• Public radio and television launch election campaign slots
    12/28/2022

    Campaigning in the presidential elections will move into higher gear on Wednesday with pre-recorded minute long election slots and live debates on public radio and television. Czech Radio will start featuring the election slots on Wednesday and Czech Television will launch them a day later. Each of these public media outlets will give candidates five hours of airtime before the first round of the presidential election on 13 and 14 January. Nine candidates are in the running for the country’s top post.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czechs stun Canada 5:2 in World Junior Hockey Championship opener
    12/27/2022

    The Czech team stunned Canada 5:2 in the opening game of the World Junior Hockey Championship on Monday. The Czech juniors’ team achieved their first win against the defending champions and hot favourites in nine years despite an opening goal scored by Shane Wright. Defenders David Špaček and David Moravec turned the tide, scoring 33 seconds apart during a five-minute power play. Stanislav Svozil, David Špaček and David Moravec upped the score to five and Tomas Suchánek was stellar in making 36 saves.

  • New Year to start with mild weather and temperatures around 14 degrees Celsius
    12/27/2022

    Meteorologists predict unseasonable warm weather in the next four weeks. According to the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute the period from December 27 to January 22 should bring above-average temperatures with the first week of January likely to be the warmest. Temperatures on New Year’s Day are expected to reach 14 degrees Celsius.

  • Czechia fighting epidemic of respiratory infections
    12/27/2022

    Many regions of the country are fighting an epidemic of respiratory infections, including Covid, the seasonal flu and RSV which is rampant among young children. Children’s emergency wards were reported to be bursting at the seams over the Christmas holidays with some small patients having to wait from six to eight hours to get treatment. According to doctors, RSV infections take a long time to cure, with high fevers persisting for up to ten days.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Majority of Czechs favour direct presidential election
    12/27/2022

    Eighty-two percent of Czechs approve of direct presidential elections, according to a survey conducted by the STEM agency for CNN Prima News. Male and female respondents did not differ significantly in their views on how the head of state should be elected.  Younger people and those with a university education were more inclined to express reservations about it. Twelve percent of respondents were against direct presidential elections.

    Direct presidential elections were introduced in Czechia in 2013, previously the head of state was elected by the two houses of Parliament.  Miloš Zeman is the first head of state elected in a direct vote, moreover for two successive terms in office.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Over 14,000 Czechs abroad register to vote in January presidential election
    12/27/2022

    Over 14,000 Czechs have registered to vote in the January presidential election at Czech embassies abroad, according to data released by the Czech Foreign Ministry. According to the ministry, the largest number of registered voters is in London, where 1,325 Czechs registered to vote in the election, followed by Brussels with 1,028 registered voters, Bratislava and Bern with over 600 each, followed by Sidney, Paris and New York. The first round of the elections is due to be held on January 13-14.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • President Zeman in Christmas message to nation: support for Ukraine must continue
    12/27/2022

    In his last Christmas message to the nation, President Miloš Zeman emphasized the need for continued support for Ukraine in helping the country to defend itself against Russia’s aggression. Mr. Zeman , who earlier acknowledged that his pro-Russian stance had been a mistake, said the country’s war against Ukraine was a global security threat and it was essential to continue with international support. "I believe that pressure from the democratic countries will sooner or later force Russia to leave the territory of Ukraine," the president said.

    On the home front, Miloš Zeman spoke about the need to counter inflation which he said had become a serious problem. He said that the government would inevitably have to heed economists' advice to raise taxes and noted that he himself had tried to curb inflation by appointing opponents of interest rate hikes to the Czech National Bank's board.

    Recapping his political career, Zeman said that as president he has mainly tried to defend Czech national interests and in view of the country’s export-dependent economy had tried to foster good relations with as many countries as possible.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Pile up involving 40 cars closes D1 highway to Brno
    12/23/2022

    A pile up involving 40 cars has blocked the country’s main highway from Prague to Brno, the ctk news agency reported. Two trucks also crashed in the pile-up which was reportedly caused by dense fog. Traffic along a stretch of the highway is being rerouted. Two people are reported to have suffered light injuries.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    12/23/2022

    Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain in places and daytime highs between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.

  • Bohemia Sekt sparkling wine wins top prize at Terravino competition in Israel
    12/23/2022

    The Louis Girardot Brut 2019 sparkling wine from Bohemia Sekt won top prize at the Terravino Mediterranean International Wine And Spirits Challenge in Israel, the Czech Wine Fund, which financially supports winemakers' participation in competitions abroad said in a press release. In addition to this victory, winemakers from the Czech Republic won another 32 medals and the title for the best young wine from this year's harvest. Czech winemakers were also successful at the competition in San Francisco in the United States, where they won 98 medals, including four gold medals. In the 17th edition of the Terravino competition, held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, the judges evaluated over 600 wines from 12 countries, including 84 Moravian and Czech wines.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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