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03/22/2022
Prime Minister Petr Fiala says there are now around 300,000 Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic. Mr. Fiala made the comment during a session of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday afternoon.
He said that he understood people’s anger at rising prices of energy, fuel and foods, but said the main culprit behind this was Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who launched a war against Ukraine last month.
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03/22/2022
Some CZK 2.53 billion belonging to Czech municipalities is tied up in the now closed Sberbank, Seznam Zprávy reported on Tuesday, citing the Union of Towns and Municipalities. Over CZK 2.5 billion owned by the country’s regional authorities is also stuck in the Russian bank.
The Union of Towns and Municipalities is due to discuss the situation with the minister of finance on Thursday. Some local authorities have all of their money in Sberbank.
The Czech National Bank began the process of revoking its license days after the Russian attack on Ukraine.
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03/22/2022
This year’s edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival will include a new section dedicated to the latest in contemporary music, organisers said on Tuesday. Entitled Prague Offspring, it will offer interpretations of works by Czech composers from Vienna’s Klangforum, which will serve as ensemble in residence.
The 77th edition of the Prague Spring will offer 40 concerts between May 12 and June 3. The traditional curtain-raiser My Country by Bedrich Smetana will be performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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03/22/2022
Prague’s assistance centre for Ukrainian refugees is set to move by April 14, the city’s mayor, Zdeněk Hřib, said on Tuesday. The centre will switch from its current central location at the city’s Congress Centre to a former Komerční banka building in the Vysočany district.
The reason for the change is that the Congress Centre is contracted to host events during the Czech presidency of the European Union in the second half of the year.
Property developers Central Group will provide the Vysočany building to the city for free and will cover energy costs.
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03/22/2022
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, says that if the European Union does not develop a clear vision for the Balkans it could lose influence in the region to Russia. Speaking to Bloomberg, Mr. Lipavský said that the bloc’s approach to the Western Balkans had been rather bureaucratic to date, helping Russia and China to increase their foothold in the region.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania have intensified calls for progress in their applications to join the EU.
The Czech foreign policy chief said the current situation was a great opportunity for the bloc to change its approach.
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03/22/2022
It should be mainly sunny in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Clear skies are also expected on the following days.
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03/22/2022
Some 10,423 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Monday, a fall of 400 on the same day a week earlier. There were 2,060 reinfections, a similar number to last week. However, the number of tests conducted continues to go down and the figure for Monday was 34,000.
The number of people in hospital with the coronavirus again climbed above 2,000 after the weekend.
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03/22/2022
On Tuesday the Czech Republic began issuing temporary protection visas to Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country. The new visas replace the special long-term visas previously handed out, with older ones automatically being updated to the new status.
The new type of visa allows Ukrainians to travel freely to other European Union states.
The number of visas granted to refugees from the war in Ukraine had reached over 212,000 on Monday evening.
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03/21/2022
The funeral has taken place in Prague of Eva Zaoralová, former artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, who died recently at the age of 89. The festival’s president, Jiří Bartoška, delivered a eulogy at the ceremony, which was attended by many well-known Czech actors and directors.
Bartoška and Zaoralová, a leading film journalist, made Karlovy Vary the region’s biggest cinema event after taking it over in the mid 1990s.
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03/21/2022
It should be mainly sunny in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 14 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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