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06/25/2024
The Czech government and the country’s leading opposition party ANO are united in their support for Czechia’s pro-Western orientation, the country's anchoring in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the need to be active in these institutions, President Petr Pavel said after talks with Prime Minister Petr Fiala and ANO leader Andrej Babis at Prague Castle on Tuesday. He said the talks confirmed continued support for Ukraine as well as efforts towards peace negotiations that would seek a just and lasting solution to the conflict. The talks were aimed at fine-tuning the country’s position on issues to be discussed at the upcoming NATO summit, due to take place in Washington in July.
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06/25/2024
Wednesday should be clear to partly cloudy with rain in the south-eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 25 and 29 degrees Celsius.
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06/25/2024
The opposition ANO party will not block the government's amendment to the Atomic Energy Act, which should open the way for the construction of new nuclear units and small modular reactors. Party deputy chair Karel Havlíček said on Tuesday that accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants and modular reactors is a step in the right direction and would help meet the country's climate goals. The lower house is set to discuss the amendment this week.
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06/25/2024
Slovak police have arrested a Czech citizen who was wanted on a European arrest warrant issued by a Czech court. According to Seznam Zpravy the detainee, who will be handed over to the Czech authorities, is Pavel Zítko. He faces charges of scaremongering and spreading disinformation in connection with the covid-19 pandemic when he warned people about the negative health consequences of vaccination against the coronavirus. Zítko failed to appear in court for the trial.
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06/25/2024
President Petr Pavel has appointed Veronika Křesťanová vice-chair of the Constitutional Court. She is replacing Vojtěch Šimíček whose ten-year term in office expired earlier this month. The head of state also appointed two new constitutional court judges, Jiří Přibáň and Tomáš Langášek, whose nomination was approved by the Senate last week.
Křesťanová became a constitutional court judge last August. Přibáň graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and is a professor of law at Cardiff University in Wales. Langášek has been a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court since March 2013.
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06/25/2024
On a working visit to Ankara, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Tuesday met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan to discuss bilateral ties, Turkish-EU relations and global security issues in the light of Russian imperialism. The Turkish diplomatic chief said that Turkey was grateful to the Czech Republic for supporting its EU accession efforts. He also expressed the hope that the war in Ukraine could be ended through peace talks and noted that war crimes were being committed in the Gaza Strip every day. Lipavský highlighted the fact that the Czech Republic and Turkey have been allies in NATO for 25 years. He thanked Turkey for its support for Ukraine, noting that in helping Ukraine, Turkey is helping the Czech Republic and the whole of Europe, since Russian imperialism is now the biggest threat to the continent.
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06/25/2024
The first shipment of ammunition for Ukraine, organized by Czechia, has arrived in the country, Prime Minister Fiala said on the X network on Tuesday. The Czech head of government said at the end of May that 15 EU and NATO member countries have so far contributed more than 1.6 billion euros (39.5 billion crowns) to the initiative, in which Czechia is acquiring artillery ammunition for Ukraine from countries outside of the European Union. The government will not be disclosing details about the amount of ammunition delivered or its origin.
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06/25/2024
Carmaker Škoda Auto will extend the production of its Fabia, Kamiq and Scala models to the end of this decade, the head of the company, Klaus Zellmer, said in an interview with Seznam Zprávy published on Tuesday. The reasons are a slower than expected transition to electric cars at Czechia’s biggest exporter, as well as high demand for those models internationally.
Production of the Kodiaq, Superb and Octavia lines will continue even after 2030, Mr. Zellmer said.
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06/25/2024
Argentinean President Javier Milei met Czech leaders including President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Petr Fiala in Prague on Monday evening, as well as making a speech at a conference on ineffective government at the city’s Žofín Palace.
After talks with President Pavel at Prague Castle Mr. Milei said that both their countries supported Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, against brutal Russian aggression and also agreed on Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism.
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06/24/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, opened an annual meeting of the country’s economic diplomats and representatives of the CzechTrade and CzechInvest agencies on Monday. The event at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Czernin Palace HQ in Prague brought together 170 economic, agricultural and scientific diplomats from Czech embassies and representatives of CzechTrade and CzechInvest foreign offices.
Addressing the delegates, Mr. Lipavský said the threat of Russian imperialism and the deterioration of the international milieu in recent years had forced Czechia to rethink its economic interests. He said the country had to eliminate dependence on unreliable suppliers, diversify sources and deepen cooperation with democratic partners.
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