PSA/Peugeot-Citroen expects to raise annual capacity at its factory in Trnava, Slovakia, to more than 300,000 by 2017 with the production of a new Citroen model, the company said.
In football, the Czech Republic lost 0:1 in the friendly against Slovakia
on Tuesday night. The sole goal came in the 49th minute when Ondrej Duda
shot low from distance with the bounce leaving Tomáš Vaclík embarrassed
Interior minister Robert Kalinak, who a year ago refused to speak to two of the group of four students who had their car shot at by mistake by the police, has apparently coughed up EUR 3000 each for three of them from his own pocket, as the investigation by the Attorney General’s office
Part of the US convoy travelled to the West Bohemian town of Plzeň to pay
homage to the US soldiers who died liberating Czechoslovakia in WWII. Over
a thousand people congregated in the streets of the city to greet them as
Czech national football team coach Pavel Vrba will test newer players in
Tuesday’s friendly against Slovakia, news website idnes reports, a
line-up which will not include top names including Tomáš Rosický, Petr
The Czech Republic’s biggest tobacco company, employing around 1,000 at
its main plant at Kutná Hora, upped its sales and profits for 2014. But
its share on its Czech home market continued to slide under competition
Slovak ex-finance minister Ivan Miklos, an advisor to Kiev's government, is urging decision-makers to introduce a flat-rate tax system and a wave of privatisation.
The new management at Zelezara Smederevo DOO expects to turn Serbia's sole and unprofitable steelmaker around and break even within six months on rising output and improved outlook for the industry as raw-material prices drop.
