Strict security measures at Prague Castle lifted

The strict security measures at Prague Castle will be lifted, President Petr Pavel announced at a press briefing on Monday. He said the security gates at entrances to the compound, which were installed in 2016, will be dismantled and security checks will no longer be conducted on a mass scale. In future, police officers guarding the premises will only make random security checks. The strict security measures, which often resulted in queues forming at the entrance gates to the castle, have been criticized for years. Plans to ease them were repeatedly postponed, first due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and later because of the Czech EU presidency, when Prague Castle hosted a big EU summit.