Temperatures are dropping below zero and the inches of mountain snow is slowly increasing. That can only mean one thing – it’s time to start planning your winter break! For most people, winter holidays are associated with skiing. If you are a lover of the white trails, downhill or alpine skiing, the Czech Republic is where you will definitely have an abundance of all to choose from – more than 600 km of downhill trails, not to mention a number of cross-country trails. If you want to combine your winter sports activities with exploring the beauties of the Czech Republic, we’ve got a great tip for you – which is a winter holiday in a caravan! Imagine: You wake up every morning with a new beautiful view and, if you are not satisfied with the skiing conditions in a particular location, you can simply go elsewhere! In the Czech Republic, you can also take advantage of the short distances between ski resorts which is a big time-saver. In addition to your flexibility, safety is a major advantage of caravan travels. Inside the caravan, you can spend time in a safe bubble only with your family and if you don’t want...
Tailbacks stretching back several kilometers have developed on the Czech roads leading to the German border after Germany declared its neighbor a risk zone due to a coronavirus variant and reintroduced checks for incoming travelers. On the E55/D8 autobahn connecting Prague with Dresden, lorries were queuing all the way back to Usti nad Labem on Monday morning. Police were stopping drivers before letting them enter the tunnel there. On the E50/D5, which leads to the German city of Nuremberg, a queue of lorries initially grew to over 20 kilometers long, according to the motorway administration office and radio traffic news. On Sunday, Germany launched entry bans at its borders with the Czech Republic and the Austrian region of Tyrol, due to concerns about more virulent strains of the novel coronavirus in those areas. There are exceptions for key workers who have to commute across the borders, including lorry drivers, and for German citizens or foreigners resident in Germany. Those people have to register online and present a negative coronavirus test at the border, which must be no older than 48 hours. Czech authorities have boosted their testing capacity in border regions in response to the travel ban, using the fire...
Maren Gräfová will become the very first female director of Škoda. Gräfová is a Czech lawyer, and she will be filling in this position on the 1 of March 2021. Martin Jahn will also become a member. Gräfová will be replacing Bohdan Wojnar, who is responsible for human resources, while Jahn will be replacing Alain Favey, who is in charge of sales and marketing. Jahn will also be filling in this position on the 1 of March. Favey will soon be entrusted with new tasks in the Volkswagen Group, and Wojnar will continue to be president of the Automotive Industry Association. He decided to leave his position after ten years. Gräfová is a lawyer who started her career at the Volkswagen Group. Firstly, she was in the legal department before she became the assistant to the CEO. In November 2018, she was appointed head of the human resources department of the VW Group’s top management. Gräfová is a human resources expert with international experience, and the chairman of the Board of Directors at Škoda, Thomas Schäfer, has personally commended her. The chairman has also disclosed Gräfová’s tasks at the automobile company and said, “her task now will be to take...
The Czech government re-declared a state of emergency for two weeks to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The decision comes in defiance of the lower house of Parliament, which has refused the minority government’s request to extend the powerful tool that gives the Cabinet the extra powers needed to impose nationwide restrictions and limit people’s travel and rights. Despite the dire situation, some lawyers and politicians, including Milos Vystrcil, the Senate speaker, say the government’s move violates the country’s Constitution. The government denies that, saying its legal advisers support such a solution. “I’m really glad that common sense has won,” the country’s prime minister Andrej Babiš said. The current state of emergency would have expired on Sunday. The government could use other legal options to reimpose some coronavirus restrictions but not all of them. Without the state of emergency, service businesses could resume, the nighttime curfew would end and a ban on more than two people gathering in public would be cancelled. “We can’t afford that to happen,” Babiš said. The government warned that the restrictions are needed to keep the country’s outbreak from getting worse and causing the health system to collapse. Sunday’s move comes at the request of the...
In today’s open letter to the government, the Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil (ODS) says that reinstating a state of emergency in the country against the will of the lower house would be unconstitutional. According to him, this also applies to the case where the governors request a state of emergency. After today’s meeting with the government, the regional governors asked the cabinet to declare a new state of emergency for 14 more days. The current state of emergency will end at midnight today. The governor of the Moravia-Silesia region Ivo Vondrák said the decision had been unanimous. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš added the government will comply with the request. “If the Chamber of Deputies cancels the state of emergency or vote against its extension, the government may not immediately decide to declare a new state of emergency. In such a case, the government would effectively negate the role of the Chamber of Deputies,” said Vystrčil. Constitutional lawyers are divided over the matter. Without the state of emergency, the government cannot impose a curfew, which is currently in effect between 9 pm and 5 am. Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček (CSSD) warned that: “It would bring about the loosening...
The regional governors agreed to extend the state of emergency for 14 more days. Interior Minister Jan Hamáček (CSSD) said that the priority will be the return of children to school. “Today we agreed that all governors will ask for a state of emergency. At the moment, it is the only way to manage the crisis situation in our country,” said the Moravian-Silesian Governor Ivo Vondrák (ANO). The current state of emergency expires on Sunday, February 14. In the morning, the governors discussed the conditions under which they would request the declaration of a new state of emergency with the Minister of Health, Jan Blatný (ANO). The South Bohemian governor and chairman of the Association of Regions Martin Kuba (ODS) stated that “the governors are asking the children to return to school on March 1.” The governor of Pardubice Martin Netolický remarked that the regions require the government to communicate to the public a plan for the coming days and weeks regarding the release of certain measures. “We want to have a clear timetable for gradual release at further negotiations. We also require self-testing in companies and large employers.” The governors want regular meetings every ten days of the association...
Husqvarna Urban Green Space Index (HUGSI) has named Lithuanian capital Vilnius the greenest city in Europe. Prague ranks 9th. By applying computer vision and deep learning techniques on satellite images, HUGSI unveiled that 56% of Prague territory is greenery and by this measure, the city ranks 13th in the world. HUGSI-index was announced for the second year running. In total, satellite images of 155 cities across 60 different countries were analyzed in order to evaluate their greenness and provide valuable insights about the size, proportion, distribution, and health of green space in urban areas. The research revealed that 28% of all Prague territory consists of trees, and 27% of grass areas. HUGSI is a digital innovation initiative developed by Husqvarna in collaboration with 20tree.ai. The ambition is to help safeguard and improve the maintenance of green spaces in urban areas. Husquarna created HUGSI to raise awareness about the value of urban green space among citizens, support city officials and politicians to make data-informed decisions, and facilitate the collaboration across industries and organizations to together make a “smart and sustainable city” a reality. “Since last year we have received a lot of interest and enquires about HUGSI and this year we...
The Czech Republic is in talks with AstraZeneca to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies on top of the three million doses reserved for the country under an EU deal, news website Seznam Zpravy reported on Saturday. Citing a Health Ministry spokeswoman, the report said the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker had offered the country further deliveries of its vaccine, and that the ongoing talks were about details such as the number of doses, price, and delivery dates. The European Commission, the European Union’s executive, has signed supply deals with vaccine makers for doses to be distributed on a pro-rata basis to member states, which have committed not to hold parallel talks. Saturday’s Seznam Zpravy report said the Health Ministry still had to verify to what extent bilateral deals were in line with the EU deal. The number of newly registered Covid cases reached 8,782 on Friday, roughly 160 more than on the same day a week ago. The Covid-related death toll crossed the 18,000 mark on Friday. AstraZeneca is scrambling to find more manufacturers to produce its coronavirus vaccine in Europe after the drugmaker’s bet on a limited number of sites fell short. By the end of January, only one continental plant — located...
Race organizer RunCzech with adidas celebrates love this year a bit differently. They teamed up with Salvation Army and will give love to others. We would all run thousands of miles for love. Love means running with others and thinking about them every step of the way. Share the little things and remember even those who, for example, was not so lucky with love. Therefore RunCzech and adidas in cooperation with the Salvation Army come with the opportunity to share a little love with others. By purchasing Nocleženka coupon, you will support a specific homeless person and we will reward you with a -42% discount on adidas products. Because you have to be well equipped to run for love. How does Nocleženka work? By purchasing NOCLEŽENKA at the RunCzech e-shop worth CZK 100, you will support a specific homeless person who will be able to spend a night in the heat of a Salvation Army dormitory thanks to your gift. However, it is not just about sleeping, a homeless person is also provided with soup with pastries, a hot drink and has the opportunity to take a shower and perform personal hygiene. How do I receive a discount code on adidas...
Rekola, a bike-sharing company that offers its service not only in Prague, but also in seven other Czech cities, has started an initiative of sharing snow gliders in Prague, Brno, and Olomouc. Because of the heavy snowfall in recent days, parts of the Czech Republic are covered in snow. This explains the many cross-country skiers and tobogganers sighted out, especially in Prague. Where can you find one of these gliders? Rekola has set them up on popular hills such as Letná, Petřín, Vítkov, Riegrovy sady and Stromovka. That’s just in Prague. On the other hand, if you live in Brno, for example, you can find these gliders under Špilberk Castle, and there are some situated at the Planetarium on Kraví Hora, as well. Lastly, residents of Olomouc will find them in the Little Prince park. The gliders can be rented on Rekola’s mobile application. All you need to do is pay 10 CZK to use them for 30 minutes. Each glider is marked with a number that you enter on the application. When you’re finished using it, you lock the glider back to the designated place and take a picture of it. “At the end of the ride, users have...
The Czech lower house of parliament on Thursday rejected the government’s request to extend a state of emergency underpinning pandemic measures beyond February 14. The Chamber of Deputies rejected the extension of the state of emergency in force in the Czech Republic due to the coronavirus epidemic. Jan Wintr from the Department of Theory of Law at Charles University believes that several anti-epidemic measures could cease to be in effect on Monday. Without a state of emergency, the government cannot: Impose a curfew, which is currently in effect between 9 pm and 5 am. Prohibit sales in shops and the provision of services Restrict entry into the Czech Republic to foreigners Prohibit entry to sports facilities outside and inside. Due to the measures, the government had to close gyms, fitness centers, courts, ice rinks, swimming pools, wellness facilities including saunas, dance studios, and bowling alleys. Prohibit drinking alcohol in public places Prohibit meeting people from different households Which current measures could continue to apply: Visiting restaurants, pubs, and bars, providing accommodation services. Conferences, theater, and movie performances with the participation of spectators. Impossibility to organize pilgrimages, congresses, educational events, fairs. Participate in teaching at universities, high schools, and primary schools....
The Czech lower house of parliament on Thursday rejected the government’s request to extend a state of emergency underpinning pandemic measures beyond February 14. The Chamber of Deputies rejected the extension of the state of emergency in force in the Czech Republic due to the coronavirus epidemic. The minority government said the decision would mean the end of nationwide limits on movement, including a night-time curfew, the lifting of a ban on public gatherings, and a reopening of retail stores. Some other measures may still be extended under different legislation. The government of PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) asked to extend the state of emergency for another 30 days. The entire opposition did not support the government’s request. At least 54 parliamentary votes were required for its adoption. Babiš told MPs that” anyone who voted against extending the state of emergency would be directly responsible for the loss of human lives.” Early today, Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said that “the refusal to prolong the state of emergency implies a tremendous risk of collapsing healthcare and a negative development of the coronavirus pandemic in the Czech Republic”. “We will make history as a country that demobilized in the middle of a war,”...
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