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11/04/2022
Police have charged a 19-year-old youth with the attempted double murder of two senior citizens, one of whom was the assailant's grandfather, in Postřelmov in eastern Czechia. Both men were attacked with a military knife on Wednesday and suffered serious injuries. The older of the two men, the perpetrator's 72-year-old grandfather, is in a critical condition and is being kept in a medically-induced coma in the intensive care unit at Olomouc University Hospital. The younger of the two victims was the elder's 65-year-old neighbour, who visited him regularly, the Czech News Agency reports.
According to criminal investigators, the act was premeditated, as the young man bought the military knife used in the crime for this purpose and wrote detailed notes about the attack in advance. Police are still searching for a motive, but according to police statements, mental illness may have had a role to play. The man has no prior convictions and was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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11/04/2022
The Israeli airline Israir offered 44 million euros for Czech budget airline Smartwings, the Czech News Agency reported on Friday. Czech Airlines, the flag carrier of the Czech Republic, has been a subsidiary of the Smartwings group since 2018. The Czech News Agency said it is investigating the reaction of Smartwings.
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11/04/2022
Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has urged the Western Balkan states to harmonise their visa policies with the EU. Speaking at a ministerial forum in Tirana on Thursday, Mr Rakušan said the measure would reduce the number of migrants heading for the EU along the Balkans route.
The Czech interior minister said that such a move was a prerequisite to cancelling checks on the EU's internal borders, such as those currently in place on the Czech-Slovak border.
A growing number of migrants have been using the Western Balkan states, which have visa-friendly policies, as a gateway to enter the EU.
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11/04/2022
The ruling coalition has agreed on the form of a windfall tax on profits in the energy and banking sectors, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura told the Czech News Agency on Friday after a meeting of representatives of the five governing parties.
The revenue aims to generate around CZK 85 billion next year alone by placing a 60-percent tax on excess profits in the years 2023 to 2025. The tax should be paid by energy, oil and mining companies and banks.
The amendment is part of a new tax package approved by the lower house on Friday.
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11/03/2022
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Czech lower house described the current Russian regime as terrorist. In a resolution passed on Thursday, the committee condemned the large-scale attacks on Ukrainian civilians and key infrastructure and refused to recognise the referendums on annexation of the four Ukrainian regions to Russia.
The Committee also supported the efforts of Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský to establish a special tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed in Ukraine, as well as an investigation by the International Criminal Court that would lead to the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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11/03/2022
Friday will be mostly overcast with rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 8 and 12 degrees Celsius.
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11/03/2022
President Miloš Zeman vetoed an amendment to this year’s budget on Thursday, arguing that the revenues are lower than they could have been had an amendment to the Income Tax Act been adopted first.
Mr. Zeman justified his decision in a letter sent to the speaker of the lower house, Marketa Pekarova Adamová. The amendment will now return to the lower house for a fresh vote.
In 2020, the lower house approved a proposal by the then Babiš government to abolish the so-called “super gross wage” as the base for calculating employee income tax.
The prime minister promised Zeman that the law, which saw the income tax cut from 20 to 15 percent for low and medium income groups, would be amended after two years.
The lower house approved an increase in the deficit of this year's state budget in October from CZK 280 billion to CZK 375 billion.
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11/03/2022
Czechia is set to receive some CZK 780 million from the EU for strengthening the protection of the outer border of the Schengen zone at the country’s international airports, a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry told the Czech News Agency on Thursday.
The financial support was approved by the European Commission and will be used for improving the IT systems and equipment for checks at airports.
The EU external border in Czechia comprises 19 civilian and three military international airports which serve flights from countries outside the Schengen area.
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11/03/2022
Czechia plans to close its embassy in Mali and its consulate general in China’s Chengdu, the Foreign Ministry’s state secretary Radek Rubeš said at a meeting of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee on Thursday.
According to Mr Rubeš, the operation of the offices doesn’t make sense strategically, security-wise or economically. On the contrary, Czech diplomacy is considering setting up a consulate general in Mumbai.
The establishment of the embassy in Mali was related to Czech Army’s participation in the EUTM mission in the African state, which is due to end at the end of this year.
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11/03/2022
Czechia continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the whole of the European Union, according to newly released data by the European statistics agency Eurostat.
The general level of unemployment in the EU stood at six percent in September, remaining at the August level. In the Eurozone the unemployment rate fell by a tenth of a percentage point to 6.6 percent.
In Czechia, unemployment rate dropped to 2.2 percent in September, compared to 2.4 percent in August. The country has had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU for several years now.
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