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09/08/2017
The tenth annual Dvořák Prague festival got underway on Thursday night with a concert in Prague’s Rudolfinum. The festival opened with Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, featuring Metropolitan Opera Kristine Opolais and René Pape.
Over the next two weeks, the event will showcase performances by renowned soloists and some of the world’s best orchestras, including London Philharmonic Orchestra or Wienner Philharmoniker.
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09/08/2017
The Czech Republic and Italy are preparing a joint project to help migrants from Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka told journalists after meeting his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday.
The Czech Republic is to contribute with roughly one million euros to the project, helping to improve the living conditions of the people who are returned from other countries to Ivory Coast.
The Czech Republic has been against the redistribution of refugees from the very beginning and has only accepted 12 of the 2,000 it had been designated by the EU.
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09/07/2017
Czech search engine and Internet company Seznam plans to launch its own TV channel, The Czech News Agency reported. The company wants to broadcast video content which is only available on the internet at the moment. The company has reportedly registered a new firm called Seznam.cz TV, and will try to obtain a broadcasting license. The company's spokeswoman Irena Zatloukalová refused to provide any further details.
Seznam is one of the few locally developed European search engines which have been able to hold their own against the giant US search engine site and company, Google. who currently holds a 70 percent stake in the company. The company, which was founded in 1996, currently employs some 1,200 people and has annual turnover of around one billion crowns (nearly 37 million euros).
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09/07/2017
Around one third of Czechs have overdrawn their bank accounts over the past year, according to a survey carried out by CSOB bank. Roughly a half of households had problems with unexpected expenditures that exceeded 10,000 crowns, the survey suggests.
According to CSOB’s Petr Hutla, most families’ financial reserves would only last for three months in case they lost their main source of income. One quarter of Czech households would survive for less than a month on their savings.
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09/07/2017
The lower house of parliament on Thursday ratified a Czech-Slovak treaty on mutual protection of airspace.
The Czech and Slovak defence ministers, Martin Stropnický and Peter Gajdoš, signed the treaty in February, after it was approved by the Slovak and Czech governments.
Under the treaty, if one of the countries is unable to protect its airspace, the other can assist it. It also allows pilots to interfere on the territory of the other country even with weapons in case it is necessary.
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09/07/2017
The reconstruction of Prague’s Veletržní Palace, the home of the Czech National Gallery’s modern art collection, is essential for the future of the institution, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Thursday during a visit to the premises.
The current head of the National Gallery, Jiří Fajt, plans to announce an international architectural competition for the renovation of the 1920s building.
According to the prime minister, the reconstruction should be one of the main priorities of a new investment programme of the Ministry of Culture, which should be approved by his government.
According to preliminary estimates, the renovation of Veletržní Palace could cost up to one billion crowns.
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09/07/2017
Friday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime highs ranging between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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09/07/2017
The 2018 draft budget proposal should be approved by the end of September, despite the coalition’s ongoing dispute over wage hikes for public sector employees, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Thursday after a meeting with Finance Minister Ivan Pilný.
The coalition is set to hold talks on the issue on Monday. Prime Minister Sobotka repeated that he supported the unions and agreed with a ten percent hike for public sector employees and 15 percent hike for teachers starting November 2017.
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09/07/2017
The State Environmental Fund has launched the second round of its project called Dešťovka, a water tank rebates programme intended to boost a policy of rainwater harvesting and utilization.
The Ministry of Environment on Thursday earmarked 240 million crowns to be used in subsidies for homeowners willing to install rainwater tanks to be used for watering gardens, flushing toilets and other household needs instead of drawing on public supplies. One household can receive up to 105,000 crowns in subsidies. The first round of the programme, which was launched in May, proved to be extremely successful, with people applying for the subsidies amounting to 110 million crowns within the first 28 hours.
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09/07/2017
The Czech Republic saw one of the warmest summers since records began back in 1775, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute reported on its website on Thursday. The oldest Czech meteorological station at Prague’s Klementinum recorded an average temperature of 21.7 degrees Celsius, which places this summer on the 6th spot in a total of 243 measurements. The summer of 2003 remains the hottest in history, with an average temperature reaching 22.4 degrees Celsius.
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