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03/05/2024
Prague Zoo is set to transport rare Przewalski horses to Kazakhstan at the beginning of June, the zoo’s director, Miroslav Bobek, told reporters on Tuesday. It will deliver three stallions and five mares which are currently located in Prague and Berlin, Mr. Bobek said. The operation will be carried out under the auspices of Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
Over the next five years around 40 Przewalski horses will be transported to the Altyn Dala steppe as part of an effort to restore a population of the animals in the wild.
Prague Zoo has been breeding the horses since the 1930s.
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03/05/2024
West Ham United defender Vladimír Coufal is set to return to the Czech national team after clear the air talks with new coach Ivan Hašek. In an interview for Canal+ Sport, Coufal said he had spoken to Hašek in London after a game against Brentford.
The defender was one of three players sent home from the Czech national squad during qualifiers for Euro 2024 in November after attending a night club in Olomouc.
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03/05/2024
French company Orano is set to provide uranium enrichment services to Dukovany nuclear power plant, its operator, ČEZ, said on Tuesday. Russia’s TVEL was previously responsible for this work.
ČEZ said it had concluded the agreement during a visit to Prague by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron.
Orana already handles uranium enrichment for Czechia’s second nuclear power station, Temelín.
ČEZ said last year that it would cease working with Russian companies in this area for security reasons related to the war in Ukraine.
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03/05/2024
French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed at Prague Castle by the Czech head of state, Petr Pavel, on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed military aid to Ukraine and insisted that Russia not be allowed to triumph in that conflict.
Mr. Macron said his ministers would continue to discuss French involvement in a Czech plan to purchase hundreds of thousands of ammunition rounds from third countries for Ukraine, financially backed by other states. He described the Czech initiative as significant.
The French leader said Russia could not win in Ukraine and that it was necessary to support the Ukrainian people and army for as long as required.
Mr. Pavel said he was in favour of seeking new forms of assistance to Ukraine, including a discussion on a possible presence in the country; not in the form of combat troops, but in the form of assistance.
Mr. Macron began his one-day trip to Czechia with a visit to Prague’s French secondary school. He is also due to hold talks with the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala.
The French leader was last in Prague in 2022 for the first gathering of the European Political Community and an informal European Council summit.
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03/05/2024
The famous Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a ceramic statuette of a naked woman thought to be 29,000 years old, was transported from Prague to Brno by the Czech police under tight security measures on Tuesday morning and returned to the Moravian Regional Museum. Believed to be one of the oldest of its kind in the world, the priceless artefact was found at a Stone Age settlement in the Moravian basin south of Brno in 1925, but is rarely shown to the public. It was on display at the National Museum in Prague as part of a joint exhibition from last September to the end of February this year.
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03/05/2024
The international security conference Globsec is moving from Bratislava to Prague for its 2024 edition, Seznam Zprávy reports. The event came under fire in recent months from Prime Minister Robert Fico in Slovakia, who repeatedly criticised the conference and said he would rather give the money for it to other institutions. Meanwhile, it received the support of the Czech President Petr Pavel, who signed the official patronage of the conference on Monday. The Globsec headquarters will remain in Slovakia.
The event, which aims to promote dialogue on foreign and security policy issues, has been held 18 times in the Slovak capital. It will take place this year in Prague from August 30 to September 1.
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03/04/2024
Minister of Agriculture Marek Výborný has responded to a video in which former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš suggests Ukrainian grain is "contaminated" by saying that the video comes very close to spreading fake news and alarmist messaging. He refuted Mr. Babiš's statements, telling Czech daily Deník N that both Czech and imported grain, regardless of where it comes from, are subject to rigorous inspection, and that no grain from Ukraine has been found to be contaminated. He added that in fact very little grain is imported from Ukraine to Czechia.
The video, released on Sunday, shows the ANO party leader talking to a live rooster, which he introduces as Silver, before going on to say that Silver only eats Czech grain and doesn't like Ukrainian grain, because he says it is contaminated.
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03/04/2024
Czechia is not focussing enough on the prevention of corruption or regulating lobbying sufficiently, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body GRECO said in an assessment report published on Monday. The anti-corruption group wrote that although Czechia has a robust legal framework for the prevention of corruption, there is too little focus on guidance, training and awareness activities, as well as on supervision and enforcement, and progress in some areas, such as lobbying, has been slow in recent years. The Council of Europe gave the country 20 recommendations for improvement.
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03/04/2024
Tuesday should see some fog in the early morning that should lift by around 9 am. The rest of the day is expected to be overcast with a chance of showers. Daytime temperatures are predicted to range between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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03/04/2024
EU member states should avoid unilateral measures that could increase gas prices for consumers, Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela said at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. He wants to discuss abolishing the fee that Germany charges other EU countries for gas transit through its territory. This idea is supported by neighbouring countries Poland, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. Síkela expects to discuss the issue directly with German Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
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