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05/03/2023
The minister for labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka, says the coalition should agree on a “consolidation package” of measures by the end of the week. He told journalists on Wednesday that the priority in the five-party government was to find savings.
Ministers discussed ways to cut spending on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The government had previously said it would present details of a plan to reduce the budget deficit by CZK 70 billion in mid-May.
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05/03/2023
The first post-1989 rector of Palacký University in Olomouc, Josef Jařab, has died at the age of 85. Mr. Jařab was appointed in 1990 and remained in the post until 1997. He was an expert on US and UK literature and renowned translator and was a guest lecturer at Harvard University shortly before the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
He was later a member of the Czech Senate, serving in the upper chamber for eight years.
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05/03/2023
State attorney Jaroslav Šaroch last week sent additional information to the Supreme Court in Prague concerning his appeal against the verdict in a case involving ex-prime minister Andrej Babiš.
The move was announced by a spokesperson for the State Attorney’s Office in Prague on Wednesday.
In January Mr. Babiš was acquitted on charges of unlawfully acquiring EU small- and medium-sized business grants for a conference centre near Prague known as Stork’s Nest.
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05/03/2023
President Petr Pavel will name two new ministers on Thursday, he said after a meeting with Prime Minister Petr Fiala. The head of state will appoint Mikuláš Bek minister of education, in place of Vladimír Balaš, who is standing down citing health reasons.
Mr. Bek has been serving as minister for European affairs and will be replaced in that role by Martin Dvořák, who has hitherto been a deputy foreign minister.
Mr. Balaš, Mr. Bek and Mr. Dvořák are all from the Mayors and Independents, the second-biggest party in the coalition government.
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05/03/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected on the following days.
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05/03/2023
The Czech competition authority will be able in some cases to draw on police wiretaps for the purposes of its work, after MPs approved legislation to that effect on Wednesday.
The lower house’s Economic Committee had recommended that such powers be given to the Office for the Protection of Competition in relevant cases.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala backed the legal change, which found cross-party support.
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05/03/2023
President Petr Pavel presented his official portrait, which will be available either in black and white or in 10 different colours, at a press conference on Wednesday morning. An official portrait of the presidential couple and postage stamps have also been created. These will be available for purchase from June 7. The portraits will also be available for download.
Originally Mr Pavel had said that he didn't want his face on stamps or to have an official portrait made, but he said on Wednesday at the presentation of the portrait that when he saw the level of interest from people wanting to have a portrait of the president in their schools and offices, he finally gave the green light. He also said that he was happy with the result, which he described as "modern and very civil". The photos were taken by Jana Jabůrková and Jiří Turek from the J3T studio.
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05/03/2023
This year's Arnošt Lustig Award, founded in honour of the late Czech writer by the Czech-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, will go to psychiatrist Cyril Höschl. The award is given every year to a living Czech citizen who displays exceptional courage, bravery, humanity and justice. Jan Pirk, chairman of the awards committee, said that Höschl more than fulfilled all four of these criteria.
Cyril Höschl headed the research institute which became the National Institute for Mental Health for three decades and helped to develop and popularise psychiatry in the Czech Republic. After 1968, he helped dissidents to avoid prosecution by the communist secret police by giving them fake diagnoses so they could be placed in psychiatric wards.
The Arnošt Lustig prize was created in 2011 in honour of the famous Czech Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor who died that year. Previous winners have included Prague bishop Václav Malý and Šimon Pánek, a prominent student leader during the Velvet Revolution and co-founder of the charity People in Need.
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05/02/2023
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský met with his American counterpart Antony Blinken on Tuesday, the first day of Mr Lipavský's diplomatic trip to the United States. The pair discussed strengthening bilateral relations, support for Ukraine, cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, energy security, and defence cooperation. They also presented the Joint Statement on Media Freedom.
Mr Lipavský said on Twitter afterwards that the bond between Czechia and the US has never been so strong.
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05/02/2023
A monument commemorating the crash of an American military aircraft in December 1944 in the town of Polná has been spray-painted with graffiti of a white letter Z, the symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech News Agency reports. Police are investigating the matter.
The memorial, an upright stone with a commemorative plaque and a depiction of an aeroplane, was unveiled in September 2019 in time for the 75th anniversary of the event. The American Liberator B-24 bomber crashed near Polná in the Vysočina Region while returning from combat action on December 16, 1944. All nine crew members survived the crash but ended up in German POW camps.
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