• Police recommend ex-PM Nečas face false testimony charges
    04/07/2020

    Police have recommended that former Czech prime minister Petr Nečas face charges of bearing false testimony, the news site Aktuálně.cz reported on Wednesday. Mr. Nečas testified in a case involving his wife Jana. She was found guilty of, when she was head of the PM’s office, using the Military Intelligence Service to monitor Mr. Nečas’s then wife Radka.

    The court panel in Jana Nečasová’s trial said that statements made in her defence by Mr. Nečas were untrue. He could face up to three years in jail if found guilty.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Ex-Social Democrat MP Foldyna joins Okamura party deputies group
    04/07/2020

    Former Social Democratic Party MP Jaroslav Foldyna has joined the deputies group of Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy. He made the announcement alongside Mr. Okamura at the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday.

    Mr. Foldyna said the Social Democrats were no longer the party led by current president Miloš Zeman back in the 1990s, which he said had respected national interests.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    04/07/2020

    Wednesday is expected to be sunny in the Czech Republic, with temperatures of up to 19 degrees Celsius. Continued warm weather and bright spells are due in the following days.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague European Judo Championships rearranged for second time
    04/07/2020

    This year’s European Judo Championships are now set to take place in Prague in early November. The event had originally been due to take place in May but was reorganised for June 19 to 21, but those dates have also been abandoned, the organisers announced. The European Judo Union has to confirm the November dates with venue the O2 Arena.

    The biggest domestic name at the European Championships should be Olympic and world champion Lukáš Krpálek. The event has not been held in the Czech Republic in almost 30 years
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Closures and restrictions on free movement now tied to state of emergency
    04/07/2020

    The Ministry of Health has extended the closure of most shops and restaurants and a prohibition on the free movement of people until the end of the current state of emergency imposed in a bid to combat Covid-19. The measures in question had been due to run out next Saturday.

    Following a recommendation from the Central Crisis Staff the cabinet asked the Chamber of Deputies to extend the 30-day state of emergency brought in on March 13.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Individual sports now permitted outdoors, distancing rule for shops due
    04/07/2020

    Restrictions on sporting activities imposed in the Czech Republic over the coronavirus pandemic were eased on Tuesday. People are now allowed to play individual sports outdoors while runners and cyclists no longer need to cover their mouths and noses unless they are in crowded areas. The changes were announced on Monday by Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček.

    From Thursday building products and hardware stores and bicycle repair shops will be allowed to reopen.

    A new rule governing social-distancing of two metres in shops will also come in on Thursday. This does not apply to relatives or those assisting seniors.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • France grateful for offer of places for coronavirus patients
    04/06/2020

    France has thanked the Czech Republic for offering to provide medical care to six French people with Covid-19. They had been due to arrive at Brno’s University Hospital on Monday but in the end the French authorities decided not to send the patients, all of whom require artificial lung ventilation.

    The Czech Republic has previously provided assistance to Italy, Spain and Slovenia in connection with the coronavirus crisis.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Babiš comes out against “very risky” herd immunity suggestion
    04/06/2020

    Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says the idea of trying to create herd immunity against Covid-19 in the Czech Republic is “very risky”. Speaking on Czech Radio’s Radiožurnál station on Monday, Mr. Babiš said he disagreed with deputy health minister Roman Prymula, who said he had come around to the idea of such an approach, if vulnerable groups could be protected.

    The prime minister said the Czech Republic was pursuing a smart quarantine approach and that he could not envisage the herd immunity policy floated by Mr. Prymula.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech Embassy in Moscow attacked after removal of Prague statue
    04/06/2020

    A group of people wearing masks attacked the Czech Embassy in Moscow on Sunday, days after the removal of a statue of Red Army commander Ivan Konev in Prague. A sign with the slogan Stop Fascism was placed on the fence of the embassy and a number of smoke bombs were thrown into its grounds.

    The Russian TV station REN said the incident had come in response to the removal of the statue of Konev.

    A group named Other Russia said they were responsible for the attack and declared on their website “Our tanks will be in Prague!”
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    04/06/2020

    It should be sunny in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, with temperatures of up to 19 degrees Celsius. More clear skies and warm weather are expected in the following days.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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