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07/03/2024
With an average temperature of 21.2 degrees Celsius the month of June was one of the hottest in more than 200 years according to Prague's Klementinum, the oldest monitoring station in the country. Since 1775, there have been only six warmer months of June, only one of which was before 2000, the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute said on its website. Czechia as a whole also had an exceptionally warm June, with temperatures reaching a national average of 17.9 Celsius.
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07/03/2024
Relations between the Czech Republic and Ukraine have reached the level of a strategic partnership, the new Ukrainian ambassador to Czechia, Vasyl Zvaryc, told reporters after presenting his credentials to President Petr Pavel at Prague Castle on Tuesday. Ambassador Zvarych thanked the Czech Republic, its citizens and top officials for their support for Ukraine and expressed the conviction that the allies would celebrate a victory of good over evil. He said he was pleased to see how the Czech Republic was strengthening its position in global politics through its dedication to protecting international law.
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07/03/2024
Information operations aimed at spreading Russian propaganda and influencing public opinion against aid to Ukraine have been intensifying in the Czech Republic, according to the 2023 report of the National Centre against Organized Crime (NCOZ). According to the report, these efforts aim to demoralize the public debate and spread the Russian view of the war in Ukraine. So-called hybrid threats are also intensifying in other European countries, the report says. Last year, the Centre also observed the movement of "post-Soviet criminal structures" into Europe, which it said could result in their permanent presence inside the Schengen area, including the Czech Republic.
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07/02/2024
President Petr Pavel on Tuesday received several new ambassadors at Prague Castle. Among them was the new ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Vasyl Zvaryc, who previously served in the same capacity in neighbouring Poland. The post has been vacant for almost two years after the previous ambassador, Yevhen Perebyjnis, was appointed Ukrainian deputy foreign minister.
Zvarych previously served as ambassador to Poland, the United States and Turkey. María Pérez is the new Spanish ambassador to the Czech Republic. India will be represented by Ravish Kumar, who previously served as ambassador to Estonia and Finland.
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07/02/2024
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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07/02/2024
Fruit growers will lose around CZK 1.3 billion in revenues as a result of extreme frost-damage this year, which may threaten many farmers’ livelihood, Martin Ludvík, chairman of the Fruit Growers' Union told the ctk news agency. According to the latest estimates, 77 percent of the fruit harvest has been damaged and fruit growers are expected to harvest only around 31, 000 tons of fruit compared to the average 138, 900 tons. According to statistics the damage to the fruit is one of the worst in the last 100 years. Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný said earlier that the government would provide farmers with state aid to the tune of CZK 70 to 100 million. He said that while the state cannot afford to compensate farmers fully, it wants to help them survive.
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07/02/2024
The first containers carrying building materials for the Czech National Pavilion at EXPO 2025 in Osaka were shipped to Japan from Veřovice in the Moravian-Silesian Region on Monday. The Czech pavilion at the 2025 Expo will be the tallest wooden building of its kind in Japan, and will be built almost entirely from wood and glass. The pavilion is circular with a spiralling exterior, which will take the form of a ramp winding up around a skylit atrium. It was designed by Apropos Architects.
In Japan there are strict standards and height restrictions for timber buildings due to the threat of earthquakes and Czech designers had to convince the Japanese authorities that the spiral-shaped building could withstand possible natural disasters.
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07/02/2024
Justice ministry employees are going on strike alert on Wednesday July 3, in protest against low pay. The unions claim that wages at the ministry are significantly lower than those in other state institutions. They have warned that unless they receive guarantees of pay increases by the end of August, the ministry’s employees will enter into a one-day strike. According to the unions the decline in real incomes of justice ministry employees reached 25 per cent in the years between 2021 to 2023 and has been deepening further in recent months.
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07/02/2024
Officers from the National Centre against Organized Crime have charged 16 people with subsidy fraud and tax evasion resulting in damage exceeding CZK 70 million. According to investigators, they used fictitious invoices to increase the turnover of companies, applied for loans and subsidies under false pretenses and wrongfully claimed tax deductions. According to the Centre’s spokesman, Jaroslav Ibehej, the police arrested 15 Czechs and one foreign national at the end of June and carried out more than ten raids on private homes and offices. They seized real estate and cash worth almost CZK 50 million.
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07/02/2024
The General Inspectorate of the Security Forces (GIBS) is investigating multiple cases of possible professional misconduct by officers from the protective service unit - an elite police body guarding politicians and strategic government buildings. According to media reports, some of the cases involve, for example, reporting overtime on shifts when the officers in question were actually at home, and security guards who were supposed to be protecting the American ambassador disappearing without permission. There are also witness reports of commanders abusing their position and using official cars for leisure purposes, such as their wives using them to get to the international film festival in Karlovy Vary. Czech news site Seznam Zprávy writes that some of these practices, such as the false reporting of overtime, thanks to which the officers managed to get up to CZK 40,000 extra per month added to their salaries, have been going on for years.
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