Publication: Prague Monitor

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

TOP 09 pulls out of coalition pact with ODS at Prague City Hall

Prague, May 20 (CTK) - The Prague branch of the conservative TOP 09 withdrew from the coalition agreement with the Civic Democrats (ODS) at the Prague City Hall yesterday, citing long-lasting discords in the two-party coalition, deputy mayor Tomas Hudecek ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: TOP09, Prague, Coalition, Czech Social Democratic Party

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Czech Social Democratic Party

President plans to tour regions starting July

Brno, May 21 (CTK) - Czech President Milos Zeman wants to systematically visit Czech regions, of which there are 13 plus Prague, as from July, he told CTK yesterday on his visit to Brno, capital of South Bohemia Region, where he discussed the state of ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Brno, Prague, Czech Social Democratic Party

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Tetra Pak International SA

Number of Czechs who recycle increasing

Prague, May 21 (CTK) - A total of 70 percent of Czechs sorted waste actively in 2012, which is 2 percent more than in 2011 and 14 percent more than ten years ago, according to a press release of the Eko-kom company collecting sorted waste all over the ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Tetra Pak International SA, Prague, Plastics, Czech Republic

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

Students protest President Zeman's stance on Putna

Brno, May 21 (CTK) - Some 50 people, mainly students, protested against the refusal of Czech President Milos Zeman to appoint Martin C. Putna professor in Brno yesterday, on the occasion of Zeman's visit to the town.The protesters expressed fears of a ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Brno, Prague

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Poll: Majority of Czechs consider coexistence with Roma bad

Prague, May 21 (CTK) - Relations between Romanies and the non-Romany majority in the Czech Republic are bad according to 87 percent of the polled and 9 percent said they are good, according to a CVVM poll the results of which were released yesterday.Compared ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Rome, Prague, Czech Republic

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Devaluation can solve growing debt crisis, former finance minister says

Brno, May 21 (CTK) - The cure to the persistent debt crisis is currency devaluation, but only countries that are not euro zone members have this option, former finance minister and Civic Democratic (ODS) politician Vlastimil Tlusty said at an economic ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Crisis, Eurozone, Brno

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

CEZ Group

Biggest contracts in Temelín expansion could go to construction firms

Ceske Budejovice, May 21 (CTK) - Metrostav's building companies could get the biggest contracts in the planned extension of nuclear power plant Temelin if US-Japanese firm Westinghouse wins the tender, according to representatives of Westinghouse, the ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: CEZ Group, Construction, Petr Procházka, Metrostav

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Czechs spend CZK 9,280 on average in e-shops in 2012

Prague, May 21 (CTK) - Czech clients spent Kc9,280 on average in e-shops last year, compared with Kc11,695 in 2010, and the reason for the fall is in particular the decrease in the prices of electronics, according to study E-commerce in the Czech Republic ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Commodities, Czech Republic, Prague, Electronic Commerce

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Telecommunication Office wants more investors for LTE auction

Prague, May 21 (CTK) - The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) wants to attract more investors to a new auction of frequencies for fast mobile networks LTE, the regulator's new chairman Jaromir Novak said in an interview for CTK yesterday.Besides the ... [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Telecommunication, Prague, Telefónica SA, T-Mobile International AG & Co, Vodafone Group Plc

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

ČR to push for cut in subsidies to renewables at EU summit

Prague, May 20 (CTK) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said yesterday he wants to push for reduction of subsidies to renewable energy sources rather than for creation of new ones at the European Union summit to be held on Wednesday.Necas also wants to ... [Published Prague Monitor - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Petr Nečas, European Union, Prague, Power Grid

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Respekt: EU, eurozone crisis not to blame for Czech economic fall

Prague, May 20 (CTK) - The results of the Czech economy in the first quarter of the year are ones of the worst in its history and the Czechs cannot put the blame on the euro zone crisis or the European Union for it, Jan Machacek writes in the weekly Respekt ... [Published Prague Monitor - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Gross Domestic Product, Czech Republic, European Union, Crisis

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

President Zeman refuses to name one of his critics professor

May 17 (CTK) - Czech academics said the decision of President Milos Zeman not to name literary historian Martin C. Putna professor violated academic freedoms and a number of politicians from different parties condemned Zeman's step Friday.Social Democrat ... [Published Prague Monitor - May 20 2013]

Entities: Milos Zeman, Prague, Vaclav Havel

Quotes

"But the glare of the mayor's chain has dazzled some TOP 09 members to an extent that the party is behaving at variance with all political rules, " Svoboda said

TOP 09 pulls out of coalition pact with ODS at Prague City Hall [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

"Since we know about very close consultations between the Prague TOPTOP 09 leadership and the party's national leadership, we would not be surprised" Necas recalled

ODS rejects TOP 09's 'diktat' [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

"We are living in the 21st century and politicians have no right to punish anyone for participation in a regular march in support of a sexual minority's rights. And it cannot be connected with the granting of academic titles at all. I fully hope that common sense and academic freedoms will win and that the president will appoint Martin C Putna professor" Sobotka writes in his blog

Students protest President Zeman's stance on Putna [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

"I sometimes compare...the budgets of towns and villages with the central budget, and I must say the central budget is doing substantially worse" Zeman said

President plans to tour regions starting July [Published Prague Monitor - 2 hours ago]

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