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02/02/2023
It is unclear when president-elect Petr Pavel and incumbent Miloš Zeman will meet before the former’s inauguration. Mr. Pavel said on Wednesday that he expected the current head of state would call such talks and saw no reason to request them himself.
However, Mr. Zeman has said that if the incoming head of state asks for a meeting he will be glad to see him.
Mr. Pavel said on Wednesday evening that it was clear that the two would have to meet.
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02/02/2023
A joint session of the two houses of the Czech Parliament to inaugurate Petr Pavel as president will take place on 2 pm on March 9. The date was confirmed on Wednesday evening by the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, after a meeting with Mr. Pavel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil.
The lower house speaker will convene the session at the end of this month, after the deadline for judicial review of the presidential elections has passed.
Mr. Pavel is due to take part in a Senate session on 29 March and has said he will also attend crucial lower house meetings.
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02/01/2023
From 2026 elections in Czechia may take place on Fridays only, not spread across Fridays and Saturdays as at present. The government approved an amendment to that effect on Wednesday, the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, told journalists.
The legislation also states that elections to the Senate and regional and municipal councils should always be held in the first week of October.
The bill will now be discussed by Parliament.
At present Czechia is the only country in the European Union with polling spread over two days.
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02/01/2023
Former Czech prime minister Petr Nečas has received a suspended sentence and a fine of CZK 100,000 for providing false testimony in court to the benefit of his wife Jana. The verdict may be appealed.
Mr. Nečas denies any wrongdoing in the case, which centres on misuse of the military intelligence service. He says that he asked his then chief of staff – his now wife – to engage intelligence agency out of fears for his safety.
However, an earlier court ruled that she had acted independently and wanted to use information obtained for personal gain.
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02/01/2023
Czechia continues to have Europe’s lowest rate of unemployment, according to fresh data published by the international agency Eurostat. The country’s jobless rate fell from 2.6 percent in November to 2.3 percent in December.
The seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment in the European Union as a whole was 6.1 percent in the last month of 2022.
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02/01/2023
The speaker of the Czech lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, plans to visit Taiwan at the end of March. The TOP 09 party leader will be accompanied by a delegation of entrepreneurs and others, her spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The speaker of the Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, visited Taiwan in 2020, sparking protests from China.
Earlier this week the Beijing government were also critical of a phone call made by Czech president-elect Petr Pavel to Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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02/01/2023
The police say they have shelved the case of a threatening letter sent to the wife of Andrej Babiš during his presidential campaign. Mr. Babiš said at a news conference a week before the second round of the elections that his spouse, Monika, had also received a live bullet with the letter. However, the police said on Wednesday that it had not contained a live bullet.
The case was halted in view of the death of the suspected sender, who took his own life.
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02/01/2023
The focus of this year’s One World festival of human rights documentaries will be the price of safety, the organisers said on Wednesday. The 25th edition of the event will run in Prague from March 22 to 30 and will also travel to over two dozen other Czech cities and towns.
This year’s One World will include a new virtual reality competition, while there will be more debates than in previous years.
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02/01/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 4 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall at the weekend.
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02/01/2023
The 2022 edition of Czech Press Photo has been won by freelance photographer Vojtěch Dárvík Máca for an image entitled Massacre at Bucha. It is one of a series of photographs he took at Bucha and Iprin in Ukraine, where Russia carried out atrocities during its ongoing war against the country.
Some 6,000 works by 234 photographers were considered by an international jury in the 28th edition of the competition.
The winners are being shown in an exhibition that runs at the National Museum until the end of July.
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