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09/15/2023
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the annual NATO Days at Ostrava’s Mošnov Airport at the weekend. The two-day event is the biggest air, military and security show in Central Europe with military hardware exhibitions, police and rescue technology and dynamic shows of special units. Among the big attractions this year are three US F-35 Lightning II aircraft which arrived in Czechia for the event. The government is purchasing two dozen of these fighter jets for its armed forces. The NATO Days in Ostrava have been taking place since 2001.
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09/15/2023
The Regional Court in Pilsen has issued an international arrest warrant for Tomáš Cermák, who was sentenced to 5.5 years in jail earlier this year for inciting a terrorist crime. The 36-year-old is in hiding and the police believe that he may have gone abroad to avoid serving his sentence. Čermak was the first person in Czechia to be convicted of inciting violence against politicians during the pandemic and hate speech against Ukrainians on social networks.
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09/15/2023
Police are investigating a collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the line between Mladá Boleslav and Nymburk on Thursday evening. According to preliminary findings the passenger train crossed the path of the freight train, after passing through a red light signal. Several cars derailed and three people suffered light injuries. Firefighters evacuated 37 people from the train.
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09/15/2023
Healthcare unions say they will file a complaint to the European Commission over a controversial amendment to the Labour Code concerning overtime work for doctors and paramedics. Martin Engel, chairman of the Association of Czech Doctors, says the amendment which allows doctors to serve up to double the amount of overtime against the current legislation, will put patients at risk. Thousands of doctors have protested against the amendment on the grounds that they are already heavily overworked and have threatened to refuse to serve any overtime hours if it is enforced.
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09/14/2023
Friday should be bright and sunny with daytime highs between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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09/14/2023
The Prague High Court on Thursday ruled on an appeal in the Stork’s Nest case in which the former prime minister and ANO party leader Andrej Babiš and his former adviser Jana Nagyová were acquitted of EU fraud by the Prague Municipal Court in January. The court ruled in a closed hearing. The outcome of Thursday’s appeal ruling will not be disclosed until it has been delivered to the prosecutor and defence lawyers. However, according to legal experts contacted by the ctk news agency, the procedure indicates that the Prague High Court decided to return the case to the Prague Municipal Court for a new hearing.
Mr. Babiš and his former adviser stood trial for manipulating ownership rights to the Stork’s Nest company, which was part of his multi-billion crown empire, so that it could meet EU grant conditions for a small and medium-sized business.
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09/14/2023
Refugees from Ukraine will likely be able to extend their temporary protection in Czechia for another year, until the end of March 2025. The respective amendment to the law, known as Lex Ukraine, was approved by the government on Wednesday and will now be put to a vote in Parliament. According to the Interior Ministry, which submitted the bill, the course of the war in Ukraine does not indicate that Ukrainian refugees will be able to return home in the near future. There are currently over 365, 800 Ukrainians with temporary protection in Czechia, the majority of them are women and children.
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09/14/2023
People in Czechia should soon be able to use digital credentials instead of the paper or plastic ID cards that are now essential in dealing with the authorities, according to an amendment to the law approved by the government on Wednesday. Digital identification will not replace physical IDs, but people will no longer have to carry them. The digital document will require a mobile phone app, to be developed by the Digital and Information Agency. People will send a request for identification through the app, proving their bank identity or other means of electronic identity verification. The app will then generate a code which the verifying authority, such as the police or the post office, can check in its own reader app. The project should cost the state administration about half a billion crowns to launch, while annual operating costs are estimated at around 50 million crowns.
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09/14/2023
The West needs to prepare for a long war in Ukraine and to deal with an increasingly hostile Russia even after it is over, Czech Chief of the General Staff Karel Řehka said in an interview for Reuters. He said he was not frustrated with the pace of Ukraine's counter-offensive, although some Western military officials have expressed concern about its slow progress. “This is what a military offensive looks like. It's not like a World War II movie. It takes time," Řehka said, noting that neither of the warring sides has the capacity to achieve their stated goals anytime soon. He stressed it was important to keep supporting Ukraine, adding that Czechia still has arms in storage that it can provide.
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09/14/2023
Old-age, disability and widows’ and widowers’ pensions will increase by CZK 360 a month for all recipients from January, the minister of labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka, said after the cabinet approved a regular indexation on Wednesday.
According to data from his ministry, the average old-age pension should be above CZK 20,600 a month in January. Mr. Jurečka said last week that the increase would increase pensions spending by CZK 12.3 billion next year.
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