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10/24/2024
The government has extended the deployment of soldiers helping to deal with the damage wrought by the September floods in the Moravia-Silesia region. Under the decree, up to 1,000 soldiers may continue helping out in the region until the end of November. The cabinet approved the deployment of up to 2,000 soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the natural disaster. The soldiers have been working on restoring local infrastructure, building temporary bridges and helping in the clean-up operation especially where heavy machinery is needed.
The cabinet also approved CZK 1 billion to help municipalities and regions affected by the floods to provide replacement housing and space for schools.
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10/24/2024
The interior and justice ministries have jointly drafted a proposed amendment to the law which would provide compensation of CZK 100 000 to people persecuted by the Communist regime. Two groups of dissidents would be eligible to receive the one-off compensation payment. The first are those subjected to secret police surveillance, who had to report being away from home or suffer frequent raids by the police. The second group consists of people who were forced to emigrate by the communist secret police. The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes estimates that the legislation could help hundreds of dissidents.
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10/24/2024
Czech Health Minister Vlastimil Válek will meet with GPs and outpatient specialists on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avert a two-day strike planned for next week. The protest is against the healthcare funding decree for 2025, which doctors say fails to take into account rising costs.
Hospitals have said they will not join the strike action, but they support the protest of general practitioners and outpatient specialists. Moreover, regional hospitals have protested against the fact that under the existing system they receive less money for the same operations than their colleagues from large, faculty hospitals and are planning to file a complaint to the Constitutional Court.
The two-day strike is planned for October 29 to October 30.
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10/24/2024
The Vatican‘s Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Prime Minister Petr Fiala signed a treaty between the Czech Republic and the Vatican in Prague on Thursday. The Czech Republic is one of the last European countries to sign a treaty regulating relations with the Vatican. It took two decades to agree on the wording of the treaty which does not address the state's property relations with the Catholic Church. It protects citizens' freedom of religion and legally anchors, for example, clerical services in social and health care institutions or in prisons and the army.
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10/24/2024
The Czech Chamber of Deputies has approved the basic parameters of the proposed state budget for 2025 in its first reading. The proposed draft reckons with a deficit of 241 billion CZK, which is CZK 41 billion lower than this year's projected deficit. The first reading of the draft budget lasted for fourteen and a half hours, and was approved by 87 MPs of the ruling coalition. Opposition MPs, including the now non-governmental Pirate Party, voted against it. The proposed draft will need to pass through two more readings in the lower house before the end of the year.
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10/23/2024
Following a proposal by the Ministry of Defence, the government has extended the deployment of soldiers to work with the consequences of the September floods, with up to 1,000 helping until the end of November, ministry spokesman David Polák told ČTK. At an extraordinary meeting on September 16th, the Cabinet previously approved the deployment of up to 2,000 soldiers, a mandate only valid until the end of October. The soldiers will help especially with the construction of temporary bridges, and their specific place of deployment will depend on the needs and requests of the governors and operational centres of the Fire and Rescue Service.
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10/23/2024
Tomorrow will be cloudy, initially with occasional drizzle and fog. Highest temperatures will be between 13 and 17 °C.
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10/23/2024
The European Commission has fined the Czech rail carrier České dráhy and Austria's ÖBB a total of 48.7m euros (1.2bn CZK) for breaching EU antitrust rules, the Commission said in a press release today. It was found that ČD and ÖBB colluded to prevent a new entrant, the Czech company RegioJet, from accessing used wagons, thus restricting competition on the rail-passenger transport market. RegioJet has stated that it will apply for compensation for damages.
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10/23/2024
Czech journalist Ray Baseley was detained by Georgian authorities while attempting to enter the country on Tuesday, without being given an official reason, and has now left Georgia and flown to Warsaw, according to a post on X. Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Drake told ČTK that the Czech embassy in Tbilisi was assisting in the matter, and had sent an official request for information about Baseley's whereabouts and the reasons for his detention and denial of entry. Baseley had previously posted on the platform X that neither he nor the border guard knew the reason for the refusal of entry, followed by a comment from his partner Maria Kaplina that she had not heard from him for eight hours.
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10/23/2024
September's floods in the Olomouc region have a second confirmed victim, after DNA analysis determined the identity of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found in Poland, police spokeswoman Ivana Skoupilová informed ČTK today. Together with two other men, the woman was at the time in a vehicle that was swept away by the river Staříč in the village of Lipová-lázně on September 14th. The two men have not yet been found. The region's first victim was a senior citizen from Kobylá nad Vidnavkou in the Jeseník area, who died after the river washed away part of her house. In the whole of Czechia, the number of confirmed victims of the September floods has risen to six.
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