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10/07/2024
On Monday, President Petr Pavel meets the Mayors and Independents Party candidates for the positions of Minister of Industry and Trade, Lukáš Vlček, and Minister for Regional Development, Petr Kulhánek. Both are expected to be appointed to the cabinet on Tuesday. Vlček will replace Jozef Síkela, who is leaving for the European Commission, while Kulhánek will succeed Ivan Bartoš, who was dismissed earlier this month. Vlček plans to focus on energy policy, including the completion of contracts for new nuclear blocks at Dukovany. Kulhánek will prioritize the improvement of digitalized construction procedures and the recovery of flood-affected regions.
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10/06/2024
Coco Gauff dashed Karolina Muchova’s hopes of winning the title at the China Open on Sunday beating the Czech in straight sets 1:6, 3:6 in one hour and 16 minutes in Beijing. A semifinalist in the last two editions of the US Open, Muchova had hoped to win her second career WTA title this year after her first and only victory five years ago in South Korea. She lost both final matches this season. In July, was beaten by China's Zheng Qinwen in a decider in Palermo.
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10/06/2024
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast and mostly dry with daytime highs between 13 and 18 degrees Celsius.
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10/06/2024
Nine Czechs and three of their Lebanese family members were evacuated from Lebanon late on Saturday on a Slovak repatriation flight to Bratislava. Their safe return was confirmed by Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Drake, who said the ministry is not aware of any other Czechs interested in repatriation from Lebanon at the moment. The authorities remain in contact with all Czechs registered in Lebanon through the Drozd travel data base, as well as long-term Czech residents in the country. There are currently under 200 Czechs in Lebanon.
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10/06/2024
Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová and Army Chief of Staff Karel Řehka on Sunday paid tribute to the soldiers who fought in the so-called Dukla Pass Operation during the Second World War. A commemorative ceremony took place at the National Memorial at Vítkov on the 80th anniversary of the battle for control over the Dukla Pass on the border between Poland and Slovakia on the Eastern Front. The defence minister said the heroes of Dukla Pass should not be distinguished by their nationality or ideological orientation. They were united by the idea of freedom and bravery, Černochová said. This year, the Ministry of Defence managed to trace the names of 668 soldiers who died on the Polish side of the Dukla Pass.
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10/06/2024
The cost of housing in Czechia continues to rise and high demand for apartments drove their prices to new highs in the second quarter of this year, real estate agencies reported. In the largest cities across the Czech Republic, the average purchase price surpassed CZK 100,000 per square metre for the first time in history, according to the latest Real Index survey conducted by the consulting company Deloitte. Across the country, people bought flats for an average of CZK 101,700 per square metre. An average 70-metre flat cost CZK 7.1 million, which is almost 12 percent more than a year ago. The most expensive housing is traditionally in Prague, where between April and June an average apartment cost CZK 132,000 per square meter, up 15 percent year-on-year. The cheapest apartments are available in the Ústí nad Labem region where they sell for CZK 34,900 per square metre on average.
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10/06/2024
Ombudsman Stanislav Křeček has criticized an unnamed elementary school in Czechia for refusing to allow two children with disabilities to have their assistance dog with them at the school, describing the ban as indirect discrimination. “A dog with special training cannot be viewed as an ordinary pet, but as an inseparable part of a person with a disability, enabling them to be independent and to participate in everyday life” the Ombudsman said. He advised the school to include an exception to the ban on dogs with special training directly in its school rules and urged the schoolmaster to be open to the needs of children with disabilities in the future.
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10/06/2024
The newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party Jana Maláčová said in her first statement to the media that her primary goal in the coming months would be to build a broad left-wing coalition ahead of the general elections in October of next year. The new party chair will face the uphill task of putting the Social Democrats back on the political map. In opinion surveys the party has consistently appeared below the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house. The former labour and social affairs minister was elected by 66 percent of the votes cast by delegates at Saturday’s party conference in Hradec Králové.
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10/06/2024
The Czech Actors' Association presented the prestigious annual Thalia awards at Prague’s National Theatre on Saturday night. The awards are given in recognition of exceptional performances in the fields of drama, opera and ballet as well as for lifetime achievement.
Lifetime achievement awards were presented to actor Viktor Preiss, singer Helena Vondráčková, soprano Naďa Šormová and dancer and choreographer Josef Kotěšovský. The award also went to actress Štěpánka Ranošová and Jan Číhal, co-founder of Ostrava's White Theatre, in memoriam. A newly established award for a foreign artist went to the Slovak actor Milan Kňažko.
The Thalia awards for drama went to Kateřina Císařová and Miloslav König from Prague's Divadlo Na zábradlí. In the musicals category the awards went to the musical Chicago, staged by the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre where the jury appreciated the outstanding stage performances of Markéta Schimmerová Procházková and Lukáš Vlček.
In opera the awards went to soprano Soňa Godarská, who performed the lead role in Manon at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň and Peter Berger who excelled in the role of Dalibor in Bedřich Smetana's opera at the National Theatre in Brno.
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10/05/2024
Another ten Czechs are being evacuated from Lebanon on a Slovak government plane, the Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed on Saturday. Slovakia sent a military aircraft to fly 46 Slovaks and citizens of other nationalities from Beirut to Cyprus from where they were transferred to a government plane bound for Bratislava. Another plane carrying evacuees is to land in Bratislava at midnight.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that remains in contact with all Czechs registered in Lebanon via the Drozd travel data base, as well as long-term Czech residents in the country. There are currently approximately 200 Czechs in Lebanon. The Ministry has prepared a list of individuals for potential further evacuations and is coordinating with international partners.
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