• Weather
    04/22/2018

    Mostly cloudy conditions are expected on Monday with a chance of rain. Daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 25 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • PM among first to tweet congratulations to re-elected Communist Party leader Filip, reports Novinky.cz
    04/22/2018

    Prime minister in resignation Andrej Babiš, the head of ANO, was among the first to tweet congratulations to the head of the Communist Party Vojtěch Filip, Novinky.cz reports.

    Mr Filip, who has led the party for 12 years, was re-elected at the party's congress in Nymburk on Saturday. He narrowly defeated challenger Josef Skála by just 20 votes. His continuation as chairman was not assured after the party's poor results in last year's parliamentary election.

    In his tweet, the prime minister expressed the hope the move would pave the way for a new government with majority backing in the lower house. For the first time since 1989, the government will have to rely on the Communists for outside support.

    ANO and the Social Democrats are currently negotiating who will be in the minority coalition. The Czech Republic has had a government in resignation since January.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Attendees take part in 15th annual Culture Against Anti-Semitism event
    04/22/2018

    Hundreds of attendees took part in the 15th annual Culture Against Anti-Semitism on Sunday, combining the March of Good Will along with a cultural program.

    Traditionally, the march, which is open to participants of all ages, begins at Franz Kafka Square in the former Jewish quarter and leads to Wallenstein Garden outside the Czech Senate, where cultural events are scheduled.

    Along the route, in front of the Rudolfinum concert hall, participants paid homage to victims of the Holocaust; this year, the upcoming 70th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel was also being marked.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Football: league leaders Plzeň win first game in four matches
    04/22/2018

    League leaders Viktoria Plzeň won their first game in four matches in the top domestic football league on Saturday, downing Brno by a score of 3:1. Aleš Čermák scored twice in the first half and again in the second to complete the hat-trick. Brno got a consolation goal from Musefiu Ashiru.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Teplice woman charged with murder of newborn
    04/22/2018

    Police in Teplice have charged a 29-year-old woman with the murder of her baby, found dead in a local recycling bin for glass several dozen meters from her home. The body of the newborn was discovered on Thursday by a passerby who was rummaging through the bin.

    A police representative said the newborn had been denied primary care after birth. Novinky.cz reported that neighbours had no idea that the local woman, described as heavily overweight, had been pregnant.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Women's tennis team leads 2:0 against Germany in Fed Cup semifinal
    04/21/2018

    The Czech women's tennis team is a win away from securing the final in the Fed Cup in November, leading 2:0 against Germany. The Czechs got wins from Petra Kvitová who defeated Julia Görges and Karolína Plíšková who defeated Angelique Kerber in straight sets.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Saturday hottest day of year so far
    04/21/2018

    This Saturday, April 21, was the warmest day of the year so far in the Czech Republic with the temperature hitting 29 degrees Celsius in places. Meteorologists reported that records for the day had been broken at some 100 of 147 measuring stations. Many Czechs took the opportunity to spend at least part of the day outdoors.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Vojtěch Filip re-elected chairman of the Communist Party
    04/21/2018

    Vojtěch Filip has been re-elected chairman of the Communist Party.

    He was elected in a second-round secret ballot, narrowly defeating "orthodox wing" head Josef Skála. Mr Filip is himself regarded as a more hardline leader than some in the party.

    In the ballot he received 165 votes and his challenger 145. The congress is taking place behind closed doors following an address by the president earlier on Saturday.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Weather
    04/21/2018

    Partly cloudy conditions are expected on Sunday with some sunny periods. Daytime highs should reach temperatures of around 23 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Police in Nymburk stop number of demonstrators from crashing Communist Party convention
    04/21/2018

    The police had to step in to prevent a number of demonstrators in Nymburk from crashing the Communist Party congress after the departure of President Miloš Zeman on Saturday. Members of the force as well a on-site anti-conflict team stopped demonstrators on the stairs of the local town hall and persuaded them to turn back.

    The demonstration in front of the town hall is continuing as planned and has been attended by several hundred people including public figures such as first-round presidential candidate Michal Horáček and TOP 09 senator Tomáš Czernin. Protestors have expressed opposition to the Communist Party being legitimized, as they see it, by the current head of state as well as politicians seeking to form a minority government.
    Author: Jan Velinger

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