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08/25/2022
Czech writer, translator, philosopher and literary critic Jiří Pechar died this Monday at the age of 93, the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences has announced via its website. Mr Pechar was the author of several theoretical works in the area of literature and philosophy. He was also a poet. He gained particular fame in his home country for his translations of the works of Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Born in Příbram, Pechar studied Literature at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, also working as a journalist at for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He lost his job for political reasons and became involved in amateur publishing for the next 30 years. During the 1970s and 1980s, Pechar was a contributor to several dissenting publications in what was then Communist Czechoslovakia.
After the Velvet Revolution Pechar would return to the Czech Academy of Sciences and also work at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University.
In 2009, his memoir Život na hraně (Life on the Edge) was published.
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08/25/2022
Slavia Prague is set to host Polish team Raków Częstochowa this Thursday in the second-leg of the fourth round of the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The match will decide whether the Czech team will be able to play in the tournament’s group stage this autumn.
Slavia lost its first game against Raków 1:2 and will be missing its captain, Tomáš Petrášek, due to injury. If the Czech team doesn’t manage to beat Raków it will be the first time since the 2016/17 season that Slavia is not represented at a UEFA competition.
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08/25/2022
At the upcoming Expo 2025 world exhibition in Osaka, Japan, Czechia is planning to present its accomplishments in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, information technologies and also computer gaming, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on Thursday. At the same time, the country also hopes to showcase its cultural scene, as it has a strong name in Japan due to the mark Czechs have left on classical music, he said.
It is hoped that taking part in the exhibition will also contribute to the growth of Czechia’s tourism sector.
Ondřej Soška, who has been named as the general commissioner of Czechia at Expo 2025, said that the pavilion will combine presentations focused on the country’s culture, art, science and business scenes.
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08/25/2022
Czechia and Ukraine are preparing an agreement on joint cooperation in the realm of education which should be signed this autumn, Czechia’s Education Minister Vladimír Balaš said on Thursday during his visit to Ukraine. The agreement should include guidelines on how both countries will cooperate in education and teaching.
Although their numbers are smaller than was initially expected, thousands of Ukrainian children have been signed up for the upcoming Czech academic school year, following the wave of refugees arriving from the country. Mr Balaš said that special Ukrainian classes will be set up in some schools. The Ukrainian side is also interested in the setting up of so-called Ukrainian Saturday schools, news site DeníkN.cz reports. Special centres where Ukrainian students will be able to take their home country’s exams will be set up in Prague and Brno.
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08/25/2022
On Wednesday, the Czech government passed the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s proposal for the subsidies that households are set to receive to compensate their energy costs this year. The “savings tariff”, as the subsidy is commonly referred to in Czech media, will kick in in October and lie at an average of CZK 15,000 for the upcoming heating season, with households receiving roughly CZK 4,000 this year.
The government is currently in the process of preparing a “savings calculator” for the public, which should enable people to estimate how much financial support their household will be able to claim.
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08/25/2022
Meteorologists warn of hailstorms and torrential rains that are expected to hit Czechia on Thursday and Friday. High precipitation rates may also cause water levels in some of the rivers to rise to flood levels. Temperatures on Friday are expected to lie at around 27 degrees Celsius.
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08/25/2022
Due to the interconnected nature of the contemporary world, it is not realistic for Czechia to pursue food self-sufficiency, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in his Thursday speech at the opening of the countries annual agricultural fair Země živitelka in České Budějovice. Instead, the prime minister said, the country should focus on food security, for example in the form of maintaining a steady food reserve.
Mr Fiala said that the damage to Czech agriculture, caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can currently only be estimated. While production costs are rising, this is also partly offset by growing demand for agricultural products abroad, he said.
Several leading political figures attended the agricultural fair. Among them, President Miloš Zeman, who called for the setting of maximum prices on energy across the European Union, and former head of state Václav Klaus, who criticised recent governments for the current rate of inflation in the country, which is among the highest in the EU.
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08/25/2022
Close to 77 percent of schoolchildren in Czechia take their lunch in school eateries, according to the results of a survey conducted by Scolarest, a school food focused company that belongs to global catering conglomerate Compass Group.
Visiting school eateries is most popular in the Vysočina Region, where over 93 percent of children make use of the option. Meanwhile, the lowest number of pupils who eat their lunch at school is in Prague, where just 48 percent of respondents said they did so.
The most common reason put for why children do not visit school eateries was because they eat their lunches at home. Close to a fifth of respondents who don’t eat at schools said that this was because they did not like the food served there. Close to 13 percent said that they did not eat at school for financial reasons.
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08/25/2022
The Czech Ministry of Defence has signed a CZK 1.9 billion contract with Tatra Trucks for the purchase of 209 815-7 6x6 vehicles from the company. A further CZK 1.2 billion contract for 80 heavy off-road transportation vehicles is expected to be signed in the next few days.
The purchases come amid the ministry attempting to modernise the Czech Army’s fleet of transport vehicles.
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08/25/2022
Hundreds of people met in the centre of Prague on Wednesday evening to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day and commemorate the six month anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Czech News Agency reports.
Demonstrators gathered on Wenceslas Square and Old Town Square, where an orthodox mass took place around the Marian Column. Some of those present signed a petition calling on the Czech Parliament to declare Russia a terrorist state.
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