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05/25/2023
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský is due to meet with top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Thursday, including Prime Minister Muhammad Sudan, President Abdal Latíf Rashíd, and his Iraqi counterpart, Fuád Husayn, to discuss Czech-Iraqi bilateral relations and the role of Czechia and the EU in stabilising Iraq. He will also meet with Czech soldiers in allied military missions and begin a one-day Czech-Iraqi business forum in Baghdad, where he will be accompanied by a 15-member business delegation.
Mr Lipavský flew to Iraq from Saudi Arabia, where he opened a Czech-Saudi business forum in Riyadh on Wednesday.
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05/24/2023
The government approved the purchase of 246 CV90 tracked infantry fighting vehicles for CZK 59.7 billion on Wednesday in the form of an intergovernmental agreement with Sweden, defence minister Jana Černochová announced at a press conference. It is the largest army purchase in the modern history of the Czech Republic and one of the largest state contracts ever.
Ms. Černochová also announced at the same conference that Czechia will enter into negotiations with Germany about the joint purchase of about seven dozen new 2A8 Leopard battle tanks.
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05/24/2023
The Ethics Committee at Prague’s University of Economics ruled on Wednesday that controversial dean Miroslav Ševčík violated the school's code of ethics. The Ethics Committee looked into the matter at the request of the university's rector Petr Dvořák, who has called for Mr. Ševčík's removal from the faculty management, saying that the dean is damaging the school's reputation. However, Mr. Ševčík was defended on Monday by his faculty's own ethics commission.
Mr. Ševčík, who heads a faculty at the university, made headlines in March when he appeared at a pro-Russian rally and was implicated as part of a group trying to remove the Ukrainian flag from the National Museum in Prague.
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05/24/2023
Thursday is expected to be warm and sunny with daytime temperatures of up to 20 degrees Celsius.
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05/24/2023
President Petr Pavel received Prince Edward, brother of the British monarch King Charles III, in the Throne Hall of Prague Castle on Wednesday. The two men met for the first time on Tuesday after the prince's arrival, when Mr Pavel invited him to the cultural and social centre Malostranská Beseda in Prague.
From Prague Castle, Prince Edward headed to Vestec, a village near the capital where a tree-lined avenue was created last year to mark the 100th birthday of Prince Philip, Edward's father and husband of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Edward will plant the last tree in the avenue in memory of his father, who was the founder of the The Duke of Edinburgh International Award, where young participants sets goals they want to achieve in volunteering, exercise or skill-based activities, and then fulfill them over a period of months.
The programme has been operating in the Czech Republic since 1995, with more than 320 schools now taking part. Gold medals will be presented to successful graduates of the programme by Edward in a ceremony on Wednesday afternoon.
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05/24/2023
The Senate Defence and Security Committee unanimously endorsed approving an annual state defence budget of at least two percent of GDP on Wednesday.
The government proposal of spending at least two percent of GDP annually on defence is based on NATO recommendations. The Czech News Agency reports that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg plans to say at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July that the recommendation is a minimum spend, not a maximum.
The Senate is due to vote on the issue next week, but according to the Czech News Agency, the unanimous endorsement by the security and defence committee means it is likely that it will be approved. If it is, the law would take effect from July and would apply starting from next year's state budget.
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05/24/2023
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský opened the Czech-Saudi business forum in Riyadh on Wednesday, emphasising the importance of future economic cooperation between the two countries. He described the current economic transformation of Saudi Arabia as a huge opportunity for the development of mutual relations and meaningful business partnerships.
The forum is being attended by a 15-member Czech business delegation made up of companies in industries ranging from defence, petrochemicals, and construction to IT, the music and the spa industries.
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05/24/2023
The Czech national ice hockey team were beaten 3:1 by Canada at the World Championships in the Latvian capital Riga on Tuesday evening. The result means the Czechs finished fourth in group B.
They will now face the United States – who are so far undefeated at the tournament – in the quarter-finals in the Finnish city of Tampere on Thursday.
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05/24/2023
Sparta Prague have been crowned Czech football league champions for the 37th time in the club’s history. Sparta sealed the title after a 0:0 draw away to Slovácko on Tuesday evening gave them an unassailable lead in the penultimate round of the “superstructure”, in which the division is split into three mini-leagues at the end of the season.
Around 1,500 Sparta fans had travelled to Slovácko’s ground in the Moravian town of Uherské Hradiště to see them win the league for the first time in nine years.
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05/23/2023
A defence cooperation agreement between Czechia and the US was signed in Washington on Tuesday by the Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, and her American counterpart, Lloyd Austin.
Earlier in the day Ms. Černochová had told reporters that the treaty was not on basing US soldiers on Czech soil or on the creation of an American military base in the country.
Ms. Černochová told Czech Television that the Czech side had got as much as possible out of the deal.
The defence cooperation agreement creates an overarching framework to codify already existing cooperation between the two countries' militaries.
The US has such agreements with more than 20 other NATO members.
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