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12/11/2023
Czech company CPI Property Group has ended its cooperation with the Czech Olympic Committee in reaction to the International Olympic Committee's decision to allow neutral Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
The company made the announcement in a press release on Monday, calling on other Czech Olympic Committee partners to do the same.
The International Olympic Committee announced Friday it would allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at the games as individuals if they meet the qualification criteria and other conditions. The Czech Olympic Committee disagrees with the move.
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12/11/2023
Year-on-year consumer price growth in Czechia slowed to 7.3 percent in November, down from 8.5 percent in October, according to figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Monday. Month-on-month, prices rose by 0.1 percent.
The growth in prices was registered mainly in the area of food and electricity as well as gas and solid fuels. Despite a renewed slowdown in inflation after a surge in October, price growth is still well above the Czech National Bank's two-percent target.
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12/11/2023
According to the head of the Czech Army, General Karel Řehka, war with Russia is not likely, but it is also not unimaginable Speaking at a conference in Prague on Monday, the chief of the General Staff said conflict can only be prevented by deterrence, not agreement.
Mr. Řehka also stressed the need to continue to support Ukraine. He said Russia had a long history of undermining Western unity and challenging democracy and state institutions, using disinformation to create uncertainty and distrust.
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12/11/2023
The 27th edition of the Made in Prague festival closed in London on Sunday evening with a screening of the new film One Life, a historical drama and biopic about Nicholas Winton, who helped save hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis on the eve of World War II. Warner Brothers allowed the Czech Centre London to screen the film on the festival's closing night, although the film hasn't been officially released in British cinemas yet.
The film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, had its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival in September. It will have its theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2024 and it will come to Czech cinemas in February 2024.
The multi-genre, several-week-long Made in Prague festival is an annual showcase of Czech culture organised by the Czech Centre London.
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12/11/2023
The ski season has fully begun in Czech mountain resorts, with thousands of people heading to the slopes for downhill and cross-country skiing over the past weekend. Saturday saw a larger number of skiers, with visitor numbers declining a little on Sunday due to the inclement weather. Although it is supposed to get warmer over the coming days, ski resort operators told the Czech News Agency that they don't expect snow conditions on the slopes to significantly deteriorate.
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12/10/2023
The current thaw is expected to continue on Monday, with daytime temperatures reaching an average high of 7 degrees Celsius and a low of 4 degrees Celsius. Skies will be mostly cloudy to overcast with a chance of some light showers throughout the day.
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12/10/2023
The number of drivers in Czechia who are over 80 years old is increasing, according to the latest figures released by the Czech Statistical Office. Over the last five years, the number of people in this age range who are still driving has increased by 41 percent. Around 135,000 people in Czechia aged over 80 have driving licences, over three-quarters of whom are men.
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12/10/2023
Only 16 percent of Czechs said they were happy with the current political situation in their country, according to a survey published on Sunday that was conducted by the Kantar agency for Czech Television. This is the lowest result since the start of 2021, a time when Czechia, along with most of the rest of the world, was in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic. 80 percent of those surveyed rated the current political situation as bad.
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12/10/2023
The cremated remains of Karel Schwarzenberg were buried in the family tomb at Orlík Castle in a private ceremony for friends and family on Sunday afternoon, the day on which he would have celebrated his 86th birthday. The castle in South Bohemia has been owned by the Schwarzenberg family for over 300 years and the family tomb there was chosen by the late politician as his final resting place.
The official funeral mass for Schwarzenberg, a member of the Czech nobility and one of the country’s most prominent post-1989 politicians, was held with state honours in St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle on Saturday. The urn with Schwarzenberg's ashes was subsequently transported to Orlík Castle and arrived by hearse in the afternoon.
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12/10/2023
Ice on the roads is slowing down traffic in many parts of the country, with some public transport connections delayed due to the poor driving conditions. Several centimetres of snow fell overnight in the north and west of Bohemia and there were snow showers in most parts of eastern Bohemia on Sunday morning. There is ice and slush on some roads in the south of Moravia and in the Olomouc region, and the D1 and D35 highways are also experiencing icy conditions.
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute warns that ice is expected to form again overnight and on Monday morning in Vysočina and parts of Moravia. Due to the melting snow, a level-one flood alert has been declared for the Lusatian Neisse basin in the Liberec region on Monday.
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