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03/18/2023
Most of the parties represented in the Czech lower house lost members in the last year, Czech Television reported. The only exceptions were Freedom and Direct Democracy and coalition party the Mayors and Independents.
Government leaders the Civic Democrats lost the most members year-on-year, Czech Television said.
The Communist Party and the Social Democrats, who fell out of the lower house at the last elections, lost about one-fifth of their members.
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03/18/2023
The leadership of the Czech Army and the Ministry of Defence are keen to dispel fears that increased defence spending next year will be effective, Právo reported on Saturday. A sharp rise in the army’s budget means that officials will have over CZK 150 billion at their disposal in 2024.
The chief of the General Staff, Karel Řehka, told the newspaper that tens of billions would be spent on munitions in the coming five years.
Ammunition for the newly acquired 52 French Caesar self-propelled howitzers alone will cost CZK 10 billion. Individual rounds cost up to hundreds of thousands, depending on their capabilities.
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03/18/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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03/18/2023
Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková have reached the final in the women’s doubles at the WTA Tour 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. The Czech tennis stars, who are seeded first in the competition, beat Shuko Ayoma and Ena Shibahra 6-4 6-2 on Friday.
Siniaková and Krejčíková have won all four Grand Slams in doubles but have never taken the Indian Wells title. They will face Laura Siegemund and Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final.
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03/18/2023
The incoming tourism industry in Czechia is slowly returning to pre-Covid 19 numbers, the director of state agency CzechTourism, Jan Hegert, told Czech Television. Last year the industry generated CZK 118 billion, a rise of around CZK 51 billion on the previous year. However, this was still some way behind the approximately CZK 167 billion recorded in 2019, the year before the pandemic hit.
Czechs are now holidaying more in their own country than before the coronavirus, Czech Television reported. The head of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants, Václav Stárek, said however that they are now typically opting for shorter stays.
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03/18/2023
President Petr Pavel says that when it comes to nominees for the Czech Constitutional Court he wants to first make public the process by which they are selected. Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Poland, the recently elected head of state said proposed candidates would be initially evaluated by an advisory team.
Presenting a fine-tuned method of selecting potential Constitutional Court judges is included in President Pavel’s plan for his first 100 days in office. He said he would strive to ensure this process was completely transparent.
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03/17/2023
Before the amendments to Czechia’s law on the indexation of old age pensions are handed over to the government, they should first be discussed with members of the opposition, trade union representatives and employers, Labour Minister Marian Jurečka said on Friday.
Mr Jurečka said that the planned changes in the indexation, which should see lower growth in pensions than would otherwise be the case in June, should be discussed by government in several weeks’ time and that the talks he referred to would take place before then. He has already met with representatives of the largest opposition party ANO, whose members also spoke about the reform with President Petr Pavel earlier this week.
The government claims that lowering the indexation would help slow-down the growth of Czechia’s national debt. Meanwhile, the opposition says that the government is robbing the most vulnerable group of society at a time of extraordinary inflation.
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03/17/2023
President Petr Pavel is set to meet with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin next Tuesday, the spokesman of the German government Steffen Hebestreit has told journalists. Germany is the third country that the new Czech president has chosen to visit after Slovakia and Poland. Security, especially in relation to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as well as international, European and bilateral questions will be on the agenda.
During his visit to Czechia’s largest neighbouring country, President Pavel will also meet with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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03/17/2023
Following last week’s warning by the National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB), Czech ministries, state agencies as well as private businesses are beginning to forbid their employees from using the Chinese TikTok social media app while they are at work. This according to a survey conducted by the Czech News Agency. Czechia’s Office of Government has meanwhile cancelled its TikTok account.
According to NÚKIB, TikTok represents a security threat. Similar warnings were voiced in the United States last year.
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03/17/2023
Saturday is expected to see overcast skies with temperatures ranging around 12 degrees Celsius.
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