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01/17/2024
Czechia had the highest inflation in the European Union last month, with 7.6 percent, according to data released on Wednesday by Eurostat. In November Czech inflation stood at 8 percent.
December’s inflation rate for the whole of the EU was 3.4 percent, compared to 3.1 percent the previous month.
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01/17/2024
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says there is nothing revolutionary about the idea of introducing postal voting for Czechs living abroad. Speaking at the start of a debate on a government bill on the matter in the lower house on Wednesday morning, he said Czechia was one of the only states in the EU not to allow for such a form of voting.
The session may for a great many hours, with the opposition ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy parties expected to filibuster; experts say the two groupings would likely receive a lower share of the vote among Czechs in other countries.
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01/17/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Civic Democrats has called on Alena Schillerová of ANO to apologise after she compared TOP 09’s lower house speaker Marketá Pekarová Adamová to Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia Foreign Ministry, on social media.
The comment came after Ms. Pekarová Adamová referred on Tuesday to a previous statement from Ms. Schillerová, who said Czechs wanted to live in peace, not to prepare for war, and that the public shouldn’t be scared by threats of nuclear war.
The TOP 09 leader said it was in fact the Russians who were threatening nuclear war, which is why they must be defeated.
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01/17/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, has called on the international community to come together to ensure people’s right not to be manipulated. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland’s Davos, he said a global response was necessary to threats posed by new technologies and artificial intelligence in the online space.
Mr. Lipavský said resilience against cyber threats had to be built around democratic culture and civil society, adding that online platform providers also had to also play a role in preventing manipulative content.
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01/17/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 4 degrees Celsius. Clear skies are expected at the end of the week.
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01/17/2024
Communist-era dissidents are set to get average state old-age pensions even if they didn’t earlier pay sufficient contributions, following a Czech lower house vote on Tuesday evening. Those who can prove their active opposition to the previous regime will see their pensions automatically levelled up under the amendment, which must now go before the Senate.
Pre-1989 dissidents today have low pensions for reasons such as imprisonment, forced emigration or not being allowed to work in their chosen professions; many were only allowed to do menial jobs.
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01/16/2024
Charles University has filed a lawsuit against an MP from the Freedom and Direct Democracy party following comments he made about a mass shooting at the school in December. The university said it would file criminal charges of spreading false alarm and using hate speech against Jiří Kobza.
The politician blamed the institution for the shooting, which was carried out by a student there, saying it had helped shape his outlook through “inclusive progressive education”. Mr. Kobza deleted the comments and apologised, but Charles University rejected his show of contrition.
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01/16/2024
The Czech anti-trust office has abrogated a decision selecting a winner in a tender to build part of a planned fourth, “D” Metro line in Prague, Seznam Zprávy reported on Tuesday. A consortium of the firms Subterra and Hochtief had been chosen in the selection procedure.
The Office for the Protection of Competition said the application from the winners lacked documents proving the expertise of staff members, for which points had been awarded in the evaluation.
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01/16/2024
Speaking on a two-day visit to Israel, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, said on Tuesday that the Israeli Army is providing enormous aid to Palestinian civilians. Mr. Pavel said the vast majority of such aid was not even known about. He told journalists Israel was supplying drinking water to Gaza but Hamas was destroying the pipelines, as it did not want Israel to be seen as the provider of humanitarian aid.
The Czech head of state visited the location of Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 and met relatives of some people kidnapped by Hamas, who he said asked him for help in achieving their return. Mr. Pavel said he had not made empty promises to the families but told them that all he could do was reach out to statesmen who could do something in this regard.
On Wednesday he will hold talks with leaders in Qatar, which is trying to mediate negotiations between Hamas and Israel.
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01/16/2024
Chairman Marian Jurečka is coming under increasing pressure within the Christian Democrats, Seznam Zprávy reported on Tuesday. The governing coalition party have seen their poll numbers fall and Mr. Jurečka recently faced calls for his resignation over a Christmas party at his Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs hours after a mass shooting in Prague.
Former Christian Democrats leader Pavel Bělobrádek has told party members change is necessary, but said it must be thoroughly discussed, Seznam Zprávy said.
Last week a party national committee backed Mr. Jurečka retaining the chairmanship.
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