News: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024

Former vice-president of the Czech Football Association found guilty of embezzlement

Roman Berbr, former vice-president of the Czech Football Association, has been found guilty of embezzling money from the Plzeň Regional Football Association, for which he received a suspended sentence, a financial penalty and a ban on further activities in the sports association. The Plzeň District Court which tried the case did not find him guilty of match-fixing or participating in an organized criminal group. Roman Rogoz, the former sports director of Slavoj Vyšehrad, was given a four-year prison sentence. Twenty people are being tried together with Berbr in a scandal that rocked the Czech sports world.

Senate approves Přibáň and Langášek as judges of the Constitutional Court

The Senate has approved lawyer and sociologist Jiří Přibáň and Supreme Administrative Court judge Tomáš Langášek for judges of the Constitutional Court. Both were nominated by President Petr Pavel.

Přibáň graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and is a professor of law at Cardiff University in Wales, where he also heads the Centre for Law and Society. Langášek has been a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court since March 2013.

Libava explosion investigation points to negligent homicide

Military police investigating the munitions explosion in the Libava military training area on Monday, which killed one soldier and injured seven more, say the evidence points to negligent homicide, the ctk news agency reported. It is not yet clear who was responsible. The injured seven soldiers and one civilian employee, are all out of danger. Three soldiers have been released from hospital. Training in the area has resumed.

Government trying to avert mass resignations at Liberty Ostrava steelworks

Labour Minister Marian Jurečka and the KOVO trade union organization have called on the employees of the country’s largest steelworks Liberty Ostrava, which is in insolvency, not to resign. Most of the company’s operations have been closed since December and employees have not been getting paid.  The labour minister said that the fate of Liberty is a top government priority and the state would look for ways to pay employees' wages to keep them in the company so that it can continue to operate when a new owner takes over, presumably in the summer. How many workers will remain at Liberty will depend on the investor who acquires the company, the minister added.

Prague rated as best place to live in Czechia by Datank

Prague has been rated as the best place to live in Czechia for the third time in a row by the Place for Life benchmarking survey conducted by the analytical agency Datank. The South Moravian Region moved up to second place from last year's fourth, while the Hradec Králové Region dropped to third place on the ladder. The Karlovy Vary Region came last this year. The ranking is based on social and environmental criteria and the general satisfaction of the given region’s inhabitants.

Czechia experiences its first tropical night this year

Temperatures in some parts of Czechia surpassed 20 degrees Celsius at night, making it the country’s first tropical night of the year.

The hottest place in the country was Mořkov in Moravia-Silesia, where night-time highs reached 23 degrees Celsius. In most parts of the country, night temperatures ranged between 14 to 19 degrees Celsius.

The current heatwave is forecast last until Friday, with a drop in temperatures expected at the weekend.

Czechs lose to Portugal in their opening Euro 2024 game

The Czech national soccer team were beaten 2:1 by Portugal in their first game at the European Football Championship in Germany on Tuesday night.

Lukáš Provod opened the scoring in the 62nd minute in Leipzig, but seven minutes later Robin Hranáč scored an own goal. Portugal’s Conceicao then sealed the win in the second minute of stoppage time.

The Czech team will next face Georgia on Saturday.

Weather forecast

Thursday should be mostly clear with day temperatures between 24 and 29 degrees Celsius.