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05/31/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel leaves on Wednesday for a two-day visit to Austria. The Czech head of state will be received on Thursday by his Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen. He will also hold talks with Austrian National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka and Defence Minister Claudia Tanner.
Besides EU and NATO cooperation, the main topics on the agenda will include the war in Ukraine, the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU and regional cooperation.
Pavel's visit to Austria will conclude a series of trips to the neighbouring countries, which he started shortly after taking office in March. The President, who will be accompanied by his wife, will travel on a regular train.
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05/30/2023
Wednesday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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05/30/2023
The Senate’s Human Rights Committee on Tuesday recommended the former president of the Supreme Administrative Court Josef Baxa and former Judicial Union head Daniela Zemanová to be appointed as constitutional judges.
Mrs. Zemanová won the unanimous support of all seven committee members present in a secret vote on Tuesday, while Baxa received one vote less.
The upper house’s Constitutional Law Committee last week voted against their appointment. However, both of the committees agreed on endorsing the appointment of constitutional law professor Jan Wintr.
The Senate will decide about the three candidates for constitutional judges at its session on Wednesday. Prior to the vote, President Pavel is expected to justify his nominations to the senators.
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05/30/2023
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has condemned Monday's attack on members of the international KFOR mission in Kosovo. Both Pristina and Belgrade must take immediate steps to ease tensions, the Czech head of diplomacy wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have been protesting for several days against newly elected Albanian mayors who took up their posts last week.
More than 30 NATO peacekeeping soldiers have been injured in clashes with Serb protesters while defending the town halls.
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05/30/2023
Some 3,462 cases of scabies were recorded in Czechia at the end of April, which is the highest figure in the past 20 years and twice as high as in the same period last year.
Experts attribute the rise in scabies incidence to its absence during Covid lockdowns and to the overall decline in immunity.
The main symptom of scabies, which is transmitted mostly by close body contact or through bed linen, is severe itching and a rash on the skin.
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05/30/2023
The Czech economy experienced a fall by 0.4 percent year-on -year in the first quarter of 2023, according to revised data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. Estimates in May predicted a decline by 0.2 percent. The quarter-on-quarter GDP stagnated during the first three months of this year.
The year-on-year decline in GDP was mainly driven by household consumption e and a change in inventories. In contrast, government consumption and external demand had a positive effect.
The year-on-year decline in GDP was mainly caused by household final consumption expenditure and the change in inventories. In contrast, government final consumption expenditure and external demand had a positive effect.
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05/30/2023
The biggest share of Czech carmaker Skoda Auto’s production after 2025 will be electric cars, the company’s board member for sales and marketing Martin Jahn told the daily E15 on Tuesday.
Mr. Jahn expects that in 2030, electric cars will account for about 70 percent of Škoda Auto’s output in Europe. One of the company’s assembly lines in Mladá Boleslav, which currently assembles Enyaq models, has already completed a conversion to electric car production.
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05/30/2023
On Tuesday, restorers will dismantle the statues of three apostles from Prague’s famous Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square that were damaged by vandals last July.
During the repair work, expected to cost around CZK 35,000, the clock will operate as usual, with three of its windows empty, a spokesman for Prague City Hall told the Czech News Agency on Tuesday.
The City Hall recently also commissioned a new copy of the Astronomical Clock’s calendar that will replace the heavily criticised version from 2018.
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05/30/2023
Architect Filip Pšenčík was presented with the Olga Havel Award for his work helping to build barrier-free housing for people with disabilities. The Olga Havel Foundation also presented an award to Heřman Volf, founder of the association Cesta za snem (Journey to a dream), which helps people with disabilities lead an active life and integrate into society.
The Olga Havel Foundation, founded in 1990 by the late president Havel's first wife Olga, annually awards people who, despite their disabilities, devote their lives to helping others.
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05/30/2023
Russian imperialism will present a problem for decades to come and the European Union must prepare to wage a cold war against Russia in order to curb its influence, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Monday during a panel debate at the Globsec forum in Bratislava.
“Russia is a country that does not know where it begins and where it ends and we must be able to confront it. We need to have appropriate defence capabilities and a solid security framework," Lipavsky said. The Czech foreign minister also debated the security situation with his Slovak and Austrian counterparts, emphasizing the need to continue to help defend Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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