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05/28/2024
The leaders of five EU member states, US representatives and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will attend a working dinner in Prague on Tuesday evening aimed at improving the coordination of aid to Ukraine in the face of continuing Russian aggression. The dinner, hosted by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, will be attended by Polish President Andrzej Duda, and the prime ministers of Denmark, The Netherlands and Latvia. The discussion will cover the Czech shells-for-Ukraine initiative, Ukraine's air defence and European cooperation in the defence industry.
The talks will precede an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague on Thursday and Friday also focusing on the war in Ukraine.
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05/28/2024
Czech President Petr Pavel is on a two-day state visit to Jordan, where he will be received by King Abdullah II, and meet with Prime Minister Bisher Hasavna and parliament deputies on Wednesday. Shortly after arriving in Amman the Czech president handed over a consignment of humanitarian aid, which the Jordanian authorities will distribute to civilians in the Gaza Strip and equipment for local hospitals including positioning and transport beds from Linet and incubators for neonatal wards. He also met with Czech ophthalmologists working in Jordan in the MEDEVAC medical programme.
Mr. Pavel spoke with the King of Jordan by telephone a month ago about the developments in the Middle East and about the possibilities for providing humanitarian aid for Gaza.
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05/28/2024
The Czech hockey team were greeted by thousands of jubilant fans in Prague's Old Town Square on Monday evening to celebrate their victory over Switzerland in the Ice Hockey World Championship final on Sunday. The entire team, headed by captain Roman Červenka, got up on stage while the crowd sang along to the Czech national anthem and We Are the Champions by Queen. The celebrations continued until the evening, but the police and paramedics only had to deal with a few minor isolated incidents.
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05/27/2024
The European Commission has approved state aid for a EUR 3.2 billion Czech scheme to support the production of electricity from new and modernised high-efficiency combined heat and power (‘CHP') plants, the EC announced in a press release on Monday. The Czech scheme is supposed to contribute to the implementation of Czechia's National Energy and Climate Plan, the European Green Deal and the EU's energy efficiency targets. The scheme is expected to run until the end of 2025.
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05/27/2024
Tuesday is expected to be overcast with a chance of rain throughout the day. Daytime temperatures should range between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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05/27/2024
Following last year's revelation by the Czech counterintelligence service BIS that a Russian agent in Czechia had been tasked with spreading propaganda about the war in Ukraine, Russia quickly responded by stopping the agent's activities, BIS head Michal Koudelka said at a parliamentary security conference on Monday. The public release of the information had therefore served its purpose, he added, as well as serving the additional functions of informing the public and of triggering a political discussion.
The BIS head said that Czechia is currently facing disinformation threats from Russia and China, with Russian propaganda mainly aimed at weakening public support for Ukraine and undermining trust in the state.
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05/27/2024
Czechia must commit to spending at least 2 percent of its GDP on defence now, otherwise in the future it may have to spend as much as five or six percent, warned national security advisor Tomáš Pojar at a parliamentary security conference on Monday. He said this was especially important in view of the next US elections, as whoever the winner turns out to be, Europe will need to show that it takes its own defence seriously.
The 2 percent figure comes from a target set by NATO that two thirds of Allies are expected to meet or exceed in 2024. Last year, Czechia only spent 1.37 percent of its GDP on national defence, according to Defence Minister Jana Černochová.
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05/27/2024
Whooping cough is continuing to spread in Czechia, with 1428 new cases being registered in the past week. A total of 16,260 people have come down with the disease since the start of the year, according to the latest figures from the State Health Institute. The age group with the highest number of cases is still teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19, while the regions with the highest number of cases are Central Bohemia and South Bohemia.
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05/27/2024
The European Union has followed a Czech proposal and placed two individuals and a company on its sanctions list relating to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The Czech-based pro-Kremlin website Voice of Europe and two people behind it, Viktor Medvedchuk and Artem Marchevskyi, were added to Czechia’s own sanctions list in late March after the country’s counterintelligence uncovered the influence network they were involved in, including the paying of cash to European politicians.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague on Monday described the EU’s decision to follow Czechia's lead on the sanctions as a success for Czech diplomacy. It said the country was ready to “cut off more Russian tentacles at the European level.”
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05/27/2024
Over three million people in Czechia, which has a population of 10.7 million, watched the final of the Ice Hockey World Championships between the Czechs and Switzerland on Sunday evening, according to preliminary figures released by Czech Television. Another half million watched the game, which the Czechs won 2:0 at Prague’s O2 Arena, on-line, the broadcaster said.
The previous record for a live sports broadcast on Czech Television was 2.345 million, for a hockey game between Czechia and Slovakia at the 2014 Olympics.
Sunday’s final enjoyed 82 percent share among TV viewers in Czechia at that time.
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