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12/18/2023
The Czech government should seek help from communication experts, President Pavel said in an interview for Seznam.cz. The head of state, who has previously criticized the Fiala administration for failing to properly explain unpopular measures to the public, made the statement in reaction to a survey according to which trust in the government has dropped to 17 percent and it is now the least trusted of all the country’s state institutions. President Pavel also noted that it makes sense to replace ministers when it is obvious that they are hampered not by an inability to communicate, but an inability to handle their portfolio. He did not mention any names. The coalition government of Civic Democrats, TOP 09, Christian Democrats, the Pirate Party and Mayors and Independents is now mid-way through its four-year term in office.
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12/18/2023
Czechia's First Lady Eva Pavlová has set up an endowment fund that aims to provide support to children, single parents and the elderly, the Czech News Agency reports. The website for the fund was launched on Monday.
President Petr Pavel's wife publicly stated shortly after he was elected that she wanted to get involved in charitable work, and specifically mentioned children's education, support for single mothers and care for the elderly as topics that interest her.
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12/18/2023
Locals say demolition work on a historic villa in Prague's cultural heritage zone on Petřín hill is still continuing, despite the city of Prague ordering a temporary halt to the works, Czech news site Deník N wrote on Monday. Legal proceedings have begun to determine whether the permit for the building work was issued lawfully. The Czech Building Authority approved the demolition work despite the objections of the local residents, the Prague 5 district government, and the National Heritage Institute.
According to earlier reports by Deník N, the villa is being demolished in order for a new house to be built there instead for a secret investor, whose identity is hidden behind a tangle of sixteen offshore companies based in Cyprus.
The villa, located in Prague's Smíchov neighbourhood, used to be the home of Czechoslovak politician Josef Schieszl, a close associate of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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12/17/2023
The coalition government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala would receive a grade of C minus from the public if they were to be assessed according to the country's school grading system, a survey by the Median agency conducted for Czech Radio's station Radiožurnál suggests. While people rated the cabinet's foreign policy highly, they were most disgruntled about the high inflation the country has experienced this year.
The government is currently halfway through its four-year mandate.
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12/17/2023
In their first television debate since June, Prime Minister Petr Fiala and opposition ANO party leader Andrej Babiš went head-to-head on Sunday over the country's economic woes. The prime minister said that he expects the economic situation to improve next year, while Mr. Babiš declared that the government is destroying the country and will continue to do so next year as well.
However, the pair did manage to find agreement on the issue of the Israel-Hamas war, with the opposition leader saying he supports the Czech government's position of backing Israel, which Mr. Fiala's administration considers a key ally to the Czech Republic.
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12/17/2023
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's actions at Thursday's European Council meeting amount to blackmail and abuse of the right of veto, said Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvořák on CNN Prima News on Sunday. He called Mr. Orbán a Trojan horse that is trying to undermine EU solidarity.
At the EU summit, the Hungarian leader vetoed the revision of the EU budget for 2021-2027 to allow for long-term financial aid to Ukraine worth 50 billion euros, sparking criticism that he is trying to blackmail the EU in an effort to get funds for Hungary released that have been frozen over rule of law concerns.
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12/17/2023
Monday should be sunny and dry with temperatures ranging between 1 and 8 degrees Celsius.
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12/17/2023
Doctors will exhaust their maximum statutory number of overtime hours by the second half of next year again, Monika Hilšerová, spokesperson for the Young Doctors' Section of the Czech Medical Chamber said on Czech Television's political talk show Otázky Václava Moravce on Sunday, adding that some doctors had already worked the 416 hours allowed by law by August this year.
The Minister of Health, Vlastimil Válek, responded by saying that the problem should be solved by introducing shifts in hospitals where round-the-clock care is needed, instead of doctors working for 24 hours straight and then having a day off.
Doctors working in hospitals went on partial strike earlier this month, refusing to work overtime in protest at salary and working conditions. According to this year's survey by the Young Doctors' Association, on average medics work more than 900 hours of overtime per year.
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12/17/2023
Czechia is still lacking a long-term strategy to effectively prevent corruption and deal with its consequences, Transparency International stated on Sunday in a press release. According to the organisation, corruption has historically been a problem for all Czech governments, but in the case of Prime Minister Petr Fiala's coalition, the gulf between the promised change and reality is "glaring". They criticised the government for failing to pass any new high-quality anti-corruption laws in 2023, still not having satisfactorily resolved conflicts of interest concerning public procurement, and not conducting much-needed dialogue with non-governmental experts. Corruption in the Czech Republic affects sectors such as healthcare, energy, and the arms industry, they said.
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12/17/2023
Czechia has fallen to joint 15th place out of 27 in the EU in terms of quality of education and research, according to the latest Prosperity and Financial Health Index ranking. In almost all 10 indicators used to calculate Czechia's overall position, the country scored somewhere in the middle compared to other member states. It achieved its best result in research expenditure, where it came in 10th, while its worst was in the share of young people with tertiary education degrees, where it ranks 23rd.
The Index, a joint research project by Česká spořitelna, the Europe in Data portal and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, measures the prosperity of the Czech Republic and the financial health of Czechs in the long term based on 10 "pillars", one of which is quality of education and research.
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