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02/17/2023
Czech president-elect Petr Pavel met France’s President Emanuel Macron on the sidelines of a security conference in Germany’s Munich on Friday. There were no opportunities for press questions at the meeting, but prior to travelling to the event Mr. Pavel said he would use the visit to establish contacts for his future role as head of state.
While in Munich he was also due to meet the president of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda.
Mr. Pavel is set to be sworn in as Czech head of state on March 9.
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02/17/2023
The minister of defence, Jana Černochová, and the head of the Czech Army, Karel Řehka, have honoured Czech soldiers who served in and led an international battle group in Slovakia within the NATO alliance.
Around 450 soldiers returned in December from Slovakia after a six-month deployment but took part in a ceremony at Prague’s Vítkov National Memorial on Friday.
Slovenia, Germany, the US and Slovakia also sent troops to a base in Slovakia's Lešt, in response to Russia’s aggression in neighbouring Ukraine.
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02/17/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Saturday, with an average high temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days
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02/17/2023
The Czech Confederation of Trade Unions has slammed the government for not consulting it on planned reforms to the country’s pension system. Unions’ chief Josef Středula said on Friday that this was a breach of social dialogue. He called for pension reform to be discussed at a March meeting of the tripartite, which also includes the government and employers’ leaders.
Mr. Středula said the strongest single union, KOVO, was discussing possible protests.
It has been reported that the government wants to make the state pension qualification age 68 for those who are today aged 34 or less. Men and childless women can today get a pension from 64.
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02/17/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday that the Czech government is planning to reduce the state budget deficit by CZK 70 billion going into next year. This will be done through adjusting taxes, amending the state pensions system and cutting civil service jobs, he said, while at the same time promising that the overall tax burden will not be raised.
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said he hopes to put the planned adjustments up for debate in Parliament during the spring.
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02/17/2023
Petr Bejček, who is currently serving as state secretary at the Ministry of Finance, is set to become the new head of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate (CEI) from March 1, Environment Minister Marian Jurečka announced on Friday. Mr Jurečka said that he expects the new director to improve the reputation of the inspectorate, as well as its efficiency.
As for Mr Bejček, he said that he hopes to improve the internal working processes at the institution and its digitisation. The former includes a review of how the inspectorate worked to investigate the Bečva river incident, where a cyanide leak in 2020 caused the death of tens of thousands of tons of fish.
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02/16/2023
Czechia is set to produce anti-air defence systems for Ukraine, specifically 100 modified Toyota vehicles with attached twin machine guns that can be used to target drones, the director of the Intergovernmental Defence Cooperation Agency (AMOS), Aleš Vytečka, told the Czech News Agency on Thursday. This will be paid for by the Netherlands.
The Intergovernmental Defence Cooperation Agency is a part of the Ministry of Defence.
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02/16/2023
Tomáš Macura, who is the current Mayor of Ostrava, has accused his former party ANO of pressuring him to resign from office, Czech Television reported on Thursday. Mr. Macura said that party manager Jan Richter was headed to Ostrava with the aim of “persuading” members of the local ANO representatives club that the mayor needed to be removed. The Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Ivo Vondrák, who resigned as ANO’s deputy chairman last week, has said that he feels the same pressure.
Both men didn’t support ANO leader Andrej Babiš when he ran for the office of president last month, instead supporting the ultimate winner, Petr Pavel, and they have also criticised the direction in which the party is headed. ANO deputy chairman and shadow cabinet leader Karel Havlíček accused both men of being in the grip of conspiracy theories.
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02/16/2023
Nearly two-fifths of people who identify as LGBT+ in Czechia have experienced harassment and insults towards their orientation or identity over the past year, according to a study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Queer Geography group. Meanwhile, over the past five years, nearly a fifth of the questioned individuals have reported being assaulted or faced the threat of violence.
One of the authors of the study, Michal Pitoňák, said that seven out of ten people believe that rude statements by politicians in this regard are widespread, a rise by around 30 percent when compared to the same study conducted five years ago.
Two thirds of respondents were gays, bisexuals and lesbians, with one third made up of individuals identifying as having another orientation.
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02/16/2023
Slovak singer Miro Žbirka, who has been popular in Czechia for decades, received the largest number of nominations for this year’s Andel Music Awards. He is in the running for Male Singer of the Year, Album of the Year and Slovak Album of the Year, the latter two nominations are for his record Posledné veci (Last things). Žbirka, who died of pneumonia two years ago, was also nominated for Composition of the Year, specifically for the song Nejsi sám (You are not alone).
Štěpán Hebík, whose stage name is 7krát3 is also in the running in the male category of singers, along with Dan Bárta. In the female category, singers Lenny (Lenka Filipová), Pam Rabbit and Radůza are in the running.
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