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03/24/2022
After meeting with EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides, Czech Health Minister Vlastimil Válek has announced that he will propose a simplification to the country’s rules on employing Ukrainian health professionals at next week’s meeting of the government. According to the plan, the health professionals in question will only be assigned to taking care of Ukrainian refugees.
Recognising foreign qualifications is organised on the level of the whole European Union. Ms Kyriakides said that the European Commission is working on a solution to recognising the qualifications which would be valid for all member states.
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03/24/2022
Friday will see temperatures range around 16 degrees Celsius, with sunshine and open skies.
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03/24/2022
On Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies voted in favour of sending a 2,000 strong Czech Army NATO contingent to Slovakia, whose task it is to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The mission has already received approval from the Senate. The Czech contingent will be in command of a multinational NATO force that includes soldiers from Germany, Poland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and the US.
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03/24/2022
Czech small arms manufacturer CZG Česká zbrojovka Group SE (CZG) registered CZK 10.7 billion worth of revenues in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 56.7 percent, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday. CZG’s net profit after tax rose to CZK 1.161 billion, 71.6 percent higher than in 2020. The company has said that it expects further growth in revenue this year. It has also announced that it will change its name to Colt CZ Group.
CZG Chairman of the Board Jan Drahota said that the company achieved record results in 2021. This, he said, was thanks to a rise in sales across all regions as well as thanks to the acquisition of US small arms producer Colt and the consolidation of its revenues into the wider CZG business plan.
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03/24/2022
A new bridge over the Vltava River, which is supposed to connect Prague 4 and 5 in the future, could be named after the Prague-born US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who has died at the age of 84. The Czech capital’s deputy mayor, Adam Scheinherr, told the Czech News Agency that the proposal will be discussed by a City Hall commission as well as by the local authorities of Prague 4 and 5.
Prague City Hall has already initiated a CZK 972 million tender for the bridge, which has received the provisional name “Dvorecký”. The bridge should improve the transport connection between both sides of the Vltava and will be able to carry trams, busses and cyclists.
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03/24/2022
The information system responsible for running the Czech Republic’s “smart quarantine” database, used to track infections during the coronavirus pandemic, will be transformed into a humanitarian database to better support the registration of refugees fleeing Ukraine, daily Hodpodářské noviny reported on Thursday.
The system overhaul is set to cost CZK 145 million. Newly, the public will be able to publish offers of help to refugees on the system. Aside from regional assistance centres, government ministries, firefighters and the police will have access into the database.
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03/24/2022
The Czech government has decided to extend the ongoing state of emergency, enacted in order to help manage the Ukrainian refugee crisis, until the end of May, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening. The proposal will now have to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The state of emergency has been in effect since March 4.
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan had originally proposed extending it by 90 days. He described the government’s decision as a compromise and said that it cannot be said precisely when it will be necessary to no longer require a state of emergency.
Extending the state of emergency will be discussed by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday.
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03/24/2022
Leading Czech politicians have paid tribute to Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State who has died at the age of 84. Prime Minister Petr Fiala remarked that Albright deserves great recognition and that the country bows before her memory. President Miloš Zeman said that she was the most important supporter and advocate of the Czech Republic in the United States. He also highlighted her role in the Czech Republic’s accession to NATO in 1999.
Meanwhile, the director of the Václav Havel Library and former Czech Ambassador to the United Kingdom Michael Žantovský said that Albright played a role in democratising Eastern Europe after the Cold War and that she was a major figure in both Czech and American history.
MEP and one of the founders of the post-revolutionary Civic Forum platform Alexandr Vondra tweeted that no one had done as much in the US for the Czech Republic as Madeleine Albright.
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová said that the former US Secretary of State played a major role in anchoring the Czech Republic in NATO.
Madeleine Albright was born in Prague to a Czech family in 1937. She grew up in the United Kingdom before entering a career in international relations. She served in the US Security Council before becoming Secretary of State during the presidency of Bill Clinton.
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03/23/2022
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was a native Czech, has died of cancer at the age of 84, a statement from family members on her account stated on Wednesday. She died surrounded by her family and friends.
As the First woman in history, Albright served as Secretary of State under US President Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In 2012 she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom.
Born Marie Korbelová in Prague in 1937, Madeleine Albright grew up in the UK with her family in exile, she then served in the US administration during the Cold War.
She was always close to her native Czech Republic. NATO borders were expanded in 1999 under her leadership as Secretary of State to include Czechia. She also warned of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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03/23/2022
Czech President Miloš Zeman praised Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s recent visit to Kyiv in a telephone conversation that the two officials held ahead of Thursday’s NATO summit in Brussels, news site DenikN.cz reports.
Prague Castle spokesman Jiří Ovčáček stated on Twitter that both the president and the prime minister are in full agreement regarding the mandate of the Czech delegation to the summit which will be led by Mr Fiala.
The Czech president will not be traveling to Brussels due to his state of health.
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