Some 94,400 refugees from Ukraine had jobs in Czechia at the end of January, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing an official from the national labour authority. President-elect Petr Pavel has asked the Ukrainian administration to propose a date for his planned trip to Kyiv. He made the announcement at a press conference in Prague on Monday, adding that he expected the visit to take place in the near future. Czechia has so far donated about CZK 4.8 billion in unused military materiel from the stocks of the Czech Army to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Defence told the Czech News Agency on Sunday. Czech sound engineer Viktor Prasil received the British film award BAFTA for the best sound for his work on the German film All Quiet on the Western Front, the BAFTA has tweeted. A 41-year-old record held by Czech runner Jarmila Kratochvílová has been broken. On Sunday the Dutch athlete Femke Bol set a new indoor world record in the women’s 400 metres at the Dutch national championships in Apeldoorn in a time of 49.26 seconds, taking 0.33 of a second off the Czech’s long-standing record.
Replicas of the most famous works by Renaissance masters, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello, and Sandro Botticelli, will occupy the space of Mánes in Prague for three months. This exhibition has already been visited by over half a million people in Austria and Germany. The most challenging work for the organizers was transporting the nine-meter-high sculpture of David, which was the first work to be installed in the gallery. Covering the glass ceiling of the gallery was as well a technical challenge because the parameters of the exhibition require dim light. The exhibition will also feature replicas of other famous works, including da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, seen by over ten million visitors each year at the Louvre in Paris, the Sistine Madonna by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. “The painting The Birth of Venus is considered a milestone in the history of art. Visitors to the exhibition will be impressed by its original size of 278 x 175 cm. The monumental painting was created at the end of the fifteenth century and has been exhibited in the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence since the beginning of the...
Delta Airlines will resume direct flights between Prague and New York (JFK) on May 8, 2023. The carrier will once again fly between the two cities on a daily basis until October 28. The destination will be served by Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The tickets are already on sale. The cost of a one-way flight at basic fare is CZK 13,000. Travel time is 9 hours and 20 minutes. “We are pleased to return to the Czech market with direct flights, able to offer passengers a comfortable and fast connection from Prague to New York and to further-away destinations on the American continent,” Guido Hackel, Air France, KLM and Delta Air Lines Country Manager for Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, noted. Delta operates more flights to Europe out of JFK than any other US carrier, with its flight to Prague operating in conjunction with its joint venture partners Air France, KLM, and Virgin Atlantic. Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier. One of the world’s oldest airlines in operation, Delta is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, including Delta Connection, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations in 52...
A new policy aimed at the mitigation of light pollution will be introduced later this year. The Czech Republic will introduce new light pollution legislation in March 2023. These policies will apply to newly-built public and private infrastructure and will outline the maximum and minimum lumens for light sources. Outlined in the EU’s official publication on the matter, these new measures were “composed based on desktop research by a team at the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic”, and were designed to be in accordance with the EU’s Light Pollution Reduction Measures in Europe, which were set forth during the Czech Republic’s presidency of the EU. These regulations will take effect in March 2023, and all new private and public construction projects will be obliged to conform to the maximum and minimum brightnesses set out in the law. Not retroactively enforced, all current and existing infrastructure will be exempt. This isn’t the first time the Czech government has introduced legislation with the goal of mitigating light pollution. 2002 saw the enactment of the ‘Dark Sky Law’, which was one of the first laws in Europe that recognized this issue. I t was included in an Act which regulated air...
Some 94,400 refugees from Ukraine had jobs in Czechia at the end of January, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing an official from the national labour authority. Czechia plans to terminate long-term contracts with Russia on the free rental of land on which buildings owned by the Moscow government stand, Czech Television reported. A draft proposal to that end should be discussed by Czech ministers next week. Imports of gas from Russia to Czechia fell to zero last month, the Czech minister of industry and trade, Jozef Síkela, said on Twitter. The state replaced Russian imports with liquefied natural gas from the Netherlands and Belgium. Former football international Ladislav Vízek has questioned the wisdom of current national team player Jakub Jankto coming out publicly this week. The 27-year-old is the highest profile current player to have revealed their homosexuality. Czech Post will raise tariff wages by an average of 5% beginning April 1. At the same time, postal employees will receive more valuable 100-crown meal vouchers without contributing more. The company will spend CZK 397.3 million on the wage increase and higher meal vouchers by December, company spokesman Matyáš Vitík said on Wednesday.
The Czech tourist board is changing its branding and website from Visit Czech Republic to Visit Czechia, as part of a wider rebranding across the central European country. The new branding and #VisitCzechia will be seen online, in publications and at travel trade events. A statement from the tourist board said Czechia and the Czech Republic are synonymous and are both official names. “The decision on whether to use the shorter or longer version depends on the area and whether there is an obligation attached to the state designation,” it said. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the longer name, Czech Republic, must be used only in official government documents, in the names of embassies, and other legal documents. “The Czechia brand will be used in all other cases. It is more practical and less formal,” added the statement. Czechia will also be seen when people represent the state in culture, science, sports and other spheres. For example, the Czech Olympic Committee has already switched to Czechia.
The “European Starlink” called IRIS² will be based in Prague, writes Hospodářské noviny. It plans to send 170 satellites, starting next year. The Czech Republic will thus expand its activities in this area, as the EUSPA space agency already operates in the capital. The multi-orbital constellation, IRIS² (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnection and Security by Satellite), is projected to be operational in 2024 and will be focused on providing secure satellite communications to EU governmental users. “IRIS² establishes space as a vector of our European autonomy, a vector of connectivity and resilience. It heightens Europe’s role as a true space power”, Internal Market Commissioner and the real driver of the initiative, Thierry Breton, said. Allowing the private sector to facilitate the rollout of high-speed broadband to “dead zones” that currently lack connectivity is also listed as a critical goal of the project. “IRIS² will provide connectivity to the whole of Europe”, said Breton, “including areas that do not currently benefit from broadband Internet, as well as to the whole of Africa, using the constellation’s North-South orbits.” The system is also set to contribute to the EU’s broader goal of heightened strategic autonomy, outlined as a key motivation at the project’s announcement earlier this year....
Starbucks has opened its first Reserve Store in Central Europe in Prague, offering unique coffee and preparation methods. The coffee shop chain has reopened a branch on Jungmannovo náměstí, bringing the Reserve store concept, a completely new format of Starbucks coffee shops. Starbucks Reserve is a series of premium Starbucks cafes that serve rare blends of coffee worldwide. The coffees served at Reserve are carefully selected after a lengthy tasting process by company members and coffee professionals. “We are opening the first Central European Reserve store in the Czech Republic because Czech customers are extremely receptive to novelty,” says Grzegorz Kazmierczak, Starbucks Regional Director for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. “We believe that the coffee and the exceptional environment will attract even the most demanding coffee enthusiasts to Starbucks.” The core of Prague Reserve store is a first-class hi-tech Black Eagle coffee machine, which allows baristas to individually adjust and control the individual preparation stages, such as the amount and ratio of beans, the preparation time, or the water temperature. Customers can also fine a special offer of desserts that are suitable for the local coffee specialties. Likewise, the café will offer a selection of packaged coffee beans and original...
Saxophonist Felix Slováček and other friends, colleagues of Karel Gott have opened a memorial café, Café Karel, in the centre of Prague. The café is located on Dlouhá Street in the arcade next to the theatre. It is dedicated to the most successful Czech singer of popular music of all time. Often referred to as the “golden voice of Prague” and the “Sinatra of the East,” singer, actor, and painter Karel Gott’s career spanned six decades. Emerging in the early ’60s, Gott’s first solo single, a rendering of Henry Mancini’s “Moon River,” helped put him on the map, and as the years progressed he dabbled in everything from pop, rock, and country to opera and swing. Able to entertain in Russian, English, German, and Italian, as well as his native Czech, Gott was hugely popular in Eastern Europe, but also found favor with audiences in Western Europe and the United States. By 1960, he was studying opera and voice at Prague Conservatory under Konstantin Karenin, who taught Gott to embrace popular music as well as the classics. He released his first single, a duet with Vlasta Pruchova, on Supraphon Records in 1962. His first solo single appeared in 1963 as a...
Purchasing an e-car in the near future is completely unimaginable for most Czechs as the high cost of e-cars and misunderstandings on emissions rules ensure they remain skeptical about e-mobility, said Czech expert Helena Truchlá. According to Ekovozy.cz, which monitors the number of e-vehicles in the Czech Republic, around 12,000 electric cars were in the country by mid-2022. “The Czech public perception of electromobility is still negative. This is related to the fact that electric cars are still simply too expensive for a large part of the population, and a bit too sci-fi for everyday life,” added Truchlá, an analyst at sociologist agency STEM. “For more than a third of the (Czech) public, such a purchase is completely unimaginable,” Truchlá pointed out. The Czech public is also opposed to plans to restrict the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines from 2035. According to the expert, people’s attitude towards restricting the sale of conventional cars is often linked to a misunderstanding of the regulation. “Only 27% of people in our survey last year correctly said that after that date (2035), everyone can still drive whatever they want in Europe,” Truchlá said. Half of those surveyed also believed the change...
The Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has recently put forward two draft bills that could bring significant amendments to employment law in the republic. These proposed changes have been designed to address a variety of issues and concerns within the current system and aim to improve the overall conditions for both employees and employers. A Year of Change for Czech Employers The proposed changes to employment law in the Czech Republic are wide-ranging and significant. They are designed to provide better protection to whistleblowers, increase the rights of on-call workers and employees requesting flexible working arrangements, and simplify the exchange of employment-related documentation in electronic form. If approved, the proposed draft Bills will bring a new level of flexibility to the labor market and could have a positive impact on the economy as a whole. It is an exciting time for the Czech Republic as they move towards creating a more modern and dynamic workforce. The Czech Republic offers mandatory employment benefits that refer to those covered by Social Security Insurance, which is financed through contributions from employers and employees during their employment. Czech Employers should begin preparing for upcoming changes as the new regulations will take effect...
Bohuslav Svoboda was officially voted in as the lord mayor of Prague on Thursday, replacing Zdeňek Hřib in the position. Mr Svoboda is the leader of the Together coalition, which is itself part of the grouping that is expected to administer Prague until 2026. Nearly two-fifths of people who identify as LGBT+ in Czechia have experienced harassment and insults towards their orientation or identity over the past year, according to a study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Queer Geography group. The United States will provide a further USD 200 million to Czechia as part of foreign military cooperation aimed at modernising the Czech army and as partial compensation for the equipment provided to Ukraine, US Ambassador Bijan Sabet has announced. The City of Brno intends to launch official cooperation with the Taiwanese city of Taoyuan, as recommended by Brno city councillors yesterday. The move has yet to be voted on by the city assembly, who will meet in late February, wrote city spokesman Filip Ponuchalek in a press release. Czech Post will raise tariff wages by an average of 5% beginning April 1. At the same time, postal employees will receive...
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