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06/06/2024
Photographer Bohumil Dobrovolský, who was best known for his photographs of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, has died at the age of 89. News of his passing was announced on Facebook by Czech Press Photo. As a thirty-three-year-old amateur photographer Dobrovolský went into the streets of Prague and recorded the tragic atmosphere of the first day of the invasion on 21 August 1968 on seven films. "I am not a hero, it was only indignation, defiance and my home environment that made me free of fear, he said in an interview for Czech Radio years later.
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06/05/2024
Thursday should be partly cloudy with scattered showers and day temperatures between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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Czechia calling for EU accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova to start before Hungary's presidency
06/05/2024Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvořák has sent an appeal to the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council, urging for it to start negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on accession to the EU in June, i.e. before Hungary is set to take over the rotating EU Presidency in July of this year. Minister Dvořák expressed concern that, under the leadership of Viktor Orban, Hungary could try to freeze the process during his country’s time at the helm. According to Czech Radio, eleven EU states have backed the appeal. They are Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, Portugal and Germany.
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06/05/2024
The Czech government has approved an amendment to the Labour Code facilitating access to the Czech labour market for citizens of nine non-EU countries. The new draft regulation provides for free access to the Czech labour market for people from Australia, Japan, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, Britain, the US, Israel and Singapore. The amendment should take effect as of July of this year and will make life easier particularly for highly-skilled professionals working in this country.
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06/05/2024
Czechia will break its dependence on Russian crude oil by the middle of next year at the latest, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told reports following a meeting with the management of the state owned company Mero which manages the country’s central reserves. He said Czechia would request the cancellation of the exemption for Russian oil imports as soon as the Italian TAL pipeline expansion project is completed. Work on it is now in full swing and planned technological modifications will be completed by the end of this year.
Czechia would thus break its 60-year-long dependence on Russian crude oil, delivered via the Druzhba pipeline. Last year, 7.4 million tons of crude oil flowed into Czech refineries, of which about 58 percent was oil from Russia. The rest came from Germany's IKL pipeline, which is connected to the Italian TAL pipeline.
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06/05/2024
Wednesday, June 5, is the last chance for people to request a voter ID card from their municipality if they plan to vote away from their permanent residence in the European elections. Requests must be filed at the respective town hall in person, since the deadline for submitting written applications ended last Friday. In Czechia voting in elections to the European Parliament will take place on June 7-8. Voters will need to show an ID.
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06/05/2024
A number of Czech cities want to double fines for riding public transport without a ticket, Czech Television reported on Wednesday.
The current maximum fine is CZK 1,500 but the national association of transport authorities says this is insufficient as many people think having to pay that amount is an acceptable risk, adding that fines have been at the same level for a decade.
The cities where the increase could happen are Prague, Ostrava, Brno, Olomouc, Liberec and České Budějovice.
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06/05/2024
The Prague 8 Building Authority has barred the district’s Kasárna Karlín, an arts and social venue, from operating. A spokesperson for Prague 8 said that the operators were making use of interior spaces that had not been approved or intended for their present purposes.
A spokesperson for the venue said that it was cooperating with the authorities and had rectified shortcomings and applied for the lacking permits.
Kasárna means barracks and the centre was previously used by the Czechoslovak and later Czech army.
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06/04/2024
This year's meteorological spring (March, April and May) was the warmest since 1775 at the Prague centre Clementinum weather station, with an average temperature of 13.7 degrees Celsius, according to data released on Tuesday.
The last month of spring, May, also saw above normal temperatures, though it was not the warmest seen at the Clementinum over the last 250 years; with an average temperature of 17.8 degrees, it ranked 16th to 17th.
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06/04/2024
Police in Prague have released without charge five foreigners arrested following an altercation on the city’s Old Town Square last weekend. A spokesperson for the Prague Prosecutor’s Office said the matter could be further investigated as a misdemeanour.
The Czech News Agency reported that video footage from the incident, when volunteers at a stand collecting money for Ukraine were set upon, did not provide proof that the participants had approved of Russian aggression toward that country.
Four of the five were arrested at Prague Airport; the other was picked up on the scene.
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