• Unemployment rate rises to 3.9 % in January
    02/08/2023

    Unemployment in Czechia rose to 3.9 % in January from 3.7 % in December, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Wednesday.

    Labour offices registered 283,059 unemployed and 281,141 vacancies. It is the first time since March 2018 that there are more jobless people than vacancies.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Vesna to represent Czechia at this year’s Eurovision Song contest
    02/08/2023

    The band Vesna has been chosen to represent the Czech Republic at this year’s Eurovision Song. They won the national round with a song called My Sister’s Crown, beating competitors such as Markéta Irglová and Pam Rabbit.

    The Prague-based band is led by singer and composer Patricia Fauxová. Its permanent members come from Czechia, Slovakia and Russia. The competition song also features Bulgarian rapper Tania Yankova and Ukrainian musician Kateryna Vatchenko.

    This year’s Eurovision Song Contest 2020 begins on Friday, May 5  and ends on Saturday May 13.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    02/07/2023

    Wednesday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between -2 and 2 degrees Celsius.

  • No Czechs known to be among victims of earthquake disaster
    02/07/2023

    The Czech Embassy in Ankara has not registered any Czech so far among the victims of Monday’s devastating earthquake. According to the Czech Ambassador to Turkey Pavel Vacek, there is currently one Czech woman unaccounted for in Adiyaman province, where a team of Czech rescuers is now deployed.

    The embassy assisted a group of six Czechs who were in the country on business and were in Kahramanmaraş province when the earthquake struck on Monday. The group is already on their way to Ankara and will leave for Czechia on Wednesday.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech rescue team deployed in Turkish city of Adiyaman
    02/07/2023

    Firefighters from the Czech urban search and rescue team have started a survey of the earthquake-hit city of Adiyaman, the Czech Fire and Rescue Service announced on Twitter on Tuesday.

    The team, made up of roughly 70 firefighters from Prague and Moravia-Silesia, was flown to the country on Tuesday morning by Turkish military planes. They are equipped with rescue dogs and advanced technology for searching the rubble.

    Aid from around the world is flowing to Turkey and Syria following Monday’s devastating earthquake. So far, some 2,660 people from 65 countries have been sent to take part in search and rescue operations. The death toll has already exceeded 5,000.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czechia back on Germany’s list of top ten trading partners
    02/07/2023

    Czechia was back on Germany’s list of top ten trading partners in 2022 after a one-year absence, the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced on Tuesday.

    The volume of bilateral trade increased by 16.5 percent year-on-year to 113 billion euros, which is the highest figure in history. Czechia also had a positive trade balance with Germany in 2022.

    Czechs exported 58.7 billion euros worth of goods to Germany last year, an increase by 18 percent on the previous year. Goods worth 54.3 billion euros were imported to Czechia from Germany, nearly 15 percent more than in 2021.

  • Czechia hit by freezing temperatures
    02/07/2023

    Czechia is labouring under a freezing cold spell, with temperatures dipping well below zero during the night from Monday to Tuesday. The lowest temperature – minus 28.3 degrees Celsius, was registered in the Šumava Mountains in the south of the country.

    Temperatures around minus 25 degrees Celsius were also registered in the Jizera Mountains and Orlické Mountains in the north of Czechia. The freezing but sunny weather is expected to last until the end of the week.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech artist Květa Pacovská has died aged 94
    02/07/2023

    Renowned Czech graphic artist and illustrator Květa Pacovská died on Tuesday at the age of 94. Pacovská’s work encompasses many different forms, from paintings, sculptures and spatial objects, to drawings and installations.

    Květa Pacovská's books have received recognition abroad, and her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • “Tomáš the Tank” deployed in Ukraine
    02/07/2023

    A tank for Ukraine named “Tomáš”, purchased with funds from Czech donors, has already been deployed in combat in Ukraine.

    The money for the tank was raised within an initiative called Gift for Putin, which uses colourful projects to raise cash to help Ukraine repel the Russians.

    On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the initiative is planning a parade through Prague and a concert. It has also prepared projects for the post-war reconstruction of the country.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Outgoing President Zeman on last foreign trip to Slovakia
    02/07/2023

    Outgoing President Miloš Zeman is on a three-day official visit to Slovakia, his last foreign trip in office. He arrived on Monday evening together with the First Lady and dined with Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová at a hotel in Štrbské Pleso in the High Tatras. On Tuesday he is due to meet with Slovak top officials and the country’s former presidents Rudolf Schuster and Andrej Kiska. It is a tradition that the leaders of Czechia and Slovakia always pay their first and last foreign visits to the former sister state. President Zeman’s second term in office will end on March 8.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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