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06/12/2024
The Czech lower house on Wednesday morning began a final debate on the introduction of postal voting for Czechs abroad. Representatives of the two opposition parties in the Chamber of Deputies, ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy, slammed the government bill, with one MP for the latter saying it was an attack on the Czech Constitution.
The opposition parties have filibustered during previous discussions of postal voting and on Wednesday lunchtime around 30 of their MPs had signed up to address the lower house on the matter.
Pundits say postal voting would be more likely to benefit the governing parties.
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06/12/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 17 degrees Celsius. The following days are also expected to be cloudy, but warmer.
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06/12/2024
Footballer Michal Sadílek says riding a go-kart while at a training camp in Austria with the Czech national team, which resulted in an injury to him, was a mistake. The 25-year-old was forced to pull out of the squad for the European Championships after a fall left him requiring stitches in his leg.
Sadílek said on social media that he was touched his teammates had been photographed with his jersey after their final warm-up game before the Euros on Monday.
The Czechs play their opening group game in the competition against Portugal next Tuesday.
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06/12/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala says the government will decide by the end of August how many nuclear units Czechia will build on the basis of a current tender to construct them. He made the comment at a conference in Prague on Wednesday entitled Czechia at a Crossroads II.
Two companies, France’s EDF and KHNP from South Korea, are in the running to supply one to four units under the current tender.
One new unit should be built at Dukovany, though if a larger project is decided on there could be two new units there and also two new ones at the country’s second nuclear power plant, Temelín.
The two aspirants for the contract submitted bids in April that are now being appraised by power company ČEZ. It should turn the matter over to the cabinet later this month.
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06/12/2024
Jan Muzikář, who served as deputy chief of the border patrol under the communist regime, has denied responsibility for the deaths and serious injuries of close to a dozen people who were shot or mauled by border patrol dogs trying to flee communist Czechoslovakia. The 90-year-old Muzikář on Tuesday refused to testify in court citing poor health. His lawyer, Jaroslav Ortman, said at the trial that the accused had been responsible for the protection of the country’s borders, but had never issued direct orders to border guards. In view of his advanced age, the state prosecutor is proposing a two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 100,000 euros.
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06/12/2024
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová is due to arrive in Prague on Wednesday for her last visit to Czechia before the end of her five-year mandate. In the afternoon, she will be received with state honours at Prague Castle by President Petr Pavel who will present her with the country’s highest state distinction, the Order of the White Lion, for her contribution to the development of Czech-Slovak relations. On Thursday, the Slovak head of state is expected to address the 10th Prague European Summit at Černín Palace.
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06/11/2024
Wednesday should be partly cloudy with scattered showers and day temperatures between 14 and 18 degrees Celsius.
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06/11/2024
Conservationists in the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area in Blansko have closed part of the region to tourists so as to protect seven newly-hatched peregrine falcons which are being monitored in two nests. The falcons made their nests right above a hiking trail and the newly hatched birds belong to a protected species. The area should remain closed for three months. The falcons are being monitored by ornithologists, whose unique photographs and videos have given nature lovers the chance to follow their development inside the nests.
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06/11/2024
An extensive clean-up operation is underway in Valašské Klobouky and surrounding villages in the Zlín region following flash floods on Monday afternoon. Over eighty professional and volunteer firefighters were called to assist the local settlements, building sandbag dams and pumping water from cellars and gardens late into the night. They are now cleaning sewage drains and local houses from stones and mud. The extent of the damage is yet to be calculated. These are the second flash floods to hit the area in a fortnight.
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06/11/2024
People who still have banknotes in the denominations of CZK 100, 200, 500, 1000 and 2000 issued between 1995 and 1999, which expired in June 2022, only have until the end of the month to get them exchanged at the cash desks of any bank in the country, the central bank said. The banknotes, which are recognizable by their narrow silver stripe, were taken out of circulation two years ago. From July 1, 2024, only central bank cash desks will accept them.
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