Prague, Dec 11 (CTK) – Review of major political and cultural events scheduled as yet in the Czech Republic in 2017:
JANUARY
1. – New Year’s Day.
– National holiday – Day of Renewal of Independent Czech State (1993)
– Minimum gross monthly wage rises by 1100 crowns to 11,000.
– Amendment to law on political parties and movements takes effect. It introduces financial caps on election spending and institutes special office to supervise the financial management of parties.
– Amendment to law on certain measures against legalisation of proceeds from criminal activities and terrorism financing takes effect.
– Amendment to air protection law, according to which offices will be able to check what people burn in boilers at home and to fine trespassers, takes effect.
– New atomic energy law, which is to facilitate construction of new nuclear units, takes effect.
– Law introducing stricter regulation of gambling takes effect.
10.- Chamber of Deputies starts first regular session in 2017.
16.- Significant day – Jan Palach Remembrance Day, on which tribute is paid to the memory of student Jan Palach who chose self-immolation to protest against Soviet occupation of former Czechoslovakia.
– Tripartite, which brings together representatives of government, employers and trade unions, holds first meeting in 2017.
18.- Court in Prague starts to deal with complaint by grandson of Czech Art-Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha about ownership of the Slavic Epic series of paintings.
19.- National Security Council meets.
27.- Significant day: Holocaust Remembrance Day – anniversary of the liberation of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) camp in 1945.
FEBRUARY
1. – Amendment to law on aid in material deprivation takes effect.
21.- Chamber of Deputies’ February session begins.
MARCH
– President Milos Zeman to announce in March whether he will seek re-election next year.
1. – Sales electronic registration (EET) starts to apply to retail and wholesale firms.
6. – Festival of films on human rights, One World, begins. On March 16 it will move to regions.
8. – Significant day: International Women’s Day.
10.- Social Democrats (CSSD) begin two-day election congress.
12.- Significant day: Day of the Czech Republic’s accession to NATO.
23.- 24th Febiofest film festival begins, runs until March 31.
26.- Summer time begins.
28.- Significant day: Birth anniversary of humanist, educator and philosopher Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius, 1592-1670))
30.- Czech and Slovak tripartites hold joint meeting.
APRIL
6. – Days of European Film begin in Prague; to run until April 13. The festival moves to Brno (April 14-18) and it will continue in regions until April 23.
7. – Significant day of Czech Republic – Day of Education marking foundation of Charles University in Prague, the first in Central Europe, by King of Bohemia and Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1348.
14.- National holiday – Good Friday.
16.- Easter Sunday.
17.- National holiday – Easter Monday.
MAY
1. – National holiday – Labour Day.
2. – Anifilm international animated film festival begins in Trebon, south Bohemia; runs until May 7.
5. – Significant day – May 1945 National Uprising.
8. – National holiday – Day of Victory marking liberation from fascism in 1945.
11.- Book World international book fair beigns; runs until May 14.
12.- 72nd Prague Spring international music festival begins; runs until June 2.
14.- Significant day – Mothers’ Day.
15.- Significant day – Day of Families.
26. -26th International Film Festival for Children and Youth begins in Zlin, south Moravia; runs until June 3.
28. – World Romany festival Khamoro begins; runs until June 3.
JUNE
10.- Significant day – Obliteration of Lidice village, central Bohemia, by the Nazis in 1942.
16.- Smetana Litomysl international opera festival begins; runs until July 6.
27.- Significant day – Communist Regime Victims Remembrance Day; anniversary of judicial murder of democratic politician Milada Horakova in 1950.
30.- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival begins; runs until July 8.
JULY
5. – National holiday – Day of SS Constantine and Methodius Slavic missionaries who brought Christianity to Czech Lands in 863.
6. – National holiday – Day of (religious reformer) Jan Hus’s (John Huss) Burning at Stake in 1415.
28.- Summer Film School (LFS) opens in Uherske Hradiste, south Moravia; runs until August 8.
AUGUST
No major events have been scheduled as yet.
SEPTEMBER
9. – European Heritage Days begin; run until September 17.
28.- National holiday – St Wenceslas Day, Day of Czech Statehood
OCTOBER
24.- Documentary film festival Ji.hlava begins;runs until October 29.
28.- National holiday – Day of Establishment of Independent Czechoslovakia in 1918.
– Summer time ends.
NOVEMBER
2. – All Souls’ Day church holiday in memory of the dead.
11.- Significant day – Veterans Day; anniversary of World War One end
17.- National holiday: Day of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy that commemorates student demonstrations against Nazi occupation in 1939 and against Communist regime in 1989.
DECEMBER
24.- National holiday – Christmas Eve.
25.- National holiday – Christmas Day
26.- National holiday – Boxing Day
31.- News Year’ Eve.
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