-
11/16/2022
The restoration of the legendary 1930s Czechoslovak bullet train, known as Slovenská Strela, has been awarded one of the best projects of monument conservation by the National Heritage Institute.
Other awards, handed out at a ceremony in the National Theatre on Tuesday night, were for the renovation of the Holy Trinity Church in Fulnek in Moravia-Silesia and the restoration of the Gloriette in the Rose Garden of the Děčín Chateau in North Bohemia. The Patrinomium pro Futuro awards were established in 2014 with the aim to draw attention to exemplary care for historical monuments.
-
11/16/2022
The lower house of Parliament has approved the establishment of a digital and information agency, which is to take over the management of basic registers from the Interior Ministry.
The state agency, which was approved despite criticism from the opposition, is to connect public administration information systems and ensure cross-departmental sharing of digital services.
According to Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation, Ivan Bartoš, the agency will enable effective sharing of information between state organisations and will save on costs.
The proposal to create the Digital and Information Agency will now go to the Senate, which is likely to discuss it in early December.
-
11/16/2022
Czechia is supporting Poland in the investigation of the missile explosion on its territory and the countries will work together to strengthen the security of the European Union and NATO, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Twitter on Wednesday.
The announcement was made following a phone call between Mr Lipavský and his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau on Wednesday. Mr Lipavský, who is currently on a visit to London, expressed his condolences to the families of the victims who died in the explosions.
-
11/16/2022
Responding to news that missiles hit Polish territory on Tuesday, the chief of staff of the Czech Army, Karel Řehka, says it is important to remain calm, await further information and carefully assess the facts. He said on Twitter on Wednesday morning that the army was ready to support any operations decided on by NATO, of which both Czechia and Poland are members.
Two people were killed in Poland when missiles landed near the country’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday. The US president, Joe Biden, said it was unlikely they had been fired from Russia.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Tuesday evening that Czechia stood firmly behind Poland, an EU and NATO ally.
-
11/16/2022
The Slovak president, Zuzana Čaputová, held talks with her Czech counterpart, Miloš Zeman, during her visit to Prague on Wednesday, one day before the anniversary of the start of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. They dicsussed, among other things, the missile explosion in Poland and the situation in Ukraine.
President Čaputová, whose last visit to Czechia was six months ago, also took part in a discussion with students at Charles University. In the evening, she will lay a wreath at a memorial to the Velvet Revolution on Prague’s Národní St.
-
11/15/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says that if Poland confirms that missiles landed on its territory it would represent a further escalation by Russia. He said that Czechia stood firmly behind Poland, an EU and NATO ally.
Mr. Fiala also said that Tuesday’s massive missile attacks by the Russian army on Ukraine clearly showed that Moscow wanted to further terrorise its people and destroy the country.
The Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, said that she regarded reports that Russian missiles had hit Poland as verified. She had been informed of this news by the chief of staff of the Czech Army and the head of military intelligence, she wrote on Twitter.
-
11/15/2022
The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, says the city does not have the capacity to take in any more potential refugees from Ukraine. He made the comment after a meeting of the city’s security council on Tuesday.
Prague has also called on the government to establish rules with regard to the distribution of refugees among all of Czechia’s regions.
A regional assistance centre for Ukrainians in Prague is currently processing several hundred people a day. It has dealt with over 100,000 since Russia launched its war on the country.
The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, recently said the country would be only able to take in a limited number of additional refugees from Ukraine, if there were a fresh wave escaping the cold in their home country.
-
11/15/2022
The Czech minister of the environment, Marian Jurečka, spoke at the COP27 UN climate change conference in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday. He made the address on behalf of the European Union, of which Czechia currently holds the presidency.
Mr. Jurečka told delegates that people in every region of the world were faced with the dangerous impacts of climate change in their daily lives. He said previous efforts aimed at slowing climate change had been insufficient and that a major lack of ambition persisted in many areas.
-
11/15/2022
The Office of the President has called on the head of the Czech police, Martin Vondrášek, to discuss barriers at Prague Castle in the near future.
A spokesperson for the president’s head of office, Vít Novák, said on Tuesday that the police should carry out a thorough review of security checks at entrances to the Castle.
Mr. Novák said checks should be more dignified and there should be no queues.
Recently the Office of the President has been pushing for a scaling back of checks at Prague Castle, despite calling on the police to introduce them some years ago.
The police say they carry out regular reviews of security and would announce the results of the latest one in the coming weeks.
-
11/15/2022
The salaries of Czech soldiers are due to increase by 10 percent from the start of next year, under a Ministry of Defence proposal that has just been submitted for comments.
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, previously said that the pay rise would also concern fire and police officers. Soldiers, the fire service and the police got their last raise at the beginning of 2022.
There were just under 27,000 soldiers in the Czech Army at the start of this year.
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 555
- 556
- 557
- 558
- 559
- 560
- 561
- 562
- 563
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »