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02/01/2023
Czech president-elect Petr Pavel says Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO as soon as Russia’s war on the country ends. In an interview for the BBC published on Wednesday, the retired NATO general said that Ukraine should be “morally and practically ready” to join the alliance once the conflict is over.
Regarding Western military support to Ukraine, Mr. Pavel said that there ought to be almost no limits on what countries could send to the Kyiv government.
He said he did not regard sending Western fighter planes such as F-16s as “taboo” but was uncertain they could be delivered soon enough to be of benefit to Ukraine.
Mr. Pavel will be inaugurated as Czech president on March 9.
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01/31/2023
The number of new cases of HIV recorded in Czechia last year was the highest since 1985, when records began. There were 292 registered new cases in 2022, a rise of 59 on the year before and six more than the highest number previously, in 2016.
Over half of new HIV patients were foreigners, with a major rise in the number of Ukrainians found to have the disease.
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01/31/2023
A memorial to victims of the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti people in South Bohemia will cost almost CZK 100 million. The memorial is set to be built on the site of a World War II concentration camp for Roma and Sinti at Lety in the Písek area, which until recently housed a pig farm.
The winner of a competition to design the structure – which will have indoor and outdoor parts – is due to be announced next month, organisers the Museum of Romani Culture said on Tuesday.
The memorial should be opened in 2024.
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01/31/2023
The Czech and Slovak foreign ministers say the main task in helping Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion is now maintaining the unity of the West and persevering with the present level of support. Jan Lipavský and Rastislav Káčer were speaking after a meeting in the Slovak city of Pezinok on Tuesday.
Mr. Lipavský said it was necessary to prepare for a protracted conflict as there were no signs that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, was willing to let go of his imperial and colonial dreams of expanding Russian territory.
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01/31/2023
The Czech Ministry of Finance is investigating a message from defeated presidential candidate Andrej Babiš, who told supporters they could win big if they bet on him at 12:1 ahead of last weekend’s elections.
Officials are looking into whether the ANO leader illegally encouraged betting with the promise of profit, Czech Television reported on Tuesday.
Mr. Babiš later said the appeal had been hyperbole but the Fortuna agency said some people had laid bets on the back of it.
The police have also received a number of complaints over Mr. Babiš’s social media post.
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01/31/2023
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has responded to Chinese criticism of a call between the Czech president-elect and the Taiwanese president, saying Czechia is a sovereign state and officials can phone and meet whomever they like.
Czech future head of state Petr Pavel spoke with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen on Monday.
Mr. Fiala said China should be respected as a major trading partner but that Czechia had good relations with Taiwan in several areas.
He said there was no change in Czech relations with China, which were in line with those of the country’s allies.
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Mr. Pavel had ignored its efforts to dissuade him from making such a move and had interfered in Chinese affairs.
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01/31/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 4 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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01/31/2023
The Czech economy is in a technical recession, after two consecutive quarters of declining economic output. According to preliminary data from the Czech Statistics Office, gross domestic product fell by 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2022.
By contrast, the economy grew by 0.4 percent year on year in the same period.
Officials also said that GDP expansion for the entire year was likely to be 2.5 percent. However, that is a comparison with 2021, a year greatly affected by Covid measures.
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01/31/2023
Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has urged outgoing President Miloš Zeman not to destabilize the country by appointing a new Constitutional Court head several months in advance. Mr. Zeman, whose term in office ends on March 8, has said he is considering appointing a successor to Pavel Rychetský, head of the Constitutional Court, despite the fact that Rychetsky’s term in office will end in August and his successor should logically be appointed by the new president.
Minister Blažek said the move would cause confusion and legal uncertainty, adding that there was no point in Zeman entering into a drawn-out battle with lawyers, politicians and the media at the end of his term. The minister said he would meet with the president to try to dissuade him from this course of action.
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01/31/2023
Czech president-elect Petr Pavel held a telephone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday. The two leaders stressed their countries' shared values of freedom, democracy and human rights and the next Czech head of state said he hoped to meet with President Tsai in the future. He likewise expressed interest in strenghtening the partnership.
The move is reported to have angered China which is opposed to countries with which it has diplomatic ties engaging in any form of official exchange with the Taiwan authorities. Beijing said it was in touch with the Czech authorities over the matter and reminded the country that it had pledged to respect the "One-China" principle.
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