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01/11/2024
Czechia and Poland violate the EU election law as their national laws do not enable citizens of other EU countries to join Czech, respectively Polish political parties, preventing them from running in local or European elections, the Court of Justice of the European Union Advocate-General, Jean Richard de La Tour, said on Thursday.
According to the European Commission, which turned to the European Court of Justice in June 2021, this entails discrimination on grounds of nationality. The executive claims Czechia and Poland are the only two EU countries where such restrictions apply.
While Mr. La Tour backed the European Commission’s position, his view may not coincide with the ruling of the court.
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01/11/2024
Inflation in Czechia for the whole last year reached 10.7 percent, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday. That was 4.4 percentage points below the level for 2022, when the country saw the second highest rise in consumer prices in its history.
December saw inflation slow to 6.9 percent from the 7.3 percent recorded the previous month. The slowdown in December was driven by alcohol and food prices.
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01/11/2024
Most anti-flood measures employed in Prague in response to rising river levels were discontinued on Thursday. All the city’s embankments were reopened to the public at 8 am, while cars are also now allowed to drive on riverside walkways. The flood gates on Čertovka stream have been reopened.
Only the pedestrian walking section of the Rašín embankment will remain closed for the time being, an official said. The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute will end a flood alert for Prague on Thursday evening.
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01/10/2024
An apology proffered by MP Jiří Kobza of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party over statements he made following a mass shooting at Prague’s Charles University is insufficient, the institution said on Wednesday.
The university said it would file criminal charges of spreading false alarm and using hate speech against the politician after he blamed the institution for the shooting, which was carried out by a student there, saying it had helped shape his outlook through “inclusive progressive education”.
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01/10/2024
In view of the crisis situation, the Czech police and the Ministry of the Interior handled communication correctly with regard to a mass shooting at a Prague university last month, the interior minister, Vít Rakušan, said on Wednesday.
The minister told reporters that he would task the head of the Czech police force with improving channels of communication with other “soft targets” in case of future tragic events.
Fourteen people lost their lives when a student at the Faculty of Arts in central Prague went on a shooting spree before killing himself. He had earlier murdered a man and his two-month old baby as well as his own father.
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01/10/2024
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, discussed strengthening Czech-Indian cooperation at a meeting in the Indian city of Gandhinagar on Wednesday. Mr. Fiala said his host had, for instance, expressed interest in the development of small modular nuclear reactors.
The two leaders also agreed on a strategic partnership on innovation in such fields as medicine, AI and cybernetics, Mr. Fiala told reporters.
At an economic forum in Gujarat the Czech leader said his country was looking for reliable democratic partners in the wake of the war in Ukraine and that India had a key role to play in this regard.
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01/10/2024
Memorial organisations at Lidice and Ležáky, two Czech villages destroyed by the Nazis in World War II, are cancelling some events this year due to a lack of money, the Czech News Agency reported. The head of the Lidice Memorial, Eduard Stehlík, said that two concerts planned for 2024 had been cancelled while an exhibition may also have to be called off.
An annual event involving children’s choirs named Light for Lidice will now be held only once every five years. A concert of thanksgiving at Ležáky has been cancelled after the first year and will take place only on round anniversaries in future.
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01/10/2024
The lower house should discuss the introduction of postal voting for Czechs living abroad at a special session next Wednesday. The debate has been called by the chair of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová of government party TOP09.
The opposition parties ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy are against the bill, which they say would be a threat to democracy. They are expected to continue a previous tactic of filibustering in debates on postal voting. Observers say such a change could impact their support.
Most European Union countries allow postal voting.
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01/10/2024
The minister of culture, Martin Baxa, says he agrees with trade unions that wages in the arts sector should be higher, but Czechia’s economic situation means that expectations in that regard cannot be met this year. He made the comments before a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Unions accuse the government and the minister of failing to address problems in the culture sector, saying a promise of salary increases in 2023 was not met. They say the government pledged to bring spending on culture closer to one percent of the state budget but in fact underfunding is getting worse.
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01/10/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 1 degree Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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