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03/11/2023
Thousands of people gathered in Prague's Wenceslas Square on Saturday afternoon for an anti-government demonstration under the slogan "Czechia Against Poverty" called by the Pravo Respekt Odbornost (PRO) party. The demonstration started at 2 p.m. after Bedřich Smetana's Má Vlast was played from loudspeakers in the square.
The demonstrators' list of demands includes the resignation of the cabinet, stopping social media operators from restricting freedom of speech, passing a law that requires the media to provide objective and balanced information, and a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine, including the end of supplying military equipment to the country and the possible organization of a peace conference in the Czech Republic. They also want the government to acquire 100% control of energy giant ČEZ, in which it now holds approximately 70% of shares, and to abandon the system of trading emission allowances.
Lawyer Jindřich Rajchl founded the PRO party last year. He has previously stated that the Czech Republic is getting poorer mainly due to the self-destructive energy policy of the European Union, which he says is unquestioningly promoted by the Czech government.
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03/11/2023
Around 6,000 households in Czechia, more than a third of which were in the Pardubice region, were without power on Saturday morning due to strong winds. A further 1,100 were in Vysočina and around a thousand in South Moravia, the Czech News Agency reports.
Energy company ČEZ recorded over 8,000 supply points without power around 3 a.m. on Saturday. By the morning, that number had decreased to around 2,500, but at around 11 a.m. it increased once again to around 3,000. Rival company EG.D also registered roughly 3,000 customers without power in its supply network.
The strong winds, accompanied by snowfall in some areas, are also causing disruption to transport. Firefighters have been called out to dozens of sites of fallen branches or trees blocking railways and roads. The road from Tanvald to Harrachov has been closed to trucks since midnight. The meteorological office's warning for strong winds remains in effect until Saturday evening.
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03/11/2023
Speaker of the House Markéta Pekarová Adamová met with the new US ambassador to Prague, Bijan Sabet on Friday and talked about Ms Pekarová Adamová's planned trip to Washington in May, the Czech News Agency reports. The pair also discussed her upcoming visit to Taiwan in two weeks' time.
Ms Pekarová Adamová told the Czech News Agency that she will head a parliamentary delegation accompanied by a business delegation on her visit to Washington and that she is planning on meeting with her US counterpart, other representatives of Congress, and the Czech expatriate community living in the USA. Mr Sabet has promised to help her prepare for the trip.
Ms Pekarová Adamová also expressed her appreciation of the fact that the United States has an ambassador in the Czech Republic again after a two-year hiatus. The previous ambassador, Stephen King, stepped down at the end of 2020 when the new president, Joe Biden, took office, and the post remained vacant until Sabet took it up in mid-February.
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03/10/2023
Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered snow showers and daytime highs between 0 and 4 degrees Celsius.
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03/10/2023
Three-time Olympic champion Ester Ledecká will compete in the World Cup parallel snowboarding races in Rogla and Berchtesgaden next week, the Czech Ski and Snowboarding Association announced on its website. Ledecka will return to the slopes after prolonged treatment of a broken collarbone which necessitated two surgeries. The 27-year-old Czech started training in early February, but missed the World Championship races in Bakuriani.
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03/10/2023
The government is planning to look into sales profit margins in connection with the steep rise of food prices in Czechia, Agriculture Minister Zdeněk Nekula announced on Friday. Minister Nekula said that an inter-ministerial working group was being set up to look into the problem given suspicions of a possible cartel agreement between supermarket chains. The working group will meet on March 21, when it will have the price data for February at its disposal.
The price of food products has soared in recent months. For example, the price of rice has increased by 31.9 per cent in a year, flour has gone up by 36.1 per cent, pork by 31.1 per cent, semi-skimmed milk by 39.5 per cent, eggs by 95.2 per cent and sugar by 75.1 per cent.
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03/10/2023
Consumer price growth in Czechia is slowing down, according to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Friday. The year-on-year growth in consumer prices amounted to 16.7% in February, which is 0.8 percentage points down on January. Consumer prices increased by 0.6%, month-on-month. The growth in prices was registered mainly in the area of recreation and culture and food and non-alcoholic beverages.
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03/10/2023
Activists marched along a stretch of the highway leading through Prague on Friday morning calling for a 30 km/h speed limit in the metropolis. The protest, the second this week, in which activists walked from Vyšehrad to Muzeum, was organised by the Last Generation initiative. Its members point to the fact that a 30 km/h speed limit has already been introduced in Paris and Brussels, and argue that it would increase safety, reduce emissions and improve people's health.
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03/10/2023
President Pavel will make public his stand on the controversial government proposal to reduce the June indexation of pensions, which is guaranteed by law, after a meeting with representatives of the opposition ANO party due to take place next Wednesday. Pavel confirmed this in an interview for Czech Television shortly after taking office on Thursday. His stand is decisive because if he uses his right of veto the lower house would not have the time needed to overturn it and it would not go into effect. Asked whether he had already made up his mind, Pavel replied that there were so many legitimate reservations to the bill that it was proving to be a hard decision. The opposition ANO party has indicated that if the president signs the bill into law, they will challenge it in the Constitutional Court.
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03/10/2023
President Petr Pavel has appointed Petr Hladík minister of the environment. Prime Minister Petr Fiala proposed Hladík's appointment at the end of last year, but the former president, Miloš Zeman, refused to make the appointment. Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Minister Marian Jurečka has been in charge of the portfolio since the beginning of November. In the meantime Hladík has served as deputy environment minister.
Hladík’s nomination was questioned after his office was raided by the police and his computer seized in connection with a corruption case in Brno, where he then served as deputy mayor. No charges were filed against him.
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