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10/06/2023
Slavia Prague beat Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol 6:0 at home in football’s Europa League on Thursday evening. It was Slavia’s second win in two games and the result leaves them ahead of Roma at the top of their group on goal difference. Sparta Prague lost 2:1 away to Sevilla and have three points from a possible six so far.
Viktoria Plzeň overcame Kazakhstan’s Astana 2:1 away for their second victory in the lower level European Conference League.
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10/05/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Friday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected over the following week.
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10/05/2023
Every pharmacy in Czechia should receive at least 20 packs of penicillin on Monday, the Association of Wholesale Drug Distributors announced. All major distributors will take delivery of 52,000 packs from the supplier BB Pharma by the end of this week.
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, said the country had received over 200,000 packages of penicillin since August.
Czechia has been facing a shortage of some antibiotics, including penicillin, for several months.
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10/05/2023
President Petr Pavel’s latest nominee for the post of Constitutional Court justice, Pavel Simon, is unlikely to be approved by the Senate, Novinky.cz reported on Thursday.
Mr. Simon is due to face a grilling in the Czech upper house on October 18. Senators are planning to ask him about rulings of his that were overturned by the Constitutional Court as well as his business activities and new age “school”, the news site said.
A legislator from government leaders the Civic Democrats told Novinky that senators had “woken up” and would not make the same mistake after previously approving Robert Fremr for the court. He later withdrew his nomination after criticism in the media.
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10/05/2023
President Petr Pavel discussed next year’s state budget with Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura at Prague Castle on Thursday. The pair also spoke about the government’s package of austerity measures, which have been shaped alongside the CZK 252 billion deficit envisaged in the draft budget.
Mr. Stanjura told reporters he did not ask the head of state whether he would put his signature to the legislation bringing in the austerity package. However, the measures do meet Mr. Pavel’s demand that they reduce debt and be bearable by Czech society, the minister said.
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10/05/2023
ANO have gathered enough signatures to convene a vote of no-confidence in the Czech government but will not submit them at the present time. That information was made public by the opposition party’s Alena Schillerová on Thursday.
ANO said last week that if Prime Minister Petr Fiala did not remove Vít Rakušan as interior minister they would push for a no-confidence vote. Party leaders say Mr. Fiala does not appreciate the gravity of the fact that Mr. Rakušan possessed an encrypted mobile phone.
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10/05/2023
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says Europe’s current migration policy is insufficient. He made the comment on Thursday morning, before leaving Prague for a special summit of European leaders in the Spanish city of Granada. The European Political Community gathering is being followed by an informal European Council meeting.
Mr. Fiala said he planned to discuss protecting the EU’s external borders, improving returns policy and cooperation with migrants’ countries of origin.
He said Czechia would support bolder steps but continues to reject compulsory migrant quotas.
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10/05/2023
Police officers in Ukraine have arrested a 44-year-old Czech man who has collected over CZK 3 million allegedly as aid for Ukraine, news site Seznam Zprávy reported on Thursday. The man goes by the nickname Petr Fantom on social media, but his real name is Petr Stoja, and the Czech police have been looking for him since 2019. According to Seznam Zprávy's findings, the man has 46 foreclosures against him and owes a similar amount of money in debts to what he has collected.
In a profile about himself on the For a Free Ukraine website, he writes that he is a Czech living in Ukraine who delivers humanitarian aid to the most dangerous places on the front lines and that he has participated in the evacuation of dozens of people and pets. The website includes several ways to send money to him, but the accounts are under a different name and the final beneficiary of some of them cannot be traced, Seznam Zprávy writes.
He has now been taken into preliminary custody in Ukraine and will later be extradited to the Czech Republic.
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10/05/2023
People all over Czechia are commemorating the 87th anniversary of the birth of Václav Havel, the last Czechoslovak and the first Czech president. In Trutnov in the Hradec Králové Region, a memorial site on top of a cinema will be unveiled, while at the Faculty of Philosophy in Olomouc, an event commemorating Havel's thoughts and speeches is planned. People in Prague are expected to gather at Havel's grave in the Vinohrady cemetery.
The former president, playwright and dissident Václav Havel was born on October 5, 1936. He died at his cottage in Hrádečka on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75.
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10/04/2023
The Supreme Court has acquitted 14 men who took part in the 1966 Prague protest against the forced haircutting of around 4,000 young long-haired males or "máničky", as they were known in Czech. The forced haircutting was coordinated by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and often carried out in prison cells under the supervision of the state police. The state police arrested the organisers of the protest and several participants, some of whom were given prison sentences.
In its ruling, the court stated that the original judgements did not respect the basic principles of a democratic society, including guaranteeing the right to freedom of speech and assembly, and were made in violation of the criminal law in effect at the time. The appeal was brought by Justice Minister Pavel Blažek. Eight of the 14 men are no longer alive.
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