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02/14/2023
The 2022 Ferdinand Peroutka Prize, one of the top awards in Czech journalism, has gone to Martin Dorazín of Czech Radio and Ivana Svobodová of the weekly Respekt. Both reporters are highly respected and have received acclaim for their coverage of the war on Ukraine.
Mr. Dorazín has been with Czech Radio for most of the last three decades and is a veteran foreign correspondent.
Ms. Svobodová started out with Mladá fronta Dnes before moving to the weekly Týden and in 2010 joining Respekt, where she covers politics and does long-form reporting.
The prize is awarded by the Ferdinand Peroutka Society, headed by the granddaughter of one of the most famous 20th century Czech journalists.
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02/14/2023
The mayor of Ostrava, Tomáš Macura, has quit the ANO party. In view of the fact he was elected as a representative of ANO, he said he would make the position available at a party meeting.
Mr. Macura said on Twitter on Monday that he could not accept the current political direction of the grouping, which had completely changed since he joined. He was serving his third consecutive term as mayor of Czechia’s third biggest city.
ANO leader Andrej Babiš was criticised for his abrasive style during campaigning for the Czech presidency and pundits say he now plans to target the voters of the anti-migrant Freedom and Direct Democracy.
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02/13/2023
Czech football international Jakub Jankto has become the highest profile current male player to publicly come out as gay. Jankto, who is 27, made a public announcement on Twitter on Monday.
In the short English-language video said he wanted to live his life freely, “without prejudice, without violence”, adding “I am homosexual and I no longer want to hide”.
Very few gay players in the men’s game have ever come out and the story has made international headlines.
Jankto is contracted to the club Getafe but is currently with Sparta Prague on loan.
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02/13/2023
Czech boxers will not attend this year’s men’s and women’s World Championships. The management of the Czech Boxing Association said on Monday its fighters were boycotting the amateur events over the approach of the IBA international association, which allows boxers from Russia and Belarus to compete under their country’s flags despite the invasion of Ukraine.
Czech Boxing Association president Marek Šimák said that the IBA was headed by a Russian who was very close to Vladimir Putin.
The women’s world championship takes place in India in March while the men’s will be held in Uzbekistan in May.
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02/13/2023
The University of Ostrava has opened a new centre named City Campus that includes buildings focused on sport and art. The project cost over CZK 1 billion.
Beginning this month, trainers, teachers, musicians, production specialists and graphic designers will be taught at the university’s new sports and behavioral health facilities and its Art and Design Cluster.
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02/13/2023
Outgoing head of state Miloš Zeman and president-elect Petr Pavel met at the Lány presidential residence near Prague on Monday.
Mr. Pavel told journalists after the discussion that he had invited Mr. Zeman to his inauguration on March 9.
It was the first meeting between them since Mr. Pavel’s victory in presidential elections last month.
Mr. Pavel said that they had discussed the result of the elections – in which Mr. Zeman supported Andrej Babiš – as well as the president-elect’s reservations regarding the operation of the Office of the President under the incumbent.
Mr. Pavel’s team said they had dropped the idea of inviting presidents from other states to the inauguration at Prague Castle.
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02/13/2023
The trial of former MP Dominik Feri is set to begin in Prague on Tuesday. Mr. Feri, who is 26, is facing two charges of rape and one of attempted rape. The one-time TOP 09 party politician could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Mr. Feri stood down from the lower house soon after a number of allegations of sexual impropriety were levelled against him in the media in March 2021.
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02/13/2023
Further detailed discussion of reform of the Czech pension system is set to take place and nothing is final, Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Bartoš said on Monday.
The Pirate Party leader made the comment a day after Czech Television reported that those aged 34 or less today would qualify for a state pension at 68; this was based on a Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs document agreed on by the governing coalition.
However, a spokesperson said the government had not approved any change and that the proposal in question was one of several drafted by economists.
At present men and women without children in Czechia can receive a state pension from the age of 64.
The minister of labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka of the Christian Democrats, said on Monday that he planned to publish outline parameters of the reform next month.
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02/13/2023
It should be mainly bright in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. Overcast skies are expected in the later part of the week.
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02/13/2023
The price of apartments decreased in Czechia in the fourth quarter of last year, according to data from lender Hypoteční banka, which is part of the ČSOB bank group.
The decline, of an average of 0.7 percent, was the first quarter to quarter fall in property prices since the beginning of 2013.
Bank representative Martin Vašek told the Czech News Agency that loans cost more and were harder to acquire and that this, combined with the overall economic situation, had led to a cooling of the apartments market.
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