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. Inflation in the Czech Republic accelerated in December to reach 6.6 percent year-on-year. The figure for the previous month was 6.0 percent. The last time the country experienced such rapid inflation was in September 2008. Seznam.cz has the largest audience reach of any media organisation in the Czech Republic, followed by the company that owns the Prima TV group, and by the firm that operates the TV station Nova. The growth of the Czech economy should speed up next year, rising from this year’s 2.5 percent to 3.9 percent in 2022, based on the latest regular Finance Ministry survey. However, inflation is also expected to grow from this year’s expected 3.8 percent to 5.5 percent. The new prime minister Petr Fiala said that the proposed EU ban on new vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035 is unacceptable and the Czech Republic would seek allies in Europe to change it. More than 50 percent of new coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic are the Omicron variant, and in many larger cities, the proportion is...
Omicron has become the dominant variant, exceeding 50 percent of the examined positive cases in the country.
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. A joint meeting of the Czech and the Slovak governments may take place in late April and early May, Slovak PM Eduard Heger told a press conference yesterday. Traditional Czech-Slovak cabinet meetings have been recently suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky (Pirates) has decided to suspend the implementation of firms’ licences for the export of military materiel to Kazakhstan over the current situation there. According to a January report from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), consumption and wages are on the rise. However, the public budget deficit has reached a record CZK 420 billion, nearly 7% of GDP. A new plaque was unveiled to Milada Horáková – a politician executed by the Communists – in Prague on Tuesday. The new memorial is on the building where she was born, on the corner of the streets Rumunská and Bělehradská. More than 50 percent of new coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic are the Omicron variant, and in many larger cities, the proportion is near 80 percent.
This is the highest number in the last three years despite the coronavirus crisis.
The Czech Republic said on Monday it would allow critical workers such as doctors and teachers to go to work after a positive COVID-19 test.
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 new Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, will meet his counterpart Eduard Heger, President Zuzana Caputova and parliament chairman Boris Kollar during his visit to Slovakia on Tuesday. It is the first foreign trip since the elections. Slovak-born Czech film director and scriptwriter Dusan Klein, a Holocaust survivor, died at 82 on Sunday. Klein made his mark by a series of films about “teenage poets.” Klein shot tens of detective stories and comedies such as Yes, My Dear Friends (1989), a satirical story made at the close of the Communist regime, and also televised series. Defence Minister Jana Černochová told a press conference that her priorities for 2022 include recruiting more soldiers (around 2,000) and devoting greater attention to the education of future professional soldiers. The Czech Republic said on Monday it would allow critical workers such as doctors and teachers to go to work after a positive COVID-19 test, the latest European country to ease restrictions to keep services running as cases surge. Citizens from Finland, Latvia, and the Azores will be subject to...
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. Thousands of people marched through Prague on Sunday to protest against compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for certain groups and professions. The protesters questioned the effectiveness of the current vaccines and reject the vaccination of children. Interior Minister Vít Rakušan will propose a list of jobs (mainly social and health) that workers will be able to continue to carry out even if their antigen test is positive for Covid-19. Sazka, the largest lottery company in the Czech Republic, had an exceptionally successful year last year. It paid out more than ten billion crowns to winners, with 62 million prizes, the highest in its history. The Czech Republic will spend 2 percent of its GDP on defense by 2025. It also wants to establish a defense fund to finance the military. The Czech state budget deficit swelled to a record in 2021, Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura said on Thursday. it reached the amount of 419.7 billion crowns and adds to a fast-rising debt load that the new five-party government, has pledged to tackle.
Protesters have taken to streets across the Czech Republic in protest against mandatory vaccination, with more than 2,000 people rallying in Brno. The decree obliges people over the age of 60 and those working in selected professions to get vaccinated before March. In Prague, the protestors plan to then March through Prague’s center towards the Office of Government. Among the larger demonstrations, hundreds of demonstrators turned out Ústí nad Labem, Olomouc, Karlovy Vary and České Budějovice. Police said the demonstration was largely peaceful. Protests also took place today in France, Italy, Germany and Austria. The French interior ministry said 105,200 people participated in Saturday’s protests across France, 18,000 of them in the capital Paris, where police reported 10 arrests and three officers slightly injured. In Germany, protesters rallied in several cities on Saturday, with the largest event held in Hamburg, where some 16,000 people attended, according to the police. In Italy, hundreds of people in the city of Turin protesting against rules that make vaccines mandatory for anyone more than the age of 50. Latest measures in the Czech Republic Starting from January 11th, the mandatory quarantine period will be reduced to five days. The regular testing of employees will...
Superman, Cinderella and Minions were among characters from films, comics and fairy tales who greeted children at a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Prague on Saturday to ease their nerves as they came to be inoculated. Despite a lull in coronavirus infections in the past month, the Czech Republic is trying to boost vaccination rates because it is bracing for the Omicron coronavirus variant. Vaccinations lag other European Union countries. With children aged 5-11 now eligible for the vaccine, staff dressed in costume at one of the biggest vaccination centres in the Czech capital helped children who came to be vaccinated. “We thought it would be better to have a day just for the kids,” said Nikola Melicharova, a vaccination centre worker dressed for the day as Snow White. “And because kids are usually a bit afraid of vaccinations, we decided for a fairy tale day so that it was a little more pleasant.” Some 62.4% of the population in the country has been fully inoculated, compared to a rate of 68.6% in the whole of the EU, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The Czech Republic started giving shots to children aged 5-11 in mid-December. Health...
The new Czech government aims to phase out coal in energy production by 2033.
The supermarket chain Coop will open what it is calling the “Supermarket of the Future” in Strakonice, South Bohemia. The store is built around the ideals of innovation and transparency, officials said, and merging physical and digital by augmenting a traditional food market with interactive displays and smart shelves designed to make shopping more relevant and personalized. Display screens that overhang products provide information about an item — including its origins, nutritional facts, the presence of allergens, waste disposal instructions, correlated products and promotions — triggered by customer gestures. Customers can go groceries 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At the exit, instead of a checkout register and cashier, there are simply automated gates that open when you pay with a credit card. In the first half of 2022, Coop wants to open two or three other stores in the country. “Any further development depends on the success of the first store. We have no reference framework because there is nothing similar in the Czech Republic,” said Lukáš Němčík, Marketing Director. Traditional shelving layouts have been rethought and associated with a touch application which enables the customer to navigate through the product categories, to filter and search for...
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 Teaching Hospital in Hradec Kralove has been the first to detect the B.1.640 coronavirus variant in the Czech Republic. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), this variant was first reported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo last September. Czech PM Petr Fiala will visit Slovakia in his first foreign visit as head of government next Tuesday. He will meet with his Slovak counterpart Eduard Heger, as well as with the country’s President Zuzana Čaputová. Czech new car registrations rose by 1.9% year-on-year in 2021 to 206,876 cars and could accelerate this year, the Car Importers Association said on Thursday. However, compared with the last pre-COVID year, 2019, sales fell by 17.2%. There were 205 rail deaths in the Czech Republic in 2021, which was the lowest figure in 19 years. The number includes people who died on the national train network, Prague’s Metro, cable car systems and trolleybus and tram lines. The Czech state budget deficit swelled to a record in 2021, Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura said on Thursday. it reached...
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