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05/30/2020
The Ministry for Regional Development has sent the European Commission an official reply to the EC audit which found Prime Minister Andrej Babis to be in a conflict of interest by still influencing his former company Agrofert via trust funds. The ministry expects this will result in further negotiations with the commission. Asked about what the exact contents of the reply are, the ministry refused to comment.
Mr Babis placed his shares in Agrofert into trust funds in 2017, to confer in a law aimed at preventing a conflict of interest taking place. He has denied any such conflict of interest being in place.
If confirmed, the audit could result in the Czech Republic losing associated EU funding.
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05/29/2020
The body of a four-month-old baby boy was discovered after a two-day-long police search in the Central Bohemian village of Hořín. The search began on Friday after the mother called police saying she had lost the baby and the carriage in the village park. Police used a helicopter and drones in their search. The exact location of the discovery has not yet been released to the public. An autopsy is set to take place in order to decide the baby’s cause of death and two witness testimonies are being analysed. It is thus far unclear how the case will be prosecuted. Police spokeswoman Lucie Nováková said further information will be released on Monday.
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05/29/2020
The Prague High Prosecutor’s Office has indicted a Belarusian with permanent Czech residency on terrorism charges for joining armed separatists in eastern Ukraine. If convicted, he faces 12 to 20 years in prison.
The Belarusian man had repeatedly participated in the conflict in Ukraine over the years 2014 to 2016, prosecutors say. Similar indictments have been filed against a Czech citizen who joined Russian-backed separatists there at the turn of 2015 and 2016.
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05/29/2020
Saturday should be cool and cloudy, with daytime highs of up to 15 degrees Celsius. Rain is in the forecast for Sunday.
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05/29/2020
Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) is due to submit a plan to the government on Monday on how to help Czech companies maintain sales abroad during the coronavirus crisis.
More than 80 percent of Czech GDP derives from exports and more than half of jobs are linked to foreign sales. Petříček said the ministry wants to submit a long-term reconstruction package to support Czech exporters.
Czech officials should also focus more on monitoring public procurement opportunities abroad in which foreign companies can participate. In parts of Africa, for example, Czech firms can present entire transport or healthcare projects, he said.
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05/29/2020
An asymptomatic child in a Brno-Bystrc district kindergarten tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, and the entire class will now go into quarantine for 14 days.
District Mayor Tomáš Kratochvíl told ČTK the child showed no symptoms, but the parents had performed a test and reported the results to the maternity school.
Kindergarteners and many elementary school children have been allowed to return to class at their parents’ discretion and dependent on the respective schools’ ability to serve smaller groups.
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05/29/2020
Prague Castle will charge no admission fees to the historic buildings and ongoing exhibitions from Friday through Monday in a bid to revive tourism, especially among Czechs.
Over the next four days visitors can stroll through the Royal Palace, St. Vitus Cathedral and Golden Lane, normally among the most-frequented cultural monument sites in the country. However, maximum capacity will be restricted to 1 person per 10 square meters.
Prague Castle began reopening on Monday after months of forced closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. Before the crisis, thousands of people, mainly foreign tourists, visited the grounds every day.
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05/29/2020
The civic movement ‘A Million Moments for Democracy’ is organizing a protest march in Prague on June 9 in part over aspects of the Czech government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The group claims the government spread chaos during the declared state emergency, which it used to exceed its mandated powers and restrict civil rights.
‘Million Moments’ has been running a campaign to oust Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) since 2018 centred on his alleged conflict of interest regarding the distribution of EU and state funds.
Its largest demonstration took place in Prague last June, in which over a quarter million people took part. It was the largest protest meeting in the country since the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
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05/29/2020
World No.12 Petra Kvitová won the women’s draw at an all-Czech tournament in Prague on Thursday, after beating Karolína Muchová 6-3, 6-3.
Michal Vrbenský triumphed in the men’s singles, defeating Zdeněk Kolář 6-4, 6-7 and 10-8.
The Tennis President’s Cup, played without fans and handshakes with rivals, was one of the first after professional tennis was suspended in March due to coronavirus outbreak.
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05/29/2020
As of Friday, May 29, Czech citizens are allowed to travel to freely to Croatia. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced on Thursday that the country was completely opening its borders to 10 EU countries, including the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Nationals from the ten countries will be able to enter Croatia under the same conditions as before the outbreak of COVID-19. Nevertheless, they will have to comply with recommendations issued by the country’s Institute of Public Health.
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, Croatia recorded a total of 2,244 cases and 101 deaths.
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