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06/03/2024
Former Czech presidential candidate Danuše Nerudová has joined the Mayors and Independents (STAN) party, for whom she is running as a candidate in the European Parliament elections, the head of the party Vít Rakušan announced on Monday. Up until now Nerudová was not a member of the party despite being their lead candidate for the EP elections. The STAN leadership decided to admit the former rector of Brno's Mendel University into the party on Sunday.
Nerudová said her joining STAN now was not an empty gesture, but rather a decision that arose from their shared values and from getting to know the party's politicians better.
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06/03/2024
Four out of ten Czechs think that the oft-cited "information war" with Russia is just an excuse for Western governments to restrict freedom of speech, according to a survey carried out in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries by the Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO). The survey found that 41 percent of respondents agreed with this statement in both Czechia and Hungary, compared to 35 percent in Slovakia and 24 percent in Poland.
On the other hand, 39 percent of Czechs said they thought that Russia was indeed waging an information war against the West, including in their own country. This was more than in Hungary, where only about a third of respondents agreed with this statement, but less than in Slovakia (42 percent) and Poland (55 percent).
The survey also asked how easy or difficult it was for people to determine the veracity of news on specific topics ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. The most difficult topic for Czechs to verify information about was the European Commission's policy on the future of the automobile industry, such as the ban on internal combustion engines, with almost half of Czech respondents, 49 percent, saying they found it difficult to distinguish between true and false information on this topic. This was followed by the war in Ukraine (48 percent) and the energy crisis (47 percent).
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06/03/2024
The number of people hospitalised on Sunday after being struck by lightning on the outskirts of Liberec was confirmed on Monday as 22, up from initial reports that it was 18. The majority of the patients are expected to be discharged from hospital to outpatient treatment on Monday or Tuesday. All of them are reported to be in a stable condition.
The originally announced 18 casualties, some of whom had to be resuscitated by paramedics on the spot, suffered injuries ranging from severe to light. Three other people were later admitted to hospital on the recommendation of medical professionals and one more injured person, in addition to the originally announced 18, was taken to hospital by ambulance. Ten adults and nine children were admitted to the Regional Hospital in Liberec, two adults were taken to a hospital in Jablonec, and one child, an eleven-year-old girl, was flown to Motol in Prague.
The lightning strike occurred at a Children's Day event in the castle park in Vratislavice nad Nisou around 3:30 p.m on Sunday. The group of people had reportedly been taking shelter under a tree which was struck by lightning.
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06/03/2024
A Czech military plane transported four Przewalski horses to Kazakhstan on Monday, as part of Prague Zoo’s long-standing programme to save the endangered species. Another four animals will be delivered from Berlin Zoo.
Over the next five years around 40 Przewalski horses will be transported to the Altyn Dala steppe as part of an effort to restore a population of the animals in the wild.
The Przewalski horse is a rare subspecies native to Mongolia, which became extinct in the wild in the 1960s. Prague Zoo has played a major role in saving the horse, breeding it and gradually returning it to its natural environment.
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06/03/2024
The 79th Prague Spring international classical music festival comes to a close on Monday evening with a performance at the Smetana Hall of Prague’s Municipal House. The Czech Philharmonic, led by conductor David Robertson, will play music by Czech composers Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, featuring Czech violinist Josef Špaček.
The programme will also present the European premiere of Superorganisms, a piece by contemporary Czech composer Miroslav Srnka.
Czechia’s largest classical music festival got underway on May 12, offering dozens of concerts.
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06/02/2024
Eighteen people, including children, suffered injuries after being struck by lightning on Sunday in Vratislavice nad Nisou on the outskirts of Liberec. The incident happened at the town’s castle park. The group of people had been reportedly taking shelter under a tree, when it was struck by a lightning bolt.
According to the spokesman of the Liberec hospital, five people had to be resuscitated following the incident.
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06/02/2024
The first ever butterfly census involving the public is due to get underway in Czechia on Monday, 3 June. The aim of the event, called Butterfly Half-hour, is to estimate the populations of butterflies in the country and help scientists with protecting the insects, which are rapidly disappearing from nature.
The event is organised by the international nature conservation group JARO, in cooperation with the Czech Entomological Society, the Society for the Protection of Butterflies and the Institute of Entomology of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Biological Centre.
The public butterfly count will run until June 9. The summer edition of the event is scheduled for mid-July.
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06/02/2024
Monday will be mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers and temperatures ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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06/02/2024
Czech tennis player Markéta Vondroušová reached the quarter-finals of the French Open on Friday after beating the Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic 6-4, 6-2. The fifth-seeded Vondroušová will next face World No. 1 Iga Swiatek.
The 24-year-old Czech, who became the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon last year, lost the finals at Roland Garros in 2019.
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06/02/2024
Some 100 soldiers from the 25th anti-aircraft missile regiment from Strakonice will represent the Czech Army at the international exercise Ramstein Legacy 2024.
Soldiers from 15 NATO member states will take part in the joint training of air defence units, due to take place in Romania and Hungary from between June 3 and 14. The soldiers will practice identifying and intercepting air attack means including drones.
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