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03/16/2023
The head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner, has defended the late Pope John Paul II. Mr. Graubner said recent accusations that while archbishop of Krakow he covered up sexual abuse by priests do not consider the broader context. He made the comment on the website of the Czech Bishops’ Conference.
Mr. Graubner also said that the Polish communist secret police may have been involved in the matter.
He said John Paul II may have made mistakes but said in those days there was different social awareness and usual methods of dealing with sexual offences.
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03/16/2023
President Petr Pavel begins a two-day visit to Poland on Thursday. It is the new Czech head of state’s second foreign trip in office, following a visit to Slovakia at the start of the week. On Thursday Mr. Pavel is due to meet his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, and other senior representatives.
The Czech president also plans to visit Kyiv next month, following a discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky earlier this week.
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03/15/2023
President Petr Pavel says he will sign into law a government bill under which the indexation of state old-age pensions will be reduced in June. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Pavel said supporting the bill had not been an easy decision, adding that in the current circumstances there was no good solution that would work for everybody.
The head of state said he understood opposition assertions that the legislation was unconstitutional, because it is retroactive and it has been pushed through in a fast-track procedure.
Mr. Pavel said, however, that he agreed with the government when it said it was important at the present time to slow pension growth.
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03/15/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 7 degrees Celsius. The following days will also be cloudy, with temperatures climbing above 10 degrees Celsius.
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03/15/2023
Czechia on Wednesday marked the 84th anniversary of the start of the Nazi occupation of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. A commemorative ceremony at the main square in the Prague Castle district was attended by representatives of the Czech Army, the German ambassador to Prague and members of both houses of Parliament.
The day after the German occupation the region was renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was part of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil, who took part in the Hradčany ceremony, said the country’s history was a lesson to the whole of Europe. He said everything had started far earlier than March 1939, when the big countries thought they could retreat and make peace with evil.
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03/15/2023
Production of passenger cars in Czechia rose by 26.2 percent year-on-year to over 215,000 vehicles in January and February, according to data released on Wednesday by the Association of the Automotive Industry.
However, production volume continues to be affected by supply chain issues and shortages of some components, which stopped production at Toyota’s Kolín plant for almost the whole of last month.
The country’s biggest exporter, Škoda Auto, increased production by 28.6 percent in the first two months of 2023.
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03/15/2023
The minister of education, Vladimír Balaš, says that the position of Miroslav Ševčík as a dean at Prague’s University of Economics represents a reputational problem for the school. He made the comment on social media.
Mr. Ševčík, who heads a faculty at the university, was seen among a mob of people attempting to tear the Ukrainian flag off Prague’s National Museum after a pro-Russia rally on Saturday.
The academic, who works with the ultra-conservative Tricolour party, said he would announce on Monday whether to respect a call to stand down over his public stances but then said he needed more time.
Students organised a demonstration against him on Wednesday.
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03/15/2023
There is no agreement as yet among the five-party Czech governing coalition on the issue of increasing property tax, the minister for regional development, Ivan Bartoš of the Pirates, told journalists. In an interview for Wednesday’s Hospodářské noviny, the minister of finance, the Civic Democrats’ Zbyněk Stanjura, said doubling the current property tax could help consolidate the state budget.
For his part, the minister of transport, Martin Kupka of the Civic Democrats, said it was too soon to discuss individual means of reducing the budget’s structural deficit.
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03/15/2023
Nine people in Czechia have so far been convicted of publicly approving Russia’s war on Ukraine, according to the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office. Some 58 people have been charged with this offence, it said on Wednesday.
The Supreme State Prosecutor, Igor Stříž, said in an interview for Právo that only one of the nine found guilty had been sent to jail; activist Patrik Tušl got nine months last year for hate speech against Ukrainians on social media. The others have received suspended sentences or fines.
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03/15/2023
Three-time Olympic champion Ester Ledecká has returned in style after a serious injury, coming second in parallel giant slalom at the snowboard World Cup in the Slovenian resort of Rogla on Wednesday.
It was the Czech’s first event in almost a year after she required protracted treatment for a broken collarbone in the summer of last year.
Ledecká, who is 27, made world headlines for winning gold in parallel giant slalom in snowboarding and the super-G in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Four years later she took another gold medal in the former discipline.
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