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07/20/2018
Speculation has emerged that the prime minister’s nominee for the post of labour minister, Jana Maláčová, may have been implicated in suspected irregularities in the distribution of grants at the ministry.
A former deputy at the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry said Maláčová had been involved in a case that was now under investigation.
The former labour minister Jaroslava Nemcova has denied that she had pressed charges against Malacova in connection with the irregularities uncovered, saying that the respective audit had found fault with the work of whole departments, without naming any individuals. Maláčová herself has not responded to the accusations.
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07/20/2018
The Czech Republic will send further financial aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina to help deal with migrant crisis and improve border security, the news site Novinky reported on Friday.
The proposal drafted by the Ministry of the Interior envisages aid to the tune of 25 million crowns. It is expected to win approval since the Czech stance to the migrant crisis is based on tightening border security and resolving the problem outside of Europe by helping the countries of migrant origin.
The proposal to provide financial aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina has also won support from the foreign affairs committee of the lower house.
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07/20/2018
Bulgaria's anti-monopoly regulator has blocked two multimillion deals with Czech businesses, saying the buyers might achieve dominance on the market through a concentration of ownership.
One was the sale of Czech energy giant CEZ‘s Bulgarian assets to the Bulgarian company, Inercom, the other was the sale of one of Bulgaria's two largest media conglomerates, Nova Broadcasting Group, to the PPF group of Czech businessman Petr Kellner.The regulator said the deals could result in market dominance that might harm customers.
The ruling can be appealed before the Supreme Administrative Court within two weeks.
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07/19/2018
The Senate has returned a government proposed amendment to the pensions’ law to the lower house after proposing several changes. The proposed bill would increase old age pensions for all, with a special focus on people over the age of 85.
Senators have proposed that instead of giving an extra 1,000 crowns a month to pensioners aged over 85, the state should provide the increase to all who have been in retirement for 25 years and more.
The Speaker of the Senate, Milan Stěch, warned against making insignificant changes, saying that a delay in the bill’s approval might jeopardize the projected increase in all pensions as of next year.
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07/19/2018
Friday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius.
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07/19/2018
Czech plane manufacturer Aero Vodochody unveiled a new cost-effective, combat proven fighter attack aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow near London this week.
The F/A-259 Striker, which is a successor to the L-159 Alca, was made in cooperation with Israel Aerospace Industries.
It offers state of the art technology and is suited for counter-insurgency operations and border patrolling with interception capabilities.
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07/19/2018
The Czech consulate in Hanoi has stopped accepting visa application requests and requests for work permits from Vietnamese nationals until further notice, the Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its web page on Thursday.
This is largely due to security reasons as well as the fact that the Czech consulate is overwhelmed by applications and has problems processing them.
According to Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, who is also in charge of the foreign ministry portfolio, Vietnam has become a security risk in terms of exporting organized crime.
Hamáček said the authorities would in future prioritize long-term residence applications made of the grounds of merging families.
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07/19/2018
Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček of the Social Democrats has said he will not challenge the fact that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is to chair the government’s council for coordinating the fight against corruption.
The opposition Pirate Party vehemently protested against Babiš taking up this position saying that not only was the prime minister charged on suspicion of abusing EU funds, but he and his ANO party had blocked the approval of several anti-corruption amendments in the lower house.
Hamáček said it was the prime minister’s right to chair the council and he would not challenge him on that ground.
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07/19/2018
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has stressed the need to reform the European Union and return power to national capitals.
In an interview for the Financial Times, Babiš said the principle should be that the EU does less and more efficiently. Over-regulation kills innovation and business, Babis argued.
The Czech prime minister also criticized the EU approach to migrant crisis, calling it “unworkable”. He said the EU should protect its borders better and establish “disembarkation platforms” outside of Europe for migrants rescued at sea.
We have to make a deal, as we did with Turkey, with north African states like Libya and Tunisia and help countries of migrant origin such as Syria in order to resolve this crisis, Babiš said.
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07/19/2018
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is ready to discuss ways to tackle illegal migration to Europe with his Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte and will try to persuade him to accept the Czech stance, he told reporters in the Senate on Wednesday.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte sent an open letter to his Czech counterpart, who refused to take any of the 450 migrants rescued by Italy at the weekend, inviting him to visit Rome and discuss the migration crisis with him in person. Babis called the Italian approach to immigration “a road to hell”, while Conte said it was “a road of legality and shared responsibility”.
Mr Babiš said he did not expect to change his view after a meeting with Conte. "He will not persuade me, but I will do my best to persuade him," he told reporters.
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