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09/11/2024
The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute issued a severe flood alert for the eastern part of the country, which will come into effect on Friday. Very heavy to extreme rainfall, which is expected to arrive in Czechia on Thursday, could raise rivers to dangerous levels in the coming days.
The heaviest rain is expected in the Pardubice, Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian Region, where more than 300 litres of water per square metre are expected to fall over the next four days. The most serious flood situation will occur on the rivers that drain the mountain areas in the north-east of the country.
Extreme precipitation is also expected in the Vysočina, South Bohemia, Hradec Králové and Liberec regions. Lower level flood alerts will be in place for central and Western Bohemia.
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09/11/2024
Czechia will mark October 12 as the Day of Samizdat, celebrating the production of illicit printed materials such as books and magazines under the pre-1989 Communist regime, the Lower House of Parliament voted on Wednesday.
On October 12, 1988 a group of 92 Czech and Slovak samizdat publishers wrote an open letter to the then Communist president Gustáv Husák condemning the jailing of one of them, Christian activist Ivan Polanský.
The deputies have overruled the proposal of the Senate to celebrate the day on April 27, which marks the anniversary of the founding of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted in 1978.
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09/11/2024
Czechia and Hungary are considering co-hosting the 2029 Ice Hockey World Championships, with the group stage matches taking place in Brno, where a new multifunctional arena is due to open in two years. The centre of the championship would be Budapest, which only has one suitable arena.
In an interview for Kometa Brno's website, the presidents of both national associations, Alois Hadamczik and Zsuzsanna Kolbenheyer confirmed their interest in cooperation. However, the final decision depends on the approval of Hungary’s candidacy by the International Ice Hockey Federation.
The agreement does not require Czechia to co-host any future championship with Hungary in the event of a successful candidacy.
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09/11/2024
Speaker of the Czech Senate Miloš Vystrčil arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday to attend the fourth summit of the Crimean Platform, which seeks to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine and to end the Russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula. He will also pay tribute to the victims of forced deportations by the totalitarian Soviet regime.
Mr. Vystrčil last visited Kiev in November 2023, when he paid tribute to the victims on the 90th anniversary of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. He also supported Ukraine's territorial integrity by visiting the Crimean administrative border in Kherson region.
The Crimean Platform, which brings together some 70 countries and international organisations, was established in the summer of 2021 on the initiative of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A second summit at parliamentary level was held in Prague in October 2023.
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09/11/2024
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on Tuesday wound up a three-day working visit to South Korea, one of Czechia’s largest trading partners. His talks with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul focused on strategic communication and new opportunities for cooperation in nuclear energy, industry and research, in light of the fact that the South Korean company KHNP won a tender for the construction of two new units of the Dukovany nuclear power plant. South Korea is Czechia’s third largest trading partner outside of Europe and the fourth largest foreign investor in the Czech Republic.
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09/11/2024
Investigators from the National Office against Organized Crime (NCOZ) intervened at the Prague Archbishopric on Tuesday evening as well as several other locations. According to the supervising prosecutor, police officers were gathering evidence in a case of suspected fraud in which the Archbishopric was the damaged party. No one has yet been arrested or charged in the case. According to Czech Television the case involves financial damage to the tune of CZK 200 million.
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09/10/2024
Doctors' and nurses' unions and the Czech Medical Chamber have called on doctors and other healthcare workers in hospitals to refuse to sign contracts on overtime as of October 30. They want to achieve a change in remuneration, which they say the Health Ministry promised and failed to deliver. Currently, overtime accounts for 40 percent of a doctor's salary in Czech hospitals.
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09/10/2024
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast, with rain in the western parts of the country, and daytime highs between 17 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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09/10/2024
Brno councilors have approved a request for a ban on the entry of electric scooters and unicycles into the pedestrian zone in the city centre. The reason is repeated complaints from pedestrians who fear for their safety. The request will now be discussed by the Brno City Council's transport department. If approved it should come into force at the beginning of next year. Ostrava banned electric scooters in the city centre two years ago and the measure has won praise from both officers and pedestrians. A similar ban is being considered by the authorities of Prague 1.
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09/10/2024
Screenwriter and director Jiří Mádl's film Waves has been selected as the Czech Republic 's official entry for the 97th Academy Awards where it will compete in the Best Foreign Film category. The Czech Film and TV Academy announced its decision on Tuesday. The film was inspired by the true story of a group of journalists from the international service of Czechoslovak Radio and their determination to bring independent news to the public during the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Waves premiered at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where director Mádl won the Blue Cube Award for outstanding artistic performance. It hit Czech cinemas on August 15.
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