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06/20/2022
Sunday’s heatwave set a new temperature record in the Czech Republic for the month of June. The monitoring station in Řež near Prague registered a temperature of 39 degrees Celsius. The previous record set in 2019 at the Doksany station in the Ústí nad Labem region was one tenth lower. The June record was broken at ten monitoring stations active for at least 30 years, with 60 stations rewriting the record for June 19. The oldest station in the country, Prague's Klementinum, where the thermometer showed 36.9 degrees, also set a new high for that day. Klementinum in the centre of Prague has been monitoring the weather continuously since 1775.
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06/20/2022
The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will perform live tonight at Prague's Sinobo Stadium (formerly Eden Arena). The band is giving a rescheduled concert from the Legacy of the Beast World Tour 2022. The tour began in 2019, but was suspended due to anti-pandemic measures.
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06/19/2022
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with heat storms and day temperatures between 28 and 33 degrees Celsius.
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06/19/2022
The State Prosecutor's Office has begun investigating a leak of documents from the corruption investigation involving former Prague deputy mayor Petr Hlubuček to the media. Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday, saying he would inform the government about the circumstances of the case on Wednesday. Petr Hlubuček, who was charged along with 11 others, is in detention awaiting trial.
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06/19/2022
Czech Interior Minister and head of the Mayors and Independents Party (STAN) Vít Rakušan has said he plans to dismiss Czech Post CEO Roman Knap. Rakušan's decision was prompted, among other things, by the fact that Knap met with accused businessman and lobbyist Michal Redl, who is at the centre of a huge corruption scandal which has shaken the position of the STAN party in the ruling coalition government. The interior minister, who himself is under fire to resign, will meet with Knap next week to discuss the date and manner of his departure. He plans to call a tender for the post.
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06/19/2022
The opposition parties are calling for the resignation of STAN leader and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan in connection with a huge corruption scandal in which the party’s deputy chair Petr Gazdík is indirectly implicated. Although Mr. Gazdík announced his resignation from all posts, opposition leader Andrej Babiš has attacked the Mayors and Independents Party (STAN) saying it is a party of “organized crime” and its leader Vit Rakušan could not have been ignorant of what was going on and can now cover up these criminal activities from the position of interior minister. Tomio Okamura who heads the opposition Freedom and Independence Party said all STAN members should leave the cabinet. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Sunday that he saw no reason for such a move.
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06/19/2022
Alois Hadamczik has been elected the new president of the Czech Ice Hockey Association. The former national team coach succeeded in the first round of the election, in which he received 31 votes out of a possible 60. Jiří Šlégr came second with 16 votes, and hockey legend Dominik Hašek finished third with five votes. Hadamczik, 69, will replace Tomáš Kral, who resigned midway through his term.
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06/19/2022
The Czech National Bank's board is likely to raise interest rates by up to 1.25 percentage points on Wednesday, the Czech News Agency reported citing leading economic experts. This would bring the base rate to seven percent, the highest since 1999. The reason is the soaring inflation which jumped to 16 percent in May, accelerating from 14.2 percent in April, and is expected to peak at 18 percent in July.
The fact that the incoming governor Aleš Michl, who is due to take up his post in July, is an opponent of the current rate hikes, is also likely to have an impact on the decision, according to economists.
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06/19/2022
Education Minister Petr Gazdik has resigned as education minister and deputy chair of the STAN party in connection with the corruption scandal linked to the Prague Transport Company. Eleven people have been charged altogether in the case involving bribery, involvement in organized crime and suspicions of illicit drug and psychotropic substance use.
Petr Gazdik is not among those charged but he is reported to have had several meetings with one of the people involved, Prague businessman Michal Redl who in the past had close links to Radovan Krejčíř, a Czech former organized crime boss and convicted criminal who is serving a prison term in South Africa.
Minister Gazdik said he was innocent of any wrongdoing but did not want to damage his party or the ruling coalition by remaining in office. He admitted that meeting with Michal Redl had been a mistake.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala has welcomed Mr. Gazdik's resignation, saying it signaled a positive shift in the country's political culture.
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06/18/2022
A number of events were held in Prague to honour the memory of the Czechoslovak paratroopers who assassinated Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich and died after an SS siege of the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Prague's Resslova Street 80 years ago today. The brave act of resistance was marked by a parachute jump by army paratroopers, a church service and a commemorative ceremony in Resslova street. The event was attended by the German Ambassador to the Czech Republic Andreas Künne who said the act of resistance was a light in the darkness of Nazi dictatorship.
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