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08/03/2024
Regional Development Minister Ivan Bartoš fom the Pirate Party has apologized for persisting problems with the newly digitized system of construction management which has drawn complaints from civil servants around the country. The problems have significantly slowed the processing of construction permits with experts saying that the resulting losses could amount to billions of crowns and make newly constructed housing more expensive. Minister Bartoš apologised on the X network, but maintained that the change had been necessary and would bring benefits in the long run. Digitization in construction management is expected to reduce the construction permit processes from an average of 5.4 years to 1.25 years.
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08/02/2024
Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč won gold in the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics on Friday, securing Czechia’s first gold medal in the games. They beat China’s Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu in three sets 6:2, 5:7 and 10:8 in a super tie break.
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08/02/2024
Czech fencers Jiří Beran, Michal Čupr, Jakub Jurka and Martin Rubeš have won the bronze at the Paris Olympics, securing the country’s first medal at the games. They defeated the French team 42:41 on Friday evening. Coach Tomáš Jurka said it was a historic moment for Czech fencing. Japan and Hungary will play for the gold.
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08/02/2024
Police have detained a Czech minor who was allegedly involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack during the Rainbow Pride march in Bratislava two weeks ago. The young man, who was detained in Moravia and taken into custody, was a member of an international group that was allegedly planning to attack participants in the event. Slovak police uncovered the plot and subsequently, police officers intervened in several European countries, including Czechia and the US, arrested all the suspects. According to Deník N, which reported on the case the arrested Czech is one of the group’s co-founders.
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08/02/2024
Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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08/02/2024
Czech President Petr Pavel has welcomed the large-scale prisoner swap between Russia and the US in which 24 prisoners were released in total. Mr. Pavel said the agreement was a positive signal that showed that the two countries were still able to communicate.
Among those released from Russian prisons was Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist who lived in the Czech Republic and worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Kurmasheva, a mother of two, was detained by the Russian authorities on a visit to her parents last October and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for failing to register as a foreign agent.
In addition, Russian authorities reportedly freed activists and other regime critics such as Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, and Sasha Skochilenko.
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08/02/2024
The Temelín Nuclear Power Plant disconnected its second unit on Friday morning for a few days. The turbine's horizontal alignment will be modified to stabilize its vibrations, which recently caused a temporary shutdown. The planned outage, announced in advance, will not affect electricity supply. The plant’s safety is under close scrutiny and its owner the ČEZ Group is investing over 4 billion Czech Crowns in modernization this year.
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08/02/2024
The Czech Labor and Social Affairs Ministry has distanced itself from Prague Pride, which supports members of LGBT+ minorities, following criticism of the event by the ultra-conservative Alliance for the Family. According to Deník N, the ministry asked for the removal of its logo from the Prague Pride website after the Alliance for the Family publicly questioned its support for the event pointing out that the ministry is led by Christain Democrat Marian Jurečka.
The Alliance for the Family has lobbied against marriage for same-sex couples and has repeatedly spread disinformation about the LGBT+ community, including the view that homosexuality is a disease that should be treated.
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08/02/2024
Police will tighten security at next week’s Prague Pride festival in the wake of a thwarted plot to kill participants at the Rainbow Pride march in neighbouring Slovakia two weeks ago, Denik N reported. The Interior Ministry is preparing to deploy riot police, anti-conflict teams and patrols with long guns at the more than 200 events held in different parts of the Czech capital in the course of next week. Thousands of people, including many participants from abroad are expected to take part in Prague Pride. The festival will culminate with the traditional rainbow parade in the streets of Prague next Saturday.
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08/02/2024
Five Czech citizens residing in Lebanon were evacuated from the country on a Hungarian flight to Budapest on Wednesday, the ctk news agency reported. The Czech Foreign Ministry has advised Czech citizens to leave the country without delay amid growing fears of a full-blown war between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Those still in the country are being advised to get on the next commercial flight out, for fear that the international airport in Beirut could be closed. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are currently 84 Czechs in Lebanon registered in the Drozd travel system. In case of emergency, Czechs residing in Lebanon should contact the Czech Embassy in Beirut at +961 3 332 291.
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