In addition to Germany, Sweden, and Cyprus, also Lithuania and Latvia will be included in the "red" group of countries from Monday, November 16.
Open House Worldwide (OHWW) will stage its first collaborative event: a free 48-hour streamed festival of events, discussions, tours, and more. Open House Worldwide Festival will take place this weekend November 14–15, 2020. You can join this world tour and visit more than 40 cities – from Buenos Aires, Lagos to Taipei, and others. The festival will run as a non-stop 48-hour livestream, broadcast from the Open House Worldwide website. The program seeks to address the most important issues facing architecture and urbanism today. The festival will be accessible for free and will be streamed in the original language with English subtitles. “Open House opens up cities around the world, from Santiago to Taipei. This year, the whole Open House community has risen to the challenges of this year by organizing an online festival from all the participating cities, guaranteeing a completely unique spectacle,” said Phineas Harper, director of Open City, which manages the Open House Worldwide network. With contributions from architects, designers, and urbanists, Open House Worldwide will tackle the most important issues facing our built environments across the world, from the climate crisis to housing; transport to post-pandemic design. Prague will also present: The Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord The Dancing House Prague...
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk had led the country from its independence in 1918 for the next seventeen years, and is known as “Father of the Nation”. In early 1915, after the outbreak of World War I, Masaryk made his way to western Europe, where he was recognized as the representative of the underground Czech liberation movement and conducted a vigorous campaign against Austria-Hungary and Germany. Heading the government-in-exile, he gathered Western support for Czechoslovakia. His colleague Eduard Beneš also greatly contributed to the cause as did Slovak scholar and astronomer Milan Rastislav Štefánik. During a trip to the USA, Masaryk carried out negotiations with President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State Robert Lansing and convinced them of the need for Czechoslovak independence. On June 3, 1918, Czechoslovakia was recognized as an Allied power, and its frontiers were demarcated according to Masaryk’s outline. As Masaryk had promised, the new multinational state respected the minority rights of its large German and Hungarian ethnic groups. The Lansing Declaration of May 1918 expressed the sympathy of the U.S. government with the Czechoslovak freedom movement, and Czechoslovakia’s liberation became one of Wilson’s Fourteen Points for the post-World War I peace settlement. Wilson supported the emergence of an independent Czechoslovakia, the...
Czech military intelligence warns of growing tensions between the “leading” countries that could lead to World War III. This is stated in the intelligence report for 2019, Lidové noviny reports. According to analysts, an unusually intense conflict is forming on the worldwide level, and it could erupt due to growing tensions between the “big” powers. Army spies claim that the world is in the first phase of World War III. It is noted that now the global conflict “is at the first stage.” “The worldview of those who can and wish to actively participate in it [the conflict] is being formed, and the technological tools with which it could be controlled are gradually being determined,” the authors of the report say. According to analysts, a possible cause of the conflict is the rivalry between the United States, Russia and China. The document also talks about the decline in the importance of international law due to the lack of a peaceful dialogue as a way to resolve contradictions. The authors of the report emphasize that the manipulation of public consciousness also contributes to the growth of tension. Propaganda is playing a big role: “manipulated thinking, biased conclusions and the absence of a sense of...
The Czechs are mad about pepper! For this Christmas, they are buying pepper chocolates, pepper gins, and presents withs Kampot pepper. Christmas is round the corner! That’s why the Czech project .pepper..field, founded by a couple of young travellers, has figured out how to get a nice Christmas gift and help someone at the same time. The unique project is the first to supply the rare Kampot pepper to the Czech Republic. And this year the most delicious pepper in the world aims to help. It is more than just a spicy gold Together with the HitHit platform, it brings the opportunity to purchase pepper gifts that will delight with their originality and help where it is needed now. The Czech importer of Kampot pepper pays all profits from sales to support families in Cambodia. Nevertheless, Czech companies and small tradesmen are supported as well as they are manufacturing the gift sets. Unique pepper gifts from quality Czech materials So the perfect spicy Christmas gift this year is not just Kampot pepper as you can also buy pepper chocolates, one of the limited .pepper..gins with its unique number, enjoy a luxury dinner by the renowned chef Matteo De Carli or...
Mayor Zdeněk Hřib craves a new and improved website for Prague city. The cost should be around 19,8 million CZK, not including VAT. The tender notice was decided on Thursday, November 12 by Prague’s councillors. “The corona crisis has shown how important electronic communication is between a city and its citizens. We, therefore, need to invest in it,” explains Hřib. The new website should supposedly correspond with today’s standards and enable a connection to the website Praguer Portal (Portál Pražana), which allows metropolitan citizens to communicate with their local authorities online. “The current website praha.eu is more than ten years old and at the end of its lifespan. The architecture of the current portal, as well as the technology used, is at the end of its life cycle. It doesn’t offer sufficient safety protection and any kind of technological outage triggers data loss,” states the approved document. Apparently, the sky-high price is adequate. Mayor Hřib justifies the expected cost: “It coincides with the complexity of such authorities as Prague City Hall. It [the price] also entails consecutive maintenance service. To compare, the price is 20 times lower than it would be for a single-purpose e-shop selling highway stickers from the...
The Coronavirus lockdown is having a devastating impact on Prague’s bars and restaurants. But how far would you go to ensure your favourite local bar or restaurant survives? There are a number of ways that you can support your local. How many of the following would you consider? Order takeaway food and collect direct from the restaurant. All the money goes to the restaurant, but this really only works if you live nearby. Order food for delivery using a service such as Wolt, Bolt, or Dáme jídlo. The restaurant has to pay a hefty percentage to the delivery service, but at least make some money. Purchase a discounted voucher for future use, for example, pay 1500 Kč for a 2000 Kč voucher. The place gets an injection of cash but eventually has to allow redemption of a voucher purchased for less than face value. You get a discount but take the risk that the place doesn’t close down before you can redeem the voucher. Purchase a voucher at face value. The place gets an injection of cash and doesn’t lose anything. You take the risk that the place doesn’t close down before you can redeem the voucher. Donate to using...
Lucia Janovcová and Korena Flanagan have no problem giving Covid the finger. The two marketing and communication specialists launched a service to provide free advice for businesses impacted by the pandemic. To make the message crystal clear – they called it F_CK COVID. “We called it fuckcovid because that really is how everyone is feeling – especially if you have your own business,” co-founder Lucia Janovcová explained. Once small businesses register for free, they’ll have access to a remote marketing and communications session, help getting started on a plan, and be featured on the site’s Buy Local page. The pair want to provide fresh ideas for businesses struggling to manage this uncertainty to give them back some control. Janovcová said the idea came from the frustration of isolation: “Like everyone we are sick of this disease. We are sick of being locked up and we are sick of people not wearing masks and washing their hands,” she said. “We had a choice – get angry on the couch or do something to help. So we started this service. Janovcová said she often gets asked why they are offering the service for free. “The answer is pretty simple – to give...
Archaeologists have found the remains of yet another World War II-era concentration camp for Romani people in Liberec; after the Romani prisoners were sent to their deaths in other camps, French prisoners of war were then imprisoned there as well. Traces found by the archaeologists include tin cups, dish fragments, brick floors, and foundations. The site is one of four Romani internment camps that had been built in the city of Liberec. Historical records indicate that at least 130 Romani people were held at this camp by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943, when they were transferred to larger death camps such as Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz. The Romani people who were held in the camp were forced to work on building the nearby housing estate of Králův Háj. “They usually stayed in the camp a year or two. They were here until they were sent to the big concentration camps, the women were sent to Ravensbrück and the men were sent to Buchenwald and to Auschwitz. They murdered them there, nobody survived,” said Ivan Rous of the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec. Archaeologist Petr Brestovanský said the building had been constructed with forced Romani labor. The camp later held French...
Jan Lukačevič, who on a daily basis focuses on “exploring the universe“, has been chosen by NATO to become a member of a group of young leaders, all under the age of 35, that will advise the secretary-general of the organization. On Monday, the Permanent Delegation of the Czech Republic to NATO announced the news on Facebook. Lukačevič will become one of 14 Young Leaders from all NATO member states to provide Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg with recommendations from the younger generations. Lukačevič is a space physicist at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic who, among other things, organized the Energy for Medics initiative to support healthcare professionals in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. “I have mixed feelings about this, from responsibility to joy that I succeeded in the difficult selection process. And also, I feel enthusiasm because I am very curious about it,” Lukačevič said in Czech Radio´s Budoucnost R podcast. According to the young scientist, NATO brings peace and security to member countries. “It provides us all with a relatively safe and peaceful life, but that means we also have our responsibilities. Science is one of the areas that can help fulfill these commitments,” Lukačevič pointed...
The reproduction number R in the Czech Republic dropped to 0.8, according to the Institute for Health Information and Statistics.
On Wednesday, November 17, thirty buildings around Prague will light up with the colours of the Czech flag. Prague Castle, the Congress Center, the Žižkov Tower, the Petrin Tower, the Dancing House, the Straka Academy, university buildings and the headquarters of several companies will be colored in blue, red and white. The Slovak singer Jana Kirschner will perform at 17:11 the song “A Prayer for Marta” (Modlitba pro Martu), which was banned under communism after the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968 and then revived during the Velvet Revolution. Among other things, there will be an outdoor projection on the facade of the Máj department store, focusing on the current political situation in Belarus. There will also be a program inside buildings – theater performances, a talk show, art workshops, and debates. Visitors can also look forward to street exhibitions or educational walks mapping the period of communism, the events of the Velvet Revolution, and the early post-revolutionary years. November 17th is Twice as Important for Czechs November 17th is not at all just an ordinary day in the Czech Republic. It is a very important day for Czechs not only for one but for two reasons. The original event that 17 November...
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