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09/30/2023
The weekly Reflex does not have to apologise to Tomio Okamura of the anti-EU, anti-migrant Freedom and Direct Democracy for referring to him as an “idiot”, Prague’s Supreme Court ruled. The magazine dubbed the opposition party leader Pitomio, combining a Czech word for idiot with his first name.
In the court’s ruling it said Mr. Okamura needed to display a higher degree of tolerance. The judges overturned an appeal court ruling and confirmed the verdict of a court of first instance.
For his part the politician said he regarded the verdict as unconstitutional in view of an earlier Constitutional Court ruling on the matter.
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09/30/2023
The Czech government has submitted its draft for the 2024 state budget to the lower house of Parliament. The budget envisages a deficit of CZK 252 billion, which would be CZK 43 billion lower than this year’s planned deficit. While the 2023 deficit is equivalent to 3.6 percent of gross domestic product, next year it should be 2.2 percent of GDP.
Most ministries are set to see their budgets reduced as part of the Czech government’s cost-cutting policy. However, the ministries of defence, education and labour will get more money from the state coffers in 2024.
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09/30/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. More grey skies are expected at the start of next week.
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09/29/2023
The Czech Senate commemorated the 85th anniversary of the signing of the Munich Agreement on Friday, with Senate President Miloš Vystrčil and his predecessors Petr Pithart and Přemysl Sobotka giving speeches. The Munich Agreement, on the basis of which Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia's border regions in 1938, carries an essential message for the present, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil said in his speech. Former senate president Přemysl Sobotka reminded the audience that no peace was ensured by the Munich Agreement, concluding that democracy must never yield to dictators.
Ambassadors from the signatory countries (Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy), historians and students also took part in the subsequent discussion that followed.
The event took place in the Green Lounge of the Kolovrat Palace, the former seat of the First Republic Czechoslovak government, where the country's leaders were informed of the wording of the agreement on September 30, 1938.
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09/29/2023
Hundreds of Slovaks, primarily students, set off from Prague's main railway station on Friday afternoon on a special free train to take part in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Slovakia. A second train will leave Brno for Bratislava shortly after 7 p.m.
The trains were paid for by four non-profit organisations with the aim of increasing voter turnout at the Slovak elections, given the large number of Slovaks living in Czechia. More than 1,000 people, of which roughly 60 percent were students, registered online for a place on the trains, according to the organisers.
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09/29/2023
The Czech Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens not to travel to the frozen conflict zone of Nagorno-Karabakh and areas near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan due to recent escalating tensions in the area. The ministry has also recommended avoiding large gatherings of people in central Yerevan, Armenia's capital, due to the increasingly high probability of clashes between protesters and police officers. According to the ministry, the Czech embassies in Yerevan and Baku have very limited capabilities of providing consular protection and assistance in hard-to-reach places.
Azerbaijani troops carried out a military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh last week, with large parts of the predominantly ethnic Armenian population fleeing amid fears of persecution and ethnic cleansing.
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09/29/2023
Saturday will see slightly cooler weather, with temperatures of between 16 and 19 degrees Celsius during the day. Skies will be mostly overcast or cloudy with a chance of some showers.
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09/29/2023
The Czech, German and Polish interior ministers have agreed to instate joint patrols on Germany's borders with Czechia and Poland and to create a joint operational group to fight human trafficking groups, the German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, announced on Friday. Concretely for Czechia, this means joint Czech-German patrols on the Czech side of the border.
The German minister had already announced on Wednesday that, due to the recent increase in human trafficking activity and illegal migration, Germany is introducing temporary increased controls on its borders with Czechia and Poland, with immediate effect.
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09/29/2023
The Czech government approved the purchase of 24 US-made F-35 aircraft on Wednesday, which Defence Minister Jana Černochová said would cost a total of CZK 150 billion, including all expenses related to beginning operations. However, the total cost for the entire life cycle of the fighter jets will be significantly higher than that, daily newspapers Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo reported on Friday, with the defence ministry estimating the total cost for the acquisition and operation of the jets until the end of their useful service life in 2069 at CZK 322 billion.
The first of the fighter jets will be ready in 2029 and all 24 will be in the country by 2035. The purchase will be the biggest defence contract ever signed by Czechia.
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09/29/2023
The 13th annual Architecture Day, a week-long festival celebrating quality architecture in Czechia and Slovakia, kicked off on Friday. Some 450 free events will be on offer throughout the week until October 5, including entry to buildings normally not open to the public, architectural walking tours, and guided bike rides led by architects and historians.
The program this year includes modern and forgotten historical buildings, towers, monasteries, churches, bridges and stadiums from across the country in a variety of architectural styles, from baroque through functionalism and brutalism to the present.
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