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03/29/2023
Hundreds of Czech trade unionists took part in a demonstration in Prague on Wednesday. The protest was called by the country’s largest union, KOVO, against a mooted increase in the pension age to 68, other pension reform and a planned EU emissions regulation named Euro 7.
Union members gathered at the capital’s Letná Plane before marching to the nearby Office of the Government. However, the cabinet was not at the Straka Academy as ministers were meeting in the Moravian town of Jeseník.
Former prime minister Andrej Babiš was among those who addressed the crowd at the Office of the Government.
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03/29/2023
The Czech music industry saw year-on-year growth of 13.7 percent last year, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Czech branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Recorded music generated CZK 1.637 billion in 2022, it said.
More than half of the money came from digital sales, while streaming rose by one-fifth. The country’s best-selling album last year was Příběhy a sny by Czech rapper Viktor Sheen.
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03/29/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Lower temperatures are expected on the following days.
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03/29/2023
Former MEP and Vice-Chairman of the Social Democrat’s Libor Rouček will receive the Charles IV Prize at the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Regensburg this May, the Czech News Agency reports citing the German weekly Sudetendeutsche Zeitung. The prize will also be handed over to German politician Christian Schmidt. It is the first time that the award is being handed over to both a Czech and a German in the same year.
Mr Rouček is a regular visitor at the annual Landsmanschaft meetings of the German community that once lived in the Sudetenland region of Czechia.
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03/29/2023
President Petr Pavel said that he would probably be in favour of lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, as he believes that young people have sufficient knowledge about current affairs in the country and their involvement in deciding elections would not be a security risk. The statement came on Tuesday as the president was in a school in Frýdek-Místek as part of his two-day visit to the Moravian-Silesian Region.
Czechia’s newly incumbent head of state also expressed support for an increase in salaries for academics teaching at philosophical faculties, on the backdrop of Tuesday’s protests by many university teachers on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.
He said that the main issue that the Moravian-Silesian Region is facing is an exodus of young people, which, he believes, does not correspond to the many opportunities and rising quality of life in the north-east of Czechia.
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03/28/2023
Wednesday is expected to see temperatures range around 8 degrees Celsius with thick clouds expected over Bohemia.
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03/28/2023
More than 150 historians are critical of what they see as irresponsible management at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, news site Deník N reported on Tuesday. According to the group, it is manly the council of the institute, led by historian and retired colonel Eduard Stehlik that is to blame for what they perceive as a destabilisation of the institute and its takeover by a certain group of people.
The institute’s management has come under criticism several times for different reasons over the past years. Recently a part of the staff accused its recently appointed new director, Ladislav Kudrna, of bossing and censorship.
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03/28/2023
Czechia has been issued a CZK 54 million fine for not yet applying EU rules for protecting whistle-blowers who report on corruption and other illegal activities, Czech Radio reported on Tuesday, stating that this has now been confirmed by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The deadline for applying the EU directive ran out last December.
Martin Smolek, the Director General for Legal and Consular Affairs at the Foreign Ministry said that i tis almost certain that the country will have to pay the fine. It is the first time in history that the country has received a fine from the EU for such an offense.
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03/28/2023
Protests against low salaries in the humanities and social science sector at universities are taking place in eight cities across Czechia, including the capital, on the occasion of Teachers' Day this Tuesday, Czech Television reports. They want more money from the budget for universities as well as a fairer share of the division of funds into salaries across academic departments. The demonstration is also being supported by the University Trade Union.
Education Minister Vladimír Balaš told journalists on Tuesday that while he understands the protestors’ feelings, he thinks that the problem cannot be solved simply by adding more money from the budget and that universities themselves need to rationalise their operations. He said that he expects to receive a proposal on systemic and strategic changes from universities by April 21.
The issue is also to be discussed between Mr Balaš and Prime Minister Petr Fiala this Tuesday.
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03/28/2023
The chairman of the Czech and Moravian Trade Union of Workers in Education, František Dobšík, said on Tuesday that salaries for school employees should be raised to 130 percent of the country’s average gross wage. He added that the union is concerned the government will put priority on cuts rather than on this raise and warned of growing numbers of young teachers leaving the education sector.
The ruling coalition is so far only planning to raise the salaries by 130 percent for teachers. The union says it wants the same percentage for all education sector employees at schools and that it is considering to go on strike.
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