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09/09/2023
One Life, a new biographical film about Sir Nicholas Winton directed by James Hawes and starring Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.
On the eve of World War II Winton saved the lives of 669 mainly Jewish Czechoslovak from the Holocaust by organising train transports out of Prague and securing places for them to stay in the United Kingdom.
Sir Nicholas, who was in his late 20s when he carried out his heroic deeds, is played in his younger years by another British actor, Johnny Flynn while Helena Bonham-Carter had joined the cast as Winton’s mother.
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09/09/2023
The Czech Foreign Ministry has no information with regard to the possibility that Czechs may have been among the victims or injured in Friday’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco. According to the latest figures released 1,000 people were killed in the quake and over 300 were injured.
According to the ministry’s travel registration system Drozd, some 81 Czechs are registered in the country and no one had reported anyone missing.
The powerful earthquake, which struck in the High Atlas Mountains at around 11 p.m. local time on Friday, some 70 kilometres south-west of Marrakesh at a depth of 18.5 kilometres, is said to be the strongest in a century in the country.
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09/09/2023
Some 240 people took a special train ride from Prague to Berlin via Dresden on Saturday to attend the annual Bürgerfest, celebrating civil society and voluntary work, which takes place at the official residence of the German President in Berlin.
The train ride is organised by the United Islands of Prague festival and the Czech-German Fund for the Future, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The carriages of the train, which departed from Prague capital at around 8 a.m., serve as artistic stages featuring literary, musical and theatrical performances.
Czechia, along with the German state of Thuringia, has been chosen as one of the partner countries at this year’s Citizen’s Festival. Among the organisations showcasing the country is the Czech Embassy in Berlin, the Budějovický Budvar brewery as well as the German section of Radio Prague International.
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09/09/2023
More than 700 heritage sites in Czechia opened to the public free of charge within the European Heritage Days on Saturday.
Between now and September 17, people can visit hundreds of official heritage sites, but also many private and public buildings, such as town halls, churches, schools and residential houses, which are normally not accessible to the public.
The official opening of the European Heritage Days took place in the spa town of Poděbrady in central Bohemia, which is celebrating 800 years since its foundation.
Czechia joined the European Heritage Days, held at the initiative of the Council of Europe, in 1991.
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09/08/2023
It should be sunny in Czechia on Saturday, with an average high temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall in the middle of next week.
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09/08/2023
Unemployment in Czechia rose by a 10th of a percentage point to 3.6 percent in August compared to the previous month, according to data released by the national Office of Labour on Friday.
While the number of people out of work rose to over 260,000, there were fewer jobs available; some 281,000 positions were on offer at the end of August, around 4,400 fewer than a month earlier.
Experts say the month-on-month rise in unemployment was solely caused by seasonal factors and that the economic stagnation the country is facing is not affecting the labour market. Analysts do not expect unemployment to surpass four per cent by the end of 2023.
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09/08/2023
The Czech government is considering sending a new ambassador to Moscow, despite Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, Novinky.cz reported. The current official ambassador, Vítězslav Pivoňka, has been in Prague for some time. He could be replaced by analyst Daniel Koštoval, the news site said.
In an interview this week President Petr Pavel said he was in favour of sending a new ambassador to Moscow, as states such as Germany and the UK have done in recent times. Such appointees must present their credentials to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
However there are splits in the Czech government over the matter, with the Civic Democrats for and TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats against, said Novinky.cz.
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09/08/2023
Czechia should receive 300,000 packages of penicillin by the second half of November and that should mean there is an adequate supply, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Some Czechs have recently been having trouble acquiring penicillin but ministry officials and distributors say that this has in part been caused by panic among the public. They recommend that people reserve the drug at their pharmacy in advance.
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, said on Friday that the problem was not a lack of penicillin but rather the fact that not all pharmacies possess stocks at present.
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09/08/2023
Carmaker Škoda Auto will suspend production at its plant in Kvasiny in Northeast Bohemia for at least a week from Monday after production at an engine parts supplier in Slovenia was hit by flooding, a spokesperson for Škoda Auto said on Friday.
The firm will probably also partially limit production in Mladá Boleslav due to the situation, which has hit the whole Volkswagen group. A union representative said the restrictions pertained to all models except the all-electric Enyaq.
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09/08/2023
The Czech national soccer team drew 1:1 with Albania in a European Championship qualifier in Prague on Thursday evening. The hosts were favourites in the game and went ahead on 56 minutes through Václav Černý, only to concede an equaliser nine minutes later.
Despite the setback, after four games the Czechs still head their group on eight points, ahead of Albania on seven. Poland are third on six points.
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