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02/25/2024
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský continues his working trip to the Indo-Pacific region. After a stop in New Delhi, Mr. Lipavský arrived in Australia on Saturday. It is the first visit by a Czech head of diplomacy to the continent in twenty years.
In addition to discussing security issues with his counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra, Mr. Lipavský will be meeting representatives of the Czech expat community, which is one of the largest in the world. Among other things, they will be discussing the issue of postal voting.
Australia is also one of the ten most important markets for Czech exporters outside the European Union. The next stop of Mr. Lipavský, who is accompanied by a business delegation led by the Cofederation of Industry and Transport, will be Tokyo on February 29.
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02/25/2024
President Petr Pavel has so far given his official approval to 20 Czechs citizens seeking to join Ukraine’s armed forces. Another 156 people have had such requests denied based on the recommendation of the Ministry of Defence, the Czech head of state said in an interview for television NOVA on Sunday.
According to the website iRozhlas.cz, the presidential office received a total of 553 such applications since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The majority of them - 477 - were received by Mr. Pavel's predecessor, Miloš Zeman, who gave his approval to 132 people.
Under Czech law, joining the army of another state without the president’s permission is considered a crime.
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02/25/2024
By the end of last year, Czechia had received CZK two trillion from EU funds since joining the European Union in May 2004. Over the same period, it paid CZK 876.6 billion to the EU budget, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing Finance Ministry data.
The largest part of the revenue, 44 percent, was made up of money from structural funds intended to support economically weaker regions. Agriculture accounted for a quarter of the EU money paid out over the 20 years of Czechia’s EU membership.
A fifth of the total sum was drawn from the Cohesion Fund, which supports economically weaker EU states. The EU's NextGeneration European Recovery Plan has also been a significant source of revenue over the past three years.
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02/25/2024
Czech tennis player Jakub Menšík lost to Russia’s Karen Khachanov 6-7, 4-6 in his first ATP Tour final in Doha on Saturday.
Following his appearance at the Qatar Open, the 18 year-old Czech will rise to a career-high No. 87 in the world rankings next week.
In the women’s doubles, Kateřina Siniaková secured a title at the Dubai Tennis Championships alongside her Australian partner Storm Hunter, defeating the American-Australian pair Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez 6-4, 6-2.
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02/25/2024
The Czech non-profit organisation People in Need has already collected CZK 2.4 billion within its SOS Ukraine drive. The organisation’s director Šimon Pánek announced the news at Saturday’s concert within the Day for Ukraine programme, co-organised by People in Need. To date the NGO has provided aid to 1.78 million people in Ukraine affected by Russia’s war on the country and another 200,000 refugees in Czechia.
The Post Bellum organisation has raised about CZK 380 million in aid to Ukraine, and another CZK 420 million in non-financial aid, such as medical supplies. Another CZK 679 million were collected by the initiative Gift for Putin.
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02/25/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala will lead the Czech delegation to the meeting of European leaders and government representatives hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday. The delegation will also include National Security Adviser Tomáš Pojar.
The aim of the working meeting is to explore ways to strengthen cooperation between partners in support of Ukraine. On the occasion of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the French President warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to "count on any fatigue from Europeans" over the war in Ukraine.
Earlier this week, the European Union adopting 13th package of sanctions against Russia, focusing on further limiting Russia's access to military technology, such as for drones, and on listing additional companies and individuals involved in Russia's war effort
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02/24/2024
Sunday will be mostly overcast with day temperatures ranging between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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02/24/2024
A Czech tourists was seriously injured after falling from the northern side of Mount Sněžka, on the border of Czechia and Poland, on Saturday. The 32-year-old man allegedly slipped on a mountain slope and fell into the valley below. He was airlifted to the hospital by Czech rescue service in a serious condition.
It is already the fourth such incident on Mt. Sněžka, the highest point in Czechia, since the start of this year. At the end of January, two Polish nationals died after falling to the Polish side of the mountain.
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02/24/2024
The future of Ukraine also determines the future of the Czech Republic, President of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil said at a commemorative event at the monument to the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on Prague’s Kinský Square on Saturday. In his speech, Mr. Vystrčil thanked the Czech citizens who persistently support Ukraine.
The event was also attended by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Ukrainian Embassy, Vitalii Usatyi, and several other MPs and senators.
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02/24/2024
The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is monstrous and it is in Czechia’s interest that the Russian aggressor doesn’t succeed in Ukraine, PM Petr Fiala wrote on X on Saturday. Mr Fiala also said Russia's attack on Ukraine was a violation of the principles of sovereignty.
According to Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, Ukraine has the right to self-defence and to restore its territorial integrity, including Crimea. Czechia will stand by Ukraine and provide all necessary assistance for as long as it is needed, Mr. Lipavský wrote on the X network. It will also support its integration into NATO and the EU for the sake of European security, Mr. Lipavský wrote on the X network.
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