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09/12/2024
A new opinion poll by the Median agency suggests that the ANO Party would receive 32.5 percent of the votes in a general election held in August, while the Civic Democrats would come second with 13 percent. The anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party would be third with 11 percent voter support, an improvement of three percentage points on the previous poll carried out in July.
Some 9.5 percent of respondents in the Median poll said they would back the Mayors and Independents and the same number would vote for the Pirate Party, the survey indicates. No other party would cross the five-percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house.
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09/12/2024
Over 2,000 people attended an open-air concert of Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony at the Prague Exhibition Grounds on Wednesday evening.
The performance, conducted by Jakub Hrůša, commemorated the world premiere of the symphony, which took place at the same venue in 1908 and feature the combined orchestras of the Czech Philharmonic and the New German Theatre Orchestra of Prague.
Following the post-war expulsion from Czechoslovakia, it was its former members who established the foundations of what is now known as the Bamberger Symphoniker in Bavaria.
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09/11/2024
The current situation in Czechia is similar to that in 1997 and 2002, when the country was hit by disastrous floods, Environment Minister Petr Hladík said at a press briefing on Wednesday following the meeting of the government.
According to Mr. Hladík, it is not just the floodplains that are at risk; flash floods could also impact places where they don’t usually occur. In addition to precipitation, he also warned of strong winds that could cause trees to fall.
The government has called on people to consider not attending cultural and social events, especially between Friday and Sunday. People in the affected areas should prepare evacuation luggage, have a charged mobile phone and follow the latest information on the government’s website.
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09/11/2024
Towns and villages in the east and north of the country are bracing themselves for potential flooding due to the heavy rains predicted for the next few days.
Some municipalities, including Velké Meziříčí in the Vysočina Region, started erecting flood barriers. Many events planned for the weekend have been cancelled.
The Morava and Vltava River authorities said on Wednesday they had started releasing water from selected reservoirs to increase the capacities for the incoming flow of water.
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09/11/2024
Thursday will be mostly overcast with persistent rain in Moravia and Silesia and occasional rain in western Bohemia. Day temperatures are expected to range between 9 and 14 degrees Celsius.
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09/11/2024
The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute issued a severe flood alert for the eastern part of the country, which will come into effect on Friday. Very heavy to extreme rainfall, which is expected to arrive in Czechia on Thursday, could raise rivers to dangerous levels in the coming days.
The heaviest rain is expected in the Pardubice, Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian Region, where more than 300 litres of water per square metre are expected to fall over the next four days. The most serious flood situation will occur on the rivers that drain the mountain areas in the north-east of the country.
Extreme precipitation is also expected in the Vysočina, South Bohemia, Hradec Králové and Liberec regions. Lower level flood alerts will be in place for central and Western Bohemia.
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09/11/2024
Czechia will mark October 12 as the Day of Samizdat, celebrating the production of illicit printed materials such as books and magazines under the pre-1989 Communist regime, the Lower House of Parliament voted on Wednesday.
On October 12, 1988 a group of 92 Czech and Slovak samizdat publishers wrote an open letter to the then Communist president Gustáv Husák condemning the jailing of one of them, Christian activist Ivan Polanský.
The deputies have overruled the proposal of the Senate to celebrate the day on April 27, which marks the anniversary of the founding of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted in 1978.
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09/11/2024
Czechia and Hungary are considering co-hosting the 2029 Ice Hockey World Championships, with the group stage matches taking place in Brno, where a new multifunctional arena is due to open in two years. The centre of the championship would be Budapest, which only has one suitable arena.
In an interview for Kometa Brno's website, the presidents of both national associations, Alois Hadamczik and Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer confirmed their interest in cooperation. However, the final decision depends on the approval of Hungary’s candidacy by the International Ice Hockey Federation.
The agreement does not require Czechia to co-host any future championship with Hungary in the event of a successful candidacy.
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09/11/2024
Speaker of the Czech Senate Miloš Vystrčil arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday to attend the fourth summit of the Crimean Platform, which seeks to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine and to end the Russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula. He will also pay tribute to the victims of forced deportations by the totalitarian Soviet regime.
Mr. Vystrčil last visited Kiev in November 2023, when he paid tribute to the victims on the 90th anniversary of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. He also supported Ukraine's territorial integrity by visiting the Crimean administrative border in Kherson region.
The Crimean Platform, which brings together some 70 countries and international organisations, was established in the summer of 2021 on the initiative of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A second summit at parliamentary level was held in Prague in October 2023.
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09/11/2024
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Tuesday wound up a three-day working visit to South Korea, one of Czechia’s largest trading partners. His talks with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul focused on strategic communication and new opportunities for cooperation in nuclear energy, industry and research, in light of the fact that the South Korean company KHNP won a tender for the construction of two new units of the Dukovany nuclear power plant. South Korea is Czechia’s third largest trading partner outside of Europe and the fourth largest foreign investor in the Czech Republic.
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