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05/15/2023
The Czech counter-intelligence service (BIS) has confirmed that in 2021 it uncovered widespread corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture, which led to a police raid in late March and early April of last year. According to BIS spokesman Ladislav Šticha, police officers detained three people from then minister Miroslav Toman’s inner circle and confiscated tens of millions of crowns in cash. The BIS spokesperson said the service was reporting on the case now in order to counter leaks of selected information from the investigation.
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05/15/2023
European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová has criticized the Czech government’s plans to place newspapers in the higher VAT tax bracket of 21 percent. Jourova said the price hike would have a devastating impact on printed media, particularly the regional and local newspapers, which were already struggling to survive after a big shift of advertising to the digital space. Jourová stressed the importance of these newspapers for many people at a time of fake news and disinformation.
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05/15/2023
The Czech artist Jitka Svobodová, who started as a painter before moving to drawings, has died at the age of 81. She was repeatedly denied enrollment at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts before eventually getting in in 1961.
In the period following the Soviet occupation she was barred from exhibiting and trained as a restorer. After the fall of communism she headed the drawing studio at the Academy of Fine Art.
Jitka Svobodová had a retrospective at the Prague City Gallery at the time of her death.
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05/15/2023
The ninth edition of Open House Prague gets underway in the Czech capital on Monday. The event – whose motto is Architecture for All – will make it possible for members of the public to visit more than 100 normally inaccessible buildings at the weekend.
Through the week it will also offer guided tours, lectures and discussions, while there will be a special focus on the architects Karel Prager, Věra Machoninová and Antonin Viktor Barvitius.
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05/14/2023
Opposition leaders ANO would have come first in general elections held at the turn of May with 30.5 percent, suggests a poll by the Kantar agency published on Sunday.
The survey indicates that the three parties in the Together bloc, who are in government with the Mayors and the Pirates, would together have taken 25 percent of the vote; all five groupings together would have picked up 43 percent of the vote.
A Kantar analyst said the poll suggested the current government coalition would be unable to form a majority again.
The survey indicates the Civic Democrats would get 17 percent, the Pirates 11 percent and Freedom and Direct Democracy 9 percent. The Mayors, TOP 09, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats are all just above the 5 percent threshold.
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05/14/2023
President Petr Pavel and the speakers of both houses of the Czech Parliament, Markéta Adamová Pekarová and Miloš Vyštrcil, took part in a memorial ceremony at the site of the World War II concentration camp for Roma at Lety in South Bohemia.
Mr. Pavel told the assembled that there was still room for improvement in the majority society’s relations with the Roma minority. He was the first Czech president to attend the annual event since Václav Havel in the 1990s.
A large pig farm was built at the site in the 1970s. After years of discussion it was bought by the state in 2018; the pig farm has since been razed and a memorial to victims of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust in Bohemia is due to be unveiled next year.
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05/14/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala says there is no possibility of change to essential elements in the government’s austerity package aimed at reducing the state budget deficit. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr. Fiala said the cabinet would not give in to pressure and would only make alterations to its plans if there were mistakes in the drafts.
The package, published on Thursday, envisages savings of CZK 94 billion this year alone. These are to be achieved via the discontinuation of non-investment subsidies, taxation changes, lay-offs and other moves.
The government is also planning significant reform to the state old-age pension system.
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05/14/2023
Czech Radio has increased its listener numbers in the last five years by around 100,000 to 1.69 million people a day, according to audience measuring by Radioprojekt cited on Sunday by the Czech News Agency.
The media organisation’s stations – which include Radio Prague International – grew their share of the market by 4.2 percentage points to 27.7 percent in the half decade.
Czech Radio will celebrate its centenary this coming Thursday, May 18.
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05/14/2023
The all-female Czech group Vesna came 10th in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest with My Sister’s Crown in Liverpool on Saturday night. It was Czechia’s second best result in the history of the international competition, after a sixth-place finish for Mikolas Josef with Lie to Me in 2018.
The 2023 Eurovision was won by Swedish singer Loreen, for the second time, with Tattoo.
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05/14/2023
Sparta Prague beat traditional rivals Slavia Prague 3:2 at home on Saturday evening to put them in a good position to win their first Czech soccer league title since 2014.
Sparta scored the winning goal from a penalty in the seventh minute of additional time in what was the fourth Prague derby of the season.
The result leaves them five points ahead of Slavia in what is called the “superstructure”, a system where the league is divided into three mini-leagues for the final part of the season.
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