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04/22/2024
Justice Minister Pavel Blažek says Czechia should follow the example of other European countries in applying more alternative punishments to prison such as fines or community service. Speaking on Czech Television, Mr. Blažek said that although alternative punishment is an option and the number of fines as a form of punishment has increased in the past three years, the Czech Republic and Slovakia still have the most prison sentences by European standards. As a result, the ministry has for years been struggling to deal with the problem of overcrowded prisons.
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04/22/2024
President Petr Pavel has nominated lawyer and sociologist Jiří Přibáň and Supreme Administrative Court judge Tomáš Langášek for judges of the Constitutional Court. The Senate must decide on the nominations within 60 days.
Přibáň graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and is a professor of law at Cardiff University in Wales, where he also heads the Centre for Law and Society. Langášek has been a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court since March 2013.
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04/22/2024
Tuesday should be overcast and rainy with snow in the higher altitudes and day temperatures between 5 and 9 degrees Celsius.
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04/22/2024
A Prague City Court has upheld a guilty verdict and three-year prison sentence in the case of former MP Dominik Feri, who was convicted of raping three young women, one of them a minor. Feri resigned from his seat and withdrew from politics when the scandal broke. The verdict is binding.
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04/22/2024
President Petr Pavel’s efforts to mediate a broad agreement on the pension reform have hit the rocks. Monday’s scheduled meeting with Labour Minister Marian Jurečka is going ahead, but the main opposition party ANO cancelled its participation at the talks late last week, saying it would not take co-responsibility for something that the government intends to push through with or without its support. The government's proposal envisages raising the retirement age according to life expectancy, introducing a different basis for calculating old-age pensions, a lower indexation of pensions and a minimum pension amounting to 20 percent of the average wage. ANO has said that if it wins the 2025 general elections and gets to form a government it will scrap the legislation.
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04/22/2024
A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti will be inaugurated on Tuesday at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia. Some 1, 300 Roma passed through the camp between 1942 and 1943 and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children. The memorial will open to the public on May 12.
The site originally served as a pig farm and it took close to three decades for post-communist governments to buy out the property and erect a dignified memorial in its place. The inauguration ceremony will be attended by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, cultural figures and members of the Roma minority.
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04/22/2024
Czech actress Hana Brejchová, who is perhaps best known for the title role in Milos Forman’s 1960s film Loves of a Blonde, has died at the age of 77. Brejchová was still a secondary school student when she got the part in the Czechoslovak New Wave classic.
The sister of better known actress Jana Brejchová, her other roles included a part in The Most Beautiful Age, while Forman also cast her in Amadeus.
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04/22/2024
A painting by František Kupka has become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in Czechia. Conception/Danae, which was created in 1930, was sold for CZK 115 million in Prague on Sunday evening.
With the buyer’s premium the total price reached CZK 126.5 million, ensuring it edged past the previous record seller, Old Prague Motif by Bohumil Kubišta.
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04/21/2024
The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says that Czechia will pay around CZK 480 million annually toward the EU’s Asylum and Migration Pact. He made the comment in a Czech Television debate show on Sunday.
The agreement, which has been passed by the European Parliament, says that member states will have to either accept a share of refugees from 2026 or opt out of this obligation and provide financial support to other member states.
Mr. Rakušan said suggestions that Czechia would have to pay CZK 15 billion amounted to scaremongering.
Radek Vondráček of main opposition party ANO said that the financial support in fact amounted to a quota.
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04/21/2024
Temperatures in the Jizera Mountains in North Bohemia dropped below minus 10 degrees Celsius on Sunday morning as a cold weather spell continued in Czechia.
About 15 centimetres of snow fell on the ridges of the Krkonoše Mountains in the north of the country within a 24-hour period, bringing the snow there to a depth of around 250 centimetres on Sunday morning.
There has also been heavy snowfall in the Šumava and Beskid ranges.
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