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11/24/2023
Former finance minister, MP and TOP 09 leader Miroslav Kalousek says he is going to stand in elections to the European Parliament next year. The 62-year-old said on social media that he had been chosen as a nominee by several TOP 09 regional branches and such a massive show of faith could not be turned down.
Mr. Kalousek was minister of finance between 2007 and 2009 and between 2010 and 2013.
Elections to the European Parliament take place next June.
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11/23/2023
Trade union leaders say more than 60 percent of Czech elementary schools, secondary schools and kindergartens will participate in a one-day strike on Monday demanding higher funding for education and other changes. Some schools taking part will close completely but others will operate on a limited basis during what is being called a warning strike.
Nurses and other medical personnel are also set to hold a strike on Monday against austerity measures implemented by the Czech government. So are employees of carmaker Škoda Auto and hundreds of other firms in the industrial sphere.
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11/23/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala has called on one-time dissident Jiří Gruntorád to abandon a hunger strike, saying the government will meet his demands.
Mr. Gruntorád, who has been camped out in front of the Office of the Government for almost a week, is calling for the resignation of the minister of labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka, over the fact some pre-1989 opponents of the communist regime are on relatively low old-age pensions.
On Wednesday the government said it would draft proposals to ensure that one-time dissidents get decent pensions in the coming weeks.
Those who opposed the Communists 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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11/23/2023
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, will visit Italy with his wife Eva next week, the Office of the President said on Thursday. While in Italy Mr. Pavel will meet his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the president of the Lombardy region, Attili Fontana.
In Milan the Czech head of state will take part in Czech-Italian business forum, officials said.
The last Czech president to visit Italy was Václav Klaus in 2012.
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11/23/2023
Czechia, in cooperation with the semi-state energy firm ČEZ, has acquired capacity at an onshore liquefied natural gas terminal that is currently under construction in Germany, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Thursday.
ČEZ has signed a 15-year contract with the operator of the Stade terminal near Hamburg with the option of an extension, the Czech News Agency said.
At present Czechia has a lease on part of an LNG terminal in the Netherlands, until 2027.
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11/23/2023
Around 200 people took part in a rally in support of the Palestinians on Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Wednesday evening. Speakers at the gathering criticised a recent statement from the Czech minister of the interior, who said using the line “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” could become classified as hate speech, supporting terrorism or expressing approval of genocide. Some people see the slogan as a call for the destruction of Israel.
The meeting’s organisers also called on the Czech media to report objectively on the situation in Gaza, which they say is not currently happening.
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11/23/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Friday, with an average high temperature of 5 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall to around freezing at the weekend.
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11/23/2023
The Czech men’s tennis team have failed to reach the semi-finals of team competition the Davis Cup. The Czechs took the lead against Australia but eventually lost the tie 2:1 on matches, after Jiří Lehečka and Adam Pavlásek lost 4-6 5-7 in the doubles to Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell.
Speaking after that defeat in Spain’s Malaga on Wednesday evening, the Czechs’ non-playing captain Jaroslav Navrátil said it was a great pity but they had lost with honour.
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11/23/2023
Czech football club Slavia Prague have been fined over EUR 91,000 (more than CZK 2 million) in connection with a Europa League game against Roma in the Czech capital earlier this month.
The punishment is for offensive chants, fireworks and thrown objects, among other things. The Czech News Agency says it is the highest ever fine levied by the Disciplinary Committee of UEFA, European football’s governing body.
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11/22/2023
The heads of state of the four Visegrad Group countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary) all expressed their support for Ukraine at a press conference after Wednesday's V4 summit at Prague Castle. Even Hungary's president, Katalin Novák, said that the common position of the V4 is that Russia must not win the war.
Recently the V4 countries appeared to have differing opinions about the war in Ukraine, with Hungary refusing to supply weapons to the country and the new Slovak prime minister Robert Fico running on a campaign to cease military support to the country, while Czechia and Poland continue to staunchly provide support.
The V4 presidents also discussed Ukraine's potential accession to the EU, a point of contention because while Czechia strongly supports Ukraine's membership and has advocated for it to join as quickly as possible, Hungary has reservations regarding the protection of the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. Hungarian president Katalin Novák said after the summit that the protection of minorities should not be up for negotiation and that Kyiv should repeal the statute that Hungary considers a restriction on minority rights.
According to Czech President Petr Pavel, the summit helped to find areas of intersection where the neighbouring central European countries could agree. Aside from Ukraine, the heads of state also discussed the conflict in the Middle East following the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, the development of infrastructure, and projects financed by the joint International Visegrad Fund, which Mr Pavel said could expand to Ukraine and also to other Eastern Partnership countries and the Western Balkans in the future.
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