The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said Děčín and České Budějovice have recorded a high of 15.3C – meaning today is the warmest New Year’s Eve in the last 90 years. Hradec Králové held the previous 31 December record of 16.3C in 1935. The UK also experienced its warmest New Year’s Eve on record with temperatures hovering around 15°C, the Met Office said. The village of Coningsby in Lincolnshire in the East Midlands recorded a temperature of 15.3°C, breaking a previous record of 14.8°C set in Wales in 2011. France is no less, with temperatures 10 degrees warmer than average in some regions, according to forecasts by the national meteorological service Météo France. Bordeaux residents are making the most of the good weather, as the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve should be the warmest in the country’s history. Spain also faced the warmest New Year’s Eve in 40 years with temperatures of up to 25ºC. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with 27º and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 26, achieved record high temperature, which was 24.6 in 1998 and 1995, respectively. Seville reached 22, one more than in 1974 when it recorded its highest temperature on December 31.
Following nearly two years of postponements, cancellations and rescheduling due to COVID-19, big-name artists and music venues in Prague are optimistically heading into the new year with loaded concert calendars. Next Saturday, January 8, the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli should open a new concert season at the O2 arena. Two weeks later, Till Lindemann will perform at Holešovice Tipsport arena, as part of a European tour he is set to embark on with his solo project called “Lindermann”. Pop singer Enrique Iglesias will play on February 18, at the O2 arena. The same location will host on Saturday, March 12, the Swedish metal band Sabaton. The Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, who plans to perform at the O2 arena on April 11, mainly addresses teenagers. Mendes has almost 30 million subscribers on its YouTube channel, will play in the Czech Republic for the first time. On Saturday, April 23, a joint concert by Helloween and Hammerfall will take place again at O2 arena. One Republic (May 10), Tool (May 23) and German veterans Scorpions (May 26) should also perform in the multi-purpose arena. Rammstein will take the stage at Prague’s Letňany on Sunday and Monday, May 15th and 16th. On Friday,...
Following the recent change of government, half of the members of the government of Petr Fiala are part of Christian churches. Given the fact that the Czech Republic is a nation known for its strong atheist leanings, experts believe that political conflicts may arise over “ethical” issues, which has already occurred during the discussion of same-sex couple marriages. For many years, the Czech Republic has been described as one of the most atheist and most secularized countries in the world, together with Estonia, Sweden, and the eastern part of Germany. So far, the latest available data from the 2011 census show that only 20.6 percent of the population identify themselves as believers. In contrast to the high share of atheists in the population, the composition of the new Czech government might be surprising. Half of the government members report that they belong to Christian churches. This is true for the prime minister, Petr Fiala, and four of the five heads of the governing coalition parties, except Mayors and Independents (STAN) chairman Vít Rakušan. However, he also refers to Christian principles as the basis of his value system. Experts from the ranks of historians, political scientists, and politicians identify at least three reasons...
The firecrackers trade in the Czech Republic appears to be booming after the sale of fireworks was temporarily banned in Germany. “We are noticing a significant increase this year compared to 2020,” a federal police spokesperson said in the Bavarian town of Selb, which sits on Germany’s border with the Czech Republic. Firecrackers are being seized almost daily, said the spokesperson for the Selb federal police inspectorate. On Tuesday alone, young people were caught with several kilograms of fireworks in three cases in the area. On the same day, police officers found 30 kilograms of prohibited firecrackers during three checks near the town of Furth im Wald, federal police announced on Wednesday. The federal police spokesman said that often it was occasional buyers, such as commuters from the Czech Republic, or private individuals who bought firecrackers for themselves or friends. In some cases, however, the perpetrators also wanted to resell the goods. The firecrackers are mostly bought at markets near the border. According to the federal police, these fireworks are often counterfeit and sometimes dangerous. Anyone caught with illegal firecrackers can be charged under Germany’s Explosives Act. Offenders can also be ordered to pay for the costly destruction of the fireworks....
Today marks 80 years since Czechoslovak parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš were dropped into occupied Bohemia to carry out the assassination of Nazi Governor Reinhard Heidrych in Operation Anthropoid. The May 1942 assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is considered to be the greatest act of European domestic resistance during the Second World War. The eventual fate of Heydrich, the “executioner of the Czech nation,” who immediately unleashed terror against the Czechs in September 1941 and launched the Holocaust of the Protectorate Jews and Roma, first began to materialize in the autumn of 1941. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London began planning an action on a larger scale with the British at that time. Eighty years ago, on the night of 28-29 December 1941, three airdrops of paratroopers (Silver A, Silver B and Anthropoid) were deployed into the Protectorate, including those would would plan the assassination of Heydrich. The 37-year-old Heydrich, who had been the Acting Reich Protector for a total of eight months and eight days, had been installed as ruler at Prague Castle for just three months as of 28 December 1941. The assassination would take place five months...
According to Prague City Tourism (PCT), around 60,000 visitors could reach Prague on New Year's Eve.
Compulsory vaccination is a topic that is currently dividing the Czech society into two sides, namely those who are for and those who are against it. Czech President Milos Zeman spoke out in favour of mandatory vaccinations against Covid-19 during his traditional Christmas address. He said he had initially been skeptical about the idea, but given repeated new waves of infection, he said he had changed his mind. Zeman said he had ultimately been swayed by Austria, which has decreed vaccination compulsory as of February 2022. A survey conducted by the Median agency suggests that just over half of Czechs (51 percent) agree with the introduction of compulsory vaccination for selected groups or people in high-risk professions. Those in favor are generally people over the age of 65, who live in bigger cities (with more than 100,000 inhabitants) and have a higher education. 47 percent of respondents are against and two percent are undecided. “According to the survey, mainly SPD voters and students are against mandatory vaccination. In contrast, forty-seven percent of people are against compulsory vaccination,” said Přemysl Čech, director of the Median agency. At the beginning of December, the Czech Health Ministry prepared a decree making COVID-19 vaccines...
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said it condemned a Russian court decision to shut down the country’s oldest human rights group, Memorial International, and is following with concern Russia’s ongoing efforts to close sister organization Memorial Human Rights Center. “We urge Russian authorities to end their harassment of independent voices and human rights defenders and stand in solidarity with those who have been targeted for repression for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly”. Memorial has highlighted repressions against civil society and the absence of an independent judiciary in the Russian Federation, as well as exposing the murders of millions of Soviet citizens and foreigners, including several thousand Czechs, the statement says. The decision triggers the closure of “Memorial International Historical, Educational, Charitable, and Human Rights Society, its regional branches and other structural units,” said Judge Alla Nazarova, according to the Interfax news agency. Founded in the late 1980s by Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet-era dissidents, the group took the new freedoms offered under Mikhail Gorbachev and used them to reveal raw truths about the fate of millions of victims of Stalin’s repressions. It was a poignant symbol of Russia’s new openness, but for...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Bolt will expand its fast grocery service to the Czech Republic by January after entering the booming business of couriering drinks and snacks to users earlier this year. It will face competition from local rivals like Rohlik, and Wolt. Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, who will come to Prague on Thursday, will be the first foreign guest whom new Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky will receive in his seat in the Czernin Palace. They will talk about the relations between the two countries and preparation for the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union. Health workers administered more than one million booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine in Czechia in the last 20 days. More than 9,300 people aged from 30 to 44 received the booster shot on Monday. Poland hopes to make progress in negotiations with the new Czech government over the open-pit lignite Turow mine near the border, Poland’s prime minister said on Tuesday, referring to the most serious spat between the two European Union members in decades. Czech...
The construction of the first part of a new “D” line of the Prague Metro system will start in 2022. The line – which will feature driverless trains – will at first run from Pankrác to the as yet unbuilt Depo Písnice station in the south of the city before being extended later. At the first stage, the metro will be built between the stations Pankrác and Nove Dvory, then it will continue to Depo Písnice, and in the future, from Pankrac to Namesti miru. Largest transport investment in the country According to the City of Prague, the estimated total costs for this ambitious project will amount to approximately 52 billion CZK (EUR 2 billion). Commenting on this large sum, Deputy Mayor of Prague for transport Adam Scheinherr shared: “Metro D is currently the largest transport investment in the Czech Republic. The first section of metro D from Pankrác to Nové Dvory will cost CZK 52 billion and we will have large negotiations on financing – with banks, the EU, and the state, which normally co-finances such important urban projects abroad. I am glad that today we have won the trust of Prague’s representatives across political parties for this huge...
The Czech Republic has got a very rich history full of traditions that carry on to today.
Czech vets are due to cull 80,000 hens at a farm where over 100,000 animals have died of bird flu since late last week, the state veterinary office said Tuesday. The farm in Libotenice, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) north of Prague, had a total of 188,000 hens before Christmas. “The culling of hens from halls affected by bird flu is underway,” said State Veterinary Administration spokesman Petr Majer. “The numbers show that this strain, the highly pathogenic H5N1, is very aggressive and kills hens in particular fast and on a mass scale,” he added. He said vets would also destroy over a million eggs from the farm. The Czech Republic has registered 48 outbreaks of bird flu this year, the highest number in a calendar year in history. The disease is currently plaguing Europe, with France reporting an outbreak in its foie gras producing Landes region last week. A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens as authorities try to contain what they say is the deadliest wildlife disaster in the nation’s history. So far no human transmission has been reported, according to the prime minister’s office.
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