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03/13/2024
The Russian authorities have begun criminal proceedings against 50 politicians and officials in five European states, including two Czech ones, over the demolition of monuments to Red Army soldiers, iDnes.cz reported on Wednesday.
Among those on the list are the former and current mayors of Prague 6, Ondřej Kolář and Jakub Stárek.
Mr. Kolář said he was in good company and that the news had motivated him to continue his work. He headed the district when a monument to Soviet commander Ivan Konev was taken down in 2020.
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03/13/2024
A special session of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss statements by ANO leader Andrej Babiš should take place on Tuesday, Prime Minister Petr Fiala, of the Civic Democrats, said on Wednesday. Mr. Fiala said the main focus of the lower house session would be an email written by Mr. Babiš in which he seemed to ask party colleagues for information about the minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský of the Pirates.
The email, in which he asked about Mr. Lipavský’s family, was evidently sent to the wrong recipient. It came soon after the foreign policy chief said publicly that Mr. Babiš was a security threat because of his “pacifist” stance on Ukraine.
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03/13/2024
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will speak at a conference at Prague Castle on April 30 marking the 20th anniversary of Czech accession to the European Union. The information was released by the Czech Office of the President on Wednesday.
Mr. Steinmeier and the Czech head of state, Petr Pavel, will deliver the keynote addresses at the event.
Czechia became a member of the EU on May 1, 2004.
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03/13/2024
Ukraine will soon start receiving munitions purchased under an initiative created by Czechia, the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Wednesday, the news outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Mr. Kuleba said that he would speak with Czech officials later this week, when they should outline a plan for the delivery of the ammunition.
Last month Czechia announced a plan to secure 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine from states outside the EU and NATO. The funding will come from other countries, with 18 joining the initiative to date.
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03/13/2024
The Czech-based carmaker Škoda saw its operating profit increase by 182 percent year-on-year to almost CZK 45 billion last year, while sales rose by 26 percent. The information was published by German car company Volkswagen, which owns Škoda Auto, in an annual report.
Škoda Auto increased its production by 16 percent in 2023, the report said.
The company, which sells most of its cars in Europe, registered a rise in sales in Western Europe of 27.4 percent on the previous year.
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03/13/2024
Sparta Prague travelled to England on Wednesday for a game against Liverpool in the Europa League, European soccer’s second-tier club competition. However, the Czech title-holders lost the first leg of the round of 16 tie 5:1 in Prague last week, leaving them with an extremely low chance of advancing to the quarter-finals on Thursday night.
Sparta played at Liverpool’s Anfield Road stadium once before – also in the Europa League – when they lost 1:0, following a 0:0 draw in Prague, in 2011.
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03/13/2024
It should be overcast on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to see similar weather.
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03/13/2024
Roughly 300,000 people are at risk of losing their jobs in the next five years and about one million will have to enhance their professional skills, the head of the Labour Office, Daniel Krištof, told Czech Television. He said the Labour Office was trying to prepare applicants for the changing requirements, particularly in the field of IT, but noted that interest in training and requalification courses is very low particularly among older applicants who are often at risk of losing their job. One of the reasons behind the reported lack of interest is that Czechia has an unemployment rate of 4 percent, the third lowest in Europe.
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03/13/2024
The leaders of the five coalition parties in government are calling for an extraordinary meeting of the lower house in response to information that ANO party leader Andrej Babiš had asked his associates for sensitive information about Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and his family. The mail, which contained vulgar language, was accidentally sent to the wrong address and later reported on by Novinky.cz. Lipavský expressed disgust at the content of the mail. Members of the ruling collation accused the opposition leader of using methods reminiscent of the former communist secret police. Babiš later apologized for the vulgar language, but said he saw nothing wrong with his request.
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03/12/2024
Support for Czechia’s membership in NATO is consistently high among Czechs, according to the results of public opinion surveys. Twenty-five years after the Czech Republic joined the alliance 70 percent of Czechs welcome its membership in the organization, according to a January survey by the STEM institute. Majority support for NATO membership has been long-standing, never dropping below 50 percent since the country’s accession. Since 2001 it has remained above 70 percent. It was at its highest in March 2022, not long after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, when 78 percent of respondents expressed themselves in favour of Czech membership in NATO.
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