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05/02/2024
Friday is expected to be overcast with a high probability of rain. Daytime temperatures should range between 14 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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05/02/2024
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has upgraded this year's global economic growth forecast from 2.9 percent to 3.1 percent in the latest OECD Economic Outlook report published on Thursday. However, out of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries, the OECD predicts the slowest growth for Czechia, with GDP growth of 1.1 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, compared to Poland (2.9 percent growth this year and 3.4 percent next year), Hungary (2.1 percent this year and 2.8 percent next year), and Slovakia (2.1 percent this year and 2.7 percent next year). This makes Czechia the only one of the V4 to fall behind the OECD average, according to the forecast.
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05/02/2024
Had parliamentary elections taken place in April, Andrej Babiš's ANO party would have won with 32.5 percent of the vote, while Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrat (ODS) party would have placed second with 13 percent, according to the latest Median poll. The Pirates and the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party would have tied for third place with 10 percent of the vote each - a marked improvement for the SPD, who have regularly been polling around 7 to 9 percent in recent months. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) would have got eight percent of the vote, also an improvement on their March result.
The remaining political parties, including the two others making up the five-party government coalition (TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats), would not have made it into parliament at all, having not gained enough votes to reach the minimum five percent threshold required.
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05/02/2024
Around 9,000 people have registered to join the Czech Armed Forces via a new online recruitment website which was put into operation last September, the Ministry of Defense reported. More than 4,000 of those candidates are applying for professional service. The Czech Army is aiming to increase the number of professional soldiers to 30,000 and have 10,000 soldiers in the active reserve by 2030.
At the beginning of this year there were 27, 800 professional soldiers in the armed forces, but this number also includes about 1,000 military police officers and about 1,500 members of the Military Intelligence Service. In order for the Czech army to reach its set goal of 30, 000 soldiers by 2030, it would need to recruit and train several hundred soldiers a year.
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05/02/2024
The Interior Ministry has ordered heightened security measures around key sites in Prague, Ostrava and other cities in connection with the upcoming World Hockey Championship, due to take place in Czechia from May 10 – May 26. The measures will include armed police patrols in the streets, heightened protection of key institutions and intensified road checks. People can also expect heightened police surveillance at Václav Havel Airport, Janáček Airport in Ostrava, the hotels accommodating the hockey teams and the O2 and Ostravar sports arenas where the matches will be taking place.
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05/01/2024
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 19 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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05/01/2024
Twenty years after Czechia’s accession to the EU, 66 percent of Czechs support EU membership and 30 percent are against it, according to the results of a poll conducted by the STEM agency in April. Public support for EU membership was highest in 2004 when 69 percent of Czechs welcomed the country’s accession to the alliance. It was lowest during the migrant crisis in 2016 when 65 percent of Czechs were dissatisfied with EU membership.
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05/01/2024
The pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and businessman Artyom Marchevsky, who was placed on the national sanctions list by the Czech government last month, has been granted temporary protection in Slovakia, Deník N reported on Wednesday. According to the Czech government and intelligence services, Marchevsky, together with another pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, Viktor Medvedchuk, have been working to influence the European elections in several European countries, using the Voice of Europe media platform and bribing anti-establishment politicians. Both were placed on the Czech national sanctions list. Marchevsky is now residing in Slovakia.
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05/01/2024
Temperature records were broken at monitoring stations around the country on Tuesday. A new high for April 30 was recorded at 24 of the 168 stations that have been operating for at least 30 years. The highest temperature was in Husinec-Řež, where it reached 29.1 degrees Celsius.
Due to the warm, dry and windy weather, meteorologists have warned of an increased risk of fires across most of Czechia. The warning resulted in a ban on lighting fires in Prague on Walpurgis or “witch burning“ night on April 30.
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05/01/2024
Political parties held rallies in Prague and other cities on Labour Day. The ruling Civic Democrats and parties in the SPOLU coalition organized an event for voters in Kampa Park, while the Communist Party and the Social Democrats met with their supporters on Prague's Střelecký ostrov. The main opposition party ANO kicked off their campaign for the European elections in Zlin.
Police were out in force for an anarchists' march through the Prague city centre, but no incidents were reported.
For many Czechs, May 1 is a celebration of love, the equivalent of Valentine’s Day, and students traditionally organize a May Day parade.
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