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09/29/2022
Russian hockey players from the San Jose and Nashville teams can take part in the upcoming NHL games in Prague, Tomáš Pojar, an advisor to Prime Minister Petr Fiala on foreign relations, told Seznam Zprávy on Thursday.
The teams, which are due to play at Prague’s O2 Arena on October 7 - 8, each have at least one Russian player.
According to Mr. Pojar, the players have been granted Schengen visas and also have long-term US work visas and present no threat to Czechia’s national security.
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09/29/2022
Czech police have detained more than 120 migrants and seven smugglers since midnight, when temporary checks were reinstated at the border with Slovakia, head of Foreign Police Milan Majer said on Thursday.
The border controls, announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala last week, were reintroduced following a sharp increase in illegal migration.
Some 500 police officers and 60 customs officers have been deployed to protect the border, with people only being allowed to pass through 27 official crossing points.
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has said the move is temporary and will be evaluated in 10 days’ time.
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09/29/2022
On the occasion of the Czech Statehood Day, the Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil presented silver commemorative medals to 19 personalities who have excelled in their field or contributed to the good reputation of the Czech Republic abroad. Among the laureates were opera singer Dagmar Pecková, journalist Lída Rakušanová, writer Petr Hora-Hořejš, co-founder of People in Need Igor Blažević, singer Ida Kelarová, dancer Yemi Akinyemi and Dele and Jakub Helebrant and Karel Müller, pastors of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, who are active on social media under the name Pastoral Brothers and try to bring the Christian faith to the young generation through entertaining videos in which they counter myths and stereotypes about Christianity.
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09/29/2022
Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has urged Czechs not to fall prey to manipulators who offer simple but unrealistic solutions to the consequences of the war waged by Russia against the whole of Europe. In a post on Twitter, Mr. Rakušan said that people's fear in uncertain times is understandable, but the solutions presented by populists are not the answer. On Wednesday tens of thousands of Czechs gathered on Wenceslas Square to demonstrate against the government’s policies at a time of soaring inflation and global energy crisis. They demanded the government’s demise, direct gas supply contracts with Russia at low prices and a radical change in foreign policy that would make Czechia a neutral country.
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09/28/2022
Thursday should be overcast around most of the country with scattered showers in the south western parts of the country and day temperatures between 10 and 14 degrees Celsius.
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09/28/2022
Thousands of people gathered on Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest against the policies of the Fiala government on Wednesday. The protest in Prague held under the motto “ Czechia First” is organized by a group who describe themselves as “politically unaffiliated citizens”. They are demanding, among other things, that Czechia secure direct gas supply contracts with Russia at low prices, leave the EU and NATO and become a neutral country. The group was behind a protest in Prague in early September that was attended by about 70 000 people. Protests are also taking place in several other cities, including Brno, Plzen, Liberec and Česke Budějovice.
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09/28/2022
The Prague City Hall has closed the tent city for Ukrainian refugees in Troja due to the cold weather, the ctk news agency reported. The refugees have been moved to hostel facilities in the Florence and Smíchov districts where Prague City Hall will cover their basic needs. The tent town in Troja housed around 150 refugees whose request for asylum and social benefits was rejected.
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09/28/2022
Energy prices are out of control and need to be capped for large companies as well, Radek Špicar, Vice-President of the Confederation of Industry and Transport, told the news site Novinky.cz . Špicar warned that there is a risk of closures, redundancies and companies leaving the Czech Republic. He said Volkswagen's warnings that it may move production out of the Czech Republic and Germany should be taken very seriously. While the government has agreed to cap energy prices up to a certain measure for households and small and medium-sized companies, large companies have only received a promise of some compensation.
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09/28/2022
The Slovak prime minister, Eduard Heger, has criticized the Czech authorities for reinstating controls at the border with Slovakia due to a sharp increase in illegal migration. Mr. Heger said the decision had come without warning and needed to be discussed at EU level.
The border controls, announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala earlier this week, will be in place as of Wednesday night. 500 police officers and 60 customs officers will be deployed to protect the border and people will only be allowed to pass through official crossing points. Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has said the move is temporary and will be evaluated in 10 days’ time.
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09/28/2022
On the occasion of the Czech Statehood Day, the Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil will present silver commemorative medals to personalities who have excelled in their field or contributed to the good reputation of the Czech Republic abroad. The awards are given to scientists, artists, sportspeople and other public figures. They are also presented individually to foreign dignitaries. Among those who received them this year were Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and the former Ukrainian Ambassador to Prague Yevhen Perebyjnis.
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