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01/20/2023
Czech players Jiří Lehečka and Barbora Krejčíková advanced to the fourth round of tennis’s Australian Open in Melbourne.
Czechia’s men’s number one Lehečka defeated world number 12 Cameron Norrie of Great Britain 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 and will face Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime in the next round.
Krejčíková won her match against Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine 6-2, 6-3 and will take on world N. 3 Jessica Pegula of the US for her second consecutive quarter-final.
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01/20/2023
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has criticized Czech ambassador to Israel Martin Stropnický for meeting with pro-Russian activist Zarko Jovanović.
He wrote on his Twitter account on Friday that he considered such a visit to be serious misconduct by the ambassador and will decide on further action next week.
Photos of Stropnický’s meeting with the delegation led by Freedom and Direct Democracy deputy Jan Hrnčíř were shared earlier by the deputy chairman of the lower house Jan Bartošek, who said the only option was Stropnický's immediate resignation.
The ambassador told Deník N that he had not checked the history and activities of his visitor and that could not have a full knowledge of the disinformation scene in the Czech Republic.
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01/20/2023
A new survey suggests there could be record turnout in the second round of elections to the Czech presidency at the end of next week. According to a Median survey for Czech Radio published on Friday some 82 percent of Czech voters are planning to go to the polls. Turnout out in the first round was 68 percent, the highest level seen since direct presidential elections began.
Bookies make former Czech Army chief Petr Pavel, who narrowly won the first round, the favourite to become the next head of state. However, the odds on his opponent Andrej Babiš have shortened.
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01/20/2023
The director and co-founder of the Czech NGO People in Need, Šimon Pánek, has been presented with the Legion of Honour, France’s top order of merit. Speaking at the bestowal ceremony at Prague’s French Embassy on Thursday evening, the country’s ambassador, Alexis Dutertre, said that Mr. Pánek shared the same values as France and advocated for human rights, freedom, solidarity and humanitarian work.
Šimon Pánek was a student leader of the Velvet Revolution before helping set up People in Need, one of Czechia’s most important aid organisations in 1992.
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01/19/2023
The Czech national universities accreditation body has decided to strip Brno’s Mendel University of the ability to offer some doctoral studies.
The head of the Council of the National Accreditation Authority, Robert Plaga, said the university would no longer be allowed to run doctoral study programmes in economics and management in Czech or English.
Mr. Plaga said the school’s internal control system had been able to deal with some errors.
The university has been the focus of media attention as it was previously headed by Danuše Nerudová, who failed to reach the second round of presidential elections.
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01/19/2023
The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a German man who was shot in the knee by Czechoslovak border guards in July 1989 while trying to cross the Iron Curtain in the Communist era. Thomas Bartsche received only CZK 5,500 from the Czech courts in compensation for lasting injuries stemming from the shooting. The courts have been ordered to look into awarding him appropriate compensation.
The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that he had suffered the injuries in extraordinary circumstances that justified higher compensation. In addition he could not have known that communism would fall soon after, a judge said.
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01/19/2023
ANO’s Alena Schillerová says leader Andrej Babiš did not take part in a vote on a no-confidence motion tabled by the party because he has a virus. A lower house debate on the matter ended late on Wednesday night with victory for the government of Petr Fiala, who have a solid majority.
Ms. Schillerová also said that Mr. Babiš had been resting in view of his demanding campaign for the presidency.
He and Petr Pavel will go into a second round vote to decide the next head of state at the end of next week.
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01/19/2023
The rivals for the Czech presidency, ex-Czech Army chief Petr Pavel and ANO leader Andrej Babiš, faced off on Thursday in the second in a series of debates before a second round runoff at the end of next week. In a discussion hosted by news outlet Blesk the two candidates discussed such issues as the war in Ukraine and campaign assertions.
Mr. Babiš defended billboards in which he seemed to imply Mr. Pavel could lead Czechs into war, while Mr. Pavel responded that the ex-PM should apologise to soldiers over the matter.
The ANO chief denied that he was copying the smear tactics of incumbent Miloš Zeman, who five years ago tried to portray opponent Jiří Drahoš as welcoming refugees.
Mr. Pavel asked how his opponent planned to hold consultations with cabinet members after indiscriminately slamming the government during his campaign.
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01/19/2023
Czech players Karolína Plíšková, Linda Fruhvirtová and Markéta Vondroušová have advanced to the third round of tennis’s Australian Open in Melbourne. Plíšková, who is seeded 30th, overcame Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-0 7-5 on Thursday.
Fruhvirtová, who is 17, beat Australia’s Kimberly Birrell 6-3 6-2 for her best ever placing at a Grand Slam tournament.
Vondroušová overcame world number two Ons Jabeur of Tunisia 6-1 3-6 6-2.
Czech pair Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková had a successful start to the defence of their doubles title, beating the Norwegian-American duo of Ulrikke Eikeri and Catherine Harrison 6-2 3-6 6-2.
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01/19/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Friday, with an average high temperature of -1 degree Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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