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05/02/2024
Had parliamentary elections taken place in April, Andrej Babiš's ANO party would have won with 32.5 percent of the vote, while Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrat (ODS) party would have placed second with 13 percent, according to the latest Median poll. The Pirates and the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party would have tied for third place with 10 percent of the vote each - a marked improvement for the SPD, who have regularly been polling around 7 to 9 percent in recent months. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) would have got eight percent of the vote, also an improvement on their March result.
The remaining political parties, including the two others making up the five-party government coalition (TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats), would not have made it into parliament at all, having not gained enough votes to reach the minimum five percent threshold required.
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05/02/2024
Around 9,000 people have registered to join the Czech Armed Forces via a new online recruitment website which was put into operation last September, the Ministry of Defense reported. More than 4,000 of those candidates are applying for professional service. The Czech Army is aiming to increase the number of professional soldiers to 30,000 and have 10,000 soldiers in the active reserve by 2030.
At the beginning of this year there were 27, 800 professional soldiers in the armed forces, but this number also includes about 1,000 military police officers and about 1,500 members of the Military Intelligence Service. In order for the Czech army to reach its set goal of 30, 000 soldiers by 2030, it would need to recruit and train several hundred soldiers a year.
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05/02/2024
The Interior Ministry has ordered heightened security measures around key sites in Prague, Ostrava and other cities in connection with the upcoming World Hockey Championship, due to take place in Czechia from May 10 – May 26. The measures will include armed police patrols in the streets, heightened protection of key institutions and intensified road checks. People can also expect heightened police surveillance at Václav Havel Airport, Janáček Airport in Ostrava, the hotels accommodating the hockey teams and the O2 and Ostravar sports arenas where the matches will be taking place.
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05/01/2024
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 19 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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05/01/2024
Twenty years after Czechia’s accession to the EU, 66 percent of Czechs support EU membership and 30 percent are against it, according to the results of a poll conducted by the STEM agency in April. Public support for EU membership was highest in 2004 when 69 percent of Czechs welcomed the country’s accession to the alliance. It was lowest during the migrant crisis in 2016 when 65 percent of Czechs were dissatisfied with EU membership.
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05/01/2024
The pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and businessman Artyom Marchevsky, who was placed on the national sanctions list by the Czech government last month, has been granted temporary protection in Slovakia, Deník N reported on Wednesday. According to the Czech government and intelligence services, Marchevsky, together with another pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, Viktor Medvedchuk, have been working to influence the European elections in several European countries, using the Voice of Europe media platform and bribing anti-establishment politicians. Both were placed on the Czech national sanctions list. Marchevsky is now residing in Slovakia.
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05/01/2024
Temperature records were broken at monitoring stations around the country on Tuesday. A new high for April 30 was recorded at 24 of the 168 stations that have been operating for at least 30 years. The highest temperature was in Husinec-Řež, where it reached 29.1 degrees Celsius.
Due to the warm, dry and windy weather, meteorologists have warned of an increased risk of fires across most of Czechia. The warning resulted in a ban on lighting fires in Prague on Walpurgis or “witch burning“ night on April 30.
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05/01/2024
Political parties held rallies in Prague and other cities on Labour Day. The ruling Civic Democrats and parties in the SPOLU coalition organized an event for voters in Kampa Park, while the Communist Party and the Social Democrats met with their supporters on Prague's Střelecký ostrov. The main opposition party ANO kicked off their campaign for the European elections in Zlin.
Police were out in force for an anarchists' march through the Prague city centre, but no incidents were reported.
For many Czechs, May 1 is a celebration of love, the equivalent of Valentine’s Day, and students traditionally organize a May Day parade.
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05/01/2024
German President Frank Walter Steinmeier also attended celebrations marking 20 years of Czech membership in the EU. Addressing a conference on the EU in Prague, President Steinmeier said that the anniversary of the “Big Bang” expansion in which ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe joined the alliance is an opportunity to reflect on what the Union has achieved, what is at risk and what needs to be done for a common secure future. He said Russia's aggression had drawn the EU member states closer and they must pull together to avert the security threat presented by the Putin regime.
President Steinmeier held talks in Prague with President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Petr Fiala. They discussed the upcoming European elections, support for Ukraine, global security and energy issues, business and trade and cross-border cooperation. The German president noted that “Czech-German relations have never been better”.
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05/01/2024
Czechia is marking 20 years since the country’s accession to the EU. Speaking at a gala concert in Prague’s Rudolfinum on Tuesday evening, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU had made the Czech Republic stronger and Czechia had in turn strengthened the EU. The EC chief thanked the Czech Republic for its contribution in shaping the EU, and for being an active and reliable member of the alliance.
“Václav Havel has said: 'Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. ' In these years, I have seen the Czech people put these words into action: You have been one of Ukraine's staunchest supporters – not because it was easy, but because it was right. You are hosting the most Ukrainian refugees per capita – not because it is easy, but because it is right. Under the Czech Presidency's leadership, we broke free from Russia's energy blackmail. And it certainly was not easy, but it was right,” the EC chief said.
Tuesday's concert at the Rudolfinum, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of its chief conductor Semyon Byčkov, included Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the official anthem of the European Union.
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