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03/31/2022
Some 15,000 people in the Czech Republic escaped foreclosures during a special debt forgiveness scheme at the end of last year, the Czech Association of Bailiffs said on Thursday. According to the association, debtors were forgiven penalties, interest and other payments amounting to CZK 1.55 billion.
During the three-month scheme, which was launched at the end of last October, people were able to escape foreclosures on debts owed to public institutions and state or semi-state companies. Coalition politicians have already announced that they would like to repeat the scheme in autumn this year.
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03/31/2022
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, known for his role of Thor in the popular Marvel movies, made a promotional video in support of the SOS Ukraine fundraiser set up by the Czech NGO People in Need shortly after the start of the Russian invasion, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Thursday.
Czech donors have so far sent almost CZK 1.6 billion to the SOS Ukraine account. People in Need has also set up a website where people can donate money in foreign currencies to help Ukraine.
In the first month of the war, a quarter of a billion crowns worth of aid went to the embattled country through the Czech NGO.
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03/31/2022
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová lost 3:6 in two consecutive sets to current women’s points leader Iga Swiatek in the quarter-finals of the Miami Open on Wednesday. Kvitová, who is 32, lost in 77 minutes to the Polish player, who is 12 years her junior.
Two-time Wimbledon winner Kvitová is currently ranked 32 in the world.
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03/31/2022
President Miloš Zeman’s head of office, Vratislav Mynář, flew to Doha last week without the knowledge or consent of the government, iRozhlas reported. The Office of the President later explained that it was a business trip to personally invite the Emir of Qatar to visit the Czech Republic. Although by law the government is responsible for Czech foreign policy, neither the prime minister nor the minister of foreign affairs knew about the trip, iRozhlas said.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Pavel Fischer, described it as a scandal and a serious violation of constitutional obligations. This is not the first time Mr. Mynář has flown abroad on a diplomatic mission without a government mandate – in 2020 he went to Beijing with a letter from Mr. Zeman, despite the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
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03/30/2022
The Czech government has approved the earmarking of CZK 5.2 billion to integrate Ukrainian refugee children into the country’s education system. Speaking after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Education Minister Petr Gazdík said that the funds would go toward placing children in regular classes, adaptation groups for kindergartens and elementary schools and Czech courses for both pupils and teachers from Ukraine.
The minister said there were currently 125,000 Ukrainian refugees aged between three and 18 in the country.
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03/30/2022
The Czech Republic’s footballers drew 1:1 with Wales in a friendly game in Cardiff on Tuesday night. The Czechs opened the scoring through midfielder Tomáš Souček just after the half-hour mark, but the hosts drew level just minutes later.
The game came just days after the Czech Republic were beaten by Sweden in the semi-finals of the playoffs for this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
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03/30/2022
It should be overcast with some rain in the Czech Republic on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. Temperatures will drop over the following days.
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03/30/2022
The Czech government has extended until the end of May a state of emergency intended to help deal with an influx of Ukrainian refugees. Wednesday’s formal move follows a vote in the lower house on Tuesday in which MPs consented to the extension of the legal mechanism.
The government say the state of emergency is needed so that Ukrainian refugees can get accommodation through regional assistance centres. It also allows for the immediate purchase of essentials.
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03/30/2022
The Czech government is going to increase the national living minimum and the subsistence minimum by 10 percent from Friday, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs said on Wednesday. The move comes against a backdrop of soaring prices.
The amounts play a role in assessing entitlement to state aid as well as in determining the level of certain benefits.
The living minimum is now CZK 3,860 a month for an adult living alone. The subsistence minimum is CZK 2,490 a month.
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03/30/2022
Prosecutor Jaroslav Šaroch has proposed a suspended sentence and fine of CZK 10 million for Andrej Babiš over alleged corruption, Seznam Zprávy reported on Wednesday. The prosecutor is not seeking prison time for the former Czech prime minister despite the fact that he could get 10 years on suspicion of subsidy fraud of CZK 50 million in connection with Stork’s Nest, a conference centre near Prague.
A former consultant of Mr. Babiš’s should also get a suspended sentence, as well as a CZK 500,000 fine, in the view of Mr. Šaroch.
For his part Mr. Babiš says the corruption allegation is part of a campaign to drive him out of politics.
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