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04/03/2023
The Supreme Audit Office says that the Czech state saw a high budget deficit and Europe’s third fastest debt rate growth last year. The state also frequently wasted public funds, the agency said in its annual report.
Auditors found major shortcomings in the way the state allocates subsidies, and said that while billions had been spent on digitisation of the public administration the country had fallen in an EU digitisation league table.
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04/03/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 2 degrees Celsius. Clear skies are expected later in the week.
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04/03/2023
The first of four Viper AH-1Z attack helicopters that are to be used by the Czech Army has been manufactured in the United States, the Ministry of Defence announced on its website on Monday. An official handover ceremony was held in Amarillo, Texas, with Czech defence officials present to mark the occasion.
In total, Czechia is set to acquire eight multipurpose UH-1Y Venom helicopters and four AH-1Z Vipers from the US as part of its air force modernisation effort. A further six Vipers and two Venoms will be gifted to the Czech Army by the US to compensate for the equipment Czechia has sent to aid Ukraine.
The Vipers are expected to replace Czechia’s ageing Mi 24V/35s, with the first machines set to arrive in the spring.
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04/03/2023
Czechia’s public deficit for 2022 lay at 3.6 percent of GDP, an improvement when compared to to the 5.1 percent registered in the previous year. Meanwhile, government debt rose from 42 to 44.1 percent of GDP during the same period, the Czech Statistics Agency announced on Monday.
Government agencies ended the year with an overall deficit of CZK 247.5 billion, an improvement by some CZK 63.1 billion when compared to the previous year. This was largely caused by the management of central government institutions. Meanwhile, institutions on the local level such as regions and districts operated with a surplus of CZK 52.8 billion.
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Czech lower-house and several other buildings to shine blue in support of World Autism Awareness Day
04/02/2023This Sunday, on the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day, Czechia's Chamber of Deputies building in Prague, as well as several other important structures across Czechia and the wider world will have blue light projected onto them in support of the UN designated day news site Deník N reports.
The country's lower-house has been part of the initiative "Czechia shines blue" since it was sterted by the Platforma Naděje pro Autismus (Hope for Autism Platform) in 2014.
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04/02/2023
Czechia still has military equipment in its stores that it can send as aid to Ukraine, Defence Minister Jana Černochová said on Czech Television's weekly political debate programme on Sunday. The minister and the chief of the Czech Army's general staff, Karel Řehka, will meet with President Petr Pavel in the coming days to discuss the topic and supply him with a list of the equipment that could be sent.
The president told the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung last week that Czechia did not have many options left when it came to providing Ukraine with military materiel, although he saw possibilities of supplying air defence and munitions equipment.
Lubomír Metnar of the of the opposition ANO party, who used to be defence minister and currently heads the Committee on Defence in the lower-house, expressed concerns in the debate about whether Czechia will be able to maintain its own core military supplies if it continues to send them to Ukraine and asked the defence minister for assurances. She, in turn, promised that nothing was being sent to Ukraine that could weaken Czechia's own defence capabilities.
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04/02/2023
Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová told Czech Television on Sunday that she doesn't mind if a peace between Russia and Ukraine is mediated by China. The most important thing, according to her, is that the conflict end as soon as possible. She said that it was important not to avoid any diplomatic negotiations, whether the moderator be the West or a country that can also engage the Russian side. The whole world needs to do everything to ensure these terrible events end as soon as possible, she said.
Last month, Beijing put forward its own 12-point peace plan and called for a comprehensive ceasefire in the conflict. Earlier this week, the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borell said in Madrid that China should not be the mediator as it leans too much towards Russia.
Speaking about the defence cooperation treaty between Czechia and the United States, which has been in the making for several months, she said that she expects it will be discussed by the government this month after which its contents will be declassified.
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04/02/2023
Monday is expected to see temperatures range around 4 degrees Celsius, with overcast skies across much of the country
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04/02/2023
Boston Bruins forward David Pastrňák scored a hattrick in his team's 4:3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. The three goals brought his point tally up to a total of 102 points (goals and assists) in 76 games and he thus became only the second Czech in history after Jaromír Jágr to score more than a 100 points in a single season, the Czech News Agency reports.
Jágr had managed to score three digits in a regular season five times during his career. The 26-year-old Pastrňák came close to the 100 point limit once before in his career, during the 2019-2020 season. He is also only the third Boston Bruins player to reach this milestone over the past 20 years. Pastrňák said after the game the he was very happy to score more than 50 goals in a season and breach the 100 point mark. He also thanked his teammates.
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04/02/2023
Renáta Kellnerová, the wife of Czech billionaire Petr Kellner who along with four other people died in a helicopter accident two years ago, has asked the Alaskan court to reinvestigate the incident, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday citing a press release by Kellner's comapny PPF. The helicopter crash occured in March 2021 near the Knik glacier in the southern part of the US state.
A previous ivestigation into charges put forward by the only survivor of the crash, David Horváth, suggested that Kellner probably died only after the crash occured while waiting to be rescued. The survivor claimed that the response came late because the rescue team was too slow to react. Mrs Kellnerová wants the reinvestigation to look into whether the company that maintained the rescue helicpoter failed in its responsibilities as well as whether other parties invovled in the rescue effort made mistakes.
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