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10/01/2023
Sparta Prague beat Viktoria Plzeň 2:1 in the capital in the most closely watched game of the 10th round of the Czech football league on Saturday evening. The result cements the hold of Sparta, the reigning champions, on first place in the regular part of the league season and extends their unbeaten status this term.
Sparta will take on Real Betis of Spain in the group stage of the Europa League next Thursday, when Plzeň face Kazakhstan’s Astana in the Conference League.
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10/01/2023
The Best Performance categories in Czech theatre’s Thálie Awards have been won by Karolína Baranová and Martin Pechlát. Baranová was judged Best Actress of the year for her role as Marie Antoinette in the play of the same name at Liberec’s F.X. Šalda Theatre, while Pechlát was named Best Actor for his part in Moskoviáda at Prague’s X10 Theatre.
The Czech Theatre Academy’s prize went to Milan Uhde, writer of the popular A Ballad for a Bandit. A former arts minister, he received the gong from the current holder of the post, Martin Baxa.
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10/01/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Cloudy skies are expected for the remainder of the week.
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09/30/2023
Nearly 23,500 Slovaks resident in Czechia voted in Slovakia’s general elections by mail, officials in Bratislava reported. The deadline for voting was noon on Friday, the day before people in Slovakia itself went to the ballot boxes in a closely watched vote.
A record 58,779 people have taken part in Slovakia's elections from other abroad by mail.
Czechia does not allow for postal voting but unlike Slovakia it does allow its citizens to vote at its diplomatic missions abroad.
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09/30/2023
Some 23% of people aged 25 to 34 in Czechia are unable to afford mortgage loans due to high interest rates, suggests a study conducted by the company KRUK Czech Republic and Slovakia and cited by the Czech News Agency.
The report also found that people aged 35 to 44 are the most likely to have to make significant savings elsewhere due to pay for mortgages on which interest rates have increased.
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09/30/2023
The Czech journalist and commentator Daniel Anýž has died at the age of 59 after a long illness, media outlets reported on Saturday. Anýž served as a Washington correspondent and was known as an expert on US affairs. He also wrote the book I Go With My Head Held High, about the fates of Milada Horáková and her family.
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, said the journalist had been instrumental in cultivating foreign news coverage and had helped shape his view of American politics.
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09/30/2023
The Jewish community in Teplice, north Bohemia, plans to renovate a dilapidated synagogue in the town of Louny, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday. It has just had the buried cellar beneath the building cleared to see whether it contains water that would cause decay but no water was found.
This means that renovation can go ahead and the building could be open to the public in a few years, the head of the Teplice Jewish community said.
The synagogue was completed in 1871. It was closed down by the Nazis and then used for various purposes under the Communist regime. The state returned it to the Jewish community 20 years ago.
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09/30/2023
Pardubice’s Automatic Mills (Automatické mlýny) building – one of the most famous works by the pioneering Czech architect and designer Josef Gočár – has been reopened as a multifunctional public space after a CZK 900 million renovation job.
The complex now contains two galleries, a café, a hall and other facilities. Officials in the East Bohemian city say they hope the building by the Chrudimka River will prove a major draw with visitors.
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09/30/2023
The weekly Reflex does not have to apologise to Tomio Okamura of the anti-EU, anti-migrant Freedom and Direct Democracy for referring to him as an “idiot”, Prague’s Supreme Court ruled. The magazine dubbed the opposition party leader Pitomio, combining a Czech word for idiot with his first name.
In the court’s ruling it said Mr. Okamura needed to display a higher degree of tolerance. The judges overturned an appeal court ruling and confirmed the verdict of a court of first instance.
For his part the politician said he regarded the verdict as unconstitutional in view of an earlier Constitutional Court ruling on the matter.
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09/30/2023
The Czech government has submitted its draft for the 2024 state budget to the lower house of Parliament. The budget envisages a deficit of CZK 252 billion, which would be CZK 43 billion lower than this year’s planned deficit. While the 2023 deficit is equivalent to 3.6 percent of gross domestic product, next year it should be 2.2 percent of GDP.
Most ministries are set to see their budgets reduced as part of the Czech government’s cost-cutting policy. However, the ministries of defence, education and labour will get more money from the state coffers in 2024.
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