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06/03/2021
The National Museum in Prague is exhibiting the skull of a woman who lived more than 45,000 years ago. Scientists have extracted one of the oldest-known genomes of the so-called modern human in Eurasia from the bone.
The skull fragments were found in the Koněprusy Caves in Central Bohemia in the 1950s. Their age has been proven through research, the results of which were published in April. The remains were originally thought to be far younger.
The skull and a model of the woman’s reconstructed face will be on view at until July 2. The National Museum has also put out a poll where people can suggest a name for the prehistoric woman.
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06/03/2021
The current foreign residency system relies too heavily on files in paper form that must be physically transferred between workplaces, the Ministry of the Interior argues in a proposal for a digital overhaul.
The system handles the granting and extending various permits to foreigners residing in the country for more than 90 days, reporting of changes due to marriage, the birth of a child, or relocation, and the issuance of new documents.
The Ministry wants to create a new system internally. It estimates that creating and maintaining the system for the first five years will cost 600 million crowns, most of which it hopes to get from the European Union.
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06/03/2021
The 16th annual Pragueshorts Film Festival, organised by the team behind the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), kicked off on Wednesday evening at Světozor cinema in Prague. Through June 27, the international competition will feature 37 films from 29 countries screening at 10 indoor and outdoor cinemas in the Czech capital.
This year’s program includes extra short films in the Ultrashorts section, a block of comedies titled Live Forever!, the traditional and popular Brutal Relax Show, LABO, a section dedicated to presenting fresh and innovative approaches to both form and content, a Radu Jude retrospective, the Fullmoon magazine selection.
This year’s Pragueshorts festival is also being held online on the Karlovy Vary film festival’s movie platform www.kviff.tv, where the complete program is available for free, and through which viewers can vote for the Audience Awards.
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06/03/2021
The Czech ice hockey team – fresh from a resounding 7-3 win against neighbouring Slovakia – face Finland on Thursday evening at the World Championship quarter-finals in Riga, Latvia.
Last year’s games were cancelled due to the coronavirus, making 2019 winners Finland the defending champions. The Czechs last won a medal in 2012, when they took home a bronze. Since then, they have crossed the quarter-finals stage three times.
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06/03/2021
The Czech Republic is sending several dozen police officers to assist Slovenia in curbing illegal migration on that country’s border with Croatia, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček (Social Democrats) told journalists following a meeting with his Slovenian counterpart Aleš Hojs on Wednesday.
Hojs said that an estimated 14,000 people illegally crossed the Slovenian-Croatian border last year. Hamáček said they also discussed the upcoming Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2021 and the coronavirus pandemic, among other topics.
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06/03/2021
Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (independent) remains the most influential woman in the country, according to a ranking published by Czech edition of Forbes magazine.
Schillerová’s decisions are directly influence the lives of most people in the country, said Forbes editor-in-chief Petr Šimůnek. Furthermore, no other woman manages a larger amount of money than the finance minister.
A year ago, Schillerová replaced EU Vice-President Věra Jourová in the top spot. Jourová is ranked second and Prague Public Prosecutor Lenka Bradáčová third, as in 2020.
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06/03/2021
The Senate Committee on Security has proposed that Czech President Miloš Zeman is incapable of serving in his position, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday. The upper-house is therefore set to vote on whether the president should be removed from his function next week. If the Senate votes in favour of the motion, it will have to then pass through the Chamber of Deputies as well.
Senator Pavel Fischer, who chairs the committee, told the Czech News Agency that the president showed he is disorientated in the way he reacted to new information relating to the 2014 Vrbětice explosion and that he is not able to fulfill his presidential oath.
Prague Castle Spokesman Jiří Ovčáček called the Senate committee’s decision an attack on the constitutional order, freedom and democracy.
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06/03/2021
The ANO-Social Democrat minority government led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is facing a vote of no-confidence from the Chamber of Deputies this Thursday. The opposition needs to get 101 MPs to vote in favour of the motion.
The Civic Democrats, the Pirate Party, the Mayors and Independents, the Christian Democrats, TOP 09, the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, as well as the Tricolour party members are all expected to vote in favour of no confidence, which gives the opposition 90 votes in total.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is seen as a key player in the vote, as they are not members of the government, but support it indirectly. According to the Czech News Agency, Communist Party MPs have been told by their leadership to leave the hall when the vote takes place. However, other sources within the party say that the decision is yet to be made at its deputies club meeting later in the day.
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06/02/2021
The Czech Car Importers Association has called on the government to support electric and hybrid car sales by CZK 200,000 for each purchase and plug-in hybrids with emissions not exceeding 50 grams of CO2 by CZK 100,000, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday. Furthermore, the association wants non-monetary benefits reflected in the tax base for both company and private vehicle users to be reduced from 1 percent to 0.5 percent per month.
According to the association’s secretary, Josef Pokorný, the Czech Republic has, on average, some of the oldest cars in Europe, which reflects negatively on both safety and the level of carbon emissions.
The proposal has been sent to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, as well as to the various relevant ministries that will play a role in making a decision.
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06/02/2021
Irish clothes retailer Primark will open its first store in the Czech Republic in Prague on June 17, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday. The store is set to occupy three floors within the so-called Flow Building on the corner of Wenceslas Square.
The opening of the store had to be delayed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic. Primark’s entry onto the Czech market is expected to create more than 300 jobs, the company stated in its press release.
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