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04/17/2023
The Czech Interior Ministry is preparing an amendment to the foreigners‘ law according to which foreign nationals from EU member states will be required to register if their stay in Czechia exceeds 90 days, the news site Novinky.cz reported. According to Pavla Novotna, the head of the Migration and Asylum Policy Department at the Interior Ministry, the fact that registration of EU nationals residing here long-term is not required is causing complications for towns and municipalities. According to the ministry’s estimates the number of unregistered EU foreign nationals who spent more than 90 days in the country is around 200,000 a year. A new electronic system is being prepared to facilitate the registration process.
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04/17/2023
The strict security measures at Prague Castle will be lifted, President Petr Pavel announced at a press briefing on Monday. He said the security gates at entrances to the compound, which were installed in 2016, will be dismantled and security checks will no longer be conducted on a mass scale. In future, police officers guarding the premises will only make random security checks. The strict security measures, which often resulted in queues forming at the entrance gates to the castle, have been criticized for years. Plans to ease them were repeatedly postponed, first due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and later because of the Czech EU presidency, when Prague Castle hosted a big EU summit.
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04/17/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said at the opening of a business forum between Czech and Filipino entrepreneurs in Manila on Monday morning that Czech companies can offer innovative solutions to the Philippines in the fields of aviation, defence, logistics and transport. He also reminded the local businessmen that Czech companies have a long history in their country, with, for example, the shoe company Baťa opening a factory in the Philippines 90 years ago.
Mr Fiala arrived in the Philippines on Sunday for the start of a 10-day tour of Asia, which will also include visits to Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The prime minister is accompanied by a business delegation that includes the aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody, the Omnipol group, and the Excalibur Army arms company, among others. He stated before setting off on the trip that its purpose is to visit countries that are interested in cooperation with the Czech Republic, to create alternative markets as a counterbalance to Chinese dominance. Monday morning's Manila business forum will be followed by a meeting with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
The Prime Minister and the President of the Czech Chamber of Commerce, Vladimír Dlouhý, see the Philippines as a promising country for business cooperation and stated their intention to increase the number of Filipino workers in the Czech Republic. According to Mr Dlouhý, Czechia lacks qualified craftsmen, truck and bus drivers, construction workers, and people in the service sector. He said Filipino workers have a good reputation in construction and services, but at the moment a greater influx of workers from the Philippines is hindered by immigration caps set by the interior and foreign ministries.
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04/17/2023
A few dozen anti-government protesters spent the night in front of the Straka Academy, where the seat of government is in Prague, after Sunday's demonstration and were still there on Monday morning. The Czech News Agency reports that they intend to stay until Monday evening. The area directly in front of the main entrance to the building was closed off with barricades.
The protest in Prague's Wenceslas Square on Sunday afternoon was organised by the Právo Respekt Odbornost (PRO) party and was calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala's government. Of the thousands who gathered for the demonstration on Sunday, only a few dozen remained outside the Straka Academy on Monday morning.
The lead organiser of the rally, lawyer and founder of the PRO party, Jindřich Rajchl, had originally threatened a blockade of government buildings, but later had to call it off. Neither did the human chain that the protesters were going to form around the seat of government on Sunday take place.
However, the protesters did manage to block traffic along the main road where the procession was marching on Sunday for a large part of the afternoon. Trams also stopped running along the left bank of the Vltava.
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04/16/2023
Monday is expected to be overcast with a chance of rain and mild wind, and day temperatures ranging between 6 and 13 degrees Celsius.
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04/16/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala arrived in the Philippines on Sunday afternoon for the start of a 10-day tour of Asia, during which he will also visit Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
In view of the length of the flight, which lasted more than 14 hours, and the six-hour time difference between Prague and Manila, the official program of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic will not start until Monday local time.
The programme will kick off with a business forum between Czech and local entrepreneurs, followed by a meeting with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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04/16/2023
Thousands of people gathered in Prague's Wenceslas Square on Sunday afternoon for an anti-government demonstration organised by the Právo Respekt Odbornost (PRO) party. The main demonstration organiser, lawyer and founder of the PRO party, Jindřich Rajchl, stated that the demonstrators are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala's government. Speakers at the protest criticised the government for its handling of the medicine shortage, energy crisis, and state budget deficit, as well as the planned cancellation of the airport in Líny near Pilsen, among other things.
The protestors carried Czech flags and banners with inscriptions such as "Down with NATO", "No war" and "The government and media are liars". Some counter-protesters carrying Ukrainian and European Union flags also gathered in front of the National Museum. Both groups shouted at each other but were kept apart from one another by the police.
After the protest on Wenceslas Square, which lasted about two hours, the demonstrators then marched to the Straka Academy, where the government headquarters are based.
A similar protest organised by the same people took place in March, which turned violent when a small portion of the protesters attempted to enter the National Museum building by force to tear down the Ukrainian flag hanging from it. Mr Rajchl referred to the March protest at Sunday's demonstration, saying that the protesters have no intention of removing the Ukrainian flag, and blamed the police for having provoked the March clash between protesters and police officers, during which 18 people were arrested and two police officers were injured.
In March, Mr Rajchl threatened a blockade of government buildings from mid-April if the protestors' demands were not met, but this week he instead said he wanted to form a human chain around the seat of the Government Office.
Police refused to estimate the number of protesters at Sunday's rally, but the Czech Agency reported that the numbers were similar to the March protest.
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04/16/2023
Five members of a government and business delegation to South Korea have come out in defence of a Czech doctor who was accused of sexually harassing a hygienist there. The man, who is a military doctor with the rank of lieutenant colonel, was said to have slapped the South Korean hygienist on the backside while she was taking the temperature of passengers as part of anti-covid measures after they landed at the airport in Seoul.
The eyewitnesses to the incident said in a letter they sent to the Czech embassy in Seoul that they were in a tight space and the doctor touched the woman unintentionally. Copies of the letter were also sent to the ministries of defence, transport, foreign affairs and the Government Office.
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04/16/2023
The Prague police arrested 17 people in connection with Saturday's Sparta-Slavia football match, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday. Four of the fans were arrested after the match in two incidents that occurred near the stadium, and 13 fans before the match for disobeying a summons and, in several cases, suspicion of disorderly conduct. No one has been charged so far.
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04/16/2023
The title of Czech Photographer of the Year 2022 was awarded to Czech News Agency reporter Roman Vondrouš on Saturday by the Association of Professional Photographers. Vondrouš was also nominated for the award in 2021 but didn't win.
Previous winners of the award over the past 20 years include names such as Josef Koudelka, Jindřich Štreit, and Libuše Jarcovjáková, who won the award twice.
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