• Weather forecast
    03/03/2024

    Monday should be mainly sunny in Czechia, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Overcast skies are expected on the following days.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague concert celebrates 200th anniversary of Smetana’s birth
    03/03/2024

    A special concert was held at Prague’s National Theatre on Saturday evening celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. A programme lasting almost four hours featured music from all of Smetana’s operas and saw appearances by 17 soloists.

    The sold-out gala concert, which was attended by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, was also relayed live on a big screen on the plaza beside the theatre.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Flood defence system drill held at central Prague palace
    03/02/2024

    Volunteer fire officers in the city centre Prague 1 district carried out a flood defence system building drill on Saturday. The training took place at the grand Žofín Palace on the Slovanský Island, which is administered by Prague 1.

    The metal flood defence system for the protected building was acquired in 2005 and such drills are carried out roughly every two years.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Kupka: Motorway stamp price should rise again in January
    03/02/2024

    The price of an annual motorway stamp in Czechia should go up again from next January, with the rise being linked to inflation, the minister of transport, Martin Kupka, said on Czech Television. He said the precise figure would be announced in the second half of 2024.

    The price of the annual vignette increased on Friday, March 1, from CZK 1,500 to CZK 2,300.

    Mr. Kupka said Austria had tied the price of its motorway stamp to inflation and that this was common practice.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Ledecká fourth in Super-G World Cup event in best result since return
    03/02/2024

    Czechia’s Ester Ledecká placed fourth in a super giant slalom World Cup event in Kvitfjell, Norway on Saturday, recording her best result since returning from a collarbone injury sustained in 2022.

    The 2018 Super-G Olympic champion in recorded a virtually identical time to Germany’s Kira Weidle, and only 16 hundredths of a second separated her from the podium.

    The winner, Switzerland’s Lara Gutova-Behrami, finished 29 hundredths of a second ahead of Ledecká. The Czech is 13th overall after seven of 10 World Cup events.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Stats: Czech income has risen from one-third to two-thirds of EU average
    03/02/2024

    The average annual net income in Czechia has risen from one-third to about two-thirds of the European Union average since the country joined the bloc in 2004, according to Eurostat data cited by the Czech News Agency on Saturday.

    In 2022 Czech average annual net income was the 10th lowest in the EU. However, Czechia has overtaken older member states Portugal and Greece on this metric.

    The Czech price level is gradually approaching the average price level in the 27. While 10 years ago it stood at 65 percent, two years ago it was 84 percent. People in Czechia had the 10th weakest purchasing power and could buy about a fifth less goods than the average EU resident.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Following unusually warm February, record March 1 temperatures seen
    03/02/2024

    Record temperatures for March 1 were registered at 22 of 166 weather stations in Czechia in operation for at least 30 years. A high of 16.3 degrees Celsius was seen in Vidnava in the Jeseník Mountains in the east of the country on Friday.

    This follows a February when, according to preliminary data, the average temperature, 5.7 degrees Celsius, was 2 degrees higher than the previous warmest second months of the year, in 1966 and 2020. This February was warmer than most months of March and in fact would have ranked as the fifth warmest March since records began in this part of the world.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    03/02/2024

    It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Monday is also expected to see clear skies but the following days will be cloudy.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Government to meet some demands of farmers threatening protests
    03/02/2024

    The Czech government will meet some demands of farmers threatening to protest, the minister of agriculture, Marek Výborný, said. The state plans to increase funding to support animal welfare at livestock farms this year and will next year support rural employment with CZK 2 billion in social insurance discounts for farm workers, he said.

    Similar demands were among the five conditions of the country’s Agricultural Association and the Agrarian Chamber for not proceeding with a protest in Prague on March 7.

    The decision whether to protest is up to the farmers, Mr. Výborný said.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Netherlands pledges additional EUR 150 million to Czech shells for Ukraine plan
    03/01/2024

    The Netherlands has promised to contribute another 150 million euros to the Czech initiative to purchase shells for Ukraine from countries outside the EU, news agency Reuters reports. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced this on a visit to Ukraine on Friday. The Netherlands already pledged to contribute 100 million euros at a summit in Paris on Monday, so this now means a total Dutch contribution to the initiative of 250 million euros.
    Author: Anna Fodor

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