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06/05/2022
About 200 mainly Ukrainian women and children took part in a Mothers' March in the centre of Brno on Saturday. The aim was to draw attention to the growing number of child victims of the war in Ukraine. “The war continues, and each day more children are dying,” one of the organisers, Ilnara Dudašová, told the Czech News Agency. The Czech Republic has taken in over 350,000 Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war, most of them women and children.
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06/04/2022
Sunday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 25 and 29 degrees Celsius.
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06/04/2022
Gaby Khazalová, Czech journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Deník Referendum, is the first Czech to win the European Journalism Award. She won the award for her part in an international project called Cities for Rent, in which journalists mapped the ownership structure of real estate in major European cities. The aim was to find out which companies buy real estate across Europe, where they pay taxes and how this affects the lives of tenants. The award comes with a financial reward of 10,000 euros (245,000 CZK), which the journalists plan to invest in their further work.
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06/04/2022
The presence of two new Omicron subvariants, designated BA.4 and BA.5, have been confirmed in the Czech Republic by the State Health Institute. These subvariants are currently behind an increase in cases in South Africa or Portugal. According to the institute, two cases of BA.4 were recorded in the Moravian-Silesian region and three cases of BA.5 in the South Moravian region. Due to the occurrence of the new subvariants, the institute has recommended that laboratories should send one tenth of all positive samples for sequencing.
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06/04/2022
No.9 seed Lucie Havlíčková claimed her first Grand Slam junior title with a straight-sets win over Solana Sierra in the Roland Garros girls' final on Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Havlíčková defeated Solana Sierra 6-3, 6-3 in a 73-minute final. The title will stay in Czech hands for a second straight year after Linda Nosková’s victory in 2021. Lucie Havlíčková is the fifth Czech woman in history to win the French Open after Renata Tomanová (1972), Regina Marsiková (1975), Hana Mandlíková (1978) and Linda Nosková (2021).
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06/04/2022
The 77th Prague Spring Music Festival closed with Antonín Dvořák's Sixth Symphony in D major at the Municipal House in Prague on Friday night. It was performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted by Andris Nelsons. The audience also heard a non-conformist work by Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina and Symphony No. 9 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich. The festival, which was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic in the past two years, offered music lovers over forty concerts in a number of Prague venues. It traditionally opened with Bedřich Smetana's My Country, performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Guggeis.
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06/04/2022
The first working draft of the 2023 state budget recons with a deficit of 295 billion crowns, Czech Television reported citing finance ministry sources. It said the first framework of the budget's revenues and expenditures for next year was discussed by the government on Wednesday. Individual ministries now have until the end of July to submit proposed changes to individual chapters. The finance ministry has to submit the final draft to Parliament by September 30. The budget for this year envisaged a deficit of 280 billion crowns, but that figure may be fundamentally impacted by the war in Ukraine.
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06/04/2022
ANO party leader and former prime minister Andrej Babiš currently has the highest support of all candidates in the race for the 2023 presidential elections, according to the outcome of a May poll conducted by the Median agency. Mr. Babiš received 28.5 % support, followed by General Petr Pavel with 19.5 % and trade union leader Josef Středula with 7.5 %.
The presidential elections will take place in January of 2023 and the next head of state will be elected in a direct vote. The incumbent president, Miloš Zeman, is serving his second and final term in office.
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06/03/2022
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the state aid that the Czech Republic is planning to grant to digital terrestrial television operators. The investigation is to assess whether the aid is fully compatible with EU state aid rules, the European Commission said in a press release on Friday.
The investigation was reportedly ordered on the basis of a preliminary assessment, which indicated potential problems.
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06/03/2022
Saturday should be partly cloudy with rain in the eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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