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03/07/2023
The Senate’s Constitutional Law Committee today rejected the lower indexation of pensions for June. The reasons for this included the controversial approval of the government pension amendment by the Chamber of Deputies using a fast-track procedure.
Under the government-proposed amendment, the average monthly pension will rise by CZK 760 instead of the expected CZK 1,770. The government says limiting the pension increase during indexation set for June is necessary to stabilise the public finances and will save CZK 19.4 billion this year alone.
The Senate vote is due to take place on Wednesday. In order for the bill to take effect this year, it needs to be signed into law by the president by March 22.
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03/07/2023
The Czech Ministry of Justice plans to remove Covid-19 from the list of diseases the spreading of which can be classified as a criminal offense.
The edict placing Covid-19 on the list of infectious diseases which present a serious public health threat has been in force since March 2020. It is due to be repealed by the end of June.
The Ministry of Health says it is waiting for the change so that it can abolish the current seven-day isolation requirement after a positive test for Covid.
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03/07/2023
Organizers of the Passion play in Hořice na Šumavě in South Bohemia are seeking to inscribe the tradition on the UNESCO World Heritage List, they announced on Tuesday.
The Easter pageant, depicting the passion and crucifixion of Jesus, is held every summer in the local outdoor theatre and has a tradition of over 200 years. In June 2021, the Hořice Passion play was included on the region’s cultural heritage list.
This June, Hořice will host the Europassion 2023 congress, bringing together representatives of towns and villages from all over Europe where the tradition of staging Passion play has been maintained.
The first rehearsal for this year's Easter pageant in Hořice will take place on 24 March. Traditionally, most local families are involved in the preparations in various ways.
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03/07/2023
A horse, which reportedly belongs to the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has been stolen from a stud farm in Krabčice near Roudnice nad Labem, the website jezdci.cz reported on Tuesday.
According to the police spokeswoman, the English thoroughbred, whose value is estimated at around CZK 400,000, disappeared during the night from Friday to Saturday.
The stallion, called Zazou, along with other horses, is part of the property that was sanctioned by the European Union nine years ago. The horse has a characteristic white mark on its forehead in the shape of a star.
Two Russian-speaking men already attempted to remove the horses from the stable in January last year.
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03/07/2023
The European Public Prosecutor's Office has accused seven people and two companies from Javorník in the Olomouc region of subsidy fraud worth at least EUR 448,000. The news server iRozhlas reported on Tuesday that the company Kolimax, which has a long tradition in the production of kitchenware, is among the accused. The Czech police, together with the European Public Prosecutor's Office, seized the assets of the suspects to recover the damages to the European budget.
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03/07/2023
The Czech Republic has asked to buy an unspecified number of 1980s Leopard 2 tanks from Switzerland, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday evening, citing Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd.
Last week, Germany also requested the purchase of Leopard 2 tanks from the Ministry of Defence in Bern. As Switzerland does not allow the transfer of military equipment to a country at war in order to preserve its neutrality, Berlin has assured Switzerland that the tanks will not be re-exported to Ukraine. The same rule should also apply to Czechia's request.
However, according to the Czech News Agency, the sale of the Swiss-owned German-made tanks could allow Czechia and Germany to increase aid to Ukraine, as they could use the tanks to replace machines already delivered or promised to Kyiv.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the debate about the supply of arms has been heated in Switzerland. The Alpine country, which is not part of the EU, has accepted all sanctions imposed by Brussels against Moscow, but insists on its military neutrality. Although Kyiv and its allies have urged the Swiss government to allow the re-export of arms and ammunition to Ukraine, it has so far dismissed these requests. Various attempts to change these rules continue in parliament, but a decision is not expected for several months.
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03/06/2023
Based on an external audit of the Prague Castle Administration, the Office of the President is going to file a criminal complaint on suspicion of misconduct, theft, embezzlement and fraud, among other charges, the office announced in a press release on Monday. The press release states that the former director of the Prague Castle Administration, Ivo Velíšek, and the former director of the Lány Castle Department, Michaela Javůrková, are responsible. In the coming months, the Castle intends to carry out a thorough review of internal regulations and the handling of funds, it said.
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03/06/2023
Tuesday is expected to be overcast with a chance of some light drizzle and daytime temperatures ranging between 3 and 7 degrees Celsius.
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03/06/2023
The third eastern black two-horned rhinoceros baby to be born in the Dvur Králové Safari Park in the last year came into the world on March 4, the zoo announced on Twitter on Monday. The male rhinoceros was born exactly one year after the first of the three baby rhinos, with the second being born at Christmas. Three calves of this critically endangered species being born in one place in a single year is a world first.
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03/06/2023
A new protected landscape area, Soutok na Břeclavsku, will be created in Czechia at the site of the confluence of the Morava and Dyje rivers, the Ministry of the Environment together with the regional South Moravian government revealed in a press release on Monday. The area, also known as the Moravian Amazon, contains the largest complex of alluvial forests in Central Europe. Conservationists have been calling for greater protection of the floodplain forests in the locality for decades.
The government pledged that Soutok will eventually be declared a national park, with the designation as a protected landscape area being the first step. There are currently 26 protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic.
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