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03/05/2024
The international security conference Globsec is moving from Bratislava to Prague for its 2024 edition, Seznam Zprávy reports. The event came under fire in recent months from Prime Minister Robert Fico in Slovakia, who repeatedly criticised the conference and said he would rather give the money for it to other institutions. Meanwhile, it received the support of the Czech President Petr Pavel, who signed the official patronage of the conference on Monday. The Globsec headquarters will remain in Slovakia.
The event, which aims to promote dialogue on foreign and security policy issues, has been held 18 times in the Slovak capital. It will take place this year in Prague from August 30 to September 1.
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03/04/2024
Minister of Agriculture Marek Výborný has responded to a video in which former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš suggests Ukrainian grain is "contaminated" by saying that the video comes very close to spreading fake news and alarmist messaging. He refuted Mr. Babiš's statements, telling Czech daily Deník N that both Czech and imported grain, regardless of where it comes from, are subject to rigorous inspection, and that no grain from Ukraine has been found to be contaminated. He added that in fact very little grain is imported from Ukraine to Czechia.
The video, released on Sunday, shows the ANO party leader talking to a live rooster, which he introduces as Silver, before going on to say that Silver only eats Czech grain and doesn't like Ukrainian grain, because he says it is contaminated.
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03/04/2024
Czechia is not focussing enough on the prevention of corruption or regulating lobbying sufficiently, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body GRECO said in an assessment report published on Monday. The anti-corruption group wrote that although Czechia has a robust legal framework for the prevention of corruption, there is too little focus on guidance, training and awareness activities, as well as on supervision and enforcement, and progress in some areas, such as lobbying, has been slow in recent years. The Council of Europe gave the country 20 recommendations for improvement.
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03/04/2024
Tuesday should see some fog in the early morning that should lift by around 9 am. The rest of the day is expected to be overcast with a chance of showers. Daytime temperatures are predicted to range between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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03/04/2024
EU member states should avoid unilateral measures that could increase gas prices for consumers, Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela said at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. He wants to discuss abolishing the fee that Germany charges other EU countries for gas transit through its territory. This idea is supported by neighbouring countries Poland, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. Síkela expects to discuss the issue directly with German Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
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03/04/2024
The head of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions, Josef Středula, has lost his powers as chairman due to not having paid his union membership fees, the Czech News Agency reports. Last month, the daily tabloid Blesk published a copy of a letter sent to Středula by the Vítkovice steel mills trade union KOVO telling him that his membership was being terminated because he had not paid his dues for five months. According to law, the head of the Confederation of Trade Unions must be a member of a trade union himself, otherwise his mandate as chairman automatically expires.
The Council of the Confederation of Trade Unions has authorised the vice presidents of the organisation, Vít Samek and Radka Sokolová, to take over leadership until the extraordinary convention of the confederation takes place on Monday, March 25, when the new leader will be elected. Josef Středula has said that he intends to run again for the mandate.
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03/04/2024
Whooping cough is on the rise in Czechia, with 449 new cases in the last week. There have been 1,666 confirmed cases in the country since the start of this year, more than in the last four years combined. Around a third of those affected are children and adolescents.
Symptoms of the infectious disease are repeated bouts of coughing that can end in gasping or vomiting and that won't respond to common medications. Whooping cough can be fatal for unvaccinated infants under one year of age. Infants may not have a significant cough, as they have not yet developed a cough reflex, but warning signs are apnoeic pauses (absence of breathing lasting more than twenty seconds) and gasping.
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03/04/2024
A passenger train crashed into a concrete obstacle on the line between Vejprnice and Plzeň in West Bohemia on Monday morning. Nobody was hurt in the incident, which caused the route to be closed for some hours.
A spokesperson for the fire service told the Czech News Agency that concrete objects had evidently been placed on the tracks deliberately. The police are investigating the matter.
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03/04/2024
The traditional Prague “S” derby between Sparta and Slavia ended in a 0:0 draw at the former’s Letná stadium on Sunday evening. Sparta’s Ecuadorian defender Preciado was sent off in the final minutes of the game, which was the 310th edition meeting between the city rivals.
The result leaves Sparta, who are defending champions, four points clear at the top of the table in the regular part of the league. Slavia are second, eight points ahead of third-placed Viktoria Plzeň.
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03/03/2024
A delegation led by Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, which was coming back from Japan, was delayed in India’s Mumbai on Sunday due to a technical malfunction with their plane.
The Czech foreign policy chief was returning from a visit to India, Australia and Japan that lasted almost two weeks. He was accompanied by a delegation representing around a dozen Czech companies and institutions.
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