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07/20/2023
Neurologist Martin Bareš will stay on as rector of Brno’s Masaryk University for another four-year term. He was officially appointed to the position by President Petr Pavel on Thursday after receiving the backing of the academic senate earlier this year.
Mr. Bareš, who is 54, is a professor of neurology. Before becoming rector in September 2019, he served for many years as vice-rector and briefly as dean of the medical faculty.
Masaryk University, which is the second largest university in Czechia, has over 33,000 students at its ten faculties.
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07/20/2023
Czechs spent a total of 759.3 billion crowns on betting in 2022, a 44.2 percent rise compared with the previous year, according to data released by the General Financial Directorate.
Winnings paid out by betting companies amounted to CZK 705.5 billion, around 44.8 percent more than the previous year.
An increasing number of bets are made over the Internet. While in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, the volume of online bets amounted to 25.9 percent, last year it was 56.8 percent.
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07/20/2023
The Czech pension insurance system in the second quarter of 2023 ended with a deficit exceeding CZK 40 billion, according to Finance Ministry data released on Thursday. That figure is almost as high as for the whole of 2020.
Expenditures in the first six months of 2023 have risen by CZK 56.5 billion year-on-year. Revenues have also been rising, but not enough to cover the cost of pensions.
Despite the reduction of the indexation of pensions, a deficit of around CZK 80 billion is projected in the pension system this year with a total of around CZK 690 billion to be paid out, which corresponds to 30 percent of state spending.
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07/20/2023
Ministers from Czechia and Poland are due to meet in the Polish city of Katowice on Thursday for the eighth intergovernmental consultation between the two sides.
Talks are expected to centre on Ukraine, cooperation in the fields of energy and transport infrastructure and the current agenda of the European Union. Representing Czechia will be Prime Minister Petr Fiala and nine other cabinet members.
Members of the two governments last held a joint meeting in Prague in June of last year.
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07/20/2023
The Czech-born writer Milan Kundera was cremated in Paris on Wednesday, just over a week after his death at the age of 94, the Czech News Agency reported, citing the Czech ambassador to France.
Kundera’s widow, Věra Kunderová, plans to keep his ashes at her Paris apartment until her own death; they will then be transferred to the world-renowned author’s native city Brno, where he said he wished to be buried.
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07/19/2023
Czech top flight football clubs are readying for the start of a new season this weekend. While Sparta Prague are the defending champions going into 2023–2024, the bookies’ favourites to lift the title are Slavia Prague, the Czech News Agency said on Wednesday; Slavia have come second in the last two seasons.
Four of the 16 clubs in the top division have new managers, including one of the favourites, Viktoria Plzeň; the West Bohemians are led by Miroslav Koubek, who last coached them eight years ago.
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07/19/2023
The Czech lower house ratified a defence cooperation agreement with the US on Wednesday. The document had already been signed by the Czech and American ministers of defence. The minister of defence, Jana Černochová, told MPs that the agreement represented a security guarantee for Czechia. The bill ratifying the deal must now be signed by President Petr Pavel.
Earlier discussion of a government pension reform bill was interrupted until Friday. Deputies from the opposition ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy parties spoke for three and a half hours at the start of the session, which is considering tightening the rules on early retirement and slowing the indexation of state old-age pensions.
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07/19/2023
Speaking in Prague, the head of the UK’s MI6 intelligence service, Richard Moore, said Ukraine had liberated more territory in a month than Russia had taken in a year. The spy chief made the comment in a talk before an invited audience at the British Embassy in Prague on Wednesday. He said he had chosen the Czech capital to make a rare public address as the city was a fitting place to discuss Ukraine, adding that Czechia was a close ally of the UK.
Mr. Moore said many Russians were quietly horrified that their country’s armedforces were demolishing Ukrainian cities, driving innocent families from their homes and kidnapping thousands of children.
The UK spy chief also said his agency was now putting most resources into China, reflecting the country’s growing global reach.
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07/19/2023
Czech police have arrested a man who made a bomb threat in an email sent to the Office of the President. Prague police said on Wednesday that the email, which arrived on Monday night, claimed explosives had been installed at Prague Castle that could be set off remotely.
President Petr Pavel told journalists on Wednesday that it had been the action of a frustrated individual. The police’s extremism and terrorism unit is investigating the matter and the suspect could face up to three years in jail for spreading false alarm.
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07/19/2023
Škoda Auto is threatening to move production of the Enyaq electric car from its plant in Czechia’s Mladá Boleslav to a Volkswagen plant in Zwikov, Germany, Jaroslav Povšík, a union leader at the carmaker, told the daily E15 on Wednesday.
Mr. Povšík said a final decision had not been made yet and that things should be clear in the autumn, when negotiations on the matter will be concluded.
For its part, Škoda Auto told E15 there were no plans to move the production of Enyaq cars.
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