The spell of unseasonably warm weather broke records around the country on Thursday. Ninety-six measuring stations that have been keeping records for more than 30 years saw their warmest ever temperature for the day. The...
Senate rejects bill to tax church restitutions as “unconstitutional“
A Communist Party bill aiming to tax church restitutions hit the rocks in the Senate on Wednesday where the vast majority of senators rejected it as “unconstitutional“. The bill was rejected not just by the...
Daily news summary 28.2.2019
Senate rejects church restitutions tax Tourism earnings up Bird of the year
Inside the atelier of twin sister ‘Dames of Czech Culture’ Jitka and Květa Válová
Twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová, named “Dames of Czech Culture” in memorandum this week, were once described by a Communist zealot as an “ulcer on the red face of Kladno”, the industrial Bohemian city...
Actor Jiří Pecha dies at 74
Czech film and theatre actor Jiří Pecha died on Thursday at the age of 74. The information was confirmed by the spokeswoman for the Brno theatre Husa na provázku. Pecha was a member of the Brno...
Measles outbreak in Czech Republic as vaccination rate drops below protective threshold
The World Health Organization is ringing alarm bells as an increasing number of European countries, including the Czech Republic are fighting an outbreak of measles. Measles cases in Europe tripled in 2018, and the reasons are...
Czech President attends Bucharest Nine meeting in Košice
Czech President Miloš Zeman attended a meeting of heads of state of the Bucharest Nine, the countries making up the eastern flank of NATO, hosted by Slovak president in Košice on Thursday. The main objective...
Weather
Friday is expected to be mostly overcast with rain showers and daytime highs ranging between 7 to 11 degrees Celsius.
Jan Boroš wins Apollo Award
The album Stínítko by Čáry života, a solo project by multi-instrumentalist Jan Boroš, has won the Apollo Critics’ Choice Award for Best LP of 2017. The award was presented at a ceremony in Prague’s Meetfactory on...
Czech tourism earnings amount to 2.9 percent of GDP
Earnings from the tourism sector amounted to 2.9 percent of the total Gross Domestic Product in 2017, the Czech Statistics Office reported on Thursday. Total earnings from tourism rose by 7.4 percent in the past...