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10/08/2020
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast around the country with day temperatures betwenn 14 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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10/08/2020
Dozens of Czech scientists have signed a petition criticizing the government’s decision to approve the construction of a canal connecting the Danube-Oder-Elbe rivers.
The government approved the first phase of construction on Monday on the argument that a canal to the North Sea would benefit the whole region, improving access for local industry to European and world markets and providing new recreational travel opportunities.
Scientists say the canal’s construction is a megalomaniac project that will cause irreparable environmental damage. They say the government should not have approved it without a public and expert debate.
The total cost of the project is expected to lie at around CZK 15 billion and construction could start after the year 2030.
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10/08/2020
Italy has placed the Czech Republic on its coronavirus blacklist as of Thursday October 8.
Anyone entering Italy from this country will have to produce a negative Covid-19 test no older than three days, including people who are only transiting the country.
Other countries have reacted similarly to the worsening coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic.
Greece requires a negative coronavirus test while Switzerland and the Netherlands require people arriving from the Czech Republic to go into quarantine even if they have tested negative.
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10/08/2020
Germany, the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Latvia are to recall their ambassadors from Minsk, the Reuters news agency reported citing sources from the Lithuanian foreign ministry.
The moves come in solidarity with fellow EU states Lithuania and Poland, whose embassies in Minsk were all-but shut down by the regime, which accused them of meddling in its internal affairs.
The EU recently blacklisted 40 Belarusian officials amid a brutal police crackdown following election rigging.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet officially commented on the news.
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10/08/2020
The Prague Writers‘ Festival, an annual literary event, presenting the world of literature as a place of social and cultural dialogue, opens in the Convent of St. Agnes on Thursday. The opening ceremony will be attended by Czech Culture Minister Lubomír Zaoralek and philosopher Václav Bělohradský
The festival’s motto this year is the quote “We are condemned to hope” by the Italian writer Elsa Morante.
This year’s program includes reading from the work of poet Ana Blandiana and a special performance by the Italian star poet and musician Claudio Pozzani.
There will be a gala evening dedicated to the Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka as well as a screening of Stop Making Sense, a cult American film consisting of four legendary concerts of American rock band Talking Heads, followed by a debate.
The festival, founded by the American poet Michael March, will take place in the Convent of St. Agnes and Rock Café and runs until October 11.
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10/08/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš briefed parliamentary party leaders on his government's plan to contain the spread of Covid-19, in a videoconference on Thursday.
The measures, which are expected to significantly tighten conditions for leisure time activities and the number of people allowed to meet indoors and out, will officially be announced to the public on Friday.
Opposition Civic Democrat leader Petr Fiala has appealed to the public to respect the measures saying the situation had got seriously “out of hand”.
The Czech Republic currently has the highest number of Covid-19 cases per capita in the European Union, with 346.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. A record 5,335 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
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10/08/2020
Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček will open Thursday’s international symposium on Czech foreign policy, which is focusing on meeting sustainable development goals, human rights and the impact of Covid-19.
This year the annual event organized by the Institute of International Relations (IIR) is under the theme ‘Building Sustainable Connections’ and will be held online.
Panels will explore topics related to democracy, good governance, and rule of law, gender equality, the environment, energy, the efficiency of foreign aid, cyber security, propaganda and coalition-building.
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10/07/2020
Football legend Antonín Panenka, 71, is being treated for Covid-19 in a Prague hospital intensive care unit, according to the club Bohemians 1905, of which he is honorary president.
Panenka is famous for his winning penalty in the UEFA Euro 1976 final against Germany in Belgrade, where his softly chipped the ball up the middle of the goal, startling viewers with his steely confidence.
He played in the Austrian league throughout the 1980s. As an attacking midfielder for Rapid Vienna from 1981-1985, he scored 63 goals in 127 games and won two Bundesliga titles as well as the Austrian Cup.
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10/07/2020
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast throughout much of the Czech Republic with daytime highs of 12 to 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/07/2020
The Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya will take part in the international Forum 2000 conference in Prague next week. On Tuesday afternoon (October 13), she will have a discussion with Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) on the situation in her country.
The following day, the Belarusian presidential candidate will take part in a debate on the role of women in politics in times of crisis. She will discuss this with Madeleine Albright, the Czech-born the former US Secretary of State, and Polish sociologist Karolina Wigura.
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