Czech president to appoint Karel Havlicek as new industry minister

Czech President Milos Zeman will appoint Karel Havlicek, the head of a small business association and deputy chief of the government's science and research council, as new industry minister on April 30, a spokesman said on Monday. The president will also appoint lawyer Vladimir Kremlik as new transport minister, replacing Dan Tok who resigned after serving more than four years, a record tenure for the transport post. Havlicek's main tasks will be regulating the telecoms market and preparing a project to boost the European Union country's nuclear power capacity. Both ministries are controlled by Prime Minister Andrej Babis's ANO party, which leads the coalition government.