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11/10/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala is ending his week-long tour of sub-Saharan Africa on Friday with a visit to the West African country of Côte d'Ivoire. In the morning he launched the Czech-Ivorian business forum and held talks with his Ivorian counterpart Prime Minister Robert Beugré Mambé and Vice President Tiémok Koné. Later on, he will visit a hospital supplied with Czech medical equipment, before returning to Czechia in the evening.
The prime minister was accompanied on his trip, during which he visited Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana as well as Côte d'Ivoire, by a large business delegation. A planned visit to a fifth country, Nigeria, was cancelled at the last minute by the Nigerian government, citing inability to provide "adequate reception".
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11/10/2023
A court in České Budějovice has begun hearing the case of two men accused of causing the death of two women in the Austrian Alps due to negligence and misconduct. The men are accused of illegally leading expeditions through the Alps without a licence.
The first woman died in 2019 when one of the men organised an expedition of two dozen people to Austria, but instead sent his friend, the second of the two men, in his place as leader of the group. According to the South Bohemian police, this second man was not qualified to be a professional mountain guide and did not have the necessary experience to lead such a large number of people in difficult terrain. He also went ahead with the expedition despite warnings about bad weather and possible thunderstorms. The police argue that as a result of all these factors, one member of the group, a 24-year-old woman, slipped and suffered fatal injuries after a steep fall during a dangerous descent.
The Czech Association of Mountain Guides expelled the first man from the association and he lost his guide qualification. However, he continued to organise other tours even without a license, and in 2020, he organised another group hike where another woman died after the guide failed to properly respond to the signs she was showing of mental and physical exhaustion. The woman fell from a height of about 50 metres during the descent and died. In both cases, the accused men tried to conceal from the authorities the fact that they were the organisers of the expedition.
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11/10/2023
The Czech Banking Association has downgraded its economic outlook for this year and 2024. It expects GDP to fall by 4 tenths of a percent this year, while next year the economy should return to moderate growth, but only by less than two percent. According to Jakub Seidler, chief economist at the banking association, this is mainly due to lower foreign demand and lower household consumption.
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11/10/2023
Czech Education Minister Mikuláš Bek on Thursday met with the head of the teachers’ unions, František Dobšík, in an effort to avert a nationwide strike in schools on November 27, according to Czech Television. Minister Bek said he would inform Prime Minister Petr Fiala about the situation, and request an additional CZK 5 billion in spending for 2024. Ministry spokesperson Tereza Fojtova, said that the ministry was also preparing for the possibility that the strike will go ahead and was negotiating with school principals about ways to minimize the impact on children and parents.
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11/09/2023
Russia is playing for time to get the upper hand in the war with Ukraine, and continued support from the West is crucial, Czech President Petr Pavel said at Thursday’s conference Diplomacy and Security held at the headquarters of the Czech Foreign Ministry. Russia’s victory would be our defeat, the president said, noting that Russia’s imperialist ambitions reach far beyond Ukraine’s borders.
The former head of NATO’s Military Committee said that Russia’s strategy was a drawn-out conflict which would give it time to top up both equipment and human resources. We are seeing massive weapons deliveries from North Korea and efforts to violate the sanctions against Russia, Pavel said.
He said Russia was dragging out the conflict so as to benefit from war fatigue and was waiting for the outcome of the US presidential election in the hope that America might halt military support to Kyiv.
The president also spoke about the disruption of the world order which he said is now evident almost everywhere. “Frozen conflicts are thawing in the Caucasus, and the wave of military coups in African countries, especially in the Sahel, is causing increasing concern. The explosive potential of the current crisis in the Middle East, sparked by Hamas' barbaric attack on Israel, is evident above all else," the president said.
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11/09/2023
Friday should be mostly overcast, with rain showers particularly in the eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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11/09/2023
Unemployment in the Czech Republic fell to 3.5 percent in October, with 260, 000 people on the dole, according to data from the Central Labour Office. The figure is still the lowest in the European Union. The highest unemployment was in the Ústí nad Labem region, while the lowest was in the Zlín, South Bohemia, Pilsen and Vysočina regions. According to the Central Labour Office there were about 280,000 vacancies on the Czech labour market at the end of October.
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11/09/2023
Hospitals around the country may have to suspend non-urgent, elective surgeries in December, doctors unions warned after talks with Health Ministry officials on higher salaries for doctors hit the rocks. The Czech Health Ministry's proposal to guarantee doctors' salaries not dropping below a certain level, instead of pay rises across the board in January 2024, has been rejected by doctors and trade unions. They say the ministry’s proposal would only increase the salaries of the lowest-paid physicians, moreover only those in state institutions. Further negotiations are scheduled for Monday. About 6,000 doctors out of 13,000 are refusing to sign overtime contracts as of December which would be a severe burden to the health system.
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11/09/2023
Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan discussed measures aimed at curbing illegal migration along the Balkans route to Western Europe with his newly-appointed Slovak counterpart Šutajem Eštokem in Prague on Thursday. Both countries have introduced random checks on their southern and eastern borders so as to curb the flow of illegal migrants which the Slovak interior minister said had risen from 6,000 in 2022 to 46,000 in his country this year. Minister Rakušan praised cooperation between the Czech and Slovak police forces, but stressed the need for a broader European solution. He said Germany and Austria would be invited to the next Visegrad Group summit in order to hold a debate on a broader platform.
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11/09/2023
Hundreds of police officers are being deployed to guard the streets of Prague before the upcoming football match between Czech team Slavia and Italian team AS Roma in the 4th round of the Europa League on Thursday. The police expect there to be a high chance of conflict breaking out between the two sets of fans, hence the heavy police presence.
A spokesman for the Prague police told the Czech News Agency that they expect Roma fans to gather in the afternoon in Old Town Square before heading to the evening match at Eden Arena in Vršovice. Kickoff is at 6:45 p.m.
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