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08/29/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel held talks with his North Macedonian counterpart, Stevo Pendarovski, at Prague Castle on Tuesday. The two discussed security and North Macedonia’s accession to the European Union, with Mr. Pavel saying that it was in Czechia’s interest for the Balkans to be fully integrated into NATO and the EU.
The Czech head of state said Mr. Pendarovski represented a region that was naturally of interest to Czechia in terms of its own security, but also the security and stability of Europe.
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08/29/2023
One of Czechia’s leading hospitals, Prague’s IKEM, was raided by the police on Tuesday morning. Officers from the force’s internal affairs and organised crime units took part in the operation, with a spokesperson for the latter saying no arrests had been made.
The news outlet Seznam Zprávy reported that the raids were in connection with the former head of IKEM, Michal Stiborek. He resigned recently, following accusations he had made tens of millions of crowns through loans at extortionate rates.
Internal affairs are investigating suspected coercion and extortion at IKEM, while the organised crime police are looking into possible manipulation of contracts and corruption, Czech Television reported.
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08/29/2023
Seventeen-year-old Czech Jakub Menšík has advanced to the second round of the US Open on his Grand Slam debut, after beating Gregoire Barrére of France 6-4 4-6 7-6 6-2 on Monday.
Tenth seed Karolína Muchová also advanced to round two, after beating Storm Hunter of Australia 6-4 6-0. Petra Kvitová, seeded 11th at Flushing Meadows, overcame Cristina Bucsa of Spain 6-1 7-6.
Jiří Veselý was the fourth Czech to advance on Monday, beating Enzo Couacaud in five sets.
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08/29/2023
The WTA Finals could be held in Ostrava in 2023 and in Prague in future years, according to Czech media outlets, who reported on Tuesday that businessman Tomáš Petera has put in a bid to host the prestigious women’s tennis event. Mr. Petera said the WTA was seriously considering his offer. A decision should be announced in the coming days.
The competition brings together the top eight singles players and doubles pairings and concludes the season every year.
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08/29/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to climb to the mid-20s Celsius in the following days.
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08/29/2023
The President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, was received by Czech President Petr Pavel with military honours at Prague Castle on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the president told the Czech News Agency that the invitation for the North Macedonian president to visit Czechia was primarily intended to express support for the Balkan country's EU membership hopes.
Mr Pendarovski will also meet Prime Minister Petr Fiala and the presidents of both chambers of the Czech Parliament during his visit.
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08/28/2023
If countries like Czechia were not providing arms to Ukraine, it would not have ended the war or saved lives, as some have argued, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at a meeting of Czech foreign ambassadors in Prague on Monday. He told the ambassadors that military aid to Ukraine needs to be strengthened rather than reduced, adding that a defence industry forum would be held in Ukraine in the autumn, to which hundreds of leading arms companies from around the world have been invited.
He emphasised the importance of Ukraine's victory and future NATO membership for the rest of Europe, saying that Europe would not be safe until Ukraine was part of the alliance. His speech followed a bilateral meeting with his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský.
The annual meeting of Czech ambassadors was opened by Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Monday morning. The event, which is taking place over three days, is an opportunity for a number of foreign policy, security, consular, EU and economic topics, including the war in Ukraine and its impact on Europe and the world, to be discussed.
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08/28/2023
In 1985, when he was a judge in the Pilsen District Court, Josef Baxa, now the President of the Constitutional Court, handed out a two-year suspended sentence to a seventeen-year-old man for attempting to emigrate, news site Novinky.cz revealed on Monday. Novinky looked through the archive of over 3,000 cases that Baxa handled between 1984 and 1989 and came to the conclusion that this was the only case that appeared to have a political undertone. Baxa told the Czech News Agency that he welcomed the fact that journalists had reviewed his pre-1989 verdicts.
Due to media pressure over his pre-1989 career in the judiciary, another candidate for the Constitutional Court, Robert Fremr, gave up his nomination in mid-August. In an interview that Baxa gave to the Czech News Agency at the time, he said that the public debate about how the communist justice system worked was valuable, but it had come too late. He also warned against viewing the past through a black-and-white lens.
When asked about his own pre-1989 past, he said he had worked mostly on cases dealing with general crime and did not remember emigrant cases, but admitted that there might have been one. However, he said that he could not be sure without going through the archives himself, as he had handed out verdicts in dozens of cases a month while serving at the District Court in Pilsen.
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08/28/2023
Last year, there was still hope that Russia, after failing to achieve practically any of its war aims, would start looking for a way to negotiate, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said in his speech at a meeting of Czech foreign ambassadors in Prague on Monday. However, the opposite has turned out to be the case, he said, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime aiming far beyond the control of Ukraine. Until Russia gets rid of Putinism, which he described as "a mixture of imperialism based on Russian and Soviet colonial history, with references to Orthodox mysticism, and building on the methods of the KGB and the St. Petersburg mafia," whoever sits in the Kremlin will always be intent on suppressing freedoms inside and outside of Russia.
He said that democratic countries need to push Russia out of positions in international organisations and added that Czechia fully supports Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's peace plan, as it is the only way out of the war. The foreign minister also announced that Czechia had been chosen, along with France, to be co-chair of a new group dedicated to the nuclear and radiation safety of Ukraine.
He also commented in his speech on the increasing risk posed by China, which he said was becoming a systemic rival that is trying to change the world order, and remarked on the risk of a Chinese alliance with Russia.
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08/28/2023
Tuesday will continue to be cool, overcast and rainy, with daytime temperatures of between 15 and 20 degrees Celsius.
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