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07/06/2020
Leading personalities of Czech cultural and social life, including Václav Havel’s widow Dagmar, Catholic priest and philosopher Tomáš Halík, Prague Mayor Zděnek Hřib and a number of senators from the Czech Parliamentary support group for Tibet recorded a video greeting to wish the Dalai Lama happy birthday on Sunday.
The birthday greetings express admiration and respect for the Tibetan spiritual leader and a promise that they will continue to support the Tibetan cause.
The video is being shared via social networks.
The Dalai Lama was a close friend of the late Czech president Václav Havel and visited the country on several occasions.
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07/06/2020
Slovenia has put the Czech Republic back on the list of “safe” destinations for travel, effective as of July 7.
The changed status does not concern the Moravia-Silesia region which is still considered medium-risk and whose citizens will be required to present a negative COVID 19 test or go into a 14-day quarantine upon entering the country. Because of the exception, Czech nationals can expect random checks on the border.
Slovenia put the Czech Republic in the medium-risk category on Friday, followed by Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus. The move sparked intensive diplomatic negotiations during which Czech officials argued that the increased coronavirus figures are linked to a contained local outbreak in the Karvina region, in the eastern part of the country.
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07/03/2020
Former Liverpool, Aston Villa and Czech Republic striker Milan Baroš has announced the end of his career at the age of 38.
Speaking at a press briefing in Ostrava on Friday, the country’s second best striker, said his Achilles tendon was causing him too much discomfort for him to add another season.
Banik’s captain bows out on Sunday in a game against Viktoria Pilsen. Milan Baroš’ international career ended after the Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, where the Czech Republic made the last eight. In 92 international matches, Baroš hit 41 times.
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07/03/2020
Saturday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius. Sunday should also be warm and sunny with clouds building up in the afternoon hours.
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07/03/2020
The motorcycle Grand Prix in Brno will be held without spectators this year, in view of the COVID 19 pandemic. The organizers of the popular rally said the purchased tickets for the event will remain valid next year. The event will take place on the Masaryk Circuit from August 7 to 9. The Motorcycle Grand Prix Brno is one of the largest sporting events in the country and annually draws a quarter of a million fans from around the world.
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07/03/2020
The OKD mining company has gradually started closing its two black coal mines in the Karviná region. The company’s management has ordered operation in the mines to be suspended for six weeks due to the spread of coronavirus infection among the miners. 850 miners and family members have tested positive for COVID 19 since the infection was first registered at the mines in mid-May. A skeleton staff of around 200 people will remain in the mines for routine work related to maintenance and safety.
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07/03/2020
The members of the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank agreed on Friday that there is no need to further loosen monetary policy in connection with the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis. Its drastic easing, which took place in previous months, was, according to the board, adequate and creates sufficiently relaxed monetary conditions.
As the crisis unfolded the central bank cut all key interest rates in three steps. It first lowered the key two-week repo rate by 0.5 percentage point on 16 March 2020, then by another 0.75 percentage point on 26 March 2020 and by another 0.75 percentage point on 7 May. The two-week repo rate is currently set at 0.25%, the Lombard rate at 1.00% and the discount rate at 0.05%.
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07/03/2020
Slovenia, Latvia and Estonia have taken the Czech Republic off their list of safe countries for travel. Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček confirmed the news on Friday saying that Czechs entering these countries would be required to go into a two-week quarantine or produce a negative COVID 19 test no older than 36 hours. Transit through Slovenia will still be possible.
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, protested against the move on Friday, asking his Slovenian counterpart to reconsider the decision. He said the increased number of infected persons in recent days were due to a local outbreak.
Foreign Minister Petříček said he had received assurances from his Slovenian counterpart that the Czech Republic would be included on the list of safe destinations as soon as the number of infected per 100,000 inhabitants drops to below ten. It is currently 14 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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07/03/2020
The number of newly registered coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic increased again on Thursday after a three-day slow down, with 132 new cases reported, according to Czech Health Ministry statistics.
The number of registered cases has reached 12,178. 353 people have died and 7,822 have recovered from the disease. At the moment, 123 people are hospitalized with COVID 19.
The high number of new cases over the past two weeks is related to the blanket testing in the region of Karviná, which is currently the largest hotspot of the disease in the country, with an average of 279 cases per 100,000 people.
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07/03/2020
The leaders of the Visegrad states met in Warsaw on Friday for their first face-to-face talks since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The talks focussed on the EU’s recovery fund, which the V4 leaders stressed must be fairly distributed among EU members, bilateral relations and the priorities of the upcoming Polish presidency of the V4.
The Visegrad group states do not approve of the fact that under the current proposal a third of the 750 billion euro recovery fund would go to help Italy and Spain – the countries most affected by the pandemic. They stressed that fiscally disciplined countries should not be put on the hook to repay loans that would benefit countries with little or no fiscal prudence, which had been deep in trouble even before the pandemic hit.
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