The cable car detached from its cable at the Jested mountain in northern Czech Republic on Sunday. Footage from the scene, run by a local TV broadcaster, shows the damaged car laying on the ground under the cable road with multiple emergency services vehicles present at the scene. One person …
Read More »Czech Senate committee to consider if hospitalized President Zeman can stay in office
“I wish the president a speedy recovery but we are in a situation where clear procedures are needed if there is no speedy recovery,” the Senate’s Constitutional Committee Head Zdenek Hraba tweeted on Monday, as he announced that he would summon the commission. He initially said the meeting would be …
Read More »Czech President Milos Zeman rushed to Central Military Hospital in ambulance right after meeting with PM Babis
The emergency vehicle that transported the president had markings on it that indicated it was a mobile ICU, eyewitnesses noted. In September, Zeman spent eight days in hospital, recovering from what he described as dehydration and mild exhaustion. The 77-year-old, who has been the head of state since 2013, started …
Read More »Everything you need to know about the extraordinary election underway in the Czech Republic
On October 8-9, Czechs will vote in a parliamentary election with many parties duking it out. The main fight, however, will be between the ruling centrist ANO (‘Yes’) party, the center-left two-party coalition of the Pirate Party and the Mayors and Independents, and the center-right three-party SPOLU (‘Together’) coalition of …
Read More »Czech PM edged out in narrow election, after corruption claims in wake of Pandora Papers bolster opposition
Voting in the Czech Republic took place on Friday through to midday on Saturday, and with 99% of ballots counted that evening, the center-right Together coalition is taking 27.69% of the vote – a hair above the 27.23% taken by Babis’ ANO party. The liberal Pirates/Mayors coalition are coming in …
Read More »This week’s elections could pave way for Prague to Czech out of EU
Czechs go to the polls on Friday and Saturday in legislative elections that will determine who will lead the country for the next four years. These elections have been getting little attention in the international press, mainly because the focus has been on the elections taking place in Germany. The …
Read More »Czech Republic might have to destroy 45,000 AstraZeneca doses as demand for the jab nosedives – media
Some 55,000 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca and shipped to the Czech Republic are set to expire by the end of October, Czech radio station IROZHLAS reported. While some 10,000 of them are expected to be used to administer second doses, the remaining batches might have …
Read More »Siberian passenger plane crash kills four, 12 more injured – Czech-built L-410 aircraft reportedly landed in Taiga & “caught fire”
Operated by local company Sila Airlines, the aircraft was flying from the city of Irkutsk to a regional airport in Kazachinskoye, located some 500 kilometers to the northeast. According to Russian prosecutors, the pilots tried to do a go-around but the plane eventually missed the landing strip and crashed in …
Read More »‘Russia is NOT the enemy’: After failure in Afghanistan, Czech president calls on NATO to focus on terrorism instead of Moscow
Zeman’s comments, given to Prague-based newspaper Parlamentní listy, echo remarks given by French President Emmanuel Macron in November last year, when he urged NATO leaders to shift focus away from Russia and China, noting that terrorism is a “common enemy” for all nations. The Czech leader also slammed NATO for …
Read More »Czech government grants vaccinated state employees two days’ paid leave to encourage them to get Covid-19 jabs
“The aim is to have maximum vaccination, to protect ourselves against the infection from abroad,” Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said as he announced the government’s decision on Friday. Of its population of 10.7 million, the Czech Republic has so far fully vaccinated 4.74 million people. But the cabinet believes …
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