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The police charged former deputy governor Jakub Unucka with fraud in the awarding of small-scale public contracts | Video: Diary/Kateลina Souฤkovรก
In political circles, Jakub Unucka is nicknamed the Sunshine Man – when it was not about outright tragic topics, the smile did not disappear from his face. But now the clouds are gathering over him. The police accused him of the criminal offenses of “negotiation of an advantage in the awarding of a public contract, a public tender and a public auction”, “abuse of the authority of an official” and “accepting a bribe”, and bribery of another person.
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For a politician who wants to return to the development of electronics, the last few months must be like waking up from a dream. It started in 1969 in Ostrava, where Unucka was born. In 2003, he moved to neighboring Klimkovice. He studied mechanical engineering, but he combined his professional career with computer technology. He first worked in the company Autocont, in the following years he joined the Ostrava company Gaben, specializing in automatic identification, in the position of executive director.
He was also at the birth of paperless identification projects in the Siemens and Continental corporations, he managed the implementation of production information systems in several companies. Since 2009, he has led research projects in the field of radio frequency identification (RFID) and collaborated with Czech, Slovak and Korean universities. He founded an international research laboratory of these RFID technologies at Vล B-TUO.
The public knows him mainly from municipal politics and public life. He was deputy mayor of the spa town of Klimkovice for two electoral terms (2010 to 2017), where he also serves as the chairman of the ecological civic association ฤistรฉ Klimkovice. In the ODS, which he joined in 2005, he was a member or chairman of the Novojiฤรญn region for several periods.
Since 2016, he has been Deputy Governor for Transport and Smart Region, and since 2020, 1st Deputy Governor for Industry and Smart Region. After the governor Jan Krkoลกka resigned this spring, paradoxically also due to taking bribes in the past, Unucka effectively acted as the unofficial top man of the region for a short time.
He is married, and he and his wife Miroslava have a daughter, Martina. This year, at the end of the holidays, he announced publicly that after the end of his political career, he wants to return to business in the field of electronics development. However, the end of the political career came faster than he might have imagined.
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For the regional elections in September, he initially appeared in the 11th place among the candidates, but subsequently announced a change. “I’m quitting politics, I’m not going to run for office,” he told Denรญk after messing up with the subsidies.
For the company CU IDENT, he received a subsidy in the amount of almost 505 thousand crowns for the project Renewal of business in the field of electronics development after holding a vacant political position, and his wife Miroslava Unuckovรก received 276 thousand crowns for the project Expanding business with multi-platform database services.
When it got out that the subsidy had been approved by his political colleagues from the regional leadership, he gave up the subsidy and announced the end of politics. According to the party, he also suspended his membership in the ODS. But that may be the least of his worries for the following period. He faces up to ten years in prison after being accused by criminologists from the National Headquarters against Organized Crime.
โLet me share with you the most beautiful family event of this summer. My beloved daughter Deniska’s wedding,” said the former Minister for Regional Development and current MEP in the early evening on Saturday Klรกra Dostalovรกwhich only recently became an official member of ANO.
“It was a wonderful day. The wedding was on 13.7. in Slavkov near Brno,” added Dostรกlovรก for Blesk Zprรกvy, who also boasted about the entire wedding photo montage on Facebook. “It was a beautiful wedding,” Dostรกlova commented on the video.
“Beautiful. Congratulations, Klara, to the newlyweds and I wish them the best of luck.” Alena Schillerovรก, the head of the ANO parliamentary club and a member of the Dostรกlovรฉ movement, reacted to the family photo on Instagram. “Claire, congratulations and I wish the newlyweds good luck and understanding,” Jaroslava Pokornรก Jermanovรก (ANO) joined, who was elected to Brussels together with Dostรกlovรก.
It is not long after the It “fell through” that in July his only daughter was also married off by the current great rival of the ANO movement – the prime minister and head of the Spolu coalition Peter Fiala (ODS). His daughter Klรกra married the head of Mladรฉ ODS Michal Chlรกdek.
Happy mother, grandmother and mother-in-law Dostรกlovรก
Dostรกlovรก is also a representative in the Hradec Krรกlovรฉ region, and her family has a background in eastern Bohemia. Alone although she is a native of Prague, Hoลice later became her home in Podkrkonoลกรญ, where she moved with her husband. In the past, she remembered her own wedding on the social network.
In addition to her daughter, she and her husband also have a son who is three years older. The son of ex-minister Dostรกlova is also married, and on July 18, 2020, Dostรกlova’s daughter-in-law gave birth to a son, Kryลกtof, and so Dostรกlovรก had already become a grandmother in addition to a mother-in-law.
Giving away Babiลก in Rychnov
At the same time, the head of ANO, former prime minister and leader of the opposition also went to the wedding on Saturday Andrej Babiลก. “Today’s beautiful wedding at the Kolowrat Castle in Rychnov nad Knฤลพnou. Good luck to the newlyweds,โ said Babiลก on Facebook.
Radim Vondrรกฤek, the current director of its collections and research, will be the new director of the Museum of Applied Arts (UPM) in Prague starting November 1 for six years. She will replace Helena Koenigsmarkovรก, who has been at the head of UPM for more than 30 years and who ended her work at this institution at her own request.
Radim Vondrรกฤek has worked at UPM since 1991 as curator of the graphics collection, then as chief curator and since 2019 as director of collections and research. The Minister of Culture Martin Baxa (ODS) informed about his appointment this Tuesday.
“Dr. Vondrรกฤek has been working at the Museum of Applied Arts for many years and had the opportunity to manage numerous work teams, whether in the role of expert deputy and deputy director of Helena Koenigsmarkovรก or head of large-scale grant projects. He also worked in industry organizations, advisory bodies of the Ministry or scientific councils of museums and galleries. Overall, he acquired rich multidisciplinary knowledge during his practice, which he wants to continue to use for the benefit of this important institution,” said Minister Baxa.
Seven applicants applied for the position of UPM director. The Minister of Culture appointed 11 members of the selection committee. In addition to the oral interviews, the committee evaluated the proposals for the Development Concept of the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague, which the candidates submitted together with their applications for the selection process. “For the selection process, Radim Vondrรกฤek submitted a content-rich treatise on understanding the mission of the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague and the specific vision and future goals of the work,” noted Baxa.
The current director, Koenigsmarkovรก, ended her tenure as UPM director after completing the three most important undertakings in the modern history of the museum – the construction of the Central Depository (2016), the reconstruction of the historical building (2017) and the opening of the new permanent exhibition ART, LIFE. Art for Life (2023). A significant success of UPM under the leadership of Koenigsmark was the reconstruction of the castle in Kamenice nad Lipou, which today houses an extensive exhibition of 19th and 20th century furniture design and toys, the construction of the Central Depository, the reconstruction of a historical building and the opening of a new permanent exhibition.
According to Vondrรกฤek, he would continue her work and lead the museum to the next stage of its development. “The aim of the museum now will be to make full use of the rich potential of the collections, knowledge and possibilities of the repaired historic building, while at the same time meeting the new demands of the contemporary world on the role and responsibility of museums. We would also like to renew the ambitious foreign program,” he said.
NETWORK MONITORING Is the government’s motivation for the recovery package and austerity measures the well-being of our residents, or are the declared savings to secure the government’s other goals as well? From what the prime minister has published, it follows that one such goal may be the adoption of the euro and entry into the eurozone. But this is contrary to what the ODS has promised so far, even though there are also growing voices for the adoption of a common European currency.
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“We have prepared the recovery package in such a way that it will reduce the public deficit from today’s 3.5% of GDP to 2.4% in 2025 within a two-year period,” Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) announced on his Twitter account, adding that these values they are very important for the future.
“This is an important message because if we manage to approve this package, then next year we will begin to fulfill at least one of the Maastricht criteria and have a deficit below 3% of GDP.”
We have prepared the recovery package in such a way that it will reduce the public deficit from today’s 3.5% of GDP to 2.4% in 2025 within a two-year horizon.
This is an important message because if we manage to approve this package, then next year we will start fulfilling at least one of theโฆ
โ Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) July 14, 2023
Why is it so important for the prime minister, what are the Maastricht criteria and what does their fulfillment mean?
Let’s start by reminding ourselves what the Maastricht criteria are.
These are the conditions that are set for the member states of the European Union and for their entry into the third phase of the European Economic and Monetary Union and for the introduction of the common currency โ the euro.
There are four in total, and EU member states that want to introduce the euro must comply with them:
โ Price stability โ the average annual inflation must not exceed by more than 1.5 percentage points the average annual inflation of the three member countries with the best inflation values.
โ Stability of the exchange rate โ at least two years before joining the monetary union, the candidate country should join ERM II and during this period there should be no devaluation.
โ Convergence of long-term interest rates โ the long-term nominal interest rate must not exceed by more than 2 pp the average of the three countries with the best results regarding price stability.
โ Public finances โ the share of national debt in GDP must not exceed 60%. And the share of the state budget deficit to GDP must be less than 3%.
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And it was this last criterion, i.e. the deficit of the state budget below 3 percent of GDP, that the prime minister mentioned in his status.
And that brings us to the other questions mentioned at the beginning of the article, which is why the values โโmentioned by Fiala are so important and what it can mean for our future, or for the future of our currency.
The steps taken by Petr Fiala’s government, including the recovery of public finances, the austerity package and other measures, can be interpreted as preparation for the fulfillment of the aforementioned Maastricht criteria, i.e. the conditions for adopting the euro and joining the eurozone.
However, this is contrary to what the ODS has been proclaiming for a long time, and not even the government coalition is united in this. Moreover, according to all surveys, even the citizens of our country do not wish to adopt the euro.
Let’s also add that even economic experts cannot currently agree on whether such a step would be at all beneficial for the Czech Republic and its citizens and what its consequences would mean for the economy of our country and for the wallets of its inhabitants.
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