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11/30/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says it was easy to decide to help Ukraine when it was invaded by Russia. Speaking on Wednesday, he said that at a time of multiple crises social reconciliation and helping the needy were more important than the rapid reduction of the state debt.
He said Czech society had been divided for a long time and that the public sphere was breaking up into various social bubbles, which impacts politics and public sentiment. This was seen during the Covid crisis, he said.
Mr. Fiala made the comments at a conference in Prague entitled Quo vadis, Czechia/Europe 2022.
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11/30/2022
Two of the people whose applications to stand for president were rejected have taken complaints to the Supreme Administrative Court. Businessman Karel Diviš says that the Ministry of the Interior failed to count the number of signatures he submitted correctly and wrongly rejected others. Mr. Diviš was 116 names short of reaching the required 50,000 signatures.
Another would-be candidate, entrepreneur Karel Janeček, filed a complaint on similar grounds on Wednesday.
Nine people met the criteria to run for head of state, with seven basing their applications on the support of legislators.
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11/30/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 1 degree Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected over the following week.
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11/30/2022
A large digital clock highlighting impending climate disaster has been installed by a metronome on Prague’s Letná Plain. The eight-metre high numerals of the Climate Clock show how much time remains to avert irreversible change to the Earth’s climate.
The clock was installed by the organisers of the recent Festival of Freedom, marking the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, and will remain in place until December 12. The place where it stands was home to a large statute of Stalin during the communist era.
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11/30/2022
The ruling parties used their majority in the lower house of Parliament to override the president’s veto of an amendment to the civil service law which will open the way to an unlimited number of politically appointed deputy ministers. MPs for the ruling parties defended the bill, arguing that ministers should have the right to appoint a team that would implement a political program for which they are ultimately accountable. President Zeman and the opposition parties claim the amendment goes against long-term efforts to de-politicize the civil service.
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11/30/2022
The Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill that will enable Ukrainian soldiers to be trained in Czechia as well as for Czech soldiers to train Ukrainians in other EU member states. The training of Ukrainian troops will take place in the Libavá military zone in Central Moravia. It will concern mechanised units and special professions, and is to be carried out in five stages, planned until the end of 2023. Each exercise cycle will last four weeks and will be able to accommodate up to 800 soldiers. The main emphasis will be on training new recruits in operating weapons systems, mastering planning processes, and other activities vital for successful combat against the Russian aggressor. The total cost of the training is estimated at 975 million crowns.
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11/29/2022
Wednesday should be overcast around most of the country with some drizzle and day temperatures between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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11/29/2022
Police have charged nearly 50 people in Czechia in connection with the war in Ukraine since the conflict broke out in February. According to police spokesman Ondrej Moravčík, most of the charges are related to support for the Russian aggression, expressed primarily on social media and the internet. A verdict has been passed in about ten of those cases, in which the people charged were either acquitted or given financial penalties.
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11/29/2022
Soaring inflation and energy prices have resulted in fewer people contributing to charity or contributing less, according to the results of a survey conducted by the IPSOS polling agency. Close to half of Czechs contribute to charity in spite of their higher living expenditures, but 15 percent admit they have had to cut back on financial assistance for people in need. Many say they try to make up for it by helping in other ways. The vast majority of Czechs are used to contributing to charity; three quarters of them do so or would like to do so. Only a quarter say they do not help at all.
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11/29/2022
The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in Czechia between January and October of this year was about 18 percent higher than in the same period last year, the National Institute of Health said in a press release on World AIDS Day on Tuesday. Health officials have registered 249 cases of HIV so far this year. More than half of the positive cases registered are foreign nationals. There are moreover another 537 HIV positive persons, including children, among the Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Czechia since the war started. These cases are registered separately. Most of them knew about their condition and are receiving treatment.
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