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05/03/2024
The Czech army has 12 new colonels, including four women. The officers were raised to the rank by Chief of the General Staff Karel Řehka at the Victory Day ceremony on Prague’s Vítkov Memorial on Friday.
He also awarded nearly 30 servicemen and women with badges of honour for merit. Among the recipients is also a member of the US Army Joshua Hull, who was awarded for his significant personal contribution to the development of cooperation with the Czech Army in the field of cyber protection.
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05/03/2024
Czech tennis player Jiří Lehečka has advanced to his maiden ATP Masters 1000 semi-final in Madrid, after Daniil Medvedev retired from the couple’s last-eight clash on Thursday evening due to groin injury.
The quarter-final match ended after won the opening set 6-4. The 30th-seeded Czech, who previously knocked out Rafael Nadal, will face unseeded Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals on Friday.
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05/03/2024
The traditional Freedom Celebrations in Plzeň, marking the liberation of the city by US troops at the end of World War II, kicked off on Friday with wreath-laying ceremonies at local WWII memorials and reenactment camps featuring period military vehicles and equipment. This is the second year in a row that no veterans are attending the festivities, as most of the American and Belgian veterans who liberated the city in May 1945 have already died or are too old and frail to make the trip. However, around 30 of their descendants are coming to Plzeň in their place.
The Freedom Celebrations will continue over the weekend with a historical, military and cultural program including outdoor gatherings, concerts, guided tours and exhibitions, and will culminate on May 6 with commemorative ceremonies at monuments to the soldiers.
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05/03/2024
Czech President Petr Pavel has criticised the Together coalition's European Parliament election campaign, which portrays opposition party ANO as supporting Russian interests. The president wrote on social media site X that the campaign is just as unfair and dangerous as ANO leader Andrej Babiš's statements stirring up anti-Ukrainian sentiments, and that neither will improve the country's political culture or increase citizens' trust in politicians.
On Thursday the Together coalition made up of the Civic Democrats (ODS), the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), and TOP 09 launched a website with a domain name that uses ANO's campaign slogan for the EP elections, which the opposition party had failed to register. The coalition seized the opportunity to register the domain name themselves and changed the slogan on the website from "Česko, pro tebe všecko" (Czechia, Everything For You) to "Rusko, pro tebe všecko" (Russia, Everything For You).
Prime Minister Petr Fiala dismissed the view that the coalition had launched a smear campaign and said the idea was to alert voters to the dangers of electing ANO to the EP.
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05/02/2024
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has condemned the use of violence against protesters in Georgia, saying on social media site X that the proposed "foreign agent" law is not in line with Georgia's European aspirations and that the right to peaceful assembly is a basic human right that the Georgian authorities must respect.
Several people were injured during protests after the Georgian parliament approved the second reading of a controversial bill on Wednesday. For the past two nights, riot police in Georgia have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds of people protesting against the proposed law, denounced by opponents as Russian-inspired, that would require organisations to state whether they are funded from abroad. A similar law, enacted in Russia in 2012, has been used to silence voices challenging the Kremlin, and protesters in Georgia fear it could be similarly used in their country ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.
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05/02/2024
The Together coalition made up of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats, and TOP 09, has taken advantage of the fact that the opposition ANO party didn't register the domain name with its campaign slogan for the European Parliament elections, "Česko, pro tebe všecko" (Czechia, Everything For You), Prime Minister Petr Fiala told journalists on Thursday. The coalition seized the opportunity to register the domain name themselves and change the slogan on the website to "Russia, Everything For You", as well as altering the images of party leader Andrej Babiš and top candidate Klára Dostálová so that they have the Russian flag on their faces instead of the Czech flag. The prime minister said the idea was to alert voters to the dangers of electing ANO to the EP.
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05/02/2024
Friday is expected to be overcast with a high probability of rain. Daytime temperatures should range between 14 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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05/02/2024
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has upgraded this year's global economic growth forecast from 2.9 percent to 3.1 percent in the latest OECD Economic Outlook report published on Thursday. However, out of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, the OECD predicts the slowest growth for Czechia, with GDP growth of 1.1 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, compared to Poland (2.9 percent growth this year and 3.4 percent next year), Hungary (2.1 percent this year and 2.8 percent next year), and Slovakia (2.1 percent this year and 2.7 percent next year). This makes Czechia the only one of the V4 to fall behind the OECD average, according to the forecast.
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05/02/2024
Had parliamentary elections taken place in April, Andrej Babiš's ANO party would have won with 32.5 percent of the vote, while Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrat (ODS) party would have placed second with 13 percent, according to the latest Median poll. The Pirates and the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party would have tied for third place with 10 percent of the vote each - a marked improvement for the SPD, who have regularly been polling around 7 to 9 percent in recent months. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) would have got eight percent of the vote, also an improvement on their March result.
The remaining political parties, including the two others making up the five-party government coalition (TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats), would not have made it into parliament at all, having not gained enough votes to reach the minimum five percent threshold required.
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05/02/2024
Around 9,000 people have registered to join the Czech Armed Forces via a new online recruitment website which was put into operation last September, the Ministry of Defense reported. More than 4,000 of those candidates are applying for professional service. The Czech Army is aiming to increase the number of professional soldiers to 30,000 and have 10,000 soldiers in the active reserve by 2030.
At the beginning of this year there were 27, 800 professional soldiers in the armed forces, but this number also includes about 1,000 military police officers and about 1,500 members of the Military Intelligence Service. In order for the Czech army to reach its set goal of 30, 000 soldiers by 2030, it would need to recruit and train several hundred soldiers a year.
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