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09/11/2022
The minister of interior and chairman of the Mayors and Independents, Vít Rakušan, should resign according to 56 percent of respondents in a survey conducted by the Median agency for Czech Radio. Around a quarter of those asked said that the minister should remain in his post. The survey showed that it was mainly voters of opposition parties and those that are not represented in Parliament that wan Mr Rakušan to resign.
Mr Rakušan has come under pressure after a member of his party, the former councilor of Prague City Hall Petr Hlubuček, was charged by the police for allegations of corruption in the city’s Public Transit Company in what has become known as the “Dozimetr scandal”. Shortly thereafter, the minister placed Petr Mlejnek into the position of head of the country’s foreign intelligence service, even though he knew that Mr Mlejnek had been meeting with one of the central actors in the Dozimetr scandal, businessman Michal Redl.
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09/10/2022
The candidate for president of the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party will be the former ambassador to Russia and Ukraine Jaroslav Bašta, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday. Mr Bašta, who now serves as a member of the lower-house for SPD, received the vote of all 20 of the party’s deputies.
The presidential elections are set to take place in January. Whoever wins will replace Miloš Zeman, whose second mandate as head of state will run out on March 8, 2023. Mr Bašta used to serve as a deputy in the lower-house for the Social Democrats and was a minister in Miloš Zeman’s government.
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09/10/2022
Data from the National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ) shows that more people were infected by illnesses transmitted by ticks this year than in 2021. Doctors registered 441 cases of tick-borne encephalitis (roughly 25 percent more than in 2021) and 2,035 cases of lyme disease (up by 13 percent) by the end of the month of August, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday.
Based-off previous years, it is expected that the total number of people infected by diseases transmitted by ticks will rise by a further third by the end of this year. Increased temperatures mean that ticks can now be found in Czechia even as late as in November.
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09/10/2022
Sunday should see temperatures lie at around 18 degrees Celsius, with overcast skies and rainfall across the country.
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09/10/2022
Friday saw the number of coronavirus cases detected in Czechia rise for a fifth day in a row. Data published by the Ministry of Health shows that there were 2,326 positive cases detected on the last working day of the week, a quarter more than on the previous Friday. Meanwhile, the number of people getting tested for Covid-19 rose by 15 percent when compared to the previous week.
Hospitalisations fell by 24 when compared to last week, lying at 702 on Friday. The incidence rate currently lies at an average of 116 cases per 100,000 people. 47 people died of Covid-19 over the past seven days.
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09/10/2022
Sport shooter Jakub Tomeček won his second European Championships gold in mens skeet in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Friday, beating Italy’s Luigi Lodde 20:19 in what was a dramatic final. It is the third gold medal that Czech shooters have won in Cyprus, the Czech News Agency reports.
Tomeček’s success also ensures that Czechia will have a spot at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.
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09/10/2022
The ANO and SPD parties, which represent the opposition within the Czech Chamber of Deputies, have called an extraordinary meeting to look into the social impact of the ongoing energy crisis, the Czech News Agency reports. The speaker of the lower-house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, set the date of the meeting for next Friday at 5pm.
The same day should also see the lower-house debate the government’s proposed measures to tackle the rising cost of energy prices on a national level.
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09/10/2022
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has hailed the result of the EU energy ministers meeting on Friday as a success for the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union. Speaking in Mikulov, Moravia, he said that the use of windfall profits from cheaper energy producers to help consumers is a major advance in tackling the energy crisis.
The deputy chairman of the largest opposition ANO party Karel Havlíček was critical of the results, saying that the failure to divide the price of gas from electricity will not make it possible to lower energy prices.
The government is also set to present its own national plan at the beginning of next week, Mr Fiala said.
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09/09/2022
EU finance ministers agreed to provide Ukraine with a loan of five billion euros at an informal meeting within the Czech EU presidency in Prague on Friday. According to the Slovak finance minister, Igor Matovič, the sum will be enough to cover Ukraine's expenses for roughly a month.
The European Commission presented the plan to provide the additional loan to Ukraine on Wednesday. The support still needs to be approved by the EU member states and the European Parliament.
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09/09/2022
EU countries are proposing to use windfall profits from cheaper energy producers to help consumers, Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela said after a meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on Friday.
However, the ministers didn’t find a consensus on capping the price of gas imported from Russia, as proposed by the European Commission. Central European countries, including Czechia, were particularly opposed to the proposal.
The meeting was called by the Czech Industry and Trade Minister to find a solution to the European energy crisis. The Czech Republic currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU Council.
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