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10/24/2023
The Czech tennis player Karolína Muchová has had to withdraw from the season ending WTA Finals due to a wrist injury. The world number eight will also miss the final of the Billie Jean Cup international team competition in November.
Muchová, who is 27, has suffered from a sore wrist since the US Open in September, where she reached the semi-finals. She has not played since then but said only last week that she still hoped to take part in the WTA Finals.
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10/24/2023
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says his country will push for the European Union to begin accession talks with Ukraine this autumn.
In an interview for the Czech News Agency on Tuesday, he said that a European Commission assessment of Ukraine’s readiness to join the EU – which should be published on November 8 – would be crucial.
Mr. Lipavský said Ukraine was involved in a military conflict in which it was literally fighting to the death and for the right to choose its own geopolitical orientation, meaning membership of the EU and NATO.
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10/24/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 14 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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10/24/2023
Speaking to a conference in Prague, Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky, said Russia originally believed it could invade his country with impunity, but those illusions are now shattered. The Ukrainian leader made the comment in a video address to the Crimea Platform international summit, which this year was taking place in the Czech capital.
Mr. Zelensky told delegates that the international community must focus on preventing the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions and also called for the continued supply of arms and ammunition to Ukraine.
He said the only thing that could satisfy his people was a complete withdrawal from Ukrainian territory by the Russians.
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10/24/2023
The number of socially marginalised areas in Czechia increased last year compared to the year before, the Czech News Agency reports. According to the latest social exclusion index compiled by the Agency for Social Inclusion, the number has increased from 175 to 191. The director of the agency, Martin Šimáček, said that this was expected given the consequences of covid, high inflation and rising energy costs.
The Agency for Social Inclusion has compiled this index annually since 2016. It is based on a number of factors, such as the proportion of people living in the area who are on benefits, not employed or studying, or whose house or apartment is in foreclosure.
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10/24/2023
Getting a divorce in Czechia could become simpler and faster from January 2025, the Czech News Agency reports. Proposed changes to the Civil Code regarding divorce proceedings include courts no longer having to enquire into the reasons for the marriage breaking down, combined divorce and child custody proceedings, and lower court fees for amicable splits requiring less litigation. The changes were presented in parliament by Ministry of Justice representatives and MP Eva Decroix from the Civic Democrat party.
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10/23/2023
Tuesday is expected to be overcast with a chance of rain in the late afternoon and evening. Daytime temperatures should range between 10 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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10/23/2023
Danuše Nerudová has resigned from her position as the head of the Department of Accounting and Taxation at Mendel University in Brno, Deník N reports. Ms Nerudová herself confirmed the news to the Czech daily, citing disagreements over the direction in which the faculty is heading and wanting to focus on next year’s European Parliament elections, in which she standing for election, as reasons for the move. However, she will continue to work at the university as a professor.
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10/23/2023
The new owner of a listed 18th-century baroque chateau in Chlum u Třeboně is causing concern and anger in the small town by carrying out demolition work in the building without a permit and refusing to communicate with the relevant authorities, news site Deník N reports.
Daniel Bakaev, an entrepreneur with Russian-Kazakh roots, bought the chateau last year. However, hopes that the historic building and with it the town would get a new lease of life soon faded away after he fenced off the entire area, prohibiting locals from walking through the grounds, as they had been used to doing for decades.
He also began renovating the building without a building permit. The authorities ordered him to stop the building works and let them into the castle, but according to Deník N, he refuses to let anyone in or to communicate with the local authorities, including the town hall, saying that the castle is his and claiming what he does there isn't anyone else's business.
The chateau, located in South Bohemia near the Austrian border, is notable for being the former summer residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The archduke stayed there the night before his fateful departure to Sarajevo in 1914, where he was assassinated, triggering the First World War.
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10/23/2023
A ban on the sale of flavoured heated tobacco products came into force in Czechia on Monday, bringing it in line with an EU directive issued last year. EU member states were required to implement the prohibition into national law by July 23, 2023, and apply it with effect from October 23, 2023. The directive does not allow for a transition period to sell off remaining stocks after this date.
The ban is part of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to “create a Tobacco-Free Generation” where less than 5% of the EU population uses tobacco products by 2040, compared to around 25% today. One of the main reasons for the ban is the growing popularity of these tobacco products, especially among young people. According to lung doctors, the nicotine-containing aerosol produced by heated tobacco products has a very similar composition of demonstrably carcinogenic substances to cigarette smoke.
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