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10/18/2017
Temperature records were set around the Czech Republic on Tuesday. Seventy-six measuring stations that have been keeping records for more than 30 years saw their warmest ever temperature for the day.
The hottest place in the country was Javorník in the Jesenicko region, where daytime highs reached 25.6 degrees Celsius. Wednesday will see a drop in daytime temperatures to around 12 to 16 degrees Celsius.
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10/17/2017
Czech women’s number one tennis player Karolína Plíšková has named a new coach, Tomáš Krupa, who had earlier been the coach of her Czech colleague Barbora Strýcová. Strýcová announced the news after her triumph at the WTA event in Linz on Sunday, adding that she was disappointed by Krupa’s decision.
The former World No. 1, Plíšková unexpectedly split with her coach David Kotyza after losing her top WTA singles ranking to Garbine Muguruza in September. Under Kotyza, she won three titles in Brisbane, Doha and Eastbourne and reached the French open semi-finals and quarterfinals of the US Open.
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10/17/2017
Dozens of people have signed an open letter in support of Pope Francis, initiated by Catholic priest and a renowned Czech theologian Tomáš Halík.
The letter comes in reaction to the criticism from a group of conservative Roman Catholics, who accused Pope Francis of spreading ‘heresy’ by signalling his openness to letting divorced and remarried Catholics receive the Holy Communion.
The signatories, among them renowned theologians, bishops and public figures from 13 countries, express their gratitude to the Pope for taking a courageous and responsible approach to his service.
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10/17/2017
Jiří Hynek, the head of the Defense and Security Association of the Czech Republic, has officially registered at the Ministry of Interior as a candidate for the upcoming presidential election.
He received support from 22 deputies across five political parties, most of them from the Defence and Security Committee. Mr Hynek is running with the support of the Realists Party.
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10/17/2017
Wednesday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime temperatures ranging between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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10/17/2017
About one third of general practitioners and medical specialists will close their offices on Wednesday to protest against rising red tape and underfunding of outpatient care.
The protests have also been joined by some pharmacists, who will symbolically close down for half an hour on Wednesday morning.
GPs and outpatient specialists, including dentists, criticise the health ministry for favouring primarily hospital care for new funds.
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10/17/2017
The granddaughter of the artist Zdeněk Miler, creator of the famous Czech cartoon character Krteček, can no longer grant licenses for the production of Little Mole collectibles, the Prague City Court ruled on Tuesday.
According to the ruling, the contract under which the licenses are granted is invalid. The court upheld an appeal by Milena Fišerová, who was authorised to administer Miller’s copyrights in 2006.
Zdeněk Miller, who authored more than 70 animated short films during his long career, died in 2011. The iconic Krteček first appeared in 1957 in a film entitled How the Little Mole Got His Trousers.
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10/17/2017
Canadian novelist, essayist and poetry writer, Margaret Atwood, will be officially presented with this year’s Franz Kafka prize at a ceremony in Prague on Tuesday. The prize to mark the life and works of Kafka has been awarded since 2001. One of the criteria for the award is the work’s humanistic character. Previous winners include Ivan Klíma, Haruki Murakami, and Philip Roth.
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10/17/2017
Famed Italian music composer, Ennio Morricone, accompanied by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, performed to a sold out O2 arena in Prague on Monday night.
The concert, called Goodbye Prague, was part of his farewell tour entitled Ennio Morricone - Last ever show. The composer has announced that as of next year, when he turns 90, he will no longer perform in big concert halls.
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10/17/2017
MPs in the lower house have asked the government to nullify a recent memorandum on the mining of lithium signed by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Jiří Havlíček with Australian mining company European Metals Holdings.
The move comes days before Czechs go to the polls in the national election and after nine hours of intense debate in an extraordinary session on Monday. Two proposals were passed while two failed to get a majority. The affair over lithium mining has blown up since the memorandum was signed: the Social Democrats accusing fellow members in government, ANO, on Monday of politicizing the matter for their own ends, calling the issue artificially inflated. ANO had claimed in past days that the memorandum signed by the Social Democrat-controlled Ministry of Industry with Australia’s European Metals Holdings Company was “selling out the national interest”.
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