On November 5, there will be a celebration in Prague, one of its kind. Due to a special date, the International Romani Language Day is falling as well on the week in which souls are celebrated in many cultures. An opportunity to experience the good side of the encounter of different cultures in this country. Romani is an ancient Indian language that is falling out of common use due to various assimilationist policies across Europe. Traditionally, Romani vernacular has been oral, with tales told by all respected storytellers and songs composed and sung by musicians. A tradition that is worth celebrating. Organizers are proposing to combine these festivities along with the Mexican community living in Prague, which is small in number but has been very active to share their culture, such as the “Día de Muertos”. The celebration of souls for the Roma Roma have a strong respect for their ancestors. When a family member dies, the family takes him to the other world through a ritual called “warting”. The family sits with the dead member for three days (currently with his photography) and tells stories about him. There is also a strong belief in Romani culture in the spirits...
Czech Airlines (CSA) has resumed its Prague-Copenhagen flight. The service will be operated twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday. Under the winter flight schedule, CSA will continue operating scheduled flights to Paris (daily), Stockholm (twice a week), Moscow (three times a week) and Kyiv (daily). Flights to more than 15 other destinations are available under code-share agreements with partner airlines. CSA’s flight OK508 will depart from Prague – Vaclav Havel airport at 17:45 with arrival in Copenhagen at 19:05 local time. The return flight OK509 from Copenhagen to Prague will depart at 19:50 local time and arrive at 21:10. Clients can purchase flight tickets on the Czech Airlines and Smartwings websites and at flight ticket vendors. Czech Airline’s priority is to ensure maximum safety for passenger on board its airplanes and applies stringent hygienic standards. Passengers are allowed to board Czech Airlines aircraft only with a respiratory mask. With respect to the situation caused by the Covid- 19 pandemic, Czech Airlines offers its clients free rebooking by 31 December 2021. Together with their flight tickets, passengers can purchase a travel insurance policy on the CSA website, complete with coverage of the costs associated with contracting the COVID-19 disease.
Czech centrist and center-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, said the chairman of the strongest party in the forming coalition on Tuesday. The parties, grouped in two coalitions, won the majority of seats in the lower chamber of parliament in the October 8-9 election, beating the current Prime Minister Andrej Babis, whose key allies were ousted from the parliament. “In addition to the position of Prime Minister, the SPOLU coalition will fill the positions of the Ministry of Finance, Defense, Labor and Social Affairs, Transport, Health, Justice, Agriculture, Environment, Culture and the post of Minister of Science, Research and Innovation,” said Petr Fiala said on Tuesday. The PirSTAN coalition will include the Ministry of Interior, Industry, Education, Local development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the newly defined Minister for Legislation and the Minister for the EU. The candidate for Prime Minister Petr Fiala further informed that he had been contacted by the head of the President’s office, Vratislav Mynář. “He delivered a message for me from President (Miloš) Zeman. He is looking forward to meeting me,” he said. Voter turnout was up to near 65%, compared with 60% at the last...
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. Czech centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, said the chairman of the strongest party in the forming coalition on Tuesday. The Czech opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement is going to file a criminal complaint against the Bohemia Energy company, its owner and boards’ members on Tuesday on suspicion of fraud. The company ceased operations in mid-October and has around 900,000 customers looking for a new energy supplier. ŠKODA AUTO’s plan is to launch three more electric cars by the end of the decade. At the same time, he cannot imagine the future of electromobility without a domestic gigafactory. Concerning the crisis of production caused by the lack of chips at the same time, he assumes a return to the normal volume of production in 2022. Czech Airlines (CSA) has resumed its Prague-Copenhagen service. The service will be operated twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday. As of November 1st, the eRouška covid tracing app has been suspended. During its operation, it has warned...
The Christmas market season in Prague starts on November 20. On this day, the festive market in Náměstí Míru — will open its doors to the townspeople. Five days later, on November 25, a fair will open at Náměstí Republiky. The following day the Christmas market will open at the IP Pavlova metro station (Tylovo náměstí). These three fairs will meet guests daily from 10:00 to 19:00 until December 24. This information appeared on the official website of the organizing company. The Christmas markets at Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square (the largest in the city) will open on November 27 and run until January 6. In the evening of the same day, a Christmas tree will be lit on the Old Town Square, and festive lighting will be turned on on the central streets. Typical Christmas markets consist of wooden stalls situated around a decorated Christmas tree, with a wide variety of local Christmas products (most of them handmade), traditional food and drinks on offer. The most popular products are Christmas tree ornaments and decorations, handicrafts, jewellery, glassware, toys (especially puppets and wooden toys), winter accessories (hats, scarves, gloves), ceramics, gingerbread, candles. You can usually see some craftsmen, mainly...
The next Czech government will not adopt the euro, the man tipped to be the finance minister in the new centre-right coalition said on Tuesday. Although the five parties forming coalition are generally in favour of the eventual adoption of the euro, it has not been high on their agenda for the next four-year term. “We have to put our public finance in order, so even if someone wanted (the euro), we don’t have a shot at entering now, because we don’t meet the criteria,” said Zbynek Stanjura of the Civic Democrats (ODS), who looks set for the Finance Ministry role. The Czech fiscal gap is seen by the ministry at 7.7% of gross domestic product this year, more than double the 3% prescribed for a country to join the euro zone. Stanjura saw one more reason for putting the euro off now. “It is our long-time position that we should adopt the euro only when it is favourable for the Czech Republic, which has not been the case so far,” Stanjura told reporters at a televised briefing. The coalition aims to have the government agenda and ministerial jobs distribution settled by Nov.8 when the newly elected lower house of...
The head of the Institute for Information and Statistics Ladislav Dušek has suggested the country’s Covid-19 cases could reach 10,000 a day this week if the current pace of infections continues. “The number of coronavirus hospitalizations could also increase markedly this week and may soon climb to 3,000. The number of people in intensive care could double,” says Dušek, in an interview for Radiožurnál. 7,591 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Monday, around 3,300 more than the figure on the same day last week and was the highest figure recorded since the end of March. The number of people in hospital with the coronavirus now stands at 1,813, over 250 patients are in critical condition. The reproduction number is now between 1.3 and 1.5. “To put it simply, the prevalence of active infection in the population is growing, largely among the unvaccinated, of course. But we also see an increase among vulnerable groups, including those who have been vaccinated.” “The number of patients in intensive care can double. The positive news, however, is that those very difficult cases are growing at a significantly slower pace than one year ago. This is clearly the effect of...
The Prague residential market continues to break records. Most flats of the last 10 years were sold in the third quarter of this year, with the number of vacant flats on the market currently at a historic low. And the evergreen in record-breaking is prices that don’t seem to have a cap. New flats are currently offered for an average of 137,000 CZK per square meter. For sales that have just begun, the price has climbed to 160,000 CZK per meter. Prices are also rising throughout other regions. In Brno, for example, new flats have almost caught up with those in Prague. Development companies Trigema, Central Group and Skanska published the current analysis of the residential market for the third quarter on Oct. 26. “Recently, unfortunately, we have witnessed an unprecedented decline in the apartments offered. Although new projects are being put on sale, they are far from satisfying all those interested in owner-occupied housing,” says Marcel Soural, owner of the Trigema group. The enormous demand for new housing during this year knocked down supply in the third quarter. According to the developers, 6,100 new flats for new housing were sold during the first three quarters of the year, which...
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. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has ranked the Czech Republic in the bottom fifth of EU member states on its latest Gender Equality Index. The government is preparing a criminal complaint on suspicion of fraud due to the termination of the activities of the Bohemia Energy energy group. The company ceased operations in mid-October and has around 900,000 customers looking for a new energy supplier. Beer production for domestic pubs and restaurants grew by 2% y/y in September 2021. Beer from tanks increased by more than 4.5%, while the output of mini kegs rose by 2.3% and that of classic kegs by 1.8%. The Czech Beer and Malt Association reported that the total beer output fell by almost 5.6%. A Czech model who was jailed for eight years in Pakistan for trying to smuggle £1million of heroin into Ireland has been cleared on appeal, her lawyer has revealed. Tereza Hluskova, 25, was arrested in possession of 8.5kg of heroin in January 2018 at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport. Mandatory coronavirus testing in Czech schools will...
Czech authorities have revealed that entry rules will be tightened for unvaccinated and unrecovered EU nationals from Monday, November 1, as more than half of the 27-nation-bloc have been added to the unsafe travel list. According to the press release issued by the Czech Ministry of Health, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, and Slovakia have been added to the dark red category, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. Moreover, the red category will now include Denmark, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, whereas Cyprus will be added to the orange category. While all fully vaccinated travellers, those with a previous COVID-19 infection and holders of the EU Digital COVID-19 Certificate and equivalent documents, are eligible to enter the country free of entry restrictions. Unlike those, unvaccinated and unrecovered travellers from red and dark red countries are required to follow these rules: Register before reaching Czechia and undergo a PCR test 72 hours or 48 hours before arrival for antigen tests Take a PCR test no earlier than the fifth day of arrival and no later than the 14th day Travellers from all categories are obliged to fill the arrival form before reaching the country. Previously, the Czech Republic abolished quarantine requirements for arrivals for all categories as the measure had been dropped. “The Ministry...
Approximately 400 restaurants will not comply with the government-imposed measures requiring them to check guests’ vaccine or certificates, representatives of the Chcípl PES initiative said on Monday. The owner of Šeberák restaurant and the chairman of Chcípl PES, Jakub Olbert, claims that the government regulation is illegal and is organizing a demonstration on Prague’s Old Town Square at 3 pm on November 17. “Our employees do not have the right to inform about the health of our guests, they would be in violation of the law, so last week we reported to the Prague Hygiene that we will not comply with government regulations and asked the Czech Trade Inspection Authority for support,” said vice-chairman of Chcípl PES Jiří Janeček. On October 20, the Czech government approved several new measures to tame a steep rise in coronavirus infections, which have reached levels unseen since late April. As of November 1, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other indoor places need to check whether the patrons have the required COVID-19 certificate confirming they have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from the virus. The government also decided to limit the time for which negative tests are valid. The national health insurance also will not cover the...
Located just a one-hour drive from the Czech capital, Mcely is a picturesque village of great mystical allure, and it is home to the beautiful Chateau Mcely, which hides within the famous St. Georges Forest. The chateau’s history began when it was built back in 1698, on the site of a former Celtic settlement. It has been home to noble families and lots of royalty over the years. The actual village of Mcely also has a significant history- the worship of female deity here has long been tradition because of its religious magnitude. There are detailed recordings of an apparition of the Virgin Mary of Mcely, which appeared to three orphans back in 1849 and 1850. Old records state that she revealed herself to the girls for nine months and told them nine different secrets in a small field between the Chateau and a neighbouring church. The sightings are known as the Mcely Miracle. The guests of Chateau Mcely report feeling a strong, loving, magical energy when they visit, almost as if the Virgin Mary’s presence still looms. The aristocratic residence, in this magical location, is the embodiment of a five-star luxury property. It’s a romantic and rejuvenating venue with both...
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