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04/21/2022
The Christian Democrats, one of the parties in the ruling coalition, is due to elect a new leadership at an election conference in Ostrava at the weekend. Party leader, Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka will run for reelection unchallenged. The conference will also vote on changes to the party statutes, discuss the party’s policy priorities and prepare a strategy for campaigning in the Senate and local elections due to take place in the autumn.
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04/21/2022
The gas distributer Pražská plynárenská has announced it will be increasing prices by 39 percent as of June, the ctk news agency reported. According to the company’s spokesperson, Miroslav Vranek the price hike will not affect clients with fixed rates. Pražská plynárenská is one of the biggest distributers in the country supplying over 425,000 households.
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04/21/2022
The Czech Republic has issued 302,000 humanitarian visas to Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war, according to data released by the Ministry of Interior. The inflow of refugees has slowed and the ministry is now issuing around 2,800 visas a day to newcomers. The vast majority are women and children. The year-long visa gives them health insurance and enables them to work and study in the Czech Republic. They also have the benefit of free accommodation.
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04/21/2022
Production at Czech automobile maker Škoda Auto could stabilise from June, with overtime shifts possibly returning in the autumn, the company’s trade union weekly Škodovácký odborář informed on Thursday.
This year, Škoda has had to delay the production of more than 100,000 vehicles due to missing parts. The issue of missing parts, especially semi-conductors and cable harnesses, is currently still affecting production, the Czech News Agency writes.
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04/21/2022
The IT systems of several Czech state and non-state institutions have been a target of DDoS cyber-attacks since Tuesday. According to Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, the attacks were led by Russian hackers. The minister said that they hadn’t managed to steal any information or private citizen data. On Wednesday evening, the National Cyber and Information Security Agency announced that it had itself been targeted. The attacks continued on Thursday morning, according to the agency, with targeted websites including the one belonging to the Office of Government.
According to the Czech News Agency, at least some of the attacks are being claimed by the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet. The Czech Police informed via twitter that the case is being investigated by the National Centre for Combating Organised Crime.
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04/20/2022
Parliaments of democratic countries should do their part in supporting Ukraine, which is currently facing Russian aggression. This includes help in the form of military equipment deliveries, according to a letter signed by the chairs of the Czech and Polish senates, Miloš Vystrčil and Tomasz Grodzki.
Mr Grodzki said that the letter is an appeal to parliaments to use their authority and persuade their governments to help Ukraine, especially in the form of military aid. He said that history will not forget those who do too little to help Ukraine.
The letter was symbolically signed in the saloon of the Kolowrat Palace in Prague, where the Czechoslovak government was informed about the Munich Agreement between the major European powers in 1938.
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04/20/2022
Czech President Miloš Zeman named 39 new judges at a ceremony at Prague Castle on Wednesday. Most of them will be serving in the Regional Court in Brno. Among the new judges is the former Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union Michal Bobek, who will be employed at the Supreme Administrative Court.
The list of new judges was proposed by Justice Minister Pavel Blažek. 25 of them are women.
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04/20/2022
Ukrainian filmmaker and activist Oleg Sentsov will receive the Febiofest Film Festival’s Kristián award, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The Prague film festival will also dedicate a part of its programme this year to Sentsov’s home country under the title “Ukraine: Centre of Europe”. The ticket earnings from this part of the festival’s programme will be sent to support humanitarian organisations and Ukrainian artists, Febiofest Honorary President Fero Fenič told journalists.
The annual film festival will be taking place in Prague from April 28 to May 4. More than 90 films, representing contemporary cinematography, will be featured in its programme. The festival will then also run in the Czech Republic’s regional cinemas.
Aside from Oleg Sentsov, the internationally acclaimed Czech actor Karel Roden will also be receiving the Kristián award. Roden plays the lead role in director Robert Sedláček’s new thriller Promlčeno, which will be premiering at the festival.
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04/20/2022
Czech billionaire businessman Daniel Křetínský, who is the majority owner of French magazine Marianne, forced its editorial team to change its front-page headlines, according to a statement issued by the magazine’s journalists. The statement accuses Mr Křetínský of breaching rules on media freedom. However, the editor-in-chief claims that this was a standard decision made by the editorial board which accurately reflects the content and position of the magazine, the Czech News Agency reports.
The original version of the magazine cover featured a picture of both French presidential candidates’ eyes with the words “anger” under Emmanuel Macron “…or chaos” under that of Marine Le Pen. The front-page was changed to feature the words “despite the anger” under Macron’s eyes and “avoid chaos” under those of Le Pen.
Mr Křetínský’s media empire also includes the French daily Le Monde. In the Czech Republic he controls the media company Czech News Center together with Patrik Tkáč, which includes the country’s leading tabloid Blesk under its umbrella.
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04/20/2022
Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová is flying to the United States this Wednesday. The symbolic aim of her visit to the NATO ally is to bring back the remains of WWII Czechoslovak intelligence chief František Moravec and to meet with her US counterpart Lloyd Austin. Ahead of her flight Ms Černochová told news site Seznam Zprávy that she hopes the two countries will eventually sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement.
Another point on the agenda is the possibility of securing further US military helicopters for the Czech Armed Forces. The Czech defence minister told the news site that the Soviet-era MI-24 helicopters which the Czech Army currently has in its arsenal are becoming outdated and that it is increasingly difficult to find spare parts for them. If it were possible to acquire US-made helicopters within a short period of time, the Czech Republic will then start looking into where it could send its MI-24s, Ms Černochová said. She did not wish to comment on whether the Soviet-era helicopters could then be sent to Ukraine, but also did not deny it.
The previous Czech government of Andrej Babis had already ordered 12 military helicopters from the US. However, Ms Černochová said that it had already been clear at that time that more would be needed.
Brigadier General František Moravec, whose remains will be transported back to Czechia, was the head of Czechoslovak Military Intelligence during the 1930s and WWII. Leaving for exile in London just ahead of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the rump state of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Moravec managed to take many of his team and documents with him and continue intelligence operations in exile during the war. He participated in planning Operation Anthropoid, which resulted in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Leaving Czechoslovakia again in 1948, when the Communist Party took over power, Moravec moved to the United States where he worked as a defence advisor. He died in Washington D.C. in 1966.
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