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03/21/2024
Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the Czech poet, lyricist, musician and artist Pavel Zajíček who died earlier this month at the age of 72. The farewell ceremony took place on Thursday afternoon in the Church of Peter and Paul in Radotín, where Zajíček served as an altar boy in his youth.
One of the most important figures in Czechoslovak independent culture in the 1970s, Pavel Zajíček was perhaps best known for his work as the front man of the group DG 307, which he founded with Milan “Mejla” Hlavsa.
Zajíček was jailed for a year in the 1976 trial of members of the Plastic People of the Universe and associates of the underground band. He was later forced into exile, settling in Sweden before moving to New York.
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03/21/2024
Friday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers. Day temperatures are expected to range between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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03/21/2024
Prague’s Václav Havel Airport will offer direct flights to 167 destinations during the upcoming summer schedule, which comes into effect on March 31. That is 15 more destinations than last year, but 23 fewer than in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.
The new destinations include direct flights to Verona and Florence in Italy, Ponta Delgada in Portugal, Tallin, Estonia and the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. The flights will be operated by 68 carriers.
Prague’s main international airport will also increase the number of flights on more than 30 lines, including London, Paris, Antalya and Amsterdam.
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03/21/2024
Czechia's main priorities for the next five years in the European Union will be defence and competitiveness, the Minister for European Affairs, Martin Dvořák, said at a student symposium at the Prague European School on Thursday.
Mr. Dvořák said that EU assistance to Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression has shown that Europe lacks adequate defence industry production capacity.
The conference is one of the many events marking the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the EU on May 1, 2004. One of the highlights of the celebrations will be an international conference at Prague Castle on April 30, with speeches by President Petr Pavel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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03/21/2024
Czechia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are calling on the European Commission to impose restrictions on grain imports from Russia and Belarus to the European Union, in a letter signed by the agriculture ministers of all five countries.
Russia is using profits from grain exports to finance the ongoing war in Ukraine, the countries say in the letter addressed to European Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Janusz Wojciechowski. According to the letter, the EU imported 1.53 million tonnes of Russian grain worth EUR 437.5 million in 2023.
According to Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný, who signed the letter on behalf of the Czech Republic, there is no reason why Czechia should support an aggressor who is committing war crimes in Ukraine, attacking civilians and is a threat to the entire civilised world.
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03/21/2024
Poland will support the Czech initiative to provide ammunition for Ukraine not only financially, but also logistically, Polish Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at the V4 meeting in Prague on Thursday. On the other hand, the Slovak chief of diplomacy Juraj Blanár and Hungarian minister Péter Szijjártó said they would not back the plan and would not supply any weapons to Ukraine.
Some 18 countries – some of whom are not members of the bloc – have already pledged to support the plan to supply the Kyiv government with around 800,000 artillery shells sourced outside the EU or NATO.
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03/21/2024
Russia's aggression against Ukraine is in violation of international law and Ukrainian territory must remain within internationally recognised borders, the foreign ministers of the V4 countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), agreed at a meeting in Prague on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said it was necessary to increase support for Ukraine in all areas, including military aid. He said it is in the interest of the entire region that the Russian army stays as far away from its borders as possible.
He also welcomed the fact that a number of states have backed the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine from countries outside the European Union.
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03/21/2024
Czechia is among the more than 2000 exhibitors at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair. The popular event kicks off on Thursday and is being held in conjunction with Manga-Comic-Con and the Leipzig Book Reading Festival, which takes place from 21st to 24th March. Visitors will be able to meet with Czech authors Matěj Hořava, Radka Denemarková and Marek Toman, among others. The Czech stand sports the traditional slogan Ahoj!
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03/21/2024
The foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) are meeting in Prague for talks on Thursday. They will debate current foreign policy issues, including continued aid to Ukraine in its defense against Russia, which is a divisive topic in the alliance. Prague and Warsaw support continued military aid to the country, which Budapest and Bratislava claim that military assistance has failed and have been pushing for peace talks. After a meeting with his Polish counterpart ahead of the talks on Wednesday, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said finding a common denominator in the Visegrad Group is not exactly easy at the moment, but it makes sense to retain regional cooperation in other areas.
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03/20/2024
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with some rain and day temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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