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07/19/2024
Some departures were delayed by several hours and two flights were suspended at Prague's Václav Havel Airport on Friday due to a global IT services outage, which caused airports, banks, hospitals, media outlets, and businesses around the world to grind to a halt.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike admitted that a defect in one of its software updates was to blame. According to experts, the botched update, which was supposed to increase security, caused Windows to become unstable and caused problems for computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system. This had a domino effect on other global computer systems, including the GoNow check-in system at Prague Airport used by a large number of airlines, including Eurowings, Ryanair, and Vueling.
The airport wrote on social media site X that the situation was out of their control and they could not predict when things would improve. They asked passengers to be patient as check-in on the affected flights was having to be done manually or via substitute systems, a much slower process that was causing flights to be delayed.
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07/19/2024
The construction of a new concert hall in Ostrava officially got underway on Friday. The foundation stone was laid in the presence of President Petr Pavel and the US architect Steven Holl, who designed the new building.
The construction of the concert hall, which is connected with the reconstruction of the House of Culture of the City of Ostrava, is expected to last until 2027. The entire project is expected to cost approximately CZK 4 billion. The new complex will be used as a music, cultural and educational facility and will also house the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra.
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07/19/2024
Czech MEPs could hold two senior committee positions in the new European Parliament. Veronika Vrecionová (Civic Democrats) of the European Conservatives and Reformists could become chairwoman of the influential Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, while Luděk Niedermayer (TOP 09) of the European People's Party is likely to be re-elected as vice-chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, sources from both groups told the Czech News Agency.
The election of the chairs and vice-chairs of parliamentary committees will take place next week in Brussels. The official composition of all committees should be announced next Friday. According to a document cited by the Czech News Agency, all Czech MEPs are on at least one committee.
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07/18/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala signed an agreement on security cooperation and long-term support with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in Oxford on Thursday.
Prior to the signing, Mr. Fiala told reporters that the agreement was not a legally binding international treaty, but was an important symbol, framing existing cooperation and creating space for future cooperation.
Mr. Zelensky expressed his thanks to the Czech prime minister and said the agreement was another step in expanding cooperation between the two countries in the security sector.
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07/18/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala will attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris next week at the invitation of the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
The Czech head of government will also be present at the opening of the Czech Olympic House and will meet the representatives of the country’s Olympic team, government spokeswoman Lucie Ješátková told the Czech News Agency on Thursday.
The Games will begin on July 26 and will feature some 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries, including 113 Czechs.
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07/18/2024
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, received Wimbledon winners Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková at Prague Castle on Thursday to thank them for successfully representing Czechia abroad.
Krejčíková won the women’s singles title for the first time last Saturday for the second Grand Slam of her tennis career, while Siniaková, Krejčíková’s former doubles partner, took the women’s doubles trophy.
The Czech head of state also welcomed Jana Kovačková, who won the girls’ under 14 singles title.
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07/18/2024
The two helicopters that Czechia sent to Bulgaria this week to help fight forest fires have been deployed about 40 kilometres north of Plovdiv airport, according to a press release issued by Czechia’s Fire and Rescue Service on Thursday.
Tens of thousands of hectares of forests and fertile land in Bulgaria have been hit by fires since the weekend. Temperatures in Plovdiv and the surrounding area are still around 40 degrees Celsius.
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07/18/2024
Friday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius.
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07/18/2024
Czechia has so far this year received almost CZK 245 million in compensation for military materiel supplied to Ukraine under the European Peace Facility (EPF) and is expected to secure another roughly CZK 127 million by the end of the year, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The country has also received more than CZK 35 million for the training of Ukrainian soldiers.
The original purpose of the EPF was to finance EU missions and operations and to contribute to the stabilisation of partner countries in Europe's neighbourhood. However after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine the fund started to be used for reimbursements for military materiel supplied by EU member states to the invaded country.
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07/18/2024
Czech scientists have become the first in the world to reveal the surface structure of a chromosome in its native state. The new imaging method, called advanced environmental scanning electron microscopy, is the result of cooperation between experts from the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Instrumentation and the Institute of Experimental Botany.
According to the experts, the discovery of the chromosome’s surface structure could have major implications for medicine and agriculture. Chromosomes are tiny, thread-like structures in cells that carry hereditary information.
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