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06/05/2021
The Strategy for Roma Integration until 2030, approved by the government this week, envisages the setting up of a government commissioner for Roma affairs, a post which should be created in the Czech Republic by the end of next year, the ctk news agency reported.
The latest annual report on the state of the Roma minority says there are about 260,000 Roma in the Czech Republic. About 110,000 of them are living in socially excluded areas.
Roma-related issues are presently dealt with by the government’s commissioner for human rights, who is in charge of national minorities, but according to experts the Roma agenda is too broad and fragmented and needs to be addressed by a special representative. The official should be assisted by a team of experts.
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06/05/2021
The country’s leading health insurance company VZP says that 80 percent of Covid-19 testing centres are adhering to the government ruling to provide two PCR and four antigen tests a month for free to people with health insurance as of June 1.
Several labs such as GHC Genetics, Synlab or AeskuLab have so far failed to comply arguing that they had failed to receive adequate methodological instructions.
VZP has urged clients whose request for free testing is rejected to go elsewhere. It says testing centres are bound to comply with the new regulation but that it is not in a position to make control inspections.
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06/05/2021
The Liechtenstein Palace in Prague opened its doors to the public on Saturday after a break of several months, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The building on Kampa Island is one of two palaces in Prague that formerly belonged to the noble Liechtenstein family and in now used by the government primarily for cultural events.
People can also visit another government building, namely the villa of former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš and his wife Hana in Sezimovo Ústí in the Tábor region.
The first guided tour in Liechtenstein Palace will take place at 9am and the last at 4pm on Saturday. In the Beneš villa, tours are scheduled for both weekend days. Respirators are compulsory.
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06/05/2021
The lower house of Parliament has approved a bill to compensate the victims of forced sterilization in Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic.
Hundreds, potentially even thousands of predominantly Roma women were involuntarily sterilized in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s and it is believed that forced sterilizations continued in some places even after the fall of communism in 1989.
In a resolution adopted in 2009 the Czech government expressed regret over the practice.
The proposed compensation would be a one-time payment of 300,000 crowns for each woman forcibly sterilized between June 1966 and March 2012.
The bill still needs to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by the president.
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06/05/2021
The Czech Foreign Ministry has issued a statement denouncing the practices of the Lukashenko regime against political opponents.
The statement described Thursday's television appearance by the detained Belarusian opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich as forced and apparently manipulated.
"It is unbelievable that in the 21st century, the Lukashenko regime uses the same repressive methods against its opponents as those of the brutal Stalinist regime in the 1950s" the statement says.
The Czech Foreign Ministry has called for the immediate release of Raman Pratasevich and all other political prisoners in Belarus.
The matter is expected to be high on the agenda of talks between Czech top officials and Belarussian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya during her visit to the Czech Republic next week.
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06/04/2021
Saturday should be partly cloudy with scattered showers and day temperatures between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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06/04/2021
Belarussian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is scheduled to meet with Czech top officials during her visit to the Czech Republic next week, the ctk news agency reported. Ms. Tikhanovskaya who will visit the Czech Republic from June 7 -10 at the invitation of the Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil will also meet with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and President Miloš Zeman. Meetings have also been scheduled with the Czech foreign minister, the leaders of several parliamentary parties and members of the Belarussian community in the Czech Republic.
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06/04/2021
The average monthly wage in the Czech Republic in the first quarter rose by 3.2 percent year-on-year to CZK 35,285, the Czech Statistics office reported on Friday. In real terms, taking into account inflation, earnings rose by one percent. However two-thirds of employees earn less than the average wage.
The median wage, a midway between the highest and the lowest levels, increased by 2.5 percent year on year to CZK 29,867. It was CZK 32,235 for men and CZK 27,237 for women.
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06/04/2021
MPs in the lower house are critical of the idea that President Miloš Zeman should be stripped of his powers on the grounds that he is unfit for office, the news site Novinky.cz reported. The Security and Defence Committee of the Czech Senate this week declared President Miloš Zeman unfit for office and proposed that he be stripped of his powers. It claims that the Czech head of state is often disoriented, incapable of distinguishing between classified and public information and jeopardizes the country’s security by his words and actions.
Such a move would have to be sanctioned by both houses of Parliament. Most parties in the lower house, including opposition parties critical of Miloš Zeman, say they would not support such a motion. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said there was no question that Miloš Zeman is capable of fulfilling his duties.
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06/04/2021
The Czech Republic registered 430 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, 75 fewer than on the same day last week, according to data released by the Czech Ministry of Health. For the first time since early September no Covid-related death was reported on that day. In recent days the Covid-related death toll averaged at around 10. The number of people hospitalized with Covid has now dropped to 389 with 67 of them in a serious condition. Over 1.6 million people have contracted the virus since the pandemic hit in March of last year and over 30,000 people have died of Covid or related complications.
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