Thursday, 20 June 2013
Politics | ČTK
Civic Democrats agree on Němcová as their candidate for prime minister

The Civic Democrat leadership has named Miroslava Němcová – until now the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies – candidate for prime minister. TOP 09 and LIDEM have said Němcová was acceptable for the post. However, it will be difficult to find a new chairperson of the Chamber of Deputies, Schwarzenberg and Peake agreed. Němcová said the decision to accept the candidature was not easy.
Prague | Radio Prague
Substation fire causes blackout in almost half of Prague

A fire at an electrical substation left many Prague's residents without power on Tuesday night.

 

 
National | Radio Prague
Nečas to face bribery charge?

According to documents quoted in the Czech media, the police believe that Petr Nečas, who stood down as prime minister on Monday, was personally involved in bribing former MPs.

Business | Reuters
Czechs hope wealth-destroying floods can lift growth

Floods that have caused billions of euros in damage across central Europe may actually provide an economic boost for the Czech Republic, a country struggling to shrug off its longest recession in more than two decades.
National | ČTK
Women's congress demands flexible work, equality

Organisers of the first Czech women's congress yesterday turned to politicians with the demands of flexible forms of work, more nursery schools and day-care centres and equal remuneration for men and women in politics and company boards.
National | Reuters
Dozing prince a cult hero for disenchanted Czechs

It was a moment of high drama: the Czech prime minister stood up in parliament to try to salvage a political career torpedoed by the arrest of an aide, and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, sitting next to him, had dozed off.
Prague | ČTK
Spill on Vltava false alarm

The report of a toxic substance leak in the Vltava River on the outskirts of Prague that the city's police received on Tuesday evening was a false alarm and the water has not been contaminated.
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Life | Prague TV
Bon Jovi comes to Prague

American rock legends Bon Jovi are coming to Synot Tip Arena on Monday, 24 June.
Life | Opus Osm
Stepping up to the professional's podium

The Conservatory student (who formed a student ensemble) conducts his first professional orchestra: So, how did it go?

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Life | iluxurylife.cz
Beauty & Golf Tour at Karlovy Vary
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Opinion | TOL
The unhappy hero

The scandal that brought down the Czech prime minister could play out only because he brought integrity to the system.
Opinion | ČTK
HN: Corruption charges of former MPs are questionable

The joy of the police courage is spoilt by the fact that some "original arguments" in the corruption charges of three former government Civic Democrat (ODS) deputies will be hard to defend in court, Petr Kamberský writes in daily Hospodářské noviny (HN) yesterday.
Politics | ČTK
Czech politics example of moral misery, German press reports

Politics in the Czech Republic is a typical example of moral misery in the post-communist countries, the German daily Mittelbayerische Zeitung writes in a commentary on the current Czech crisis headlined "Political Gutters on the Moldau River."