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06/22/2024
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, says candidates to join the European Union should be accepted as members on a one-by-one basis. While at the annual Europa-Forum Wachau at Göttweig Abbey in Lower Austria, Mr. Lipavský told the APA news agency that he was in favour of an approach where candidate states competed with one another in terms of meeting accession criteria.
The Czech foreign policy chief said simultaneous accession would put a break on the most ready candidates.
He said Ukraine was a special case, having been attacked by Russia. The country has decided for democracy and a European style of life and therefore merits all support from EU members, he said.
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06/22/2024
People will now be able to visit Frymburk in South Bohemia for spa treatments after the town, which is on the banks of Lipno dam, was granted permission by the Ministry of Health to provide such services, Novinky.cz reported on Saturday. The procedures will be covered by health insurance if ordered by a doctor, the news site said.
A local official said they hoped spa care facilities would be in operation by the second half of next year.
Frymburk is the 37th place in Czechia that has been granted official spa town status.
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06/22/2024
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has appointed Vasyl Zvarych as his country’s ambassador to Czechia. It is not clear from the official statement issued by the Ukrainian Office of the President when the diplomat will take up the post.
The post of ambassador to Prague was vacant for almost two years after Yevhen Perebyinis was recalled and made deputy minister of foreign affairs in Kyiv.
Mr. Zvarych previously served as Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland.
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06/22/2024
Kristýna Horská has taken gold in the 200m breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade. It is the third first place for Czechia in the tournament, following gold medals for Barbora Seemanová in the 100m and 200m freestyle and the fifth medal in total for the Czech team.
Horská came first in Friday evening’s final in a time of 2:23:60, which means she has also qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris. In addition the 26-year-old broke her own Czech record by 68 hundreds of a second.
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06/22/2024
It should be mainly bright in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of around 23 degrees Celsius. Higher temperatures are expected on the following days.
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06/22/2024
Heavy thunderstorms hit many parts of Czechia on Friday and early Saturday, passing across the country from west to east. The storms brought hailstones of up to eight centimetres in diameter and winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour.
Around a dozen railway lines were left impassable, most often due to fallen trees or damaged overhead lines, and fire brigades around the country were called out several hundred times. As of 10 am on Saturday around 30,000 households were without power.
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06/21/2024
The Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill on postal voting for Czechs living abroad. The draft law was approved by the votes of the ruling coalition, in the face of protests from the opposition parties who claim that postal voting is vulnerable to manipulation and abuse.
The coalition parties counter that postal voting had been successfully tried and tested in many countries of the world and will make life easier for hundreds of thousands of Czechs who now have to travel long distances to cast their ballot. They would like to see the law in force in time for the 2025 general elections. The bill will now go to the Senate for debate.
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06/21/2024
Saturday should be clear to partly cloudy with some rain in the northern and eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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06/21/2024
There is continuing controversy over the performance of the police in the tragic shooting at the Prague Faculty of Arts last December. Zdeněk Kalvach, a security adviser at Charles University, on Friday rejected police claims that the camera system in the faculty building was outdated and that it would have taken several hours to access the footage. He said police officers could have viewed the footage on the spot within an hour, but did not do so and left to check another site in the city centre where the student who committed the crime was due to attend a class. In reality, the police arrived at the faculty’s main building just one minute after the culprit, who did not start shooting until an hour and a half later. Critics and the families of those killed argue that the police could have prevented the bloodbath, if they had been more thorough. Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured in the shooting.
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06/21/2024
Roughly one percent of companies in Czechia have introduced a four-day work week, the news site Novinky reported. According to the news site around one thousand companies are testing the impact of the change. Employees have to complete the work in four days instead of five, while maintaining the standard eight-hour workday for the same wage. Some say the change has had positive results including a better atmosphere in the workplace and a higher number of applicants for new positions.
However some companies which introduced the four-day work week have already abandoned it, Novinky says. Critics argue that given Europe’s competitiveness such a model is untenable in the long-term.
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