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03/17/2023
President Petr Pavel has received a fine of CZK 60,000 from the supervisory authority overseeing the financial management of political parties for failing to provide data on some financial donors to his presidential campaign, such as address and date of birth. The number of donors with missing data has not been made public.
Speaking to journalists during his visit to Poland, Mr Pavel said that if donors do not provide the data themselves, there is no way of getting it from them, adding that CZK 60,000 is the standard fine for minor irregularities and that such things simply happen sometimes.
The fine is the highest granted by the authority to a natural person to date.
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03/16/2023
According to preliminary data, there were 374 cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Czechia last year. Although this constitutes a slight increase from 2020 and 2021, this figure is still lower than pre-covid rates. 43 percent of cases last year were registered among non-Czechs, more than half of whom were from Ukraine. This information was shared at a press conference on Thursday in advance of World Tuberculosis Day, which falls on March 24.
According to the Czech Ministry of Health, Ukraine is one of the few countries in Europe that still have a relatively high incidence of TB, the others being Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Romania, and Russia.
Universal vaccination of newborns against TB was carried out in the Czech Republic between 1953 and 2010. Since 2010, vaccinations have only been given to children at risk of exposure to TB.
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03/16/2023
The plans for president Petr Pavel's first 100 days in office have been made public. His top priorities include introducing a transparent process for selecting constitutional judges, opening up more of Prague Castle to the public, and travelling to the Moravian-Silesian region, as well as two other so far undisclosed regions, to talk to local citizens there. He also plans to nominate the first three candidates for the position of constitutional judge, to be approved by the Senate.
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03/16/2023
President Petr Pavel began his two-day visit to Poland on Thursday. He was received in Warsaw with military honours by Polish president Andrzej Duda. The pair then had a private meeting, during which they discussed their countries' mutual cooperation within the framework of the Bucharest Nine, support for Ukraine, energy security, the upcoming NATO summit, and the transport connection between Czechia and Poland. President Duda expressed appreciation that Mr Pavel visited Poland immediately after Slovakia.
Other items on Mr Pavel's Thursday agenda included meetings with representatives of the Polish parliament, laying a wreath at the grave of the unknown soldier, and dinner with President Duda. The Czech president also plans to meet with Czech compatriots at the Czech embassy on Václav Havel Square.
On Friday, President Pavel will meet with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and visit the European border agency Frontex. He will then fly to Rzeszów Airport in the east of the country, which has served as a shipment point for military aid from Western countries to Ukraine.
This is the new Czech head of state’s second foreign trip in office, following a visit to Slovakia at the start of the week. The Czech president also plans to visit Kyiv next month, following a discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this week.
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03/16/2023
Friday should be overcast but dry, with daytime temperatures ranging between 4 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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03/16/2023
The European Commission has sued the Czech Republic, along with seven other countries, for failing to implement the EU's whistleblower directive, and has issued a fine of more than CZK 50 million. A spokesperson for the European Court of Justice announced this on Thursday, adding that the fine will be charged until Czechia complies with the directive and incorporates it into its legal framework.
The EU directive is designed to give whistleblowers in public and private sectors mechanisms to disclose wrongdoing without fear of reprisal. The push for whistleblower protections in the EU came in the wake of the Panama Paper tax evasion scandal in 2016, as well as Facebook user data leaks.
Aside from the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary and Poland have also received fines.
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03/16/2023
President Petr Pavel signed the controversial government pensions bill into law on Thursday morning. Under the new bill, the increase in pensions in June will be less than half of what it normally is, with the average monthly pension increasing by CZK 760 instead of the expected CZK 1770.
The government says the reduction is necessary in light of the huge public finance deficit, with the pensions bill saving the state CZK 19.4 billion this year alone, while the opposition criticises it as unconstitutional and hurting some of society's most vulnerable people.
Announcing his decision to journalists on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Pavel said supporting the bill had not been an easy decision.
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03/16/2023
The head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner, has defended the late Pope John Paul II. Mr. Graubner said recent accusations that while archbishop of Krakow he covered up sexual abuse by priests do not consider the broader context. He made the comment on the website of the Czech Bishops’ Conference.
Mr. Graubner also said that the Polish communist secret police may have been involved in the matter.
He said John Paul II may have made mistakes but said in those days there was different social awareness and usual methods of dealing with sexual offences.
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03/16/2023
President Petr Pavel begins a two-day visit to Poland on Thursday. It is the new Czech head of state’s second foreign trip in office, following a visit to Slovakia at the start of the week. On Thursday Mr. Pavel is due to meet his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, and other senior representatives.
The Czech president also plans to visit Kyiv next month, following a discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky earlier this week.
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03/15/2023
President Petr Pavel says he will sign into law a government bill under which the indexation of state old-age pensions will be reduced in June. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Pavel said supporting the bill had not been an easy decision, adding that in the current circumstances there was no good solution that would work for everybody.
The head of state said he understood opposition assertions that the legislation was unconstitutional, because it is retroactive and it has been pushed through in a fast-track procedure.
Mr. Pavel said, however, that he agreed with the government when it said it was important at the present time to slow pension growth.
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