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05/24/2023
The Czech national ice hockey team were beaten 3:1 by Canada at the World Championships in the Latvian capital Riga on Tuesday evening. The result means the Czechs finished fourth in group B.
They will now face the United States – who are so far undefeated at the tournament – in the quarter-finals in the Finnish city of Tampere on Thursday.
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05/24/2023
Sparta Prague have been crowned Czech football league champions for the 37th time in the club’s history. Sparta sealed the title after a 0:0 draw away to Slovácko on Tuesday evening gave them an unassailable lead in the penultimate round of the “superstructure”, in which the division is split into three mini-leagues at the end of the season.
Around 1,500 Sparta fans had travelled to Slovácko’s ground in the Moravian town of Uherské Hradiště to see them win the league for the first time in nine years.
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05/23/2023
A defence cooperation agreement between Czechia and the US was signed in Washington on Tuesday by the Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, and her American counterpart, Lloyd Austin.
Earlier in the day Ms. Černochová had told reporters that the treaty was not on basing US soldiers on Czech soil or on the creation of an American military base in the country.
Ms. Černochová told Czech Television that the Czech side had got as much as possible out of the deal.
The defence cooperation agreement creates an overarching framework to codify already existing cooperation between the two countries' militaries.
The US has such agreements with more than 20 other NATO members.
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05/23/2023
The UK’s Prince Edward arrived in Czechia on Tuesday afternoon at the start of a visit that is due to last until Thursday. One of the main points of his stay will be meeting Czech students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at Prague’s British Embassy.
The youngest brother of King Charles will also visit the village of Vestec near Prague, pay his respects at a memorial to the heroes of Operation Anthropoid and meet the Czech president, Petr Pavel.
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05/23/2023
From next year Czechia’s main public health insurer, VZP, will cover the costs of preventive examinations for the early detection of skin cancer. Until now, the insured had the option of paying for the examination themselves and then applying for financial compensation in return.
Jan Bodnár, deputy director of VZP, said on Tuesday that the success of skin tumor treatment depended on the stage at which doctors discovered it.
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05/23/2023
A defence cooperation agreement between Czechia and the US that is due to be signed in Washington on Tuesday is not a treaty on basing US soldiers on Czech soil or on the creation of an American military base in the country, the Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, told reporters. She was speaking just hours before she and her American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, were due to put their signatures to the document in the US capital.
Ms. Černochová told Czech Television that the Czech side had got as much as possible out of the agreement.
The Czech defence chief and the speaker of the Czech lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, also laid a wreath at a monument in Washington to the founder of Czechoslovakia, T.G. Masaryk.
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05/23/2023
Opposition leaders ANO would have won general elections in April with 31 percent of the vote, suggests a poll conducted by the Median agency last month. Second would have been government leaders the Civic Democrats, on 15 percent. Another coalition party, the Pirates, enjoy the third highest level of support with 10.5 percent, the survey indicates.
Freedom and Direct Democracy placed fourth in the poll, on 8.5 percent, while the second biggest party in the government, the Mayors, were in fifth, on 7.5 percent.
With 4.5 percent, TOP 09 would fail to make the cutoff for the lower house.
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05/23/2023
A venue for a Boulder World Cup meeting is now being built at Prague’s Letná, ahead of the event the weekend after next. It is the first climbing competition of its kind to be held in the Czech capital in 14 years.
It will be the first competitive event of the season for the great Czech climber Adam Ondra, who will be focusing his efforts on the Climbing World Championships in Bern in August.
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05/23/2023
It should be mainly clear in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. The following days are also expected to be sunny.
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05/23/2023
Czechia has formed a coalition with eight other European Union states opposed to the introduction of Euro 7, an EU proposal for new emissions regulations on motor vehicles, Hospodářské noviny reported on Tuesday.
The Czech minister of transport, Martin Kupka, told the daily that his country had been the first to call Euro 7 a flawed standard.
Czechia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have jointly accused the European Commission of piling obligations on carmakers that go further than previously agreed emissions limits.
The automotive industry is one of the key drivers of the Czech economy.
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