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05/17/2023
An endangered female white-tailed eagle and her young have been found dead in the village of Toužim in the Karlovy Vary Region. Police are investigating the case as a suspected poisoning, since the bird was found without any external injuries, and are waiting for the results of the autopsy.
The dead female was found lying on the ground directly beneath her nest. Firefighters climbed up to the 35-metre high nest to see if there were any live young, but found only a dead few-week-old baby.
According to ornithologists, the poisoning of wild birds is a huge problem in the Czech Republic. The Czech Ornithological Society have documented and reported 139 such cases, in which 500 birds lost their lives, to the police since 2017, but they say the real number of poisonings is probably higher. Two people in the past have been sentenced in connection with poisoning birds.
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05/17/2023
Education Minister Mikuláš Bek will represent Czechia at the Sudeten German Congress in Regensburg, Bavaria, at the end of May, the Czech News Agency announced on Wednesday. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that a Czech government representative would attend the convention when he met Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder last week, but did not name the person.
Relations between Sudeten Germans and the Czech government have improved significantly in recent years. Last year, the Czech national anthem was played for the first time at the convention, which Söder described as a symbol of the now friendly relations between Czechs and Germans.
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05/17/2023
The cabinet is due to again discuss doing away with normalisation-era edicts giving Russia rent free use of properties in Czechia at a meeting on Wednesday.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs officals there is no reason to continue to provide the relevant sites, which were given to the Soviet Union for use in nine Czechoslovak government resolutions from 1970 to 1982, free of charge.
The proposal was on the cabinet’s agenda two months ago. However, it was not discussed then and has since been fine-tuned further.
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05/17/2023
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says a Roma family whose home was firebombed in 2009 can ask for help if they feel threatened again. Two of the four neo-Nazi perpetrators of the arson attack got early release from prison on Tuesday.
Mr. Rakušan said the family were not automatically entitled to police protection but that a way had been found to help them. Police representatives met with them in recent days.
The attack in the Moravian town of Vítkov left three members of the Roma family injured. Then two-year-old Natália was left with burns on 80 percent of her body and without three fingers. She has since undergone over 100 operations.
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05/16/2023
Czechia has a unique opportunity with lithium to contribute to the energy security of the country and the whole of Europe, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Tuesday afternoon near the deposit at Cínovec in Teplice, north Bohemia.
He made the comment on a stop on his way to Dresden, where he is due to meet Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer. The two are set to sign a memorandum on cooperation on projects of strategic importance, including the extraction of strategic raw materials such as lithium.
Cínovec boasts Europe's largest deposit of lithium, which the European Union has classified as a critical material.
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05/16/2023
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says a horse of his that was kidnapped in Czechia is being returned to him. He said on social media that the stallion, which was being kept at a stable in Central Bohemia, had been abducted by Ukrainian secret service agents in cooperation with the Czech police.
The Czech police said on Tuesday that they would not comment on such claims.
Kadyrov said he paid the ransom demanded.
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05/16/2023
The recently appointed Czech minister of education, Mikuláš Bek, says there is a major gap between supply and demand at secondary schools.
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Bek said many people had been dismayed by the recent first round of admissions tests to secondary schools, describing the system as belonging to the last century. He said making secondary school education more general could help matters.
Many children have struggled to find a place at secondary schools, in part due to the fact there is a higher than usual number of ninth-graders in the population.
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05/16/2023
Fifty-one percent of Czechs think that the government austerity package presented last week is necessary, suggests a poll conducted for Czech Radio by the Median agency. However, two-fifths of respondents in the survey said they did not understand the measures.
The majority of people believe that the changes are coming too late and over two-thirds say they will not tackle growing state indebtedness.
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05/16/2023
Two neo-Nazi arsonists convicted of firebombing a Roma family’s home in 2009 have been released early from prison. Václav Cojocaru and Ivo Müller got out on probation on Tuesday after serving 13 years of a 20-year sentence for multiple attempted racially motivated murder. A district court ruled they could get early release last week.
The attack in the Moravian town of Vítkov left three members of the Roma family injured. Then two-year-old Natália was left with burns on 80 percent of her body and without three fingers. She has since undergone over 100 operations.
Two others convicted over the crime remain in prison.
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05/16/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to also be cloudy, but warmer.
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