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11/22/2019
Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day time highs reaching 9 degrees Celsius.
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11/22/2019
Václav Havel was the best president the country has had since the fall of communism in 1989, according to the results of a public survey conducted by the STEM agency.
Václav Havel was rated top by 55 percent of respondents, followed by Václav Klaus and then the incumbent president, Miloš Zeman.
In fact one in four people who voted for Miloš Zeman in the last presidential elections said Václav Havel was the best president in the country’s modern history. He was highly rated in how he had used his powers and his interest in citizens’ concerns.
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11/22/2019
The government will present a long-term national investment plan by Christmas, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told journalists on Friday. He said the plan would outline 17,000 projected investments to the tune of 3.4 billion crowns to be made in the course of the next decade.
The investment plan was reportedly made on the grounds of individual demands from different regions and municipalities ands well as the government’s own priorities.
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11/22/2019
Scientists attending the Wild Europe international conference in Bratislava have petitioned the Czech minister of environment, Richard Brabec, to increase the level of nature protection in some parts of the Šumava National Park. They specifically name the Zhůrský mountain meadows with their precious flora and the Kvilda marshlands.
The protection zones, which afford different degrees of protection in different localities, were recently redrawn in all the country’s national parks and the changes made in the Šumava National Park have been highly controversial.
The international conference in Bratislava is attended by government ministers, Council of Europe representatives and conservation and forestry experts from around Europe.
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11/22/2019
Prague City Hall councillors have indicated they will not allow the police to activate automatic facial recognition cameras in the city.
Prague police asked the municipality to approve the pilot project at six selected locations within measures to increase security in the capital.
Prague mayor Zdeněk Hřib from the Pirate Party slammed the idea, tweeting that City Hall would not support the “Chinese-style Big Brother project” and Councillor Jiří Pospíšil from TOP 09 said such a move would be an invasion into people’s privacy for which there was currently no justification.
Interior Minister Jan Hamáček and the police said they had merely floated the idea to test the waters.
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11/22/2019
The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes on Thursday handed out its annual awards for contribution to freedom and democracy.
Among this year’s recipients were Russian journalist Vladimir Kara Murza who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, Romany activist Čeněk Růžička and a member of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance František Wiendl.
The tradition of handing out commemorative medals to defenders of freedom and democracy was established in 2008.
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11/21/2019
The Češi pomáhají (Czechs Help) initiative says it has a list of 200 Czech families ready to take in unaccompanied child asylum seekers from Greek refugee camps. The initiative has called on the government to respond positively to the Greek authorities’ appeal for EU member states to take in underage asylum seekers.The Czech Republic has been asked to accept 40 individuals.
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček recently said that Czech embassy officials in Greece would visit the refugee camps in question to ascertain the situation. However the prime minister’s ANO party and the Social Democrats of the ruling coalition have frowned on the idea, preferring to help migrants in their home countries.
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11/21/2019
The consortium CzechToll/SkyToll, which is to start operating a new tolling system in the Czech Republic as of December 1st, has announced it will increase the number of registration places in the coming days in order to avoid traffic problems due to unregistered vehicles.
Hauliers using toll roads will be obliged to register and have their vehicles fitted with a new on-board unit by December 1st.
Approximately 251,000 vehicles are reported to have registered to date and another 200,000 are expected to do so in the coming days.
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11/21/2019
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered showers and day temperatures reaching 10 degrees Celsius.
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11/21/2019
According to a study presented by the Czech NGO Arnica, fish caught in the Vltava River in Prague contain less mercury than home-bred and imported fish sold on the market.
Just two out of 14 samples of fish caught in the Vltava River in Prague slightly exceeded the mercury limit set by strict US safety norms. As regards randomly chosen samples of fish sold on the market, five of 28 samples tested exceeded the limit.
According to EU safety norms, which are less stringent, all but one sample of fish sold on the market - swordfish from Sri Lanka – passed the test.
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