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05/02/2018
In tennis, Petra Kvitová has advanced to the quarter-finals of this year’s biggest tennis tournament in Prague, the J&T Banka Prague Open. Kvitová eased past Russia’s Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6:3, 6:1. She will next face the winner of the match between Kateřina Siniakova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Kvitová, who is currently placed ninth in the WTA rankings, last played in a Czech tournament seven years ago.
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05/02/2018
German club Eisbären Berlin are hoping to land Czech hockey star Jaromír Jágr, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The 46-year-old forward and the second most productive player in the history of the NHL joined his hometown club Kladno from Calgary at the end of January this year.
His name has also appeared among the 16 players listed on Kladno’s roster for the 2018–2019 season, which was published on the club’s website.
Several German newspapers reported earlier that the Berlin club’s management was already in contact with Jágr before the playoffs.
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05/02/2018
The number of long-term unemployed in the Czech Republic has continued to go down, according to data released by the Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday.
The number of Czechs who have been unemployed for more than a year has dropped over the past year by 7.8 percentage points to 31.4 percent (of the total number of unemployed). It is one of the lowest figures in the EU, with the exception of Scandinavia and the UK.
The number of unemployed between the ages of 15 to 24 stands at 6.3 percent, which puts the Czech Republic in second spot in Europe, right behind Germany.
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05/02/2018
A new festival dedicated to television series begins in Brno on Wednesday. The first edition of Serial Killer will screen noteworthy shows produced for TV and internet distribution at a number of cinemas in the Moravian capital and will get underway with the first two episodes of the Czech-produced series Most!
Festival organiser Kamila Zlatušková, formerly a well-known Czech Television producers, says Serial Killer aims to support original work and new formats. The event will come to a close on Saturday.
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05/02/2018
ANO’s national committee has backed further negotiations with the Social Democrats on forming a coalition government, the party’s deputy leader, Jaroslav Faltýnek, said on Tuesday evening. Mr. Faltýnek said a deal on a minority coalition, which would be supported by the Communists, should be ready by the end of the week.
The Social Democrats are pushing for a proviso under which ANO chief and acting PM Andrej Babiš would have to step down if found guilty of abusing EU subsidies. They also want to see the position of Freedom and Direct Democracy on lower house committees weakened. However, ANO have as yet been unwilling to accede to these demands.
ANO and the Social Democrats appeared on the verge of striking a coalition deal previously only for negotiations to collapse.
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05/01/2018
Political parties and other groups held events in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic on Tuesday marking May Day, which is a holiday. The Communist Party had a gathering at the capital’s Výstaviště, the Social Democrats were on Střelecký ostrov, ANO were at Ladronka and the Civic Democrats were on Petřín hill.
Anarchists organised a gathering in Prague while the far-right Workers Party of Social Justice and other groups came together in Plzeň.
In the Czech Republic May 1 is also considered a day of lovers and homosexual rights group We Are Fair created a huge cake in Prague in support of marriage equality.
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05/01/2018
The text of an agreement on a coalition between ANO and the Social Democrats supported by the Communists on key votes should be completed this week. The leaders of the three parties should confirm the text on Friday, Czech Television reported on Tuesday.
However, disagreements remain, with ANO against the Social Democrats’ efforts to include a proviso under which ANO chief and acting PM Andrej Babiš would have to step down if found guilty of abusing EU subsidies.
ANO are also unwilling to accede to the Social Democrats’ demands to weaken the position of Freedom and Direct Democracy on lower house committees.
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05/01/2018
The Anifilm festival of animated film gets underway in the town of Třebon on Tuesday with the Czech premiere’s of Wes Anderson’s latest movie Isle of Dogs. Guests at the annual event will include US director Chris Landreth, who received an Oscar for his film Ryan, and animators from the Pixar studios.
Libuše Čihařová, who co-created the classic Czech cartoons Bob and Bobek and Maxipes Fík, will receive a lifetime achievement award at Anifilm, which runs until Sunday.
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05/01/2018
Ice hockey star Jaromír Jágr looks set to remain with his hometown club Kladno next season. The 46-year-old’s name is among the 16 players listed as being on Kladno’s roster for the 2018–2019 season, which has been published on the club’s website.
Jágr, the second most productive player in the history of the NHL, joined Kladno from Calgary at the end of January. He subsequently played only four full games before being largely sidelined by the return of a knee injury.
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05/01/2018
The Prague fire service were called out 15 times between Monday evening and Tuesday morning in connection with the Czech tradition of “witch burning” bonfires. They had been banned in the capital this year in view of dry conditions and strong winds and in eight cases the organisers agreed to fire officers’ calls for them to douse the fires. The other seven cases were false alarms, a fire service spokesperson said.
Fire fighters did not have to deal with any blazes resulting from unauthorised bonfires getting out of control.
Large public bonfires were called off at a number of places in the capital and people were also told not to light them on their own properties.
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