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05/07/2020
Czech authorities should resolve the ongoing conflict of interest of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who still has an influence on Agrofert, the company he founded, and thus collects money from European Union funds, several MEPs on the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee agreed on Thursday.
The committee discussed a report from a February European Parliament mission to the Czech Republic. In non-binding recommendations, the committee called on the prime minister to resign or stop collecting money from the EU budget through companies associated with the Agrofert holding if a conflict of interest ends up being proven. According to MEPs, the European Commission should stop payments to Agrofert and strictly apply zero tolerance.
Last year's European Commission audit report states that Babiš still has an influence on the company, which he invested in trust funds. The Czech Prime Minister refuses its conclusion. In response, Agrofert spokesman Karel Hanzelka called the committee's mission politicized
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05/07/2020
The Czech counterintelligence service (BIS) has filed a criminal complaint over the leak of classified information about a Russian agent who allegedly arrived in Prague with the deadly poison ricin, server the Lidovky.cz writes.
The targets of the agent, travelling on a diplomatic passport, were Prague’s Lord Mayor and two colleagues who had taken symbolic steps angering the Kremlin and are currently under 24-hour police, the weekly Respekt wrote last month.
Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček has confirmed the Russian diplomat’s arrival but would not comment on whether the man had the poison ricin in his briefcase, as Respekt reported. On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee said Czech authorities had responded appropriately to the situation.
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05/07/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have remotely signed a declaration committing to find reliable, trustworthy suppliers for 5G mobile networks.
The declaration aims to protect networks from intrusion and manipulation, and to ensure the protection of citizens’ privacy and rights, the Czech government office said.
Czech and US intelligence services have warned that to have Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE roll out national infrastructure such as the 5G network would represent a security threat.
Babiš and Pompeo spoke by phone Tuesday since a conference 5G networks at the Prague National Museum had to be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Pompeo was to be the main speaker.
The auction of 5G frequencies in the Czech Republic was initially scheduled for the second half of 2019 but was postponed due to an objection by the European Commission over competition concerns.
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05/06/2020
A taxi driver taking Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček home on Wednesday night died after a crash. The Czech diplomat was unhurt, the news server Blesk.cz reports.
Paramedics called to the scene spent 30 minutes trying to resuscitate the 62-year-old driver, who had crashed into a parked car on Nuselská Street at low speed.
Police are investigating the incident. According to Blesk, the driver likely had health issues.
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05/06/2020
Thursday should be cool and cloudy in the morning, with the sun emerging in the afternoon. Daytime highs should range from 15 to 17 degrees Celsius.
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05/06/2020
The European Commission estimates Czech economic growth will drop by 6.2 percent this year due to measures to contain on the spread of the novel coronavirus, a steeper drop than during the 2009 global financial crisis.
In its regular spring macroeconomic estimate, the EU executive arm writes that apart from a decline in production, the export-oriented Czech economy will also suffer due to reduced foreign demand. Real GDP is expected to gradually recover in 2021 but not rebound to 2019 levels.
Czech unemployment is expected to rise to around 5 percent next year, while inflation should fall slightly, mainly due to declining oil prices and lower demand. At the end of 2019, the unemployment rate stood at 2.9 percent.
By comparison, the European Union’s economy is expected to contract by a record 7.4 percent this year. Unemployment in the bloc on average could climb to 9 percent this year.
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05/06/2020
Mathematics may no longer be a compulsory subject for Czech leaving exams to earn a high school high school. MPs approved a government proposal on the matter on Wednesday within the framework of an amendment to the Education Act.
If the Senate also approves the bill, high school students will be able to choose between taking a leaving exam in mathematics or a foreign language. The state exam should be limited to didactic tests.
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05/06/2020
Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the government wants to temporarily scrap electronic sales records system, a project that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has long championed as being key to reducing tax evasion.
MPs are expected to approve the decision to postpone the EET project, which Babiš introduced in 2016 when he was finance minister, until the end of 2020. It is part of a set of measures aimed at helping small companies.
The EET was to be introduced in three stages over a number of years, starting in December 2016, when it applied to restaurants and accommodation facilities.
As of March 2017, it also became mandatory for wholesalers and retailers. The final stage will apply to craftspeople and food producers.
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05/06/2020
A replica of the Marian column removed from Prague’s Old Town Square over a century ago should be completed by August 15, a month ahead of schedule, said sculptor Petr Váňa, because work could continue in the absence of traditional Easter markets.
The original 17th century Marian column was torn down by protestors shortly after Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 who considered it a symbol of Austrian rule. Work started in February after years of heated debate over whether to install a replica.
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05/06/2020
The number of unreported Covid-19 cases in the Czech Republic is quite low, only a few people per thousand, according to preliminary results of a large-scale Ministry of Health collective immunity study.
The study is based on a representative sample test among 26,549 people, 107 of whom were found to have acute coronavirus infections.
The highest incidence of infections (less than 5 percent) was recorded in the Moravian town of Litovel, which had been under quarantine several weeks ago, and the lowest in the regional capital, Brno.
Samples were also taken in Prague, which has the greatest number of cases, and in Litoměřice, Olomouc and Uničov, a town near Litovel. Roughly According to a third who tested positive had no symptoms.
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch told a news conference on Wednesday that attention must focus on local sources of noted infection, such as in Cheb region, and recently also Prague, as gradual easing of containment measures continues.
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