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07/31/2024
The Czech Ministry of Defence is having to loosen its demands regarding state of health in order to keep army recruitment levels up, Novinky.cz reported. While seven years ago perfect health was required, the General Staff of the Army has now twice revised downwards its standards in that regard, the news site said.
Under a new Ministry of Defence edict, which comes into effect in September, it will be possible for those with obesity, HIV, diabetes or high blood pressure to be accepted as new recruits. The easing primarily concerns non-combat professions, where the army has a shortage of personnel.
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07/30/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. Cooler temperatures are expected toward the end of the week.
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07/30/2024
The Czech police’s internal affairs unit, known by the Czech acronym GIBS, has proposed that one male and one female police officer from Prague be charged over a brutal attack on several girls outside a nightclub in the city’s Smíchov district. The incident took place in February of this year.
A member of a police patrol called to the incident is also now being investigated for failing to take action against the attack, the news site iRozhlas.cz reported.
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07/30/2024
Defending champion Jiří Lipták failed to reach the final of the trap shooting event at the Paris Olympics. The Czech, who is 42, finished 18th overall after failing to make it out of the second qualifying part of the competition at Chateauroux on Tuesday.
Lipták became well-known in Czechia after taking gold at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.
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07/30/2024
The head of the Czech Communist Party has hit out against a planned visit to Prague by members of Ukraine’s Azov brigade on Wednesday. Kateřina Konečná said in an open letter to the foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, that the military unit represented the “worst of Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazism”.
For his part, Mr. Lipavský said that reading the letter he had wondered for which state Ms. Konečná had been elected. He said that if anyone was emulating the Nazis, it was Russia.
The BBC reported last month that the US had lifted a ban on weapons supplies and training to the Azov brigade, "whose origins were mired in controversy over alleged links to far-right groups".
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07/30/2024
The Czech economy grew by 0.4 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2024, according to a preliminary estimate issued by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. Analysts had expected lower growth in that period, the Czech News Agency reported.
The growth was mainly supported by household final consumption expenditure, an expert from the Czech Statistics Office said.
Quarter to quarter growth was 0.3 percent in the same period.
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07/30/2024
President Petr Pavel has issued four pardons, the first since he took office in March last year. The Office of the President said on Tuesday that the head of state had granted pardons to two mothers of minors, a foreigner long resident in Czechia and a Czech sentenced to 17 years in another country for drug smuggling.
Under the previous president, Miloš Zeman, the power of clemency was transferred to the Ministry of Justice. However, President Pavel took that right back at the start of this year.
The Office of the President has received over 700 requests for pardons since the beginning of 2024.
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07/30/2024
In the first year of a new Czech law protecting whistleblowers, 166 people have reported unlawful activities at their places of work to the Ministry of Justice, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.
To date 52 of these reports have gone to the relevant authorities, such as the police or labour inspectorate. Another 105 were deemed unfounded or not covered by the law, the ministry said.
The anti-corruption group Oživení (Revival) said that whistleblowers should also be given the option of anonymous submissions and effective legal assistance against retaliation.
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07/30/2024
Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanová finished sixth in the women’s 200m freestyle at the Olympic Games in Paris. Seemanová, who was the only European in Monday night’s final, also finished sixth at the previous Olympics in Tokyo. The 24-year-old said it was a solid result but she was disappointed at not setting a new personal record.
Earlier slalom canoeist Lukáš Rohan also finished sixth in Paris, failing to equal the bronze medal he earned three years go.
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07/29/2024
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday summoned Czechia’s chargé d'affaires in Moscow, Jan Ondřejka, to protest about what the Reuters news agency described as an attempt to smuggle powerful drugs or recreational substances by an administrative/technical staff member at the Czech Embassy in the Russian capital.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to the Czech Press Agency that the diplomat had taken in part in such a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry but did not provide more detailed information.
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