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12/21/2023
Billionaire Pavel Tykač has become the new owner of Slavia Prague. According to the news website Seznam Zprávy, he signed a deal on Thursday with the Chinese CITIC Group, which owned the club for five years. Before that, the club was owned by another Chinese company, CEFC.
The price for the sale of Slavia is unknown, but it is estimated at about CZK two billion. The transaction also includes the Fortuna Arena in Eden. The 21-time league champion will continue to be led by Jaroslav Tvrdík, while Tykač will head the supervisory board.
Mr. Tykač, who is 59, is the fourth richest Czech with a fortune of CZK 183.3 billion, according to the October issue of Forbes magazine.
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12/21/2023
Some CZK 2.5 million were raised in this year’s War Veterans Day collection, which is CZK 600,000 more than in the previous year, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The money will be used to help those in need within the Military Solidarity Fund.
The fund was established in 2015 to help war veterans cope with unexpected life situations and support the relatives of deceased or injured soldiers. The impetus for its launch was the death of five Czech soldiers in Afghanistan as a result of a suicide bomber attack in July 2014.
This year, the fund has so far helped ten soldiers and their families, according to the ministry.
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12/21/2023
Fuel prices in Czechia continue to fall, with petrol now at its cheapest in two years, according to data published by CCS on Thursday.
The average price of a litre of Natural 95 petrol is now CZK 35.59 per litre. The average price of diesel has also fallen to CZK 36.29 per litre, the lowest it has been since August.
Fuels are most expensive in Prague and cheapest in the South Bohemian region.
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12/21/2023
The Czech Philharmonic’s New Year concerts will be conducted by principal guest conductor Jakub Hrůša. The concerts will take place on December 31 and January 1 at Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall. The concert will feature mainly works by Czech composers, including Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček.
Hrůša, who is one of the ambassadors of the Year of Czech Music and a patron of the Smetana 200 project, is due to perform Smetana's opera Libuše with the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring and Smetana’s Litomyšl festivals.
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12/21/2023
ANO would have come first in general elections in November with 34.5 percent of the vote, while the Civic Democrats would have taken 15.5 percent, suggests a poll from the Median agency. ANO were slightly down compared to an October Median poll, while the Civic Democrats improved by two percentage points.
The Pirates returned to third place and would have received 11 percent of the vote, two percentage points more than in October. By contrast, support for Freedom and Direct Democracy dropped by two percentage points and would have been 8.5 percent in October, the survey indicates.
The Mayors and TOP 09 would also make the threshold for the lower house with 6 percent and 5.5 percent of the vote, respectively.
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12/21/2023
Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová has won the Golden Canary poll for best Czech tennis player of the year for the first time. The 24-year-old native of Sokolov received the award at a ceremony in Prague on Wednesday evening. She also won the award for the best female player of the year.
Among the men, Australian Open quarter-finalist Jiří Lehečka won the award for the best male player of the year for the third time in a row.
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12/20/2023
Communist-era dissidents are set to receive average old-age pensions from next year, regardless of whether they made contributions for long enough, under an amendment approved by the Czech government on Wednesday. People certified for having resisted the Communist regime will see below-average pensions automatically topped up, Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka said after a cabinet session.
Recently former dissidents protested outside the Office of the Government over the fact many of their cohort have been receiving relatively low pensions, often related to their mistreatment before 1989.
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12/20/2023
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, says only Russia and Ukraine may talk about war fatigue – people aren’t dying due to fighting in other European states. Mr. Pavel made the comment in an interview published on Wednesday by the French newspaper Le Monde in connection with a visit he is making to Paris.,
The Czech head of state welcomed the start of European Union accession talks with Ukraine. He said the EU summit that decided this last week showed that the issue of unanimous voting in the bloc needed to be discussed.
Mr. Pavel also criticised Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban, who he said was harming his own country’s interests.
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12/20/2023
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, welcomed the Czech head of state, Petr Pavel, at the Elysees Palace in Paris on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting came at the start of a two-day visit to the French capital by Mr. Pavel.
He and Mr. Macron were expected to discuss Ukraine and Gaza as well as the future of nuclear energy.
President Pavel was also due to unveil a new “Václav Havel’s Place”, composed of a round table and seats, in the French capital. Dozens of these informal meeting places exist in Czechia and other parts of the world.
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12/20/2023
The Czech foreign minister says that his government welcomes a new deal to reform the European Union’s migration policy agreed on Wednesday. Jan Lipavský said the EU’s migration and asylum pact was necessary, iDnes.cz reported. The new rules will help maintain the Schengen zone, which has come under great pressure, he said.
Opposition leader Andrej Babiš of ANO said on Wednesday that Europe was incorrigible and was again inviting millions of illegal migrants, blaming the Czech government for allowing this.
For his part Mr. Lipavský said criticism of the pact was “from another planet”. They probably take it that the worse things are, the better for them, he said.
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