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06/26/2020
The Committee on the Budget of the Chamber of Deputies approved the government’s proposed CZK 500 billion deficit in the Czech Republic’s 2020 budget on Friday, recommending that MPs in the lower house do the same. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s amendment to the proposal, which lowers the government budget reserve by CZK 100 billion, was also approved.
Originally, the deficit was expected to amount to CZK 40 billion, but was subsequently increased several times to reach CZK 500 billion during the coronavirus pandemic, which has led the state to implement largescale relief measures on Czech businesses primarily impacted by lockdown measures implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 from March.
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06/26/2020
The number of Covid-19 cases registered in the Czech Republic on Thursday reached 93. It was 34 less than on the previous day, which saw 127 cases, the highest daily number in two months.
The number of cases detected since the start of the epidemic is 10,870. 345 people have died of the infection or related complications, and 7,633 have recovered. Currently, 2,892 people are fighting the disease.
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06/26/2020
Czechs are marking 70th anniversary of the death of Milada Horáková, a democratic opposition leader who was sentenced and executed in a communist show trial on June 27, 1950.
On June 26, the day before the anniversary of her execution, recordings from the trial will be transmitted by sirens and messages in Prague metro, as part of the civic initiative called Milada 70: Murdered by Communists.
Banners with a portrait of Milada Horáková and the caption Murdered by Communists were hung on important buildings in Prague, including the National Museum, Rudolfinum concert hall, the National Gallery’s Trade Fair Palace or Charles University’s Faculty of Law, where Milada Horáková studied.
Commemorative events will also take place at a symbolic grave of the politician at Prague’s Vyšehrad cemetery and in many other places around the country.
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06/25/2020
Plans to build the Czech Republic’s highest building are underway in Ostrava. Local councillors on Thursday approved the sale of a building plot in the centre of the city to the company RT Torax, which plans to build there a skyscraper measuring 238 metres. The 60-storey building is expected to cost over two billion crowns.
Currently the tallest building in the Czech Republic is the AZ Tower in Brno, with 111 metres and 30 floors.
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06/25/2020
Rohlík.cz, the largest Czech online grocery company, has expanded to Bulgaria, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday. The company has bought a stake in the local e-shop Ebag.bg for one million euros.
Rohlik.cz entered its first foreign market at the end of last year, opening a new online store in Hungary. The founder and majority shareholder of Rohlik.cz, Tomáš Čupr, also plans to expand to Austria and Germany this year.
The company’s turnover exceeded CZK four billion in 2019, which was an increase of 60 percent on the previous year. Rohlik.cz currently has around 450,000 customers.
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06/25/2020
Jaroslav Šilhavý will continue as the coach of the Czech international football team in the next qualifying cycle for the 2020 world championship. Šilhavý, who is 58, was appointed to the post in 2018, replacing Karel Jarolím.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Euro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021. The qualification for the world Championship in Qatar is due to start in March next year.
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06/25/2020
Prague Zoo has raised nearly CZK 22.8 million crowns through a public donation fund to help in the relief efforts to Australia, which was ravaged by devastating bushfires last year, the zoo’s director Miroslav Bobek announced on Thursday.
Some CZK 20 million have already been sent to the country. The funds were used to help animals injured in the fires but also for projects aimed at protection of endangered animal species.
The collection was established in January and until now, more than 18,200 people have contributed.
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06/25/2020
Friday is expected to be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain. The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute has issued a warning against heavy storms for the east of the country, which will be in place until Saturday morning. Daytime highs will range between 20 to 24 degrees Celsius.
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06/25/2020
The Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc will name its newly built library after Milada Horáková, who was sentenced to death in a communist show trial and executed in June 1950.
The faculty got permission to do so from the politician’s daughter, Jana Kánská. The library should open to the public later this year.
Palacký University will also mark the anniversary of Milada Horáková’s death with a special video-mapping event on the building of the Faculty of Law, which used to be the seat of the regional committee of the Communist Party.
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06/25/2020
The street art festival Praha žije hudbou got underway in Prague on Thursday, offering 150 local artists at more than 30 locations in the Czech capital over the next three days.
The busking festival, which is in its fifth year, includes music, dance, new circus, and theatre by artists and theatre ensembles such as Circus Brothers, Lenka Dusilová, Kittchen and Zrní, among others.
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