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05/19/2022
Visitors to an event on Saturday in honour of the late Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal will be able to enter his cottage and see his 1983 Ford Escort, the organisers said.
Fans of the author will also get to meet actor Jaromír Hanzlík, who appeared in the film Cutting it Short, which was directed by Jiří Menzel and based on a Hrabal novel.
The Hrabal’s Kersko festival, at the village of Kersko in Central Bohemia, will be taking place for the 23rd time.
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05/19/2022
Slovácko beat Sparta Prague 3:1 in the final of the Czech domestic football cup on Wednesday evening, for the first ever trophy in the history of the club.
The game took place at Slovácko’s 8,000-capacity stadium in the town of Uherské Hradiště.
The club was founded in the year 2000 and has been in the Czech top flight since 2009.
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05/18/2022
Germany is to donate 15 Leopard 2A4 tanks to the Czech Republic, while both states have also launched talks on the Prague government buying up to 50 of the most modern Leopard tanks, the 2A7+. The purchase could go ahead in the coming years, the Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, told the cabinet at a meeting on Thursday.
The donated tanks may reach the Czech Army this year, a Czech Ministry of Defence spokesperson said. They would then undergo modernisation.
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05/18/2022
Inflation in the Czech Republic was the third highest in the whole of the European Union in March, at 13.2 percent year-on-year, according to data from Eurostat cited by the Czech News Agency on Wednesday.
The average rate of inflation in the EU was a record 8.1 percent. The rate in the Eurozone was 7.4 percent.
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05/18/2022
Prague has been selected as the venue for next year’s edition of the annual Radiodays Europe conference for specialists in the fields of radio, podcasting and audio content production.
Czech Radio will be co-organiser of the event, which will take place in late March 2023.
Next year Czech Radio will also be celebrating its centenary.
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05/18/2022
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, has hailed the joint application of Finland and Sweden for membership of NATO as a historic milestone for the two countries as well as for NATO itself.
Mr. Lipavský said on Twitter that the expansion of the alliance would make it even stronger and said the Prague government would do all it could to swiftly finalise the ratification process allowing Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
The Czech cabinet on Wednesday voted to ratify the countries' accession; this must be followed by votes in the two houses of Parliament.
The two states formally submitted their applications for membership on Wednesday morning.
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05/18/2022
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected on the following days.
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05/18/2022
The Czech government has approved a request to extend by 30 days a state of emergency imposed to help deal with a wave of Ukrainian refugees, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after a cabinet meeting. The issue must now be considered by the lower house, with a special session set for Thursday afternoon. Without an extension the current state of emergency will end on May 31.
Government officials say the legal mechanism allows for faster and more effective relief efforts, including the provision of accommodation. Around 200,000 Ukrainian refugees are believed to be in the country.
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05/18/2022
The Arnošt Lustig prize for 2022 will be awarded to Šimon Pánek, director and founder of the NGO People in Need. The prize is awarded annually to those contributing to the community through their courage, humanity, or spirit of justice.
Šimon Pánek was one of the prominent student leaders of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989 and a co-founder of People in Need, one of the biggest NGOs in Central Europe, which currently operates in 30 countries around the world.
The Arnošt Lustig prize was created in 2011 in honour of the world famous Holocaust survivor and Czech writer who died that year. In past years it has been awarded for example to bishop Václav Malý and presenter Kamila Moučková.
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05/18/2022
Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group has won the international architectural competition for the design of the new philharmonic concert hall in Prague. The results were announced on Tuesday evening.
The new cultural centre with three halls, which should also be the seat of the Czech Philharmonic and the Prague Symphony orchestra, is to stand near the Vltavská metro station in the Holešovice district. The cost is estimated at about six billion crowns and should be completed by 2032.
The construction is part of a larger plan to revitalize the neglected part of the Holešovice neighbourhood, known as Bubny-Zátory, and turn it into a brand new city district.
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