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10/18/2022
The candidate to become new Czech minister of environment, Petr Hladík, may not now go forward for the post. The office of Mr. Hladík, who is a deputy mayor of Brno, was among the targets of police raids in the city on Tuesday.
The leader of his party the Christian Democrats, Marian Jurečka, said it was important that nobody enter government for the grouping burdened by question marks or negative media coverage.
Mr. Jurečka was due to discuss the matter with President Miloš Zeman on Thursday but that meeting has been cancelled.
The current minister of the environment is standing down for health reasons.
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10/18/2022
Czech MPs are to vote on increasing this year’s state budget in a session that began on Tuesday afternoon. The bill envisages a deficit of up to CZK 375 billion, compared to the original plan of CZK 330 billion.
The government has proposed raising outgoings, revenues and the deficit due to the impacts of the war in Ukraine. Ministers say they also need to respond to the cost of dealing with sharp price rises.
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10/18/2022
Police raided the Brno town hall and the town hall in the city district of Černovice on Tuesday. The Czech News Agency reported that they were focused on the housing department and office of Petr Hladík, who is a deputy mayor as well as in line to become minister of the environment.
A representative of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s office in Olomouc said 10 arrests had been made.
The police are investigating links with a Brno company, the privatisation of city housing and subsidy fraud.
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10/18/2022
Ex-Czech Army and NATO man Petr Pavel would have won the first round of Czech presidential elections in October with 27.9 percent of the vote, suggests a poll by the Ipsos agency released on Tuesday. Mr. Pavel would have come ahead of ex-prime minister Andrej Babiš on 23.3 percent. Mr. Babiš has not declared and his ANO party are due to reveal their plans for January’s election next week.
The Ipsos poll indicates that economist Danuše Nerudová would come third in the first round, with 16.9 percent.
Polls previously suggested that Mr. Babiš would finish ahead of Mr. Pavel in the first round but lose to him in the second round run-off.
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10/18/2022
The trial of former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš on corruption charges will resume in the week starting December 19, the Prague Municipal Court said on Tuesday.
The head of the judges panel hearing the case has also ordered three days for the trial in January.
ANO leader Babiš is accused of fraudulently acquiring around CZK 50 million in EU subsidies for a conference centre near Prague. He denies the charge and says his trial is politically motivated.
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10/18/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says his government will not stay silent after the Russian authorities removed part of the fence at the Czech House in Moscow. Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Fiala said Czech officials would follow international custom in their response to the move, which he said could not be regarded as normal.
On Monday the Moscow authorities ordered the removal of a 19-metre section of the fence, saying it had been erected without permission.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the step was in contravention of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The Czech House contains Moscow’s Czech Embassy and other official agencies.
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10/18/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected over the following week.
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10/18/2022
The Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša is set to become music director of the Royal Opera House in London in 2025. Mr. Hrůša will take over from Antonio Pappano at the famous venue. In the 2024–2025 season, the two conductors will share house responsibilities and both will appear as special guest conductors.
Mr. Hrůša, who is 41, will be the second Czech to helm the UK ensemble on a permanent basis, after Rafael Kubelík in the 1950s.
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10/18/2022
A controlled cannabis market could bring an additional 15 billion crowns in taxes annually to the state budget, national anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said at a press briefing at which he outlined the basis of a long-term strategy to fight addiction and trading in illegal substances. The strategy, which is to be finalized by the end of the year, envisages legalizing the sale of marijuana under strict conditions, taxation of addictive substances depending on how harmful they are, the launch of a regulated cannabis market and increased government spending on addiction prevention and treatment. Spending on prevention, now at around 300 million crowns, should rise to one billion crowns annually.
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10/18/2022
Russian authorities on Monday ordered the removal of a fence around the Czech House in Moscow. The local administration claims that no one had authorized the fence and said they had requested the Czech House management to remove it by the end of September. Czech embassy staff immediately erected a temporary fence for protection using mobile fencing blocks. The Czech Foreign Ministry considers the move to be a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The Czech House, the largest property owned by the country abroad, has been operating in maintenance mode for several months now, with three Czech and four Russian employees overseeing its operation. The Foreign Ministry decided to close it down shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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