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02/22/2023
President-elect Petr Pavel discussed the pension reform and the government-proposed cuts in the valorization of pensions with Labour and Social Affairs Marian Jurečka on Wednesday. The move has sparked strong criticism from the opposition benches and the president-elect, who is due to take office on March 9, said he wanted to know if the move is inevitable in view of the present state of public finances. If the bill passes through both chambers of Parliament he would be expected to sign it into law.
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02/22/2023
The Czech Supreme Administrative Court has asked the European Court of Justice to determine under what conditions and from whom the police can take DNA samples. The Czech police has been taking DNA samples from everyone suspected of serious criminal activity for the past twenty years. Czech law does not specify for how long the samples can be retained in the DNA police database and several people have now sued the police over the matter.
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02/22/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala is set to take part in a meeting on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and other representatives of the so-called Bucharest Nine, which includes states that make up NATO’s eastern flank in Europe. The meeting in Warsaw is set to take place on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Support of Ukraine and the strengthening of NATO’s eastern flank will dominate the agenda.
The Bucharest Nine was set up in 2015 in reaction to Russia’s aggressive policy towards Ukraine. It is made up of Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
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02/22/2023
The head of Czechia’s Military Police, Otakar Foltýn, has requested to be relieved of his position by the end of February, Defence Minister Jana Černochová told news site Ekonomiky denik on Tuesday. She has asked the Committee on Defence of the Chamber of Deputies to meet as soon as possible and discuss the decision.
According to the news site, Mr Foltýn’s resignation is connected to the way he proceeded in the case of the head of the military police’s inspection, Tomáš Voráč, who was prosecuted in relation to the suspicious purchase of an anti-listening device.
Mr Foltyn may have resigned to become part of the team of President-elect Petr Pavel at Prague Castle, the news site reports.
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02/21/2023
The regional governor of Moravia-Silesia, Ivo Vondrák, has left the ANO party’s club in the Chamber of Deputies, the head of the grouping, Alena Schillerová, announced at a press conference on Tuesday. The vote was unanimous. Mrs Schillerová said that Mr Vondrák was unable to take criticism. He in turn told the Czech News Agency that he reached the conclusion that it was necessary to leave the deputies club and will proudly continue to serve in the lower-house as a non-affiliated deputy.
Mr Vondrák did not support his party’s leader Andrej Babiš during the presidential election in January 2023. Instead recommending to voters that they cast their ballot for the eventual winner Petr Pavel.
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02/21/2023
Former Czech Army chief of staff and chair of the NATOs Military Committee, Petr Pavel, has been confirmed as the winner of this year’s presidential elections by the Supreme Administrave Court, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. The court review showed that his victory over ANO party leader Andrej Babiš was 298 votes higher than exected, the court announced via press release.
Petr Pavel beat Andrej Babiš in the January with more than 58 percent of voters casting their ballot in favour of the retired general.
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02/21/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala met with representatives of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) at the Office of Government on Tuesday, which focused around the deepening of Czech-American relations, defence cooperation, helping Ukraine and the overall security situation in Europe. After the meeting, the Czech head of government informed via Twitter that nuclear energy and his country’s interest in acquiring F-35 fighter jets was also brought up.
The meeting follows up on earlier Czech interest to acquire F-35s and on the announcement by US Ambassador Bijan Sabet that his country hopes to secure the Dukovany power plant nuclear deal for Westinghouse.
The CSCE, which is also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is an independent US government agency set up to monitor compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords as well as wider cooperation with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) members. The American delegation, led by Congressman Steve Cohen, is set to now visit the parliamentary meeting of the OSCE in Vienna.
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02/21/2023
War in Europe is not impossible and there will not be enough time to react unless Czechia prepares for it in the long-term also during peacetime, the Chief of the Czech Army’s General Staff Karel Řehka said at a meeting of commanders at the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday, adding that membership in NATO is the best possible deterrent that lowers the possibility of such threats occurring in the first place.
He said that if a conflict between NATO and Russia were to break out, Czechia would be an active participant from the first minute of such a conflict. The Czech Army, in such as case, would fight according to the alliance’s defence plans and Czech territory would become an important transition zone and base for NATO, something that will be up to the country’s soldiers to ensure and maintain.
Defence Minister Jana Černochová, who was also present, said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the most consequential event to affect the security environment since the Second World War and that many preceding governments caved in to the illusion of peace.
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02/21/2023
Temperatures are expected to range around 11 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, with overcast skies across the country.
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02/21/2023
The process of establishing equal living standards across regions in Czechia needs to be sped up, especially since the country will not be able to rely on EU funding forever into the future, Regional Development Minister Ivan Bartoš said in an interview with the Czech News Agency. He added that relevant projects should therefore also seek private funding and that the relevant investments need to be applied in a more targeted way.
Around CZK 117 billion have been allocated to the ministry as part of the relevant Integrated Regional Operations Programme (IROP) for the years 2021 to 2027. The money is used to develop the country’s regions.
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