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03/09/2024
President Petr Pavel has not ruled out running for a second term as Czechia's head of state, he said in an interview for Czech Television on Friday evening on the occasion of his first anniversary in office. He will decide based on the political and social situation and on how far he has succeeded in achieving his goals in his first term. At the same time, he said he is not saving his energy and efforts for a second term and is trying to achieve as much as he can now.
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03/08/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala met with Slovak opposition leader Michal Šimečka at the Czech prime minister's official residence in Prague on Friday morning. Mr Šimečka, who is the leader of Slovakia's largest opposition party, Progressive Slovakia, related the message that Slovakia is more than just Prime Minister Fico and said that a large number of people in Slovakia have a pro-European and pro-Western mindset and want to help Ukraine. Relations between the two countries remain excellent, Mr Fiala wrote on social media site X after the meeting.
This meeting took place less than two days after the Czech government decided to suspend a planned joint consultation with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's cabinet over their differing views on the Ukraine war.
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03/08/2024
Over CZK 141 million has been raised in the public fundraiser by the NGO Group D to purchase drones for combat use in Ukraine, the founders of the group said at a press conference on Friday. Around 4,000 drones have already been produced and some of them have already been used in Ukraine, they added.
The association launched the fundraiser back in December with the aim of raising CZK 100 million. Now they plan to negotiate with partners abroad and to expand cooperation with the Czech army, for example at military schools.
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03/08/2024
Year-on-year cases of serious infectious diseases have increased in Czechia in the first two months of this year, including diseases which children are required to be vaccinated against, news site idnes.cz reported on Friday. Over a dozen infectious diseases have seen a rise in cases this year, including diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, and scabies. Mpox or monkeypox also made a reappearance this year in Czechia.
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03/08/2024
Enough money has been raised so far to purchase the first shipment of 300,000 artillery shells for Ukraine, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Friday on social media site X. However, the goal is to send far more and the search for partners continues, he added. This will be the first delivery as part of the Czech initiative to source ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU, with 18 countries pledging to provide financial support.
The prime minister's words contradict President Petr Pavel's statement, who had said on Thursday that enough had been raised for 800,000 shells. The government’s national security advisor, Tomáš Pojar, who is coordinating the initiative, said later on Thursday that it seemed the president had meant the purchase of the first shipment.
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03/08/2024
Twenty Czech women successful in fields such as science, medicine, and journalism came to Prague Castle on the occasion of International Women's Day on Friday at the invitation of President Petr Pavel and his wife Eva. Among the attendees were names such as actress Iva Janžurová, president of the Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová, and palliative care physician Katarína Vlčková.
In a short speech, President Pavel said that more than 100 years since the struggle for equal rights for women began, it still cannot be said that women hold an equal position to men in Czech society. He mentioned in particular the areas of domestic violence, the gender pay gap, and the lack of women in top positions in business and politics.
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03/08/2024
Saturday is expected to be overcast and windy but mostly dry, with only a chance of light showers in the early afternoon. Daytime temperatures should range between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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03/08/2024
Seismographs recorded a 3.9 magnitude earthquake centred around Písek, southern Bohemia on Thursday. According to the Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, it was a moderately strong earthquake which is not common in this part of the world. People reported tremors within a radius of several kilometers, but there were no reports of material damage. Experts last registered a similar phenomenon in southern Bohemia more than a decade ago. In 2012 the Geophysical Institute registered tremors of 2.4 on the Richter scale in Český Krumlov.
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03/08/2024
The funds needed for the purchase of 800,000 pieces of artillery ammunition for Ukraine from outside the European Union have been collected, President Petr Pavel confirmed on Thursday. Altogether 18 countries are contributing finances for the Czech initiative. The badly-needed ammunition should be in Ukraine within a matter of weeks, Pavel said. Prime Minister Petr Fiala thanked the countries which are contributing finances for the 200 million euro purchase, saying Ukraine’s need of military aid is particularly pressing at the present time. The Czech Defense Ministry will be in charge of the logistics of the operation.
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03/07/2024
Ukraine’s allies have lined up nearly all the funding required for the Czech initiative to purchase hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds for Ukraine outside of the EU, the agency Bloomberg reported citing a Czech government official familiar with the arrangements. The commitments mean that the shells could be delivered to Ukraine in a matter of weeks. The precise timing would depend on contractual and delivery schedules, Bloomberg wrote.
Czech President Petr Pavel said earlier that Prague had received commitments to support the 200 million euro project financially from around 15 states including Britain, Denmark, Canada, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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