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12/06/2019
French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian meets his Czech counterpart Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) in Prague on Friday.
The ministers are due to discuss major European and international issues on which the two countries cooperate closely, most notably their joint contributions to the security and stability of the Sahel region of Africa.
Jean-Yves Le Drian is also due to meet former dissidents and Charter 77 signatories, in order to pay tribute to their commitment to democracy and freedoms.
He is also to deliver a speech on the legacy of 1989 for Europe, in the framework of an international conference held by the French Centre for Social Science Research (CEFRES), Charles University and other institutions.
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12/06/2019
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček on Thursday praised Ukraine for taking steps to resolve the conflict in the east of the country against pro-Russian separatists on the basis of the Minsk Agreement.
Speaking on the margins of an OSCE conference in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, he said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had taken positive unilateral steps to open the door to advancing peace talks, including withdrawing heavy weapons from the region.
Petříček’s counterpart, Vadym Prystaiko, plans to make an official visit to the Czech Republic in early February 2020, when the speakers of the countries’ parliaments are also expected to make bilateral visits.
The foreign ministers also discussed the holding of the first meeting of the Czech-Ukrainian expert forum and the ninth meeting of the Czech- Ukrainian intergovernmental commission on economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation.
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12/06/2019
The Supreme Court has ruled that a Prague school was wrong to ban headscarves for hygienic reasons in a suit brought forward by a Somali schoolgirl who wore it for religious reasons.
The court ruled that religious pluralism must be respected and no religious group should be discriminated against or disadvantaged.
A lower court had ruled in favour of the school, which argued that since the Somali schoolgirl was yet not enrolled there, she could not have been discriminated against for wearing a hijab.
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12/06/2019
President Miloš Zeman has stood up for the embattled Czech prime minister in the face of increasing pressure for him to resign in the wake of an EC audit confirming that he has a conflict of interest and the decision of the Supreme State Attorney to renew an investigation into whether he committed EU subsidy fraud ten years ago.
In an interview for Barrandov TV President Zeman said Babiš should remain in office despite the renewed investigation, adding that the only reason for him to go would be if his party lost the next general elections.
The president confirmed that, at Babiš’ request, he would not use his right to stop the renewed investigation or pardon the prime minister.
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12/06/2019
A black man was attacked in the Flora shopping mall in Prague on Thursday evening, the news site Novinky.cz reported. According to the Novinky’s reporter who was there at the time, the man was stabbed in the neck by an aggressor with whom he had engaged in a brief scuffle coming out of the metro.
The injured man is reported to be in serious condition. The attacker was detained by the mall’s security and turned over to the police. It is not yet clear whether the attack was racially motivated.
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12/05/2019
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius.
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12/05/2019
The Czech Army will purchase eight 3D radars from Israel to the tune of 3.5 billion crowns. Defence Minister Lubomír Metnar signed an intergovernmental agreement on the deal with Israeli representatives on Thursday.
The radars will be delivered between 2020 and 2023. According to the defence minister they will significantly increase the country’s defence capacity. The radars from Israel will replace the military's outdated Russian technology.
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12/05/2019
Opposition parties debating the EC’s audit into the Czech prime minister’s alleged conflict of interest in the lower house on Thursday called for the audit to be made public and for the business consortium Agrofert, which is behind the said conflict of interest, to cover the cost of any EU funds which the Czech Republic may be forced to return as a result.
The Civic Democrats have also called for the setting up of a special commission which would monitor how the government implements the Commission’s recommendations in order to make sure that it acts in the best interests of the country, rather than those of the prime minister.
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12/05/2019
The Senate has approved a proposal for August 21st to be observed as a remembrance day for the victims of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The draft law was earlier approved by the lower house where it received broad support with the exception of the Communist Party where all but one MP abstained from the vote.
It will now be signed into law by the president.
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12/05/2019
The prime minister’s ANO party is still way ahead of political rivals in public support ratings, despite the scandals surrounding its leader, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
A November survey indicates that the party would win general elections collecting 30.5 percent of the vote.
The centre-right Pirate Party and the Civic Democrats would come second, both with 12.5 percent of the vote, while the Social Democrats, the Communist Party and the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party would each get 7.5 percent.
TOP 09, the Christian Democrats and the Mayors and Independents would only just cross the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house.
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