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09/28/2023
The traditional open-air mass commemorating the death of Czechia's patron saint, Saint Wenceslas, took place in the town of Stará Boleslav, northeast of Prague, on Thursday morning. Many believers made a pilgrimage to the town, some on foot, to attend the mass. Stará Boleslav is the place where Saint Wenceslas was murdered on September 28, 935 by a group of his opponents, among whom was his brother Boleslav.
Cardinal Dominik Duka led the mass, with the sermon being delivered by Bishop Jan Baxant of Litoměřice. President Petr Pavel, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, and Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner were also in attendance, as well as other church leaders, politicians, army officials, and ambassadors.
Stará Boleslav is the oldest Czech pilgrimage site associated with the cult of Saint Wenceslas, which was spread throughout Europe by Charles IV. September 28 has been an official state public holiday in Czechia since 2000 and is marked in the calendar as the Day of Czech Statehood. The National St. Wenceslas Pilgrimage was restored by the Roman Catholic Church in 2003.
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09/27/2023
The Czech government has approved the purchase of 24 US-made F-35 aircraft at a total of CZK 150 billion. The minister of defence, Jana Černochová, said at a news conference on Wednesday that that amount also included all expenses related to the preparation of operations in Czechia.
The first of the fighter jets will be ready in 2029 and all 24 will be in the country by 2035, the minister said.
It will be the biggest defence contract ever signed by Czechia.
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09/27/2023
Miloš Zeman says he spoke by phone to Slovak politician Robert Fico ahead of his country’s elections this coming weekend. In a social media post on Wednesday the former Czech president said that it had been an interesting conversation and ended with the word “fingers crossed!”
Czechia’s current head of state, Petr Pavel, has said that a victory for the populist Fico could undermine Czech-Slovak relations.
The former Slovak PM has promised to end military aid to Ukraine, opposes NATO membership for that country and called Slovakia’s president a “US agent”.
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09/27/2023
Czechia’s University of Defence was the victim of a cyber-attack, with hackers evidently stealing data from the institution’s rector, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday. The news website said the Municipal State Prosecutor’s Office in Brno was looking into the matter.
A spokesperson for the National Cyber and Information Security Agency said it would not comment on the matter as it was being investigated by the Military Police.
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09/27/2023
The Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague has opened a new pavilion that it says connects nature with modern technologies that can respond to the impacts of climate change.
The low-energy building with a green facade will be used by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, representatives of the institution told reporters at Wednesday’s opening.
The construction of the pavilion took two years and cost CZK 269 million.
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09/27/2023
The leader of opposition ANO party, Andrej Babiš, has written to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, demanding he address Vít Rakušan’s continued presence as minister of the interior. In the letter, quoted on Wednesday by the Czech News Agency, Mr. Babiš says no member of Rakušan’s Mayors party should be entrusted with that role.
ANO’s Alena Schillerová has said that if Mr. Rakušan remains in government her party will next week push for a vote of no-confidence.
ANO say Mr. Fiala does not appreciate the gravity of the fact Mr. Rakušan possessed an encrypted telephone. For his part the interior minister said he feared being bugged and had hardly used the device.
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09/27/2023
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says that if the government intensified its austerity programme it would have a greater impact on citizens and also slow investments. His made the comment on Wednesday, a day after President Petr Pavel said the cost-saving measures currently in place were insufficient.
Mr. Fiala told reporters he took the president’s words as a broad expression of support for the government’s efforts to rejuvenate the state finances.
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09/27/2023
Some schools in Czechia are introducing new prevention programmes to combat growing violence among children and teenagers, Czech Television reports. The number of violent incidents where the assailant is a child or teenager has grown, especially in the Ústí nad Labem Region. For example, two such cases occurred in Děčín within one month, and in both cases the victim ended up in hospital. The attacks are often filmed and published on social media.
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09/27/2023
It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Cloudy weather is expected from the weekend.
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09/27/2023
Germany has introduced new controls on its borders with Czechia and Poland in a bid to fight human trafficking. The German minister of the interior, Nancy Faeser of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, officially announced the move on Wednesday.
The minister said the checks would not be static but would be mobile and capable of responding to real-time developments.
She said the new controls had been agreed with the Czech and Polish authorities and therefore did not need to be declared to the European Union.
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