Direct flights between Prague and Bilbao will resume after four years. Spanish low-cost airline Vueling will start flying from 2 July 2023. The airline will fly between the cities twice a week – every Thursday and Sunday, using Airbus A320 aircraft for 180 passengers. Tickets are already on sale. Round-trip fares start at 170 euros. “After four years, Prague will have a resumed connection to the Basque Country. We are glad that Vueling has decided to connect Prague and Bilbao, offering Czech passengers the option of admiring the beauty of the Basque Country. The connection also has potential for inbound tourism,” Jiří Vyskoč, Prague Airport Aviation Business Development Executive Director, said. About Bilbao Staggering architecture, a venerable dining scene and stunning landscapes just outside the city centre: Bilbao is one of the great treasures of the Basque Country. Architectural Allure The great landmark perched over the Nervión played a pivotal role in transforming the fortunes of this once industrial city. More than two decades after its unveiling, Frank Gehry’s shimmering titanium-clad Guggenheim museum has lost none of its ability to captivate. Today though, this artfully designed icon stands among other great architectural works, like the nearby Zubizuri, a soaring bridge designed...
The Czech upper house of parliament approved a windfall tax for energy firms and banks, backing a measure aimed at raising state revenue to pay for aid to households and firms hit by soaring electricity prices, the CTK news agency reported on Thursday. Czech drivers may soon be receiving support through the EU Social Climate Fund for buying eco-friendly cars, said Deputy Prime Minister Marian Jurecka (KDU-CSL), speaking to CTK today. The number of cars in the country increased by more than 100,000 in 2022. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has made a strong appeal to the new Iranian ambassador to Prague, Seyed Majid Ghafeleh Bashi, for his country to cease the violent repression of protests that are taking place there. The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says that the country’s presidency of the EU wants to treat migration as an issue facing all of the bloc’s states. Mr. Rakušan made the comment in Prague on Thursday during a meeting with counterparts from Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. He said the states could offer a regional view of the crisis of refugees entering Europe. The Czech police recorded 15,409 cybercrimes this year in the period from January to the end...
The European Space Agency announced its new team of astronauts at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris on Wednesday – and among them is Czech fighter pilot Aleš Svoboda. Svoboda was the only successful candidate out of some 200 Czechs who had applied for the project. “For me, it was always a child’s dream,” Svoboda told Czech Television. “As a child, I used to go to the planetarium in Brno, always taking interest in space, aviation and space flights. For me, it is a logical continuation of what I do now.” The main team of the selected astronauts consists of two women and three men. Another 11 are in the reserve team. The training will start next year. Aleš earned a bachelor’s (in 2008) and a master’s (in 2011) degree from the University of Defence in Brno, where his studies focused on military technology. In 2010, he completed a master’s degree in the field of transport engineering from the University of Pardubice. In 2013, Aleš enrolled with the Air University of the United States Air Force in Alabama, USA, where he graduated from the International and Squadron Officer Schools. In 2011 Aleš started his doctorate with the Faculty of Military...
After all, this is one energy resource that is literally inexhaustible and domestically produced. The City of Prague has plans to develop a new residential district for 25,000 people on a hundred-hectare brownfield in Bubny-Zátory. This time around though, urban planning is taking into account current crises, such as fossil fuel dependency and energy security, to offer an innovative solution – using treated sewage surplus heat to keep homes warm in winter. For this purpose, a new energy centre will be built next to the wastewater treatment plant on Císařský island and near the planned district. The idea behind it is simple, install 12 heat pumps and channel the heat where it can be of benefit – 200,000 households. Don’t let heat go to waste, let waste go for heating “The (energy centre) project has been in the making for about two years. It uses the heat of wastewater that is treated on Císařsky island. Every second, three cubic meters of treated wastewater leave the treatment plant, which even in the coldest months has a temperature higher than ten degrees. We have a huge opportunity to use this water to obtain heat for up to a third of Prague. It has been working successfully for decades in Denmark...
Did you know that one of the most world-renowned explorers was Czech? His name was Emil Holub and his field of expertise was Africa. Though Emil Holub (1847, Holice – 1902, Vienna) obtained a medical degree, he didn’t become a settled physician like his father. Instead, young Emil whose full name was Emilian Carl Johann Holub, travelled to Cape Town, South Africa shortly after graduation. He then settled near and practiced medicine. Now for long though as his craving for new experiences led him to embark on a “scientific safari” where he started his large natural history collection collecting ethnographic material. His third expedition which started in 1875 was probably the one he’s most known for. He not only reached the Zambezi river but was also the first person in the world to make a detailed map of the whole region surrounding Victoria Falls. He was lucky to marry a girl who shared his passion (and in some ways was better equipped for travels than him, but more of her another time). Him, his wife Růžena Holubová (also known as Rosa Holub) ventured to Africa and mounted exhibitions. Sadly, it was the exhibitions that ruined him financially. Holub suffered several...
On Wednesday, the Railway Administration (SŽ) presented the winning design of the bridge that should replace the existing railway under Vyšehrad. The 2T engineering studio designed the three-track bridge between Výton and Smíchov. Only the lower part of the original bridge will remain. Eight historical buildings, mainly châteaus, castles and monasteries, have been added to Czechia’s list of national cultural monuments. Among them, is the Augustinian monastery in Brno where Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by cross-breeding pea plants. Two other Augustinian monasteries and five castles and châteaus around the country were also awarded the status. Three baby turtles of a rare species known as the enigmatic leaf turtle have hatched in Prague Zoo, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday. This species of turtle is little studied in the wild and is classified as a Near Threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The latest edition of CzechInvest’s Creative Business Cup, which seeks the most innovative and promising Czech startup businesses, is returning in January, with the ten best projects selected by the end of the month. The finalists will be presented at the Czech final in Usti-nad-Labem on 23 March 2023. The Czech police recorded 15,409 cybercrimes this...
Prague’s Pařížská Street has for the first time been ranked among the most expensive streets in the world in terms of rents in a ranking compiled by consultancy Cushman & Wakefield. Overall, Pařížská came in seventeenth place. It overtook Na Příkopě Street, which had appeared in the ranking since 2004. The most expensive street in the world is the upper part of Fifth Avenue in New York. Cushman & Wakefield annually compares 68 countries around the world by the highest rent achieved on the most expensive shopping street. The ranking always includes one most expensive streets from each country. The highest annual rent in Pařížská is EUR 2,719 (CZK 66,200) per square metre. In local currency terms, this is about the same as before the covid-19 pandemic. The 17th position in the world ranking is the highest ranking for a Czech street since 2005, when Na Příkopě Street finished in the same place. Overall, Paris is the thirtieth most expensive in Europe. Na Příkopě Street ranks 33rd in the European comparison with an annual rent of 2,460 euros per square meter. Cushman & Wakefield’s Main Streets Across the World report, launched in 1988, tracks the top retail streets across 92...
It’s exactly 81 years since the first transport of Czechoslovak Jews left Prague, bound for the garrison town of Terezín, transformed by the Nazis into a ghetto and concentration camp. They were sent there to prepare the town for the arrival of thousands of others – Jews from all over occupied Europe – who were crammed into the squalid barracks, and when the 18th-century fortress could take no more, into the surrounding houses. Lodged in a fortress built between 1780 and 1790, it was presented by the Nazis as a “model” Jewish community, with some visits permitted from the Red Cross and other observers. However, most of the 80,000 Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust died in Terezin, and of the 144,000 Jews who passed through the camp, only 17,000 survived — including, by most estimates, fewer than 100 of 15,000 children. Terezin was a transport point to Auschwitz; 88,000 Terezin inmates were ultimately shipped there or to other death camps. Many artists, musicians and highly cultured Jews were confined in Terezin, and much of the art and culture that emerged from the Holocaust was created there, including some 4,000 drawings by children, many of which are on display...
Ukrainian soldiers will be trained in the Libavá military zone in Central Moravia, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff said at a meeting of the Parliamentary Defence Committee on Tuesday. The training, which will concern mechanised units and special professions, is to be carried out in five stages, planned until the end of 2023. Some 81 percent of Czechs over the age of 16 use a smartphone, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. Over the past five years, the figure has increased by 18 percentage points. An original kind of contest is currently underway: for the third year in a row, Wikimedia Czech Republic is organizing a Wikipedia contest to document Czechoslovakia during the second half of the 20th century. Organised from October 28 to December 18, the project is open to anyone wishing to participate by writing and sharing articles or uploading pictures of Czechoslovakia. The traditional Christmas tree was erected on Prague’s Old Town Square on Monday night. The lighting ceremony will take place on Saturday evening, on the first weekend of Advent, marking the opening of the traditional Christmas markets held on the square. The Czech Republic, Romania and...
Aisa International is an EU-based company in the Czech Republic that is relatively unique in the expatriate advice market. Aisa International provides investment advice through its discretionary management licenses and can act as a Securities Trader throughout the EU via passporting. All directors and owners of Aisa International have passed EU Security Traders exams, required for those that provide direct European investment advice. “We realised that psychology played a huge part in affecting outcomes, and bias was unavoidable within one group working to a common goal,” said Chris Lean, Investment Director, Aisa International. “Client psychology was entirely risk averse, feeling greater pain even where gains had previously outweighed losses.” Based on this philosophy, Aisa International built its plan using five key principles: Attitude to risk could not be a number in a chart, but a definition that a client could buy into. The key measurement was capacity for loss and risk aversion rather than gains. Portfolios had to be linked to measurements of risk and volatility, rather than targeting returns in short time periods. Portfolios have to be biased in content toward the geographic location of the client. Due diligence meant that active managers it utilised had to meet certain...
The real wages of the people in the Czech Republic are set to drop by at least 8.3% by the end of 2022 as blistering inflation continues to eat into the income of the citizens. The recent figures for October showed a 15.1% rise of prices year-on-year, far above the average of 10.6% for the Euro Area and 11.5% for the European Union. The few European countries that managed to reach figures above these records are Poland, Hungary and the Baltic countries that had the worse inflation records for ten months of 2022. Prices in the Czech Republic have slowed down for the first time in two years as the government has taken some actions to support households amid high and rising energy prices. A slowdown of inflation came primarily in the form of energy and food prices as core inflation continues to rise by 1.2% month-on-moth, beating the forecasts of analysts. Prices are expected to continue to slow down in November and December amid government measures to stabilise energy prices, commented Martin Marsovsky, chief manager of Finmex Academy. On the other hand, wages for most of the sectors are rising too slowly to catch up with inflation. So, real wages...
In the first quarter of 2023, the Prague Transport Company will launch a test program for the city’s first-ever hydrogen-powered bus. The pilot project will last for two years. The authorities have already signed an agreement with the Czech manufacturer Škoda Transportation to lease its latest hydrogen bus Škoda H’CITY, which was presented on Tuesday, 22 November. Under this project, the company will deploy the bus on line 170, connecting Jižní město and Barrandov, in the second half of 2022 for a period of 2 years. In a press release, the Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib praised the trial, noting that it is an important step in ensuring sustainable urban mobility. What is more, he revealed that about 50% of the capital’s population currently relies on public transport to move around the city. The hydrobus has a range of about 350 kilometres. This is three times as much as the electric bus, which needs several refuellings during the working day. In addition, it takes 10 minutes to refuel with hydrogen, whereas it takes several hours for an electric bus to fully charge its battery. Although the hydrogen-powered bus will be emission-free and sustainable, its operations will be costly. On its website, the...
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