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12/21/2023
The Czech Philharmonic’s New Year concerts will be conducted by principal guest conductor Jakub Hrůša. The concerts will take place on December 31 and January 1 at Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall. The concert will feature mainly works by Czech composers, including Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček.
Hrůša, who is one of the ambassadors of the Year of Czech Music and a patron of the Smetana 200 project, is due to perform Smetana's opera Libuše with the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring and Smetana’s Litomyšl festivals.
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12/21/2023
ANO would have come first in general elections in November with 34.5 percent of the vote, while the Civic Democrats would have taken 15.5 percent, suggests a poll from the Median agency. ANO were slightly down compared to an October Median poll, while the Civic Democrats improved by two percentage points.
The Pirates returned to third place and would have received 11 percent of the vote, two percentage points more than in October. By contrast, support for Freedom and Direct Democracy dropped by two percentage points and would have been 8.5 percent in October, the survey indicates.
The Mayors and TOP 09 would also make the threshold for the lower house with 6 percent and 5.5 percent of the vote, respectively.
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12/21/2023
Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová has won the Golden Canary poll for best Czech tennis player of the year for the first time. The 24-year-old native of Sokolov received the award at a ceremony in Prague on Wednesday evening. She also won the award for the best female player of the year.
Among the men, Australian Open quarter-finalist Jiří Lehečka won the award for the best male player of the year for the third time in a row.
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12/20/2023
Communist-era dissidents are set to receive average old-age pensions from next year, regardless of whether they made contributions for long enough, under an amendment approved by the Czech government on Wednesday. People certified for having resisted the Communist regime will see below-average pensions automatically topped up, Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka said after a cabinet session.
Recently former dissidents protested outside the Office of the Government over the fact many of their cohort have been receiving relatively low pensions, often related to their mistreatment before 1989.
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12/20/2023
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, says only Russia and Ukraine may talk about war fatigue – people aren’t dying due to fighting in other European states. Mr. Pavel made the comment in an interview published on Wednesday by the French newspaper Le Monde in connection with a visit he is making to Paris.,
The Czech head of state welcomed the start of European Union accession talks with Ukraine. He said the EU summit that decided this last week showed that the issue of unanimous voting in the bloc needed to be discussed.
Mr. Pavel also criticised Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban, who he said was harming his own country’s interests.
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12/20/2023
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, welcomed the Czech head of state, Petr Pavel, at the Elysees Palace in Paris on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting came at the start of a two-day visit to the French capital by Mr. Pavel.
He and Mr. Macron were expected to discuss Ukraine and Gaza as well as the future of nuclear energy.
President Pavel was also due to unveil a new “Václav Havel’s Place”, composed of a round table and seats, in the French capital. Dozens of these informal meeting places exist in Czechia and other parts of the world.
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12/20/2023
The Czech foreign minister says that his government welcomes a new deal to reform the European Union’s migration policy agreed on Wednesday. Jan Lipavský said the EU’s migration and asylum pact was necessary, iDnes.cz reported. The new rules will help maintain the Schengen zone, which has come under great pressure, he said.
Opposition leader Andrej Babiš of ANO said on Wednesday that Europe was incorrigible and was again inviting millions of illegal migrants, blaming the Czech government for allowing this.
For his part Mr. Lipavský said criticism of the pact was “from another planet”. They probably take it that the worse things are, the better for them, he said.
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12/20/2023
The government has approved a change in the definition of rape in Czech law. While up to now it has meant forcibly coerced sexual intercourse, in future it will be defined as non-consensual sex.
Justice Minister Pavel Blažek, who put forward the bill, said on Wednesday that he had not previously been convinced of the usefulness of this change but had revised his position after a number of discussions in the last year.
The bill states that refusal of sexual intercourse can be expressed verbally or non-verbally, such as by gestures, crying or adopting a defensive stance.
Rape will only be investigated in the case of intercourse; other types of forced sex acts will be classified as a sexual attack.
The matter must be considered by both houses of Parliament and signed off on by the president.
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12/20/2023
A male student attacked a member of staff with a knife at a secondary school in the town of Třebíč on Wednesday morning, a local police spokesperson told the Czech News Agency. The female staff member suffered minor injuries in the assault and nobody else was hurt.
The aggressor was apprehended by the police and the matter is now being investigated.
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12/20/2023
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. Lower temperatures are expected on the following days.
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