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04/15/2024
The temporary head of the Czech Tennis Federation, Jan Stočes, confirmed at a press conference on Monday afternoon that the association will not be able to pay the National Sports Agency the almost CZK 30 million fine it was supposed to because it does not have the money. At the end of February, five people associated with the Czech Tennis Federation, including its president, Ivo Kaderka, were charged with committing subsidy fraud involving millions of crowns intended for youth sports organisations, for which it was ordered to return CZK 29.7 million to the National Sports Agency within 30 days. The 30-day deadline for payment expired at the weekend. The National Sports Agency will now hand the case over to the tax office.
The tennis organisation will be represented in the negotiations by consulting company Grant Thornton, which will try to negotiate a repayment schedule with the tax authority. The consulting company is currently conducting an audit of the federation.
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04/15/2024
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský summoned the Iranian ambassador to Czechia, Seyed Majid Ghafeleh Bashi, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday over the latter country's attack on Israel at the weekend, during which more than 300 drones and missiles were fired by the Islamic Republic. Mr. Lipavský wrote on social media site X that the Czech foreign ministry had clearly communicated to the Iranian government that the attack on Israel had crossed a line and that the regime was purposefully threatening the security of the region with the tacit approval of its ally, Russia.
Saturday's attack was reportedly in retaliation for an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus that was attributed to Israel. The airstrike did not cause much damage, but it significantly increased tensions in the already troubled region.
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04/15/2024
The weather on Tuesday is expected to be cooler, with daytime temperatures of between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius. Skies should be mostly cloudy and overcast, with rain and strong winds in some parts of the country.
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04/15/2024
Construction of the new tram line in the upper half of Wenceslas Square leading towards the National Museum will begin on June 29 this year, Jan Šurovský, the technical director of the Prague public transport company DPP, announced at a press conference on Monday. Trams will not run through the square between Vodičková and Jindřišská from this date until September 30. The construction work is expected to last three years and to cost CZK 1.24 billion.
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04/15/2024
More than half of Czechs think that the country has taken in more refugees from Ukraine than it can handle, according to the results of a survey by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) published on Monday. Some 58 percent of people are of this opinion, the survey suggests, while roughly a third think that the number of refugees is manageable and five percent think that Czechia could accept even more.
As of the beginning of April, the Interior Ministry records around 339,000 refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection in Czechia. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Czech Republic has issued almost 600,000 temporary protection visas, half of which have expired.
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04/15/2024
The Czech Tennis Federation has so far not paid the almost CZK 30 million fine it was supposed to pay to the National Sports Agency by Monday as a penalty for the subsidy fraud committed by the federation’s president Ivo Kaderka and four other people. News site iRozhlas.cz reports that the organisation doesn't have enough money to pay the fine, with only approximately CZK 2.5 million in its accounts and having lost its main sponsor, which suspended its partnership with the association following the scandal. The National Sports Agency is expected to announce what the next steps will be at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
The five people associated with the Czech Tennis Federation were charged at the end of February for fraud involving millions of crowns in state subsidies intended for youth sports organizations.
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04/15/2024
There were 1,494 new cases of whooping cough in Czechia last week, the biggest weekly increase since the start of this year, according to the latest data from the State Health Institute. The total number of registered whooping cough cases so far this year is 7,888, the most in one year since 1959, i.e. one year after the introduction of the vaccine in Czechoslovakia, when there were 18,978 cases over the whole year.
The most affected age group is teenagers between 15 and 19 years old, who make up a third of the total number of cases. Some 119 infants under one year of age, for whom whooping cough can be very dangerous, have also been infected. Around 2.3 percent of those infected so far have required hospitalisation.
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04/15/2024
People around Czechia donated 467 tonnes of non-perishable foodstuffs and hygiene products for the needy on Saturday within the bi-annual National Food Collection.
Some 2,100 shops and supermarket chains joined the charity effort, which has been held twice a year since 2019. People can continue to donate products by April 23 by shopping at online stores.
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04/15/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has arrived in Washington for a two-day official visit. On Monday, Mr. Fiala is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss security cooperation and support for Ukraine, as well as mutual economic relations and nuclear energy.
They are also expected to talk about the latest developments in the Middle East, Mr. Fiala told reporters before his departure to the US on Sunday. The Czech Prime Minister will also meet with Czechs living in the US.
On Tuesday, the Czech Prime Minister will hold talks with the head of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and other members of Congress and give a speech at the Hudson Institute. Also on the itinerary is a visit to the memorials of the late Czech presidents Václav Havel and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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04/14/2024
Hundreds of people took part in Sunday’s Culture against Antisemitism event in Prague, organised by the Czech branch of the humanitarian organization International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
The event started with a march leading from Old Town Square to the Wallenstein gardens, where the main part of the program took place, including theatre performances and speeches.
Among the participants was Jenny Sividya, a survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which 1200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped. According to the organizers, the goal of the event was to commemorate and draw attention to the events of October 7.
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