian performance artist Peter Pavlensky gave his Havel Prize for Creative Dissent to a businessman who pledged to fund a Russian group whose members have been found guilty of killing policemen, Reuters reported. Mr. Pavlensky presen...
Six hundred year old Czech tree reveals secrets
Czech scientists researching forests in Šumava National Park in the south of the country have recently discovered what is believed to be the Czech Republic’s oldest tree. The spruce, found near the lake of Plešné, witnessed the reign of Charles IV as a sapling, and is believed to have reached more than 600...
Tuesday 70th anniversary of registration of tractor firm Zetor
Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the registration of the internationally successful Zetor tractor company. The brand name combined “zet” (“zed”) and the last two letters of “tractor”, with the “zet” referring to the first letter of the enterprise Zbrojovka Brno, of which Zetor was a subsidiary until...
Extra billion crowns to go toward university teachers’ pay in 2017
An extra CZK 1 billion is set to go toward university teachers’ pay next year, the minister of education, Kateřina Valachová, said after talks with Finance Minister Andrej Babiš on Tuesday. Minister Valachová said the news meant that third level institutions could now count on receiving a clear amount...
Gold medal hero Krpálek among 30 Czech athletes back from Rio
Gold medal hero Krpálek among 30 Czech athletes back from Rio More than 30 members of the Czech team at the Olympic Games have arrived back in the Czech Republic. Among those who landed at Prague’s Kbely airfield on a Czech Army plane on Tuesday morning were Lukáš Krpálek, a judo gold medal...
Kudlička comes fourth in pole vault in Rio
The Czech Republic’s Jan Kudlička came fourth in the final of the men’s pole vault at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Kudlička’s best clearance was of 5.75 metres, some 10 cm short of the best achieved by the athlete who took bronze. The Czech shared fourth spot with Piotr...
Statistics office: Czech economy slowed in second quarter
Czech economic growth slowed to 2.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2016, while the GDP rose by 0.9 percent, the Czech Statistics Office has revealed its estimate. In the first quarter the economy...
Eight people died on Czech roads on Monday
Eight people died in accidents on Monday, the worst in a single day on Czech roads for 2016, the police confirmed. Nine others suffered serious injuries. Prior to Monday, March 18 and July 31 saw...