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07/16/2021
The Pirate Party is suing Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for slander in connection with his claim that the party is planning to move migrants into people's flats or tax excess meters of real estate. The head of the party’s deputies’ group in the lower house, Jakub Michálek, said this was an outrageous lie spread to damage the party ahead of October’s general elections. Mr. Babiš has refused to apologize for his words, and further warned Czechs that the Pirate Party’s pro-migrant policy could make Czechs a minority in their home country in the not too distant future.
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07/16/2021
The European Commission has once again urged the Czech government to address the fact that the Czech Republic lacks a reliable system to identify and prevent conflict of interest in the public sector. This is stated in a letter accompanying the last audit of the European Commission which concludes that the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has a conflict of interest because he continues to control his Agrofert business empire through trust funds. The Czech prime minister insists that he has no influence on the trust funds and has fully adhered to all the requirements of the Czech conflict of interest legislation. The Ministry of Regional Development received the letter from the EC’s auditors last week and has until September 8 to respond to it.
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07/16/2021
The Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans is on a two-day working visit to the Czech Republic to discuss the EC’s ambitious climate plan aiming to dramatically cut emissions by 2035. The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis’ first reaction to the plan was cautious. He expressed the view that it may be overly ambitious, saying the European Commission’s plans for introducing electro mobility must be set in a way that will not harm Czech industry. In the early evening, Timmermans will travel to Ostrava where he is due to hold a round table debate with the Minister of Industry and Transport Karel Havlíček and the Minister of the Environment Richard Brabec and meet with business leaders and local government officials.
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07/16/2021
Jiří Pos is likely to become the new chairman of the board at Prague Airport after being selected by the Ministry of Finance – the official representative of the state as a shareholder in the airport.
Pos is currently serving as an executive at Karlovy Vary Airport, but was already once in charge of Prague Airport from 2011 to 2014. If the selection is approved by the Office of Government, Pos will replace Chairman Václav Řehoř, whose mandate has come to an end.
Řehoř asked for an extension of his tenure in March, but was declined and a new tender for the position was launched in June.
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07/16/2021
Justice Minister Marie Benešová launched a disciplinary action against the former prosecutor general, Pavel Zeman, for his conduct during the restitution case of the Czernin family on Thursday.
The case first drew attention in January when news site Seznam Zprávy reported that Pavel Zeman had privately interceded for Petr Habersberger, the owner of the boarding house near Třeboň and that he was personally involved in a restitution case concerning the land on which the businessman farmed. The lands were acquired several years ago by a descendant of the Czernin noble family.
Speaking on Friday, Zeman, whose tenure as prosecutor general ended with resignation on June 30, denied any bias in the case and said that the launching of the disciplinary action by the justice minister shows why he had resigned. He refused to comment further, saying that he is unaware of the contents of the charge.
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07/15/2021
Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek met with representatives of the various parties represented in the Czech Parliament on Thursday to discuss priorities for the upcoming Czech EU presidency next year.
The Czech Republic will want to focus on transatlantic cooperation and countering hybrid threats, according to a Foreign Ministry press release issued after the meeting. Priority will also be placed on the Indo-Pacific region, which is currently growing in geopolitical importance. The Czech Republic is also interested in organising two summits during its presidency, namely between the EU – US and EU – India.
Mr Kulhánek said that he wants to hold more roundtables with Parliamentary parties in the following months.
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07/15/2021
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is set to meet European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, the man n charge of the European Green Deal and European Climate Pact programmes, to discuss the European Commissions plans for electro mobility this Friday.
Mr Babiš said on Thursday that the European Commission's plans in this area are extremely ambitious, but that they must not damage Czech industry.
The EU’s electro mobility plan encompasses a wide range of measures, including an end to manufacturing petrol and diesel powered cars, taxing transport and housing emissions, or raising the number of renewable energy sources.
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07/15/2021
Friday will see temperatures range around 26 degrees Celsius with overcast skies and rainfall likely above Prague and the southern parts of Eastern Bohemia.
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07/15/2021
Czechs and specified foreigners who received their coronavirus vaccines in selected states outside of the European Union should have started to receive European vaccine certificates in the Czech Republic from Monday, but their issuing is plagued by problems, Czech Radio reported on Thursday.
GPs, who are expected to organise the certificates, do not consider this as part of their work. Furthermore, they claim that the Ministry of Health has provided them with no manual describing how they are supposed to proceed with such a request. According to the Health Ministry this is not true.
The Ministry of Health postponed the recognition of vaccination certificates of Czechs vaccinated abroad several times, before eventually going ahead this Monday. It now directly recognizes certificates from Serbia, Israel and the United Kingdom. An application for an EU certificate is required for 10 other countries, which include the United States of America, Australia and Singapore.
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07/15/2021
Roughly three-fifths of the Czech population have concerns, according to a freshly released survey conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM). 31 percent of respondents reported that they are worried about the COVID-19 coronavirus, while 18 percent said that they are concerned about their health in general. The coronavirus featured as a source of concern also in regards to its effects on the economy and on the domestic political situation for 8 percent of the respondents.
Fear of war and the worsening of living standards were cited by 11 percent of respondents, 9 percent fewer than during the same survey conducted in 2019. Migration concerns also declined from 2019’s 22 percent to just 9 percent this year. Worries about climate declined during the same period from 22 percent to 4 percent.
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