The average cost of meals in Czech restaurants in January was 157 CZK. This is 2 crowns more than in December and 22 crowns more than year-on-year. The study was carried out by Sodexo. The region with the most expensive meals in restaurants was Prague with an average of 176 CZK, while the most accessible one was found in Karlovy Vary Region (CZK 142). The authors of the study note that lunch menus are the main source of income for most Czech restaurants. Business owners complain that the coronavirus epidemic has changed the habits of residents. Around 60% of Czechs in January bought on–the–go meals. The trend is leading to healthy fast foods being offered not just in local shops, but also by online retailers. Another problem is that many regular customers have stopped going to restaurants at all. Due to higher inflation, they prefer to cook at home. Moreover, alcohol consumption last year was the lowest since 1996, while consumption of rice and legumes was the highest since monitoring began in the country. Beer consumption fell by six liters per person year-on-year, to an average of 140 liters per person. Wine consumption fell by half a liter to nearly...
Czechs will no longer need to prove their vaccination status in order to attend restaurants, cultural and sports events after February 9, the country’s prime minister announced on Wednesday. Czech’s Supreme Administrative Court (NSS), the top court in the land, abolished the condition that residents must prove vaccination or recent illness from coronavirus to attend social events on Wednesday, postponing its decision for seven days to provide the government with an opportunity to respond to the ruling, according to Czech news outlet Seznamzpravy. “The measure cannot aim to indirectly force citizens to be vaccinated. This would make voluntary vaccination mandatory through an emergency vaccination measure, as unvaccinated people would have no choice but to be vaccinated if they wanted to live normally,” said NSS Judge Petr Mikeš The government now has limited options to ensure rules can continue to apply. The ministers could either issue a new measure taking into account the court’s ruling, or declare a state of emergency. “Taking into account current developments, the government will abolish the obligation to prove with a certificate of vaccination or illness at the entrance to restaurants, services, cultural, sports and other similar events on February 9,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala...
In line with the data provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Czech Republic’s authorities have announced that all European Union and Schengen Area countries, with the exception of the Vatican City State, will continue to remain part of the dark red list. According to the latest update published by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, all EU/Schengen Area travellers will be required to present a COVID-19 pre-entry test for another week. The pre-entry testing requirement applies to everyone, including fully vaccinated and recovered travellers. Nonetheless, the Ministry has explained that EU travellers reaching the Czech Republic from a dark-red listed country are not required to present a test result upon their entry if they have already received a booster dose. “Only foreigners vaccinated with a booster dose have an exception if they are vaccinated in a country whose certificate the Czech Republic recognises,” the statement of the Ministry of Health reads. Children under the age of 12 are also exempt from the pre-entry testing requirement regardless of their country of origin. In contrast, stricter rules apply to unvaccinated and unrecovered travellers from the EU/Schengen Area. Except for having to present a pre-entry test,...
PRE, the Czech Republic’s third-largest energy company with around 800,000 customers, has announced that they will be raising their electricity prices from April 1. The new prices will be 25 percent higher on average. In May, PRE will also increase the price of gas, by an average of 30 percent. The change in the price of electricity does not affect those customers who have contracts with price fixation. In these cases, PRE will comply with all the provisions of the contracts without exception, according to company spokesperson Karel Hanzelka. Almost three-quarters of PRE’s customers live in city flats and use a single tariff rate for electricity. According to the company, the price for this category of customers will increase in the total monthly payment from 50 to 250 crowns. For other customers using electricity, for example for water heating, the price will increase again depending on the type of product and the amount of consumption by 100 to 400 crowns per month, the company said. For gas, the average increase will be around 30 percent, but it may vary depending on the type of consumption. The vast majority of customers will then pay about 100 to 300 crowns more per...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Digitalization in education and support for research infrastructure will be the Education Ministry’s priority topics for the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Czech Republic will hold the six-month EU presidency as of mid-2022. A Prague court sentenced a juvenile boy and a girl to 60 hours of community work for defacing the historical Charles Bridge, and it will monitor the two for the probationary period of one year. The couple covered the incurred damage worth 95,000 crowns. The Prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Poland have signed an interstate agreement to address the impact of mining activities at the Turów brown coal mine near the Czech border. Compulsory wide-ranging coronavirus testing at work and in schools will end on February 18, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Wednesday. For schools, this effectively means that the last series of tests that pupils will take will be on February 14. A new project aims to create a new 9,801-kilogramme bell for Prague – to commemorate thousands of Czech church and tower...
Proof of Covid-19 status to enter bars, restaurants, cinemas, cultural and sporting events will be scrapped in the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic will be able to cancel all coronavirus restrictions next month, Health Minister Vlastimil Valek said on Tuesday. “I believe that in March we will be able to cancel all [coronavirus] measures to the maximum. The current development of the epidemic and the forecast for the near future prove that [it is possible],” Valek said at a meeting with lawmakers. The minister also supported amendments to the controversial pandemic law, which entail a wider range of COVID-19 restrictions, including the introduction of mandatory testing of entrepreneurs, students, and teachers, as well as a separate set of measures by the defence and interior ministries. The legislation has caused a backlash from the opposition and Czech citizens, who have been rallying against its adoption, with the most recent rally held in front of the parliament on Tuesday. “If we do not adopt the pandemic law now, then in its current form it will cease to operate at the end of this month. As a result, the government and, specifically, the health ministry will remain ‘unarmed’ in the face of possible new variants of coronavirus or other viruses in the future. And the pandemic law contains a list of actions necessary...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The Communists Party has proposed as their presidential candidate Josef Skala, the head of the party’s Prague branch Katerina Konecna said in a press release today. The party was choosing between Skala and former party leader Vojtech Filip. One of the biggest military convoys in recent years will cross Czechia in mid-February as 1,800 soldiers and 700 U.S. vehicles will travel from Germany to Slovakia to join the 2022 Saber Strike exercise, said Magdalena Dvorakova, spokeswoman for Czech General Staff. The convoy will cross the country once again in March on its way home. Health Minister Vlastimil Valek believes that most of the current COVID restrictions may be loosened in March, with regard to the recent development of the epidemic, he told in the lower house yesterday. Compulsory wide-ranging coronavirus testing at work and in schools will end on February 18, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Wednesday. For schools, this effectively means that the last series of tests that pupils will take will be on February 14. The Czech Republic will transfer artillery ammunition...
The Czech Republic’s government has agreed to end mandatory coronavirus testing at schools and companies this month, the prime minister said Wednesday. The testing “undoubtedly” helped slow down the spread of infections and prevented the health system from being overwhelmed, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said. “Given the development, we’ve decided to end the compulsory testing on Feb. 18,” Fiala said. All company employees have been tested twice a week while schoolchildren and all school employees have been tested once a week since Jan. 17. With 57,195 new cases recorded on Tuesday, the country registered a new day-to-day record, about 2,500 more than the previous record set last week on Wednesday. The seven-day infection rate grew to 2,483 per 100,000 residents on Tuesday, up from 2,318 the previous day, as part of a surge in cases caused by the omicron variant. Omicron is less likely to cause severe illness than the previous delta variant, according to studies. Omicron spreads even more easily than other coronavirus strains, and has already become dominant in many countries. It also more easily infects those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by prior versions of the virus. The number of COVID-19 patients needing...
The Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Czech Interior Ministry, other ministries and Jewish organizations are preparing a national strategy to combat antisemitism. It will focus on education, on the fight against hate speech on the Internet, and on legislation. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates) made the announcement in a video post commemorating the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. “Remembering the tragedy of the Holocaust and bearing witness to it teach us to better recognize dangerous tendencies that turn toward terrible ends,” the chief diplomat said. According to Lipavský, research on antisemitism and extremism in the Czech Republic shows the country has a relatively low number of recorded incidents with an antisemitic subtext. “We can be proud of that, but even here the amount of speech and other forms of racial intolerance on the Internet is rising. This also applies to the Romani minority,” the minister added. The emergence of a new national strategy is being justified by this increase. The Czech Republic will host an international conference in November following on from the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues, Lipavský added. The Czech Republic will be chairing the Council of the European Union at that time. The declaration was approved during the...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Last year, 139,600 people died in the Czech Republic, which was the biggest number in postwar history and over 10,000 more than in 2020, the Czech Statistical Office said on its webpage today. The life expectancy fell in both men and women, CSU president Marek Rojicek said. The talks on the budget for this year are to be closed at the meeting of the coalition leaders and the Czech government is to approve the budget bill next week, Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura told journalists. The coalition government wants to cut the expenditures by 80 billion crowns. The opposition ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movements will not support the government amendment to the pandemic law. This is “a legislative travesty,” which the Chamber of Deputies is to approve under pressure, ANO deputy group head Alena Schillerova said about the bill. Seasonally adjusted data show an unemployment rate of 2.2% in the Czech Republic in December 2021. The unemployment fell by 1.1 percentage points year-on-year. Media freedom and responsibility should become one of the themes...
What to do if proper snowfall in Prague is not expected? To go where there is plenty of snow – to the highest mountain of the Czech Republic – Sněžka. This day trip is part of the original Day Trips series – Discovering Czechia, launched by Jumages Travel. Day Trips will take place on weekends and will show you hidden gems in the coutry – abandoned castles, the world’s most haunted churches, rock cities, mysterious power places. These trips are especially suggested for those who just moved here, want to find friends, and look for socializing. One of the symbols of the Czech Republic and the highest Czech mountain, mount Sněžka rises up from the long ridges of the Krkonoše Mountains. It’s unique with low temperatures in winter and almost polar climate – you’ll see not only the amazing landscapes but even frozen cars and houses. There are several buildings on the top: – a meteorological station reminiscent of a spaceship, – a round wooden chapel dedicated to St. Lawrence, – and also the Czech Post building. Make your family happy by sending them a postcard with an original stamp! On the way to Sněžka, you‘ll also visit picturesque Mumlava...
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