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09/06/2024
The third annual Dvořák Prague Festival gets underway in Prague on Friday with a performance of the composer’s Cello Concerto in B minor and the New World Symphony at the city’s Rudolfinum. The opening concert featured soloist Julian Steckel and the Bamberg Symphony, conducted by Jakub Hrůša.
Hrůša, chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony and artist in residence at this year's Dvořák Prague, will perform four times throughout the festival. The last time will be on 11 September at the Prague Exhibition Grounds for the open air concert Connected by Mahler.
In celebration of the Year of Czech Music, the festival will honor not only Dvořák but also Bedřich Smetana and other prominent Czech composers.
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09/06/2024
Karolína Muchová has been knocked out in the semi-finals of tennis’s US Open for the second consecutive year. The Czech World No. 52 lost to No. 6 seed Jessica Pegula of the US, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2, despite taking the first set and leading 2-0 in the second.
Muchová, who is 28, reached the US Open semi-final after missing nearly ten months due to a wrist injury.
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09/06/2024
The state plans to intensify inspections of the technical condition of vehicles on Czech roads in order to boost road safety, Transport Minister Martin Kupka announced on Thursday. Although vehicles must undergo roadworthiness tests every two years, road checks have revealed that many vehicles fail to meet the required standards. According to Deputy Police President Tomáš Lerch out of 363 vehicles selected at random on the road 77 percent were found lacking in some respect.
The Transport Ministry is planning to establish a new road inspection authority, which will be entitled to carry out technical inspections of vehicles and check up on technical inspection stations and emission measurement stations. It will be able to stop vehicles, impose fines on the spot or even confiscate licenses.
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09/06/2024
Police officers and members of other security forces are planning to protest in front of the Office of the Government over low pay. The protests should last for at least a week, starting on Monday September 16, the chairman of the Union of Security Forces Aleš Lehký told the CTK news agency. He said the aim was to highlight the drain of officers from the police force because of low salaries and problems with finding new recruits for the same reason.
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Wednesday that police officers and firefighters' would get a five percent salary hike as of January 1st. The unions originally pushed for a 10 percent increase in wages.
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09/05/2024
The Regional Court in Hradec Králové on Thursday handed out prison sentences to all 14 foreigners accused of people smuggling from Turkey to the Czech Republic and other EU countries. The highest penalty was a sentence of 5.5 years in prison and a hefty fine, the rest received 3-year sentences. According to the judge, the accused acted as an international organized criminal group operating in multiple countries and facilitated the illegal crossing of at least 2,000 migrants, mostly Turkish Kurds, to Europe.
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09/05/2024
Friday should be clear to partly cloudy with daytime highs between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius.
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09/05/2024
More than 490 schools around Czechia received bomb threats on Thursday, for the third day in a row, police said on the X network. Police consider the danger to be very low, but many schools have opted to close or take classes outside as a precaution. The police are investigating the targeted attack in collaboration with the Slovak authorities, where hundreds of schools received similar threats. A task force of representatives from the ministries of education, interior, and police has been formed to address safety concerns.
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09/05/2024
Prague Castle will be part of the Signal festival, which annually showcases light art and digital culture around Prague, the organizers of the event announced. The Castle will be on one of the two routes of the 12th edition of the festival, which will take place from 10 to 13 October. The festival offers video mapping projects, installations and other works by renowned Czech and international artists. This year's Signal festival will offer 22 installations, seven of which will be in enclosed spaces.
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09/05/2024
The Fiala cabinet has agreed to establish a Government Council for Public Health as its advisory body. The council will focus on promoting better prevention and monitoring health risks in view of improving the overall health of the population and extending health expectancy in old age, which is poor in Czechia compared to European standards. The new advisory body will meet for the first time in the autumn. The government has a number of advisory bodies, such as those for competitiveness, human rights or research, development and innovation.
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09/05/2024
Public sector employees will get a salary increase of up to 7 percent in 2025, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said following talks with the unions on Wednesday. However the wage hikes will not be the same for all employees and there will be further negotiations on the pay rises for individual professions. Only teachers can be certain of a seven per cent wage hike since, according to a legal provision, the government must bring their income up to 130 percent of the average wage next year. Trade unions earlier demanded a pay rise on 10 percent for all public sector employees as of September of this year, but the government rejected the demand, saying the money was not available in this year’s state budget.
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