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02/21/2020
A deputy Czech minister of foreign affairs informed the Chinese ambassador to Prague on Wednesday that a letter sent by his embassy to the president’s office warning against the consequences of a Czech Senate speaker visiting Taiwan was not standard diplomatic communication. The exchange was made public by the minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček.
News site Aktuálně.cz reported on the letter in January, saying the Office of the President had passed it on to then Senate speaker Jaroslav Kubera. However, Mr. Kubera died before his planned trip to Taiwan could take place.
Mr. Kubera’s freshly elected replacement, Miloš Vystrčil, said he was weighing up whether to travel to Taiwan and would consult the matter with experts.
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02/21/2020
The first day of a European Union summit in Brussels saw no progress on finding agreement on the bloc’s 2021–2027 budget, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, told reporters on Thursday night. Four states are rejecting proposals from European Council president Charles Michel; he wants national contributions of 1.074 percent of gross national income but they say they will contribute a maximum of 1.0 percent of GNI.
Mr. Babiš said if the European Council put forward budget figures that it would not have sufficient funds to cover that left a fundamental problem.
He said if the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Austria did not back down on Friday there was no point in carrying on negotiations.
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02/20/2020
Pavel Šámal has been appointed a justice of the Czech Constitutional Court by President Miloš Zeman in a ceremony at Prague Castle. The judge, who previously headed the Supreme Court, was approved by the Senate in a vote at the end of last month. His appointment means that the Constitutional Court is now complete after over a year.
The president said on Thursday that he believed Justice Šámal’s appointment would help make the country’s highest court more dynamic.
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02/20/2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to visit Prague in the first half of this year, meaning during the current Czech presidency of the Visegrad Four, iHned.cz said on Thursday. The news site reported that the German leader had been invited to a summit of Visegrad Four prime ministers and would most likely come to the Czech capital in May.
Chancellor Merkel’s last visit to the Czech Republic was in October 2018, shortly before events marking the centenary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia.
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02/20/2020
Police have charged three people with fraud amounting to over CZK 1 billion. Using the company name J. O. Investment, the accused offered to invest clients’ money on international stock exchanges and to deliver very high returns.
Officers from the police’s organised crime unit said more than 2,000 people were allegedly duped by the three, who now face up to 10 years in jail of found guilty of serious fraud.
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02/20/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO party colleague Finance Minister Alena Schillerová are the two of the most popular politicians in the country, suggests an opinion poll released on Thursday. The STEM survey of ministers and party leaders indicates that 50 percent of Czechs view Mr. Babiš favourably, while Ms. Schillerová’s approval rating has climbed to 47 percent.
The next most popular lower house politicians are the Social Democrats’ Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Jana Maláčová, on 41 percent approval, and Pirates’ chairman Ivan Bartoš on 40 percent.
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02/20/2020
The state attorney’s office has charged two people in connection with the collapse of a foot bridge in Prague. The architect of the bridge in the city’s Troja area and a former head of the bridges section at the state agency that manages communications are facing charges of reckless negligence, the Czech News Agency reported.
Four people were injured, two of them seriously, when the bridge collapsed into the Vltava River in late 2017.
Prosecutors say steel ropes on the structure were damaged by corrosion and that it crumpled following an inadequate safety review and poorly executed repairs.
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02/20/2020
It should be overcast in the Czech Republic on Friday, with temperatures of up to 5 degrees Celsius. Daytime highs are expected to rise to around 9 degrees Celsius at the weekend, when there will also be some rain.
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02/20/2020
Footballer Václav Kadlec is to retire at the age of 27 due to a series of serious injuries, Sparta Prague announced on Thursday. The striker is due to undergo another knee operation on Friday and does not plan to return to the game afterwards, his club said.
Kadlec made his league debut at 16 and at 18 years and four months became the youngest player to score for the Czech national side. Alongside separate spells at Sparta, he appeared for Eintracht Frankfurt and the Danish side Midtjylland.
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02/20/2020
Opponents of the freshly appointed Czech ombudsman, Stanislav Křeček, attempted to prevent him entering his office in Brno for the first time on Thursday morning. When the protesters refused to move the police made seven arrests and cleared the way for the new public advocate.
Responding to the protest, Mr. Křeček said democratic elections must be respected, adding that at least it highlighted the presence of the Ombudsman’s Office, of which many people had previously been unaware.
Prior to his election as public advocate Mr. Křeček angered critics by saying he would serve the majority society and would not pursue a human rights agenda.
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