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03/26/2024
The current security situation is the worst since World War II, the head of the Czech Counter Intelligence Service (BIS) Michal Koudelka said following a meeting with President Pavel on Tuesday. He said Russian expansionism and the possible return of Islamic terrorism to Europe are major threats to European democracies. "We cannot underestimate the risk, although we do not have any concrete information about a direct security threat to the Czech Republic," Koudelka said. President Pavel said it was likely that the security situation would become even more complicated in the months to come. He praised the work of Czechia’s intelligence services saying they provide objective information and analyses unencumbered by political bias.
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03/26/2024
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised Czechs travelling to France to exercise heightened caution and inform the police about any suspicious incidents. Shortly after the terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow, the French administration issued a high terror alert and increased security across the country to the highest level. In a message spread within the Drozd travel system, the Czech foreign ministry warned Czechs in France to take the warnings seriously, keep a close eye on their luggage and report anything deemed suspicious.
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03/26/2024
The Constitutional Court has upheld a ruling by the Supreme Court in a dispute between the Vsetín town council and a group of Romanies who were evicted from their homes several years ago and relocated to another part of the town. The court ordered the town administration to apologize to the families in question and pay them compensation. The town of Vsetín evicted the families from a house that was in poor condition and had it demolished. The Roma ended up either in container houses in Vsetín or in old houses on the outskirts of town. The procedure drew criticism from the Roma community and human rights activists. The Supreme Court awarded the four families a total of CZK 1.825 million in compensation, which the Vsetín town hall considers unfair.
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03/26/2024
Basketball player Vít Krejčí made a splash in the NBA on Monday evening, helping the Atlanta Hawks to a sensational 120–118 comeback win over the top seed in the league’s Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics.
The Czech notched up 16 points to equal his own personal best so far in the NBA. Krejčí, who is 23, started playing for Atlanta last year.
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03/25/2024
The ruins of a demolished section of the village of Lednice in South Moravia were uncovered during research in the gardens of the famous Lednice Castle. The discovery was made by archeologists from the firm Archaia Brno.
The head of the dig, Miroslav Dejmal, said it was widely known that part of today’s castle gardens were located on the site of former sections of the village that were destroyed.
Johann II, Prince of Lichtenstein purchased that area in the 1880s before having the gardens expanded.
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03/25/2024
Josef Středula is set to stay on as head of Czechia’s biggest trade union umbrella organisation. He lost the post three weeks ago for not paying union dues but was re-elected at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Monday.
Mr. Středula, who is 56, received 64 of 112 votes, which some officials told the Czech News Agency was a weak mandate.
The Czech Confederation of Trade Unions comprises 31 unions and has a total of over a quarter of a million members.
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03/25/2024
Czech Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil says Prague could again play host to a Belarusian government in exile, a century after the last time it served that role.
He made the comment at a memorial ceremony at the city’s Olšany Cemetery, where he and Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya paid tribute to the memory of two Belarusian presidents-in-exile who served in the Czech capital in the first half of the last century, following the occupation of their country by Bolshevik Russia.
Ms. Tsikhanouskaya had earlier attended the opening of an Office of Democratic Forces of Belarus in Prague during a visit that was also due to see her meet other senior Czech officials.
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03/25/2024
An 84-year-old woman in the Chrudim area, East Bohemia, has died with whooping cough, becoming the second person to do so in Czechia this year. The woman had been hospitalised with double pneumonia and other problems from March 8 and died on March 14.
Health officials said on Monday that over 1,100 new cases of whooping cough had been recorded in the last week.
This brings the total number of registered cases of the respiratory disease to more than 4,200 this year.
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03/25/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to have similar weather.
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03/25/2024
The health state of former Czech president Miloš Zeman remains stablilised and is slowly improving, officials at Prague’s Motol hospital said on Monday. Mr. Zeman recently required surgery to deal with a blood clot on his leg.
Doctors say that the former head of state, who is 79, is unlikely to be released in the immediate future.
Mr. Zeman, who drank and smoked heavily, has suffered from ill health, including diabetes, and uses a wheelchair.
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