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Supreme Court overturns verdict against official who posthumously granted countess Czech citizenship
05/10/2023The Supreme Court has overturned a ruling against an official who granted Czechoslovak citizenship to Josefina Czerninová, a countess who left Czechoslovakia in 1945, opening the way for her descendants to successfully claim restitution of her former land and property. The Supreme Court ruled that the conclusion that the official had behaved negligently was in extreme contradiction with the factual findings of the case, and also objected to the criminal prosecution of officials simply for arriving at a legal opinion contrary to the one the prosecutors would have liked.
Czerninová, who came from the Schwarzenberg family, left Czechoslovakia in 1945, and was subsequently deprived of her property by the Beneš Decrees. In 1999, the authorities posthumously issued Czerninová a Czechoslovak citizenship certificate, ruling that she had been a citizen of Czechoslovakia at the time of her death in 1965. As a result, her descendants were able to reclaim millions of square metres of forest and other real estate in southern and western Bohemia, including a castle in the Karlovy Vary region.
In 2013, Ivana Odarčenková, one of the officials who made the decision to issue Czerninová a citizenship certificate, was handed a one-day prison sentence, suspended for one year, for negligence and mishandling of the task of a public official. In her appeal, Ms. Odarčenková stated that the goal of the criminal proceedings had clearly been to annul the decision taken on Czerninová's citizenship in order to re-assert the state's property interests.
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05/10/2023
Unemployment in Czechia fell slightly last month from 3.7 percent in March to 3.6 percent in April, according to data published on Wednesday by the Labour Office. There were 11,800 fewer people out of work than in the previous month, with 261,700 people unemployed overall.
According to the latest Eurostat data, the Czech Republic still has the lowest unemployment rate in the entire European Union.
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05/10/2023
All-female band Vesna have made it as one of the 26 artists who will be competing in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday in Liverpool. The girl group, representing Czechia in the contest, are among the top 10 performers from Tuesday night's semi-final, along with other successful countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Israel.
Vesna will be performing their song My Sister's Crown at Saturday's final for a chance to win the competition overall, along with the other nine winners from Tuesday night's semi-finals, the 10 winners from the second round of semi-finals which will be taking place on Thursday, the five countries that automatically get a place in the final (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain), and the winner of last year's contest, Ukraine.
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05/09/2023
Wednesday is likely to be sunny in the morning with greyer skies later on and a chance of rain. Daytime temperatures are expected to range between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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05/09/2023
A new study suggests that eight percent of children in Czechia aged between 11 and 15 are addicted to social networks, with that proportion having increased from five percent in 2018. Girls are more likely to be addicted than boys.
The results of the international study were presented at a press conference in Prague on Tuesday by research team leader Michal Kalman and data analyst Petr Baďura from Palacky University in Olomouc.
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05/09/2023
A travelling outdoor exhibition called Faces of the CITES Convention is coming to Prague Zoo, and was presented on Tuesday by the Environment Minister, Petr Hladík, the Prague Zoo director Miroslav Bobek, and others. The exhibition highlights the issue of trade in endangered species of animals and plants, which are protected by the CITES international convention. Visitors to the zoo will be able to view the exhibition until June 14, 2023.
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05/09/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala travelled to Regensburg, Germany, on Tuesday to attend the ceremonial opening of a Bavarian-Czech Baroque exhibition in the Regensburg House of Bavarian History. Mr Fiala also became the first Czech Prime Minister to attend a cabinet meeting of the Bavarian government, which he attended in the morning together with the Czech Culture Minister, Martin Baxa, at the invitation of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder. He had a short bilateral meeting with Söder beforehand.
Bavarian PM Söder said that the Czech Republic and Bavaria share a close friendship, despite their complex history, and that the Bavarian and Czech people are united by a similar cuisine, mentality, and culture.
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05/09/2023
A new law aims to introduce a standard definition of domestic violence, which the lawmakers say Czech legislation does not have at present, leading to inconsistent approaches by courts, the police, and social services. The draft law defines domestic violence as an action which affects a victim's mental or physical integrity, freedom, dignity, or privacy, a violation of the victim's ability to satisfy their own needs, or an abuse of power.
The law was presented at a press conference on Tuesday by the government commissioner for human rights, Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková, and the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Violence against Women, Branislava Marvánová Vargová.
In the next few days, the proposal will be submitted for comments, after which it will be discussed by the government. According to Šimáčková Laurenčíková, it should become effective in July next year.
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05/09/2023
Czechia’s automobile production saw a year-on-year rise by 42 percent in March and grew by more than 10 percent when compared to February, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Agency this Tuesday. This was largely down to an improvement in the deliveries of necessary parts.
It was largely down to car production that industrial output in general rose by 2.2 percent when compared to the same month in 2022. Czechia’s foreign trade reached a surplus of CZK 15.9 billion in March, mainly thanks to increased car exports and the fall in the prices of oil and gas imports. Meanwhile, the construction sector dipped by 6 percent year-on-year.
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05/09/2023
Czech police are investigating a case of vandalism in the town of Děčín in Northern Bohemia, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday. Two red “Z” letters were sprayed onto a memorial to Red Army soldiers who fought in World War Two, which lies within the premises of the town’s Folknáře cemetery.
The incident most likely occurred overnight before Monday, May 8, which is traditionally celebrated as Victory Day in Czechia. The mayor of the town, Jiří Anděl, said that criminal charges have been issued against the culprit, who still remains unknown. He said that the letters were covered during the commemoration on Monday and that they will be washed away soon.
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