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02/09/2023
Czech energy giant ČEZ has launched legal proceedings against Russia's Gazprom for its cutting of natural gas supplies to Czechia last year, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday. ČEZ is seeking compensation for damages worth around CZK 1 billion. The outcome will be decided by a three-member legal tribunal.
The Kremlin-controlled Gazprom has the world's largest natural gas reserves and a monopoly on exporting gas from Russia through a network of pipelines. Gapzrom started cutting supplies to ČEZ, as well as to other companies in Europe, after EU countries imposed sanctions on Russia last year over the war in Ukraine.
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02/09/2023
A Czech citizen with permanent residence in Turkey is the first confirmed Czech victim of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, Daniel Drake, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Thursday. The ministry has said it will not provide further details out of respect for the victim's family.
The Czech ambassador to Turkey, Pavel Vacek, also confirmed the news, and said no other Czechs are currently known to be missing or injured. The Czech embassy in Ankara is in contact with the woman's family and with the Turkish authorities.
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02/09/2023
The state enterprise VOP CZ will repair Ukrainian armoured vehicles in Czechia. The arms manufacturer in Nový Jičín, Moravia-Silesia, signed a memorandum with Ukraine’s Ukroboronprom on Monday.
The news was announced on the website of the Czech Army, which controls VOP CZ, on Wednesday. Neither side has released further details about the nature of the cooperation.
The deal is related to last year’s agreement between Czechia and Ukraine on the creation of a so-called joint defence cluster – joint enterprises intended to increase the production of military equipment for Ukraine.
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02/09/2023
Andrej Babiš says he will remain chairman of the ANO party and a lower house deputy. There had been speculation he could stand down as an MP after his recent defeat in the presidential elections. However, Mr. Babiš said after a meeting of the ANO leadership on Wednesday evening, he plans to limit his political and media activity. The new faces of the party will be deputies group leader Alena Schillerová and Karel Havlíček, who is now the head of its shadow cabinet.
Ivo Vondrák, who is governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, has stepped down as deputy chairman of ANO. He supported Mr. Babiš’s rival Petr Pavel in the presidential elections.
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02/08/2023
Czechia is ready to extend the 10-day stay of a search and rescue team in earthquake-hit Turkey and to send more financial and material aid, the minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, said on Wednesday. Prague will proceed according to requests from Turkey, he told reporters.
Czechia will send generators and sleeping bags to Turkey next week and is monitoring further requests, Mr. Lipavský said after a cabinet meeting. A 68-person Czech rescue is working around the clock in the city of Adiyaman, trying to free people trapped under destroyed buildings.
The foreign minister said Czechia would also send aid to Syria, which was hit by the same earthquakes, but that this would be via international aid agencies in view of the complicated situation in the country.
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02/08/2023
The Czech government has definitively pulled the plug on the idea of building a canal between the Danube, Oder and Elbe rivers after cancelling territorial reserves for the project. Coalition members the Pirates announced the move, which was confirmed by the minister for transport, Martin Kupka of the Civic Democrats.
The ambitious canal project had been strongly promoted by the outgoing president, Miloš Zeman.
Regional leaders told the Czech News Agency they welcomed the government’s decision.
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02/08/2023
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, says Czechs have one of the widest ranges of tests for cancers covered by health insurance. Speaking at a news conference on prevention at the lower house on Wednesday, Mr. Válek said that cervical and colon tumours could be detected by such tests before they became malignant.
Every year Czech doctors diagnose over 85,500 cases of cancer. Around 28,000 people die of the disease annually.
The most common forms in Czechia are prostate, breast, colorectal and lung cancer.
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02/08/2023
A new type of vintage tram has gone into regular service in Prague. The Tatra K2 tram joins other historical vehicles used on the city’s 23, 41 and 42 routes.
While the K2 was actually made in the Czech capital for a period of 17 years it was never used in Prague, being considered unsuited for the city’s high traffic intensity. It was deployed in Brno, Ostrava and Bratislava and also exported to the then Yugoslavia and USSR.
The Prague transport authority is operating the vintage tram on a trial basis this month.
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02/08/2023
Radiožurnál was the most listened to radio station in Czechia in the second half of last year. The flagship station of public broadcaster Czech Radio had an average of 861,000 listeners a day. This was a rise compared to the previous half-year and over 160,000 more than the second most popular station, Impuls. The third most listened to station was Evropa 2.
Audience numbers were monitored by the Radioprojekt agency.
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02/08/2023
Czech rescue workers began helping the search for people buried in the rubble in the Turkish city of Adiyaman late on Tuesday night. The country was hit by devastating earthquakes on Monday. A spokesperson for the Czech fire service said that the team were going to be working in shifts around the clock.
Czechia sent 68 urban search and rescue specialists to Turkey on Tuesday. They first landed in Adana and were then taken to Adiyaman, which is in the south-east of the country, by Turkish military planes.
The team includes doctors, construction engineers and dog handlers as well as fire officers.
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