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05/22/2024
Thursday will be mostly overcast with rain and day temperatures ranging between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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05/22/2024
It makes no sense to recognize Palestine as a state if it is not clear who represents it and on what territory, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday in an interview for the website Blesk.cz. Mr Fiala reacted to the announcement that Norway, Ireland and Spain will formally recognise Palestine as a state.
The Czech head of government described the concept of two states, Israeli and Palestinian, as a good goal, but he said it was necessary to create conditions for that.
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05/22/2024
Czech companies faced a record 2,000 cyberattacks per week in April, a third more than in the first three months of the year, according to a report released by the security consulting agency Check Point on Wednesday.
The number of extortion attacks, where hackers demand ransom from companies, was twice as high as the European average. During April, one in 20 Czech organisations was the target of extortion threats, compared to 43 in Europe.
The Czech government and military organisations were even more vulnerable to cyberattacks, with one in nine facing ransomware threats in April.
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05/22/2024
The Council of Europe has called on Czechia to improve its protection of minority languages. According to the report, published on Wednesday, the country has taken steps in a positive direction toward the expansion of German, but has shortcomings in other minority languages.
The report points out that so far, pre-school, primary and secondary education in regional and minority languages has only been available in Polish. German is taught as a foreign language, and Moravian Croatian, Romani and Slovak are not taught in mainstream education at all.
Regarding judicial matters, the Committee of Experts suggested that the legislation should also enable the use of regional and minority languages in court.
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05/22/2024
A new exhibition dedicated to Prague German-language author Franz Kafka opened at the city’s Museum of Literature on Wednesday, around a fortnight before the centenary of his death. The organisers say the show aims to overturn stereotypes about the German-language writer, with one section – in the style of a small gym – presenting Kafka as an athlete.
The author’s last letter, written at a sanatorium in Austria on June 2, 1924, is among the items on display.
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05/22/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says European states need to take stronger action against Russian spies posing as diplomats. In an interview with news outlet iRozhlas.cz, Mr. Lipavský said there were a number of reasons to believe that Moscow’s diplomatic network was serving other interests than diplomacy, adding that reducing the number of Russian diplomats in the Schengen zone was one possibility open to the EU. Czechia does not welcome spies pretending to be diplomats, he said.
The minister reiterated his view that there is an asymmetrical relationship between Europe and Russia as a Russian diplomat who gets accreditation in any EU country automatically gets a Schengen visa for the whole bloc.
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05/21/2024
Czechia lost 4:3 to Canada in overtime in the country’s final game at the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague on Tuesday.
The result left the Czechs second in their group behind Canada. They will now face the USA in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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05/21/2024
Architect Otakar Binar, who designed the interiors of one of Czechia’s most distinctive modern buildings, Hotel Ještěd, has died at the age of 92. Alongside Karel Hubáček, he was a founding member of the world renowned SIAL architecture studio in Liberec in the 1960s.
Binar said Hubáček, who designed the exteriors of Hotel Ještěd, had been his lifelong and only boss.
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05/21/2024
One in 10 young adults in Czechia display signs of severe depression, while 16 percent have moderate symptoms, according to research presented on Tuesday by the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University and Prague’s General University Hospital.
Representatives of the institutions said that politicians should devote more attention to the issue. They said both prevention and specialised services in this area were currently lacking in Czechia.
The head of the research team said steps should be taken by the ministries of education and health, as well as health insurance companies.
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05/21/2024
A place of remembrance will be opened on Friday in part of the fourth floor of Charles University’s main Faculty of Arts building in Prague, scene of some of the worst violence and damage during a mass shooting in December.
The floor has been closed since the attack by a lone gunman that left 14 dead. It is set to reopen completely at the turn of October, when the next academic year begins, university officials said.
December’s incident was the worst mass shooting in the modern history of Czechia.
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