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02/14/2024
Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, is in Prague for talks with the country's top officials. Speaking at a press briefing following a meeting with the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Marketa Pekarová Adamová, Ms. Metsola urged Czechs to go to the polls in the upcoming elections to the European Parliament and use their influence in molding European affairs.
In the course of the day the Maltese politician will meet with President Petr Pavel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala and other senior Czech officials. She will also pay tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at Prague’s Charles University in December. In the evening she will take part in a debate with students at Prague’s University of Economics and Business.
Ms. Metsola’s visit to Czechia is part of a tour of EU states she is conducting ahead of European Parliament elections in June.
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02/13/2024
Some farmers' groups say they plan to block the main “magistrála” through-road cutting through central Prague on Monday in protest at the poor situation in Czech agriculture. The chairman of the Agricultural and Food Workers Union and a former head of the Agrarian Chamber of the Czech Republic said on Tuesday that they plan to deliver a letter to the minister of agriculture, , calling on the Czech government to pull out of the EU’s Green Deal for Europe.
The organisers say up to 1,000 tractors or other types of farm machinery could appear on the streets of the Czech capital on Monday. Other, larger farmers’ groups say they do not intend to take part in the protest.
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02/13/2024
The Prague Municipal Court on Tuesday began hearing for the second time a case involving a CZK 50 million subsidy for a congress centre near Prague. Former prime minister Andrej Babiš is accused of fraud in the case.
In January 2023 the court acquitted Mr. Babiš and a second person of wrongfully acquiring EU subsidies by presenting the Stork’s Nest centre as a small and medium-sized business when it did not in fact meet the necessary criteria. However, that verdict was overturned by an appeals court last autumn.
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02/13/2024
Some 96 percent of the population of Czechia have access to 5G mobile networks, according to a study produced by Europe in Data and cited by the Czech News Agency on Tuesday.
Czechia ranked sixth in the EU in terms of 5G coverage in rural areas, with 78 percent.
The country is lagging behind in terms of fixed internet coverage based on fibre-optic networks but operators are now working together to strategically expand fibre coverage, the study said.
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02/13/2024
Farmers’ organisations from Czechia have joined up with counterparts from other Central and Eastern European states in calling for protests against the EU’s agrarian policies. The Agrarian Chamber of the Czech Republic announced this in a statement released on Tuesday, adding that mass demonstrations are planned for Thursday next week.
Farmers have recently been protesting in many European states against the EU’s Green Deal for Europe, which aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Farmers have also highlighted rising costs and what they consider unfair foreign competition.
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02/13/2024
Fans of Kladno ice hockey club, who are currently bottom of the Czech top flight, say they will hold more protests if owner and player Jagomír Jágr and other members of management continue to ignore their questions about the club’s future.
The Kladno fans made the statement on a website on Tuesday, a day after the club lost 4:0 at home for a club record 16th defeat in a row.
During Monday’s game the fans wore costumes and created a carnival atmosphere as they ignored the actual match. They have called for an immediate change in the way Kladno is managed.
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02/13/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 9 degrees Celsius. The following days are also expected to see grey skies.
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02/13/2024
Czechia currently has its biggest business delegation in Ukraine since the full Russian invasion began in February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague said on Tuesday. Representatives of companies in the fields of energy, healthcare and infrastructure are in the country with the Czech government commissioner for the reconstruction of Ukraine, Tomáš Kopečný.
The Czech Foreign Ministry said the country’s support for Ukraine was steady but was switching from assistance to cooperation.
The delegation is focused on business forums and meetings with senior state officials. On Monday the Czechs discussed rail and transport development with Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov.
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02/13/2024
The beginning of February was the warmest in Czechia in more than 100 years, with an average temperature of 6.7 degrees Celsius, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reported. Temperatures of over 15 degrees Celsius in places broke records at monitoring stations around the country in the past week. Meteorologists said the average temperature of 6.7 degrees does not apply to the entire country since data is only collected from monitoring stations that have been in operation for at least 100 years. Most of them are located at lower altitudes.
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02/13/2024
The Czech foreign ministry will propose extending indefinitely a ban on the issuance of new visas and residence permits to Russian and Belarussian nationals, the Czech press agency reported citing ministry sources. The ban, which was introduced in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is valid until March 31 of this year.
The ban does not apply to humanitarian cases, foreigners who already have a residence permit in the country or applications for short-stay visas if the applicant is a family member of a Czech citizen or a citizen of the European Union.
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