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06/29/2020
The Czech government has objected to parts of a European Parliament resolution adopted on June 19 about the alleged conflict of interest of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
According to the government’s draft response, the cabinet states MEPs have via that resolution interfered in the internal and political affairs of an EU member state, ČTK reports.
Babiš stands accused of continuing to exert control over the Agrofert conglomerate he founded, whose companies have long received substantial EU and Czech subsidies.
The EP resolution states that the body “Strongly disapproves of oligarch structures drawing on EU agricultural and cohesion funds whereby a small minority of beneficiaries receive the vast majority of EU funds”.
The Czech government’s response says that the EP resolution violates the presumption of innocence and anticipates the final result of the ongoing EU audit on Babiš's conflict of interest. All but two cabinet members signed it, ČTK reports.
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06/29/2020
There is an extreme risk of floods in the Pardubice districts of Chrudim, Pardubice and Moravská Třebová on Monday afternoon, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute warns.
Due to heavy rain, several other regions could experience flooding by noon on Tuesday, it said. These includes parts of the Hradec Králové, Moravian-Silesian, Olomouc and Vysočina regions.
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06/29/2020
Tuesday should be partly cloudy but relatively warm, with daytime highs of up to 23 degrees Celsius.
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06/29/2020
The Czech Republic will reduce the list of 15 or so “safe countries of origin” on which the EU is set to agree, selecting about 10 non-EU states for its own purposes, based in part on reciprocity, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) said on Monday.
The travel restrictions stem from efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Petříček said the Foreign Ministry considers Wester Balkan countries a priority, as well as Australia and New Zealand, but emphasized the Czech Republic wants a joint EU approach to selecting the third countries.
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06/29/2020
A statue of legendary Czech long-distance runner Emil Zátopek has been commissioned by his hometown of Kopřivnice, in Moravia. The town hopes to install the statue on the 100th anniversary of his birth, in September 2022.
Zátopek and his wife Dana, a javelin thrower, made history at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, when they won altogether four gold medals for Czechoslovakia. He was expelled from the Communist Party and Czechoslovak Army for supporting the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement.
Sculptor Jaroslav Brož, whose statue of Emil Zátopek was installed in the garden of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne , Switzerland, in 2002, has been commissioned to do the work.
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06/29/2020
Facemasks will remain mandatory in the Prague metro and during indoor events even after other anti-coronavirus measures are relaxed on 1 July, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
The situation in Prague is now stable, but there is a risk of the novel coronavirus spreading at larger events (of more than 100 people) and in the metro, Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said.
Chief hygienist Jarmila Rážová said epidemiologists are debating whether to require facemasks on all forms of public transport. Trams and many buses are not air-conditioned and there is a risk of people overheating if required to wear facial coverings, she said.
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06/29/2020
The Czech Republic will open consular offices in the popular foreign holiday destinations of Split, Croatia, and Burgas, Bulgaria, as of Wednesday to help tourists in need, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) told reporters on Monday.
Another consular office may open for the season in the Croatian city of Rijeka, he said. But unlike last summer, no such office will open in Barcelona, Spain, due to an expected drop in interest due to the coronavirus pandemic, which hit the country particularly hard.
This year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also introduced a consular call centre in Prague to which people can turn in lieu of visiting offices abroad. Deputy Minister Martin Smolek noted that Czech citizens can turn also seek help from honorary Czech consuls in the event of difficulties. There are now 223 of them in the world, and honorary consulates have recently opened in Tenerife, Madeira and Gijón in northern Spain before the summer tourist season.
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06/29/2020
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is lobbying for the president of the Czech Chamber of Commerce, Vladimír Dlouhý, to be appointed head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Lidové noviny reported on Monday. Mr. Dlouhý has also launched his own campaign for the position, the newspaper said. The current head of the OECD is due to step down next year.
Mr. Dlouhý, an economist, served as minister of industry and trade for five years in the 1990s.
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06/29/2020
A spike in the number of detected coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic has continued, with 305 recorded on Sunday. That was the highest single-day increase since April 3. The jump is seen as stemming from widespread testing in the Karviná area of the Moravian Silesian Region, including at the OKD mining company, the Czech News Agency said.
Some 168 fresh cases of Covid-19 were registered on Friday, while Saturday saw an increase of 260. The minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, says the country is not seeing a second wave of the coronavirus. The spike is instead the result of mass testing in Karviná, which is currently the worst affected region, he said.
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06/28/2020
A new organ for Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral has been help up in Spain because of the coronavirus situation, the newspaper Právo reported. The organ, which is being built near Barcelona, had been due to arrive in the Czech capital by now, ahead of being installed at the Prague Castle cathedral later this year.
Štěpán Svoboda, who is overseeing the project for the Prague dioceses, told Právo that the instrument was likely to be first heard toward the end of next year.
A fall in the value of the Czech crown toward the Euro will mean the price will be higher than initially envisaged. Over CZK 85 million was collected to pay for the organ.
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