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03/21/2024
Czechia's main priorities for the next five years in the European Union will be defence and competitiveness, the Minister for European Affairs, Martin Dvořák, said at a student symposium at the Prague European School on Thursday.
Mr. Dvořák said that EU assistance to Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression has shown that Europe lacks adequate defence industry production capacity.
The conference is one of the many events marking the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the EU on May 1, 2004. One of the highlights of the celebrations will be an international conference at Prague Castle on April 30, with speeches by President Petr Pavel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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03/21/2024
Czechia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are calling on the European Commission to impose restrictions on grain imports from Russia and Belarus to the European Union, in a letter signed by the agriculture ministers of all five countries.
Russia is using profits from grain exports to finance the ongoing war in Ukraine, the countries say in the letter addressed to European Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Janusz Wojciechowski. According to the letter, the EU imported 1.53 million tonnes of Russian grain worth EUR 437.5 million in 2023.
According to Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný, who signed the letter on behalf of the Czech Republic, there is no reason why Czechia should support an aggressor who is committing war crimes in Ukraine, attacking civilians and is a threat to the entire civilised world.
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03/21/2024
Poland will support the Czech initiative to provide ammunition for Ukraine not only financially, but also logistically, Polish Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at the V4 meeting in Prague on Thursday. On the other hand, the Slovak chief of diplomacy Juraj Blanár and Hungarian minister Péter Szijjártó said they would not back the plan and would not supply any weapons to Ukraine.
Some 18 countries – some of whom are not members of the bloc – have already pledged to support the plan to supply the Kyiv government with around 800,000 artillery shells sourced outside the EU or NATO.
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03/21/2024
Russia's aggression against Ukraine is in violation of international law and Ukrainian territory must remain within internationally recognised borders, the foreign ministers of the V4 countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), agreed at a meeting in Prague on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said it was necessary to increase support for Ukraine in all areas, including military aid. He said it is in the interest of the entire region that the Russian army stays as far away from its borders as possible.
He also welcomed the fact that a number of states have backed the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine from countries outside the European Union.
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03/21/2024
Czechia is among the more than 2000 exhibitors at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair. The popular event kicks off on Thursday and is being held in conjunction with Manga-Comic-Con and the Leipzig Book Reading Festival, which takes place from 21st to 24th March. Visitors will be able to meet with Czech authors Matěj Hořava, Radka Denemarková and Marek Toman, among others. The Czech stand sports the traditional slogan Ahoj!
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03/21/2024
The foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) are meeting in Prague for talks on Thursday. They will debate current foreign policy issues, including continued aid to Ukraine in its defense against Russia, which is a divisive topic in the alliance. Prague and Warsaw support continued military aid to the country, which Budapest and Bratislava claim that military assistance has failed and have been pushing for peace talks. After a meeting with his Polish counterpart ahead of the talks on Wednesday, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said finding a common denominator in the Visegrad Group is not exactly easy at the moment, but it makes sense to retain regional cooperation in other areas.
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03/20/2024
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with some rain and day temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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03/20/2024
The heads of Czech and Polish diplomacy will meet on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the situation in the Visegrad Group (V4 - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) or assistance to Ukraine in resisting the Russian aggression. The talks are taking place ahead of Thursday’s meeting of V4 foreign ministers in Prague. The V4 regional alliance is increasingly divided on the war in Ukraine. While Czech foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorský are united in their opposition to Russia, Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár and his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó recently met with Russian diplomatic chief Sergei Lavrov, who is on the EU sanctions list.
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03/20/2024
Doctors have warned that the incidence of ticks which carry Lyme disease is higher than usual due to the unseasonably warm weather and urged people who spend plenty of time outdoors to get vaccinated. According to a study undertaken by the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the State Institute of Health, ticks are more common in city parks than in forests. Last year, researchers collected about 3,300 ticks from parks in regional cities and examined over 2,100 of them. One in four carried Lyme disease.
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03/20/2024
Four Czech and Ukrainian historians and archivists have presented a newly published collection of documents entitled "The Great Terror in Ukraine 1937-1938: Persecution of the Czech Minority". The book is the result of several years of Czech-Ukrainian cooperation, which began in 2008 with the signing of a framework agreement on cooperation between the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the State Security Service of Ukraine. The publication contains a representative sample of hundreds of annotated documents published in the Russian original and a Czech translation, which show the form of Soviet state terror applied against the Czech minority in Ukraine. Among the documents are materials relating to the largest mass execution of people of Czech origin on the territory of the Soviet Union on 28 September 1938 in Zhitomir, when eighty people were executed, including 78 Czechs.
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