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The minority government proposed by the leader of ANO, Andrej Babiš, will have nine ministers from among party ranks as well as unaffiliated experts who were not a part of the previous government, while it is expected that a number of current ministers such as Robert Pelikán, at Justice and Dan Ťok, at Transport, will continue in their posts. Four ministerial posts are to be held by women.
The exact names on the list were not made public on Tuesday, but Mr Babiš said the president had no reservations regarding any of the candidates.
President Zeman will name Mr Babiš prime minister on December 6 and the government on December 13 - in time for representatives to be able to take part in the upcoming EU summit.
The current government, headed by Bohuslav Sobotka, is to tender its resignation later this Wednesday.
The Czech Republic is ready to step up the pressure against North Korea over the repeated ballistic missile tests, the foreign ministry said on its website on Wednesday.
According to the ministry, the missile programmes represent a flagrant violation of UN resolutions and should be abandoned completely and immediately.
The outgoing Minister for Regional Development, Karla Šlechtová from the ANO party, has confirmed that she is a candidate to be defence minister in the minority cabinet prepared by the ANO leader Andrej Babiš, Czech Television reported.
Mr Babiš submitted a list of ministerial candidates to President Miloš Zeman at their meeting at Prague Castle earlier on Tuesday. He refused to release the ministers’ names, saying that the president wanted to meet them before the announcement was made.
Czechs donated 7.5 billion crowns to charity last year, which is around half a billion more than in the previous year, according to figures released by the Czech Donors Forum on Wednesday.
Private donors provided 1.8 billion, firms donated 3.7 million and foundations and funds secured 1.4 billion crowns. Public collections raised 600 million crowns, with 30 million donated via donation text messages.
The exhibition by top Czech sculptor Krištof Kintera at Prague’s Galerie Rudofinum has attracted over 120, 000 visitors and has become the fourth most successful exhibition in the Czech Republic in the past four years. Entry to the exhibition, entitled Nervous Trees, is free, with the event prolonged until December 27.
Forward Radek Faksa scored his first-ever hat trick in the National Hockey League lifting the Dallas Stars to a 3:0 win over newcomers Vegas Golden Knights.
He is the second Czech this season to rack up three goals in one game, after Florida’s Radim Vrbata.
Thursday is expected to be overcast with heavy snowfalls and daytime temperatures ranging between 0 and 4 degrees Celsius.
Prospective Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš has unveiled his Cabinet team – but at the moment for the president’s eyes only. President Miloš Zeman wants to vet the newcomers first before they are made public and rushed into place.
The government of the Social Democrats, ANO, and the Christian Democrats, led by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, which tendered its resignation on Wednesday, was not without its successes over the last four years, overseeing a growing economy. Its success did not help the senior Social Democrats, however, the biggest casualty in the October election, but ANO.
Prague and the rest of Central Europe lost out in the latest share out of European agencies across the continent. It has created a lot of anger and resentment in some capitals that the smaller and newer states were again pushed around by the bigger and older ones. The Czechs admit their bid for the European Banking Authority was always a big challenge and they were probably outsiders. But they also admit misgivings about how the share out evolved.
European steel producers for the most part are doing well with key sectors such as construction and the car sector booming. But uncertainty over reforms of the emissions trading system have caused investments to be put on hold.
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