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07/22/2023
Czech Railways has been awarded the Silver Creator Award for its YouTube channel View from the Train (Pohled z vlaku), the company announced on its news site Zdopravy.cz on Saturday. The channel, which shows videos of interesting railway lines in Czechia recorded from the driver's cabin in order to attract people to work for Czech Railways, is a joint project with the Dialog Media agency.
The View from the Train channel has more than 105,000 subscribers and over 33 million views. As well as videos from the driver's cabin, it also provides additional information such as the driver's commentary or tips for interesting trips, an interactive map and points of interest on each track in real-time.
YouTube Silver Creator Awards are awarded to channels that reach or surpass 100,000 subscribers, but not all creators who reach this milestone and apply for the award receive one.
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07/22/2023
In a speech to the roughly 1.5 million member-strong Hungarian minority living in Romania, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in the Transylvanian town of Baile Tusnad on Saturday that Czechia has gone over to the side of the European Union federalists in the "struggle between federalists and sovereignists". Citing Hungarian media sources, the Czech News Agency reports that he accused federalists in the European Union of attacking the Visegrad Four (V4), and said that the only Visegrad Group member states who continue to defend the national sovereignty of EU countries are Hungary and Poland.
He also said that the elections to the European Parliament next year will be a battle between the two sides, where, in his view, the main proponents of federalism at the EU level are Germany and France. He expressed hope that member states such as Italy, Austria or Spain may join the camp of supporters of a weaker EU and greater national sovereignty.
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07/22/2023
A procession of folk ensembles from different countries paraded through the centre of Prague on Saturday morning for this year's Prague Folklore Days festival. According to the organisers, three dozen music and dance groups featuring over 600 performers from 13 countries from Europe, Asia and Africa performed at this year's parade. The countries represented included China, Estonia, Germany, Taiwan, Israel, and Poland. The festival programme continues until 6.30 pm in the Old Town's Ovocný Trh.
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07/22/2023
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute lifted or decreased its forest fire warning for much of the country on Saturday. A strip of land in the easternmost part of the country, starting roughly from Olomouc up to the border with Slovakia, has been declared risk-free.
However, a high-risk warning remains in place for northwest and most of central Bohemia, Vysočina and southern Moravia. The rest of the country has a low level of risk.
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07/22/2023
Nigerian artist Burna Boy cancelled his performance at the Colours of Ostrava festival on Friday night due to an engine malfunction on the plane that was taking him there, the Czech News Agency reports. Festival director Zlata Holušová had to announce the cancellation to a crowd of waiting fans.
The festival organisers wrote in a Facebook post that despite efforts to postpone the concert to a later time, the engine malfunction could not be fixed, adding that nothing like this had ever happened in the history of the festival.
This followed another cancelled performance at the festival by one of the headline acts - British singer Ellie Goulding did not perform on Thursday as scheduled. Festival spokesman Jiří Sedlák said that this was on the recommendation of her doctors due to health reasons. Czech band Chinaski performed in her place.
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07/22/2023
President Petr Pavel said on Friday evening during an interview at the Colours of Ostrava festival that he is for the introduction of electronic voting, calling it a modern way of doing things that would bring Czech elections into the 21st century and would allow people to vote from home. He also said it would make voting easier for citizens living abroad, who currently have to travel considerable distances sometimes to get to the polls.
He also said it would make sense for people who are in prison on cannabis-related charges to be granted amnesty if the drug is legalised in Czechia.
The interview was part of a special edition of the political podcast Kecy & Politika that took place in front of an audience at the Meltingpot discussion forum, which is part of the annual music and culture festival in Ostrava.
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07/21/2023
The lower house of the Czech parliament once again did not manage to vote on the government's plan to reform the pension system in its parliamentary session on Friday, after being blocked by long speeches from the opposition. The government coalition pushed for a limit of no more than two ten-minute speeches per person, which prompted an outcry from opposition MPs who accused them of curtailing democracy. The proposed pension changes include tightening the rules for early retirement and slowing down indexation.
This was the bill's third reading. The next opportunity for it to be approved will be on Wednesday.
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07/21/2023
Saturday is expected to start off sunny but to gradually become more overcast by late morning, continuing into the afternoon. There is a chance of some rain. Temperatures should range between 17 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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07/21/2023
The Czech national debt increased to CZK 3.044 trillion in the first half of this year, crossing the three trillion crown mark for the first time ever. Since the beginning of this year, the debt has increased by CZK 149.6 billion and amounted to 42.8 percent of GDP, the finance ministry announced on Friday. If the national debt were to hypothetically be divided among the population, this would mean that each person had a debt of CZK 280,574, the Czech News Agency notes.
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07/21/2023
A working group made up of experts from government ministries and non-profit organizations is being set up to tackle prejudice-motivated violence and the spread of anti-Ukrainian disinformation among the Roma community, the government commissioner for human rights, Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková, announced on Twitter on Friday. Town halls and other institutions and organisations are to receive instructions on how to deescalate conflicts, ease tensions, and prevent potentially violent situations.
This comes as a response to recent anti-Ukrainian protests organised by some members of the Roma minority in several Czech cities, which followed a series of clashes between Czech Roma and Ukrainians, including incidents involving stabbings. However, in most cases, although the assailants were alleged to be Ukrainian, their nationality was never confirmed by the police. There have also been a series of unverified claims on social media recently of attacks on Roma people by Ukrainians, which the Czech police have refuted.
A number of leading Roma public figures have condemned the anti-Ukrainian protests and the spread of misinformation.
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