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07/29/2024
Burčák, which is partially fermented young wine, should go on sale in Czechia relatively early this year, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday.
One winemaker, Miloslav Machuča from Úvaly near Valtice in the Břeclav region, said that he had already started harvesting his first grapes and would start selling burčák on August 1, the first day the drink may be sold.
This year’s growing season has accelerated the ripening process and the 2024 harvest should be better than those seen in recent years, Mr. Machuča said.
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07/29/2024
The Czech Ministry of the Environment has begun the process of having the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory) in the northwest of the country declared a protected landscape area. With a proposed territory of around 1,200 square kilometres it will be the largest such area in Czechia.
In a statement issued on Monday, ministry officials said that the Ore Mountains should be declared a protected landscape area in mid-2026.
There are currently 26 protected landscape areas in Czechia, covering nearly 15 percent of the area of the country.
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07/29/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says that the head of the Czech pavilion at Expo 2025, Ondřej Soška, has failed to generate enough money from private firms, Deník N reported on Monday. Mr. Soška won a selection procedure for the commissioner general’s post in 2022 after promising to raise CZK 200 million from the private sector but has not yet obtained half of that amount, the news site said.
Mr. Lipavský said he had repeatedly warned Mr. Soška that the funds secured above the amount approved by the Czech government were insufficient and that he needed to be more active.
The 2025 World Expo will be held in the Japanese city of Osaka from April to October next year.
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07/29/2024
Nearly 100,000 people attended two concerts by UK singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran in Hradec Králové on Saturday and Sunday night, the organisers said.
The concerts were part of Sheeran’s Mathematics World Tour, which was launched in Dublin in April 2022 and will conclude in Dusseldorf in 2025.
Tickets for the first show sold out within hours so a second one was added for the following evening. The multiple Grammy and Brit Award winner had previously played in Prague in 2019.
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07/29/2024
The impact of state and EU subsidies on the development of combined freight transport, which were supposed to strengthen the transport of goods by rail or water and reduce road transport, is minimal, according to a report by the Supreme Audit Office released on Monday. According to the audit, rail freight transport is stagnating and water freight transport is almost non-existent, while road freight transport is growing.
In reaction to the report, the Transport Ministry told the Czech News Agency that rail transport in the period under review was negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as by a decline in the transport of coal and other commodities. It also said there was a need to invest in increasing the capacity of railway lines.
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07/28/2024
Monday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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07/28/2024
The global security situation is extremely serious and also has impact on Czechia, the head of the Czech Counter Intelligence Service (BIS) Michal Koudelka said on Sunday on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its establishment.
In an interview for the Czech News Agency, Mr. Koudelka said the world was “on the brink of a global conflict”. Among the current threats, he cited Russian imperialism, as well as sabotage and intelligence operations by Russia, China and Iran.
He also mentioned hostile propaganda, migration, the threat of Islamic terrorism, the rise of right-wing extremism, the illegal arms trade, cyber attacks and the risk of misuse of artificial intelligence.
According to Mr. Koudelka, the intelligence service will continue to do its utmost to contribute to the protection of Czechia and its citizens.
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07/28/2024
Tennis player Barbora Krejcikova advanced to the second round of the Olympic tournament in Paris. The winner of this year's Wimbledon defeated Spain's Sara Sorribes 4-6, 6-0, 7-6 in a match lasting nearly three-hours. Another Czech Linda Noskova lost her debut Olympic match against China's Wang Si-yu 3-6, 3-6.
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07/28/2024
The second baby pangolin born at Prague Zoo was given the name Connie, the zoo has announced on its website. Several thousand people took part in choosing the name from a shortlist of four.
The pangolin pup has the same parents, the female Run Hou Tang and male Guo Bao, as the first short-tailed pangolin to be born in Europe, Šiška, who was born in the zoo in early 2023. The pair of parent pangolins were sent to Prague in 2022 from a zoo in Taiwan.
According to Prague Zoo breeders, the baby pangolin continues to gain weight and has already started riding around on her mother’s tail.
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07/28/2024
The Minister of Defence, Jana Černochová, visited Ukraine with a delegation and honoured the memory of Czech and Ukrainian soldiers, the ministry announced in a press release on Saturday.
During her three-day trip, Mrs. Černochová honoured the memory of Czechoslovak legionnaires and soldiers from WWII, and also paid tribute to soldiers from Czech lands who fought in the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. She also commemorated the Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in the war against Russia.
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