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04/22/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 17 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall in the following days.
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04/22/2023
The Czech Ministry of Defence is proposing that tens more tanks modernised in Czechia be delivered to Ukraine. Ukraine has already received 37 armoured fighting vehicles modernised in this country in a project funded by the US and the Netherlands and is due to get 90.
The Ministry of Defence announced the news on its website after a meeting of a contact defence group at a US air base in Germany’s Ramstein on Friday. It added that Czechia was prepared to discuss establishing a centre to maintain and repair Ukraine heavy military equipment at the state enterprise VOP in Moravia and a number of private companies.
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04/21/2023
Good weather is expected in the Czech Republic on Saturday, with sunshine and daytime temperatures of up to 21 degrees. No rain is predicted.
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04/21/2023
The Czech Republic should push for launching EU accession talks with Ukraine this year already, Czech President Petr Pavel said after a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels on Friday.
Mr Pavel also criticised the unilateral blockades of Ukrainian grain imports which have been imposed by Poland, Slovakia and some other countries due to problems with sales of their own grain. The president suggested that the EU could introduce temporary customs duties instead as a potential solution.
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04/21/2023
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is due to visit Prague on May 2, Czech news site Deník N reported on Friday, citing President Petr Pavel. According to the news server, the Czech president was supposed to meet with Ms von der Leyen on Friday during his visit to Brussels, but the head of the EC had to cancel the meeting for family reasons.
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04/21/2023
Czech academics from the humanities and social sciences presented a petition with 4,000 signatures to the Ministry of Education on Friday morning, asking for better wages and more funding for their fields. The date was chosen to coincide with the deadline for submitting documentation to the education department relating to the financing of universities.
The Hour of Truth initiative, as the protest movement against the chronic underfunding of the humanities in Czechia is called, previously also organised a nationwide demonstration on 28 March, Teachers’ Day.
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04/21/2023
Czechia has made a legal commitment to spend at least two percent of GDP annually on defence. The government bill stipulating this was approved by the lower house of parliament on Friday, despite attempts by the opposition SPD party to block it. The bill will now head to the Senate for discussion and if approved, should come into effect from July, which would mean it would already apply to next year's state budget.
The Czech Republic has repeatedly promised to increase defence spending to at least two percent of GDP as part of its NATO commitments.
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04/21/2023
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise to Czechia’s heads of Parliament, namely Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday.
The order was given to the two Czechs for their extraordinary personal accomplishments in strengthening Ukrainian-Czech bi-lateral cooperation as well as for supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the Czech Senate’s press secretary Lada Faldynová told the Czech News Agency.
Mr Vystrčil is set to receive the order in Prague on Sunday from the Chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk. The latter will be in the Czech capital to attend a conference of EU heads of parliament. It has not yet been confirmed when the speaker of Czechia’s lower-house will receive hers.
Founded in 1995, the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise is one of the highest orders of Ukraine. It is awarded to both Ukrainian and foreign citizens
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04/21/2023
Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Dvořák has accepted his nomination as Czechia’s next Minister for European Affairs, the Czech News Agency reported on Friday. Mr Dvořák, who has worked in diplomacy for nearly two decades, replaces Mikuláš Bek in the position. The latter has meanwhile been nominated by the Mayors and Independents party to replace Education Minister Vladimír Balaš, who on Thursday announced that he intends to resign due to health reasons.
All three men are members of the Mayors and Independents, a coalition party within the government. Once the party agrees on the changes, Prime Minister Petr Fiala is expected to confirm the cabinet shakeup.
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04/20/2023
Czechia’s Minister of Education Vladimír Balaš will resign his position on his own initiative due to health reasons, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, adding that the resignation is still being discussed within the leadership of his party – the Mayors and Independents.
Mr Balaš has held the office since July 2022. According to news site Senzam Zprávy, he will most likely be replaced by the current European Affairs Minister Mikuláš Bek who is part of the Mayors and Independents party leadership. Mr Bek’s position should in turn be filled by Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Dvořák.
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