• Prague police recruits no longer require school leaving exam
    08/09/2023

    The Prague police no longer require recruits to have passed the “maturita” secondary school leaving exam, Novinky.cz reported. Under a freshly launched hiring drive, vocational certificates are now considered sufficient educational attainment, the news website said.

    The capital’s police force is struggling to find new officers. The biggest shortfall is in the transport police, but numbers are also down at local stations and in riot control units.

  • Sparta draw 0:0 in Copenhagen in Champions League qualifier first leg
    08/09/2023

    Sparta Prague drew 0:0 away with FC Copenhagen in the first leg of their third qualifying round tie for football’s Champions League on Tuesday evening. The Czech side will welcome the Danes to their stadium at Prague’s Letná in the return fixture next Tuesday.

    Sparta’s Danish manager Brian Priske was an assistant coach at Copenhagen from 2016 to 2017.

    If the Czech titleholders get through the tie they will face one more opponent for a place in the Champions League group stage.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Senior Czech diplomat Martin Povejšil dies at 62
    08/08/2023

    The senior Czech diplomat Martin Povejšil has died at the age of 62, the minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, said on social media on Tuesday. Mr. Povejšil served as Czech ambassador to NATO, the European Union, Spain and Chile and was most recently director general for security and multilateral issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague.

    Minister Lipavský said Martin Povejšil had been one of the best diplomats the country had ever had. Many more tributes have been paid to him since the news of his death was announced.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czechia sees y-o-y jump in tourist numbers in second quarter
    08/08/2023

    Some 5.8 million tourists stayed in hotels, guesthouses and campsites in Czechia in the second quarter of this year, representing a year-on-year rise of 14.3 percent, according to official data released on Tuesday.

    Domestic guests outnumbered foreign ones and tourists spent a total of 13.8 million nights in accommodation establishments, 14.5 percent more than in the same period last year.

    However, overall services in Czechia registered a 3.5 percent decline year-on-year in the second quarter.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Mozambique’s President Nyusi holds talks with Czech politicians
    08/08/2023

    The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, held talks with senior Czech politicians on the second day of an official state visit to Czechia on Tuesday. After meeting the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, Mr. Nyusi held talks with the speaker of the lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, who said Czechia was interested in Mozambique’s natural gas. The African leader also held talks with the leadership of the Czech Senate.

    On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Nyusi was due to visit the Moravian capital Brno, where he spent time as a student.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Veronika Křesťanová appointed Constitutional Court judge
    08/08/2023

    President Petr Pavel appointed Veronika Křesťanová as a justice on the Czech Constitutional Court in a ceremony at Prague Castle on Tuesday. An intellectual property specialist, Křesťanová is the third woman on the country’s top court and brings the number of members on the 15-seat body to 14.

    Judge Robert Fremr was due to be the 15th and his appointment was also approved by the Senate. However, President Pavel has put the matter on hold after revelations emerged about his actions as a jurist under the communist system.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague Castle to host part of 2023 Designblok
    08/08/2023

    Part of this year’s design and fashion showcase Designblok will take place at Prague Castle, the latter announced on its website; visitors will find the exhibition Cosmos, comprising 10 designs, in the Summer Ball Games Hall in the complex’s Royal Garden.

    Other venues for the annual event will be the city’s Trade Fair Palace and Museum of Decorative Arts, both of which have hosted it in the past.

    The 2023 edition of Designblok, which is set to run from October 4 to 8, will be the 25th.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    08/08/2023

    It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Warmer weather is expected later in the week.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czechia sending three bridges to flood-hit Slovenia
    08/08/2023

    Czechia is to send three 36-metre pre-fabricated bridges to Slovenia, after the country was hit by devastating floods, a spokesperson for the Czech Fire Service said on Tuesday.

    The bridges are intended as a long-term replacement for damaged structures and installing them will require two trips from Czechia.

    The bridges in question were developed in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Unemployment in Czechia rises to 3.5 percent
    08/08/2023

    After four months of decline, unemployment in Czechia rose to 3.5 percent in July, up by 0.1 percentage point month-on-month, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Tuesday.

    At the end of last month almost 259,000 people in the country were out of work. The number of vacant positions dropped by around 1,000, reaching over 285,600.

    The jobless rate in Czechia in July last year was 3.4 percent.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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