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09/06/2022
Petr Pavel has officially announced that he will stand in elections to the Czech presidency in January next year. Mr. Pavel is a former Czech Army general and was chairman of the NATO Military Committee for three years.
On Tuesday he presented his campaign slogan, “Let’s bring order and calm back to Czechia”.
Mr. Pavel is regarded as one of the favourites to succeed Miloš Zeman as head of state. Some polls suggest he could beat Andrej Babiš, who has not declared his candidacy, in a second-round run-off.
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09/06/2022
Prague’s Baroque Clam-Gallas Palace has been reopened after a renovation job lasting almost four years. The City of Prague Museum previously said that the 18th century building, on the square Mariánské náměstí, will be used in future to house an exhibition on the Baroque period.
Following World War II the palace housed the City of Prague Archive. The planned cost of the renovation project was around CZK 500,000 and it was due to be completed last year.
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09/06/2022
Karolína Plíšková has reached the women’s singles quarter-finals at tennis’s US Open in New York. The Czech beat Victoria Arazenka of Belarus 7-5 6-7 6-2 and will now face another Belarusian, Aryna Sabalenka, for a place in the last four at Flushing Meadows.
Meanwhile Petra Kvitová is out of the Grand Slam tournament after losing to Jessica Pegula of the US 3-6 2-6.
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09/06/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Thursday is expected to see rain, with sunshine due on the following days.
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09/06/2022
A two-day informal meeting of European Union health ministers begins in Prague on Tuesday evening. The health chiefs are due to hold talks with the producers of vaccines against Covid-19 with a view to revising existing contracts to supply the drugs.
They will also discuss efforts to combat cancer and other serious diseases as well as the impact on healthcare of the war in Ukraine, whose minister of health will join online.
Czechia currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU.
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09/05/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has reiterated his assertion that an anti-government demonstration in Prague on Saturday was convened by supporters of Russia.
He said on Twitter on Monday that those behind the 70,000-strong protest were members of a “Russian fifth column” in Czechia, but also insisted again that his statement concerned the organisers, not demonstrators.
Mr. Fiala said his cabinet did not underestimate the fears of citizens and that there were ways of dealing with energy price rises.
A number of politicians criticised a statement by the PM at the weekend linking the demonstration to Russia.
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09/05/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has congratulated Liz Truss on her new role as UK PM and leader of the Conservative Party. Mr. Fiala, who heads the right-wing Civic Democrats, said on Monday that he believed the UK would remain a valued ally of Czechia and the European Union.
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, said he was looking forward to making a great bilateral relationship even better and would like to welcome Ms. Truss to Prague.
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09/05/2022
Union leaders have called a demonstration for Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Saturday October 8. At a meeting in the capital on Monday the Czech Confederation of Trade Unions called on the government to implement measures to combat price rises and falling living standards.
Around 1,000 union officials attended the Prague gathering, which was intended to highlight poverty.
The Confederation of Trade Unions has a total of over a quarter of a million members.
The Prague protest will be entitled “Five Minutes to Midnight”, a phrase equivalent to “the eleventh hour”.
The Czech Ministry of Finance predicts average inflation of 16.2 percent this year.
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09/05/2022
The Czech Ministry of Justice has apologised to former defence minister Vlasta Parkanová for unlawful prosecution in a case surrounding the purchase of military planes. She also received compensation of CZK 1.6 million.
Ms. Parkanová had been facing prosecution since 2012 and was definitively acquitted by the courts almost a year ago.
The government approved the purchase of four CASA transport aircraft at a cost of around CZK 3.5 billion in 2009. Three years later the police, who were investigating the matter, asked MPs to lift Ms. Parkanová’s parliamentary immunity.
She and another official were accused of buying the planes without ordering an independent analysis but the charges were later dismissed.
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09/05/2022
Thousands of union officials from around Czechia came to Prague on Monday for a Czech Confederation of Trade Unions meeting intended to highlight poverty. The umbrella body, which has a total of over a quarter of a million members, is demanding that the government take measures to lessen the impact of price rises and the energy crisis on workers and their families.
Public sector unions secured some rises for their members this year but leaders have not yet said how much more they will demand for employees at private companies.
The Czech Ministry of Finance predicts average inflation of 16.2 percent this year.
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