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06/05/2024
Czechia will break its dependence on Russian crude oil by the middle of next year at the latest, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told reports following a meeting with the management of the state owned company Mero which manages the country’s central reserves. He said Czechia would request the cancellation of the exemption for Russian oil imports as soon as the Italian TAL pipeline expansion project is completed. Work on it is now in full swing and planned technological modifications will be completed by the end of this year.
Czechia would thus break its 60-year-long dependence on Russian crude oil, delivered via the Druzhba pipeline. Last year, 7.4 million tons of crude oil flowed into Czech refineries, of which about 58 percent was oil from Russia. The rest came from Germany's IKL pipeline, which is connected to the Italian TAL pipeline.
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06/05/2024
Wednesday, June 5, is the last chance for people to request a voter ID card from their municipality if they plan to vote away from their permanent residence in the European elections. Requests must be filed at the respective town hall in person, since the deadline for submitting written applications ended last Friday. In Czechia voting in elections to the European Parliament will take place on June 7-8. Voters will need to show an ID.
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06/05/2024
A number of Czech cities want to double fines for riding public transport without a ticket, Czech Television reported on Wednesday.
The current maximum fine is CZK 1,500 but the national association of transport authorities says this is insufficient as many people think having to pay that amount is an acceptable risk, adding that fines have been at the same level for a decade.
The cities where the increase could happen are Prague, Ostrava, Brno, Olomouc, Liberec and České Budějovice.
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06/05/2024
The Prague 8 Building Authority has barred the district’s Kasárna Karlín, an arts and social venue, from operating. A spokesperson for Prague 8 said that the operators were making use of interior spaces that had not been approved or intended for their present purposes.
A spokesperson for the venue said that it was cooperating with the authorities and had rectified shortcomings and applied for the lacking permits.
Kasárna means barracks and the centre was previously used by the Czechoslovak and later Czech army.
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06/04/2024
This year's meteorological spring (March, April and May) was the warmest since 1775 at the Prague centre Clementinum weather station, with an average temperature of 13.7 degrees Celsius, according to data released on Tuesday.
The last month of spring, May, also saw above normal temperatures, though it was not the warmest seen at the Clementinum over the last 250 years; with an average temperature of 17.8 degrees, it ranked 16th to 17th.
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06/04/2024
Police in Prague have released without charge five foreigners arrested following an altercation on the city’s Old Town Square last weekend. A spokesperson for the Prague Prosecutor’s Office said the matter could be further investigated as a misdemeanour.
The Czech News Agency reported that video footage from the incident, when volunteers at a stand collecting money for Ukraine were set upon, did not provide proof that the participants had approved of Russian aggression toward that country.
Four of the five were arrested at Prague Airport; the other was picked up on the scene.
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06/04/2024
Markéta Vondroušová has failed to reach the semi-finals at tennis’s French Open in Paris. The Czech, who was seeded fifth, was beaten 6:0 6:2 by defending champion and world number one Iga Swiatek in Tuesday’s quarterfinal at Roland Garros.
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06/04/2024
The Czech minister of defence, Jana Černochová, says that greater financial rewards will be offered to potential soldiers in regions of the country where the Czech Army is having trouble attracting new recruits. She made the comment after talks on Tuesday with the chief of the General Staff, Karel Řehka.
Ms. Černochová said, for instance, that the army’s 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade based near Žatec, Northwestern Bohemia, had been around 50 percent understaffed for some time.
She said hitherto recruitment drives had failed to attract enough new soldiers.
The army aims to increase troop numbers by a few thousand by the end of the decade, while at the same time more than doubling its active reserves.
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06/04/2024
A Canoe Slalom World Cup event at Prague’s Troja is being cut short due to the high level of the Vltava River following heavy rainfall. The event was due to run from Thursday to Sunday but will now start on Friday instead.
The organisers said on Tuesday that one part of the course was currently submerged but should be visible again by Friday.
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06/04/2024
Jan Schmid, who was founder, director and long-time artistic chief of the Studio Ypsilon theatre, has died at the age of 87, a spokesperson for the Prague-based company said on Tuesday. Mr. Schmid was also an actor, arts journalist and teacher.
Studio Ypsilon was originally established in Liberec in 1963 but moved to Prague a decade and a half later.
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