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06/07/2024
More railway tracks on the train route through Pardubice could reopen on Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Railway Administration's fire brigade said on Friday morning. Only one track has been operating at a limited speed since Thursday following Wednesday night's fatal accident, when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train at the newly built Pardubice-Centre station shortly before 11 pm, leaving four people dead and 27 injured.
The clean-up of the debris is continuing, with only one wagon - the most badly damaged of the passenger carriages - still waiting to be removed. If all goes according to plan, the authorities expect operation on the route to be extended to more tracks from around 6 pm onwards.
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06/07/2024
The railway corridor through Pardubice has reopened on one track at a limited speed following a fatal accident on Wednesday night. An express train crashed into a cargo train at the newly built station Pardubice-Centre in the East Bohemian city shortly before 11 pm, leaving four people, dead and 27 injured.
Investigators say the accident occurred when the passenger train, operated by the company Regiojet, failed to respect a stop signal. Among the victims are two Slovak and two Ukrainian women.
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06/07/2024
Czechs have started going to the polls to cast their ballots in the European Parliament elections, with 674 candidates from 30 parties and coalitions running for the country’s 21 seats in the assembly.
Although Czechia is the only country where voting is possible over the course of two days, voter turnout usually lags behind the EU average.
Polling stations opened at 2 p.m. on Friday and will close at 2 p.m. on Saturday at around 14,800 locations across the country. The official results of the European Parliament elections will be announced on Sunday night, June 9, after voting ends in all EU member states.
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06/06/2024
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Renáta Kellnerová, widow of the late billionaire Petr Kellner, is the most influential woman in Czechia according to the Czech edition of Forbes magazine.
Prague's chief state prosecutor Lenka Bradáčová finished second, followed by Věra Jourová, vice president of the European Commission, whose tenure ends this year.
This is the 13th time the Czech-language edition of Forbes has published its yearly ranking of the most influential women in Czechia.
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06/06/2024
Friday is expected to be partly cloudy with day temperatures ranging between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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06/06/2024
The Czech weather office has issued storm warnings for eastern Bohemia and northern Moravia and Silesia, where strong winds, high precipitation and hail are expected to hit on Thursday afternoon. Water levels of rivers in the Beskydy Mountains may rise rapidly, occasionally reaching second level flood alert.
On Friday, other regions of the country, especially the southeast, may also see strong winds and stormy conditions.
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06/06/2024
Three Czech universities are included in the list of the best 500 universities in the world, according to the UK education specialists’ Quacquarelli Symonds rankings released on Thursday.
Prague’s Charles University finished 246th, improving by two places on the previous year. Masaryk University in Brno followed in 408th place, and the Czech Technical University in Prague came third on 420th spot, having improved by 34 places compared to last year.
The World University Rankings ranked over 1500 schools this year, 16 of which were from the Czech Republic.
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06/06/2024
Czechia’s foreign trade balance ended in a surplus of CZK 33.1 billion in April, an increase by CZK 24.1 billion year-on-year, according to freshly released data by the Czech Statistics Office.
The positive trade balance result was mainly affected by higher car exports. According to the report, exports rose by 19.7 percent year-on-year to CZK 416.2 billion and imports by 13.1 percent to CZK 383.1 billion.
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06/06/2024
A team of Czech experts is drafting a comprehensive action plan intended to curb excessive drinking. The proposed measures will include restrictions on advertising, regulation of sales and prices, as well as strengthening prevention and professional services. National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil told reporters he plans to submit the proposal to the government in the early autumn.
According to last year's annual report on addictions, one in eight adults in Czechia drinks excessively at least once a week. As many as 1.3 million people over the age of 15 are risk-drinkers. Alcohol abuse is said to account for up to 7,000 deaths a year. The annual impact costs are estimated at around CZK 60 billion.
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06/06/2024
According to the Railway Inspectorate investigation, the passenger express, which collided with a freight train in the east Bohemian city of Pardubice on Wednesday night, missed a red light.
It is still unclear whether it was a technical fault, human error or a combination of both factors, the Railway Inspectorate said on its website.
The passenger train, operated by the private company RegioJet, was travelling from Prague to the west Ukrainian city of Chop, with around 390 people on board. Four people died in the head-on collision and another 27 people sustained moderate or light injuries. Among the victims are two Ukrainian women, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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