Vandals spray-painted “Krakow + Moscow = Prague”, and Sunday’s date, on a bridge arcade on the Lesser Town side.
Since March 1st, beer bikes have been banned in the wider center of Prague. But their operators have not given up - they simply moved the traffic to other parts of the city.
Metronome Festival Prague is an international music festival, which has been held since 2016 each year at the Exhibition Grounds in Holešovice. Besides quality music and top sound, the festival also offers an atmospheric amphitheatre and sheltered concerts. The festival stage has been performed by some of the most popular world artists, such as Sting, and British rock group Kasabian. MACKLEMORE Macklemore’s first solo effort in 12 years, album Gemini, was released in September 2017. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and #1 on the charts for Rap, R&B/Hip-Hop and Independent Albums. The album follows two releases with producer Ryan Lewis: the multiple Grammy award-winning albums The Heist and the 2016 release This Unruly Mess I’ve Made (featuring the Platinum-certified single Downtown). GEMINI includes Platinum-certified singles Glorious (featuring Skylar Grey), Good Old Days (featuring Kesha), and the Gold-certified Marmalade (featuring Lil Yachty). RAP QUEEN FLOHIO London-based rapper and songwriter with Nigerian origins has been tearing up rap, hip-hop and grime rules for the last couple of years. She brought attention to herself in 2016 with her ruthless lyrics from debut EP Nowhere Here. Flohio has proven her qualities to Czech audience already in 2018 at Addict #15 and she’s ready to prove it once again with an...
New emergency coronavirus measures became effective at ten border crossings on Monday at 7 am.
Slovakia reported its first case of the novel coronavirus on Friday, after a man whose son visited Venice in COVID-19 hotspot Italy, tested positive. “Today, a 52-year-old patient was confirmed to be infected,” Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini told journalist Friday. He said the man, who has not been named, is currently hospitalized in Bratislava. “The patient did not travel anywhere recently but his son returned from Venice a couple of weeks ago,” Pellegrini added. The patient’s sample was tested twice, so there is no doubt about coronavirus, according to the prime minister. “His son has not shown any signs of illness,” Pellegrini said. The COVID-19 infection has also been confirmed in a Slovak family who are in quarantine in a holiday house on Neusiedlersee lake in Austria, not far from the border with Slovakia. The Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed the information for the TASR newswire. The mother of the family recently attended an international congress in the US. She showed symptoms of the coronavirus infection on the day she returned. She was later informed that she has been in contact with an infected person during her stay in the US. The father and two children also had symptoms of the COVID-19...
The Czech Ministry of Finance has decided to regulate respirator and face mask prices, in effect from March 4, to prevent panic-driven profiteering. The Ministry of Health ordered a ban on their export. According to Head of Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Finance Michal Zurovec, in the case of respirators manufactured in the EU, the maximum price for final consumers was set at CZK175, excluding VAT, for those made outside the EU at CZK350, excluding VAT. “In order to make these protective masks available where they are most needed and to prevent their price to increase uncontrollably, we decided to set a price cap in agreement with the Minister of Health,” said the Finance Minister Alena Schillerova, quoted by the office. The Ministry of Health announced it was prohibiting the export of all FFP3-class respirators outside the Czech Republic and their sale to all but medical and social facilities, public health protection bodies, integrated rescue services and other state administration bodies. “Medical assistance and ensuring the functioning of the healthcare system is an absolute priority … We must be able to provide medical assistance to our citizens and treat infected people,” said the minister Adama Vojtech (ANO). “If medical staff...
European Parliament President David Sassoli said Thursday he will complain to Commission and Council leaders about “unacceptable” comments by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Babiš on Friday branded as “traitors” two Czech lawmakers who took part in a Parliament fact-finding mission to Prague to look into the potential mismanagement of EU funds. The mission from the Parliament’s budgetary control committee was the result of growing concerns about possible irregularities and conflicts of interest. Babiš has come under scrutiny for his links to an agricultural conglomerate he founded, Agrofert, which has received millions in EU funds. The prime minister has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. One of the two Czech MEPs, Tomáš Zdechovský from the European People’s Party (EPP), said that he and his family had received death threats following Babiš’ comments. He said his family now needed police protection. Green MEP Mikuláš Peksa, the second Czech lawmaker, said he had contacted the police because of a growing number of death threats. A spokesperson for Sassoli said the issue had been discussed at Thursday’s meeting of Parliament leaders. “The general agreement was that the attitude toward the delegation was unacceptable,” the spokesperson said, adding that Sassoli “takes this question very seriously and will raise the point with the President of...
If you like to eat and cook, you are sure to try foreign recipes from time to time. Maybe you stay in Europe and try to prepare classic Italian cuisine, honest Hungarian goulash, English roast beef or a luxurious French sauce. But sometimes, you may like to get out of your comfort zone and try Thai or Indian curry, Vietnamese rolls, Japanese sushi or Mexican tacos. If you are attempting to experiment with these cuisines, or perhaps already preparing them regularly, you have certainly encountered one problem: recipes can be found on the Internet and in piles of cookbooks, but even the best recipe won’t help if you don’t have the authentic ingredients. Fortunately, the time when Japanese soy sauce was replaced by a false one from Czech producers is long gone, and you don’t have to replace lemongrass in Thai noodles with parsley. Fortunately, Prague is no longer the culinary wasteland of the 1990s, and we dare say that today you can find top ingredients for virtually all the world’s major cuisines. But you need to know where to look. To make it easier for you, we have a small guide on buying foreign products. If you have other favorite...
Spring is in the air. Refresh your wardrobe while visiting any of the swaps or open-air markets in Prague this week. Walk around Náplavka and taste various street food from the whole world during the Street food festival and do not miss the spring opening of Manifesto Market. Czech out my additional tips for what’s on in Prague this week. March 7 Czech YoYo cup: It’s incredible what people can do with a simple toy such as yoyo, come to see the world champion of yoyo and his exhibition. Where: Hamleys, Na Příkopě 14 When: noon – 4:45 p.m. March 7 – March 8 Prague Market. This weekend starts the spring edition of popular series of open-air markets in the center of Prague. You can buy clothes, accessories, cosmetics and various design pieces from local authors and artists. Where: Náměstí Republiky March 8 Sunday live music YOGA. Extra yoga class with live music from DJ. Where: Vnitroblock When: 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. March 8 Flea market – “Nenosíš” Where: Divadlo na Zábradlí, Annenské náměstí 5 When: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. March 8 Spring swap in Londýnská. Bring and take max. 15 pieces Where: Londýnská 30 When: 10 a.m....
Prague Castle Administration has ordered 695 face masks (for a total value of almost 1.2 million CZK), which will be used primarily by its employees to protect against coronavirus. Face masks are also very effective against other biological threats. The same type of masks is used by the US army. “Over 400 employees work at Prague Castle, almost half of whom are in daily contact with tourists from all over the world,” said to Aktualne.cz David Šebek, spokesman for the Prague Castle. He added that a certain number of masks will also be used by the Office of the President of the Republic. The face masks were ordered by the Czech company Nanologix corporation, which developed the unique Respira masks in cooperation with the Technical University of Liberec. “It is designed against biological threats. It will detect not only coronavirus but also other viruses such as Ebola, SARS, anthrax, plague”, said company director František Bauer. “We export them to about 20 countries around the world, from Washington DC, to the US Delta Force in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Qatar. It’s a really versatile type of mask,” added Bauer. The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the Czech Republic has...
The prime ministers of Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia vowed to aid Greece to combat the growing migrant crisis at its border and use all measures to fight coronavirus during a Visegrad Four summit in Prague yesterday. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said that the situation in Greece was serious and that all four Visegrad countries, which are known for their tough stance on migration and opposition to migrant quotas in Europe, are ready to help. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, “Even if Greece’s attempt to hold back migrants is successful, we shouldn’t forget about the 130,000 people who are already north of the Greek border and who want to get into Europe.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen even called Greece the “shield” of Europe over its efforts to combat illegal immigration, which is a big departure for her harsh words for Orbán during the 2015 migration crisis, when she criticized his efforts to halt the migrant wave Europe was facing at the time. Europe has now pledged €700 million in funds to Greece to help combat the crisis. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stressed that given the current situation on the EU’s southern border, Greece has begun to speak...
Unemployment in the Czech Republic in January 2020 was 2 percent, up from 1.9 percent in January 2019
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