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10/19/2023
Eight personalities and one organization received the 2023 Gratias Agit award for promoting the good name of the Czech Republic abroad at Černín Palace in Prague on Thursday. The awards, presented by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský went to personalities who have made their mark in the fields of science, literature, art and culture and non-governmental aid organizations.
Among this year’s laureates are writer and Holocaust survivor Eva Erbenová, London-based pediatric cardiologist Jan Marek from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, Sabine Gruša, founder of the association “German Friends and Supporters of the Olga Havel Foundation” and Jana Sommerlad, a translator and editor active in The Friends of Czech Heritage, a British volunteer organisation that provides funds and volunteers to repair historic sites in the Czech Republic.
The Gratias Agit awards have been running since 1997. Past laureates include such big names as playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, film director Miloš Forman and architect Eva Jiřičná.
The 2023 Gratias Agit awards have a new design in the form of a glass prism symbolizing a seal. The authors of the artwork are designers Klára Janypková and Tomáš Kučera.
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10/19/2023
There is no imminent danger to Czech citizens in connection with the worsening global security situation following the Hamas attacks on Israel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after Thursday’s meeting of the National Security Council. “Our intelligence services have no information indicating that the risk of terrorist attacks against targets in the Czech Republic has increased,” the prime minister said. He added however, that the government was taking the matter seriously and had ordered strict security measures to minimize possible risks and protect institutions and individuals who might be potential targets.
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10/19/2023
Twenty-eight people suffered light injuries in a tram collision in Plzen, West Bohemia, on Thursday afternoon, the ctk news agency reported. According to eyewitnesses the trams collided because one of the tram drivers unexpectedly hit the brakes. The cause of the accident is being investigated. Preliminary damage estimates are at around one million crowns.
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10/19/2023
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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10/19/2023
Gas storage tanks in Czechia are 99.9 percent full, with 3.455 billion cubic metres of natural gas, Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela announced on Thursday, saying the country had a record amount of gas at its disposal for the coming winter. According to the minister, the storage tanks are full also due to lower consumption. In the first nine months of 2023 Czechs saved 700 million cubic meters of gas compared to last year.
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10/19/2023
The regional court in Brno has upheld a 2022 ruling by the district court in Břeclav which rejected property claims by the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation pertaining to property in Moravia confiscated by the Czechoslovak state after 1945, on the basis of the Beneš Decrees. These include the castles in Lednice and Valtice and 10,000 hectares of forest land.
The fund had demanded the return of the property and compensation, arguing that the decrees should not have applied to the Liechtenstein noble family, as they were not German. Previous property claims by the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation have been rejected by the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic.
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10/19/2023
Over 100,000 people in Czechia have received Covid booster shots since inoculation started in early September, the Czech Health Ministry reported. People can register to get the XBB.1.5 vaccine in hospitals and at medical centres. Some GPs also provide the service. The health ministry has urged elderly people and high-risk groups to get the vaccine. The Covid vaccine is covered by health insurance and the flu vaccine which is also being administered is free for people over the age of 65.
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10/19/2023
President Petr Pavel is currently the most trusted politician in Czechia, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM agency. The results suggest that Mr. Pavel, who took office in March of this year, is trusted by 55 percent of Czechs. Opposition ANO party leader Andrej Babiš placed second with a 42 percent trust rating, and the head of the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy Party Tomio Okamura came third with a 35 percent trust rating. Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský both received a 19 percent trust rating from the public.
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10/19/2023
The Czech coalition government survived a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday evening, following a 31-hour marathon debate in the lower house. The result was anticipated since the ruling coalition has a comfortable 108-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies. A minimum of 101 votes was needed for the cabinet to fall, but the motion only received 85 votes from the opposition ANO party and Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy Party.
This was the opposition’s third attempt to bring down the ruling five-party coalition led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
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10/19/2023
Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, has been detained by the Russian authorities on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, her employer has said. Kurmasheva holds dual US and Russian citizenship and was in Russia for a family emergency. When she tried to leave the country to return to her home in Prague, she was detained, her passports were confiscated, and she received a fine for failing to register her U.S. passport with Russian authorities.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has said it is deeply concerned by Kurmasheva’s detention and has called for her immediate release. “Journalism is not a crime and Kurmasheva’s detention is yet more proof that Russia is determined to stifle independent reporting” the CPJ said.
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