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04/08/2024
The Czech authorities want to deport Russian-born Alexandr Stěpanov, who has been living in Czechia for almost 20 years, back to Russia, because they say he has connections with the Russian state and may pose a danger to the Czech Republic, Deník N reported on Monday.
According to the Czech authorities, Stěpanov had contacts with the Russian diplomats involved in the 2020 ricin scandal, when a Russian embassy employee brought the poisonous substance ricin to Czechia and through an anonymous email to the Czech secret service, tried to make it look like his colleague, with whom he had a feud, was involved in a plot to assassinate three Prague politicians - a plot which turned out to be entirely fictitious. Both the diplomats involved were expelled from the country following the case.
Stěpanov denies cooperating with the Russian secret service and has been trying to fight the decision to deport him in court for a year. According to Deník N, the authorities decided to revoke his permanent residence in Czechia based on one classified piece of information from the Czech intelligence services.
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04/07/2024
Temperature records for April 7 were broken around the country on Sunday. The highest recorded temperature was in České Budějovice at a sweltering 30.9 degrees Celsius, knocking off the original record of 30.6 degrees, recorded earlier the same day in Prague. Temperature records were broken on both Saturday and Sunday at all measuring stations keeping long-term records in South Bohemia, where České Budějovice is located.
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04/07/2024
The deputy head of the Christian Democrats and current Environment Minister Petr Hladík said on Czech Television on Sunday that he wants to propose the expulsion of his own party's former leader, Cyril Svoboda, to the party leadership, over an interview Mr. Svoboda gave to the pro-Kremlin Voice of Europe news site. The site has been on the Czech sanctions list since Wednesday after the Czech secret service discovered it was being funded by a Russian network paying off European politicians. Mr. Svoboda was one of the last Czechs to give an interview to the Voice of Europe website before it was sanctioned.
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04/07/2024
Czechia experienced its first tropical day of the year on Sunday, defined as when the air temperature reaches at least 30 degrees Celsius, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reported on Facebook. A temperature high of 30.6 degrees Celsius was recorded in Komořany in southwest Prague, where the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has its headquarters.
Until now, the earliest recorded tropical day was on April 17, 1934, when it was exactly 30 degrees Celsius in the town of Vlašim in the Central Bohemian Region. Last year, the first tropical day wasn't until June 18.
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04/07/2024
Monday should continue to be warm and sunny with only a few clouds. Daytime temperatures are expected to reach a high of 24 degrees Celsius.
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04/07/2024
Had parliamentary elections taken place in March, Andrej Babiš's opposition ANO party would have won with 32.9 percent of the vote, according to a poll conducted by the STEM agency and published by CNN Prima News on Sunday. Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrat party would have come in second with 14.5 percent of the vote and their government coalition partners the Pirate party third with 10.5 percent. The opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy party would have been not far behind them with 9.3 percent.
The other parties making up the government coalition, the Mayors and Independents and TOP 09, would have barely scraped past the minimum 5 percent threshold needed to gain seats in parliament, with 6.6 percent and 5.2 percent respectively. The final party making up the five-party coalition, the Christian Democrats, wouldn't even have made it into parliament with only 3.1 percent of the vote, gaining even fewer votes than the Communist party (4.5 percent) and the Social Democrats (3.6 percent).
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04/07/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský have both also congratulated Peter Pellegrini on winning the Slovak presidential elections. Mr. Fiala wrote on social media site X that he believes Czechia and Slovakia will further develop their already excellent and deep relations. Mr. Lipavský said that he thinks the new Slovak president will fully support Czech-Slovak cooperation and guarantee that Slovakia remains firmly anchored in European and transatlantic structures.
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04/07/2024
Czech President Petr Pavel has congratulated Peter Pellegrini on winning the second round of the Slovak presidential elections. Writing on social media site X, he said he believes their two countries "will continue the tradition of exceptionally good neighbourly relations" and that he looks forward to "constructive cooperation".
Peter Pellegrini will assume the office of president in June when the current Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová's mandate ends.
President Pavel is currently on a visit to Rwanda to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
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04/06/2024
Sunday is expected to see more hot weather with temperatures of up to 28 degrees Celsius. Skies should be mostly clear and sunny, with some clouds.
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04/06/2024
Czechia appreciates Rwanda's willingness to provide asylum to refugees, President Petr Pavel stated after meeting with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Saturday. Rwanda signed an agreement with the United Kingdom in December last year whereby asylum seekers in the UK would be transferred to Rwanda while waiting for their asylum claims to be heard, an approach which Mr. Pavel described as "constructive" and "humanitarian" on the part of Rwanda.
The possibility of similar cooperation is now being considered in the European Union. Both statesmen agreed that migrants can have more dignified conditions in Rwanda than in inadequate refugee centres in overburdened European countries. Mr. Kagame stated that Rwanda is willing to accept migrants from foreign countries, but it needs money as it is a small nation without many resources to support refugees.
The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Treaty has been criticised by the UN Refugee Agency, which said it is not compatible with international refugee law, and by human rights groups, who say Rwanda is not a safe country for refugees, as Kagame's rule is considered authoritarian and politically repressive.
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