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. CZECH REPUBLIC The Czech government is planning to put more power in the hands of police officers when it comes to breaches of covid-19 regulations. Police officers would be able to write up a fine of up to 3 million CZK to citizens, business owners and companies, who would be found to be breaching current restrictions. The Senate’s Committee for Organizational Matters will consider November 9 as a possible date for an extraordinary meeting of the upper chamber on the health of President Miloš Zeman and his ability to fulfill his duties as head of state, Senate chair Miloš Vystrčil told Czech Television on Sunday. Physician Milena Kralickova was elected the first-ever female rector of Prague’s Charles University, which she will head from February 2022 until 2026, after her election is confirmed by the president. The Academic Senate elected Kralickova with the supporting votes of 55 out of its 69 members present. She will replace Tomas Zima in the post. WORLD Romania’s health system is torn apart by pandemics. The country’s 2,000 intensive care beds are...
From 1 November, under the latest anti-covid-19 measures, restaurants will have to start checking their guests to see if they have been vaccinated against coronavirus, have a negative test, or have suffered from the disease in the last six months. It comes after the government approved a set of new measures against the spread of Covid-19 in a meeting on Wednesday. One of the measures has a direct impact on the operation of restaurants, which may affect how many unvaccinated guests will go to them. However, the government said that checking whether people who come to the restaurant are vaccinated or tested should not change much. Even now, the obligation to have a completed vaccination or a negative test on arrival at the restaurant applies, although the inspections are so far only random and carried out by hygienists or by the police. While some food businesses are ready for such inspections, others have reservations- especially since tests will soon be charged and could deter guests from visiting. Klára Černá, the owner of café Black Coffee in Frýdek-Místek, considers the whole idea of checking covid certificates to be wrong. “It seems inappropriate to the guests. In my opinion, we don’t even...
With electricity and gas prices breaking records on the stock exchanges this year, Czechs will have to delve deeper into their pockets to foot their heating bills. Minister of Finance Alena Schillerova announced that the government wants to support Czech households and intent to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) rate on electricity and gas to zero. “If passed by the parliament, the zero VAT rate will also apply for this November and December. Unless approved also by the European Commission, waiving VAT on energy sales would contravene the European Union VAT directive,” she added. The Ministry hopes for an exemption from VAT for energy for the whole of 2022 Wholesale electricity and gas prices are breaking records, the market situation caused the collapse of several energy supply companies in the Czech Republic. Among them was Bohemia Energy, the company goes bankrupt, leaving almost 1 million Czech customers without a supplier. The Czech Republic has one of the lowest levels of power import dependence in Europe due to its large reserves of hard coal and consistent growth in annual power generation. As the country has large reserves of hard coal, coal-fired thermal power holds a significant share in the country’s generation mix. In 2020, renewable power generation share in total...
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. CZECH REPUBLIC Aides to Czech President Milos Zeman on Thursday showed a video of him signing a decree to convene a new parliament while in hospital a week ago, seeking to defend their handling of his hospitalization against accusations of secrecy. The ceremony at which state decorations are awarded will be postponed from the national holiday on October 28 to a later date. The head of the Presidential Office protocol department, Vladimir Krulis, told CTK on Wednesday that it was up to President Milos Zeman to decide on the ceremony. Over 7,000 homes are still without power due to the gale-force winds that hit the Czech Republic on Thursday. A spokesperson for the state-controlled utility ČEZ said the majority of affected households are located in Central Bohemia. WORLD Slovakia’s gross national income (GNI) amounted to 91.05 billion in 2020, down by 1.5 percent from the figure reported in 2019, the Slovak Statistics Office reported on Thursday. Since 2010, GNI data have been adjusted according to international methodology in a range between -0.3 percent and +0.4 percent...
According to the recently published results of the already ninth edition of The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) of The Economist – the British weekly periodical, the Czech Republic placed fifth in the ranking of food availability, quality or safety. In addition, the ranking, which compared 113 countries this year based on a set of 59 unique indicators, also focused on natural resources, their status or impacts and risks related to climate change. It was the state of natural resources in the Czech Republic that was evaluated very positively in the index. While the proportion of degraded land in the world is around 20% on average, in our country it is only 6% of the land that is degraded, e.g. eroded or contaminated. The mild climate of our territory or politicians’ interest in the topic of food safety are examples of factors that contributed to the high ranking. Diversity in local dishes was also evaluated above average. Other strengths (i.e., indicators in which the Czech Republic scored higher than 75 points) included, for example, a very low percentage of people living below the poverty line, agricultural advancement including investment in research and development, or the availability of financial resources and services for farmers. Four European countries came ahead of the Czech Republic, which had...
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. CZECH REPUBLIC Constitutional lawyers consider it appropriate to postpone the traditional awarding of state honours on October 28, Czechoslovak Independence Day, due to failing of health of President Miloš Zeman, who is in hospital and has been deemed incapable of fulling the duties of office. The novel coronavirus infection is spreading twice as fast as last week in the Czech Republic where 3,246 new cases were confirmed on Tuesday, 1,739 more than a week ago and the highest daily rise since April 20. The number of the COVID hospitalised is on the rise, too, increasing by two-fifths to 620 since last Tuesday, and about 100 of them are in a serious condition. Czech police will probe whether a crime against the republic was committed by the office of Czech President Miloš Zeman, as his office did not inform the public and other officials about him Zeman is unable to fulfill his duties, despite being aware of the situation. WORLD Ireland will allow nightclubs to reopen for the first time since March 2020 but stepped back on Tuesday from...
The rate of Covid-19 infections is rapidly accelerating in the Czech Republic, and there is great concern amongst experts that the situation will not be improving any time soon. In fact, the statistics are worryingly like those of last September, which eventually ended in a lockdown for the country. The Czech government today afternoon approved further tightening of measures. Starting November 1, restaurants and cafes in the Czech Republic can only admit customers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, recovered from the coronavirus or can produce a negative test. “We are on the risk curve. Measures must be taken,” he warned. Moreover, from October 25, it will be mandatory to wear respirators in all indoor areas, including workplaces. According to recent predictions, the current number of hospitalizations were not expected to reach the current numbers until next week. The head of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, Ladislav Dušek, explained that some regions already have a community spread of a highly contagious form of the virus. “It’s almost déja-vu,” he added. According to him, the only thing that will reduce the cases is at least a partial vaccination coverage of the Czech population. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has repeated...
The Czech Republic detected 2,521 new cases of COVID-19 on October 18, the highest daily tally since late April, data from the Health Ministry showed on Tuesday. The Czech government has opted not to tighten anti-epidemic measures, focusing on vaccination instead as data show that most of those infected have not been inoculated. 6.03 million people have been vaccinated as of Monday. The daily count reported for Monday is almost double the reported number for the same day last week. Hospitalizations rose to 544, the highest number since the end of May, but still a fraction of the numbers in March, when the last wave of the pandemic swept over the country. Over the past seven days, 54 people died in connection with COVID-19, more than in the whole month of September. The country now has over 100 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The health authorities have urged people who are as yet unvaccinated to consider getting the jab and have shorted the term for Covid booster shots from eight to six months after primary inoculation on the recommendation of the European drug regulator EMA.
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. CZECH REPUBLIC The Czech Health Ministry has changed the conditions for administering Covid-19 booster shots, shortening the interval from eight to six months after primary inoculation, effective immediately. Prague 1 is working on a draft text that would significantly restrict alcohol consumption in public spaces, banning it from 10 pm to 6 am every night. Local councilors are also examining the possibility of introducing a ban on staying in public spaces with an open bottle/container of any type of alcohol beverage. Health problems were preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out his duties, an official said Monday. The Senate representatives will meet the leaders of the parties elected to the lower house on Tuesday to discuss the temporary transfer of presidential powers. WORLD Hungary should strengthen ties with the European Union, put its economy on a path to adopting the euro currency and join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to root out corruption, the opposition’s joint prime ministerial candidate told Reuters. Peter Marki-Zay, will challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an election next year after...
The hospital will create a medically integrated trans-national region between Austria and the Czech Republic On 16 October, the European Union’s first cross-border hospital opened for patients in both Lower Austria and South Bohemia. It is called the ‘Healthacross Health Centre’ and is located in the Austrian town of Gmünd. As TheMayor.eu reports, the hospital will also provide care for the Czech town of České Velenice, right across the border. České Velenice has around 3,500 inhabitants, and a hard time providing healthcare services. The nearest hospital is in České Budějovice, a full 60 kilometres away. Gmünd has 5,500 inhabitants and a similar problem with access to healthcare. However, together they form a patient pool big enough to warrant the creation of a hospital. The project cost around 434,000 euros and was financed through the ‘Interreg V-A – Austria-Czech Republic’ Operational Programme by the EU’s Regional Development Fund. It was developed in close cooperation between the two municipalities. Construction of the new hospital, as well as insuring that all staff speaks both Czech and German began in 2019, and the facility is set to service roughly 9,000 cross-border patients. According to Czech Minister for Health Adam Vojtech, cross-border hospitals are a...
Health problems were preventing Czech President Milos Zeman from carrying out his duties, an official said. The speaker of the Czech Senate, Miloš Vystrčil (ODS), said that a letter he received from Prague’s military hospital where Zeman is being treated says the president is unable to work and the long-term prognosis is “very uncertain”. According to the letter signed by the hospital’s director, Miroslav Zavoral, Zeman is unable to perform “any working duties for health reasons”. It said Zeman’s return to his duties in the next several weeks is “very unlikely.” Vystrčil said the Senate would meet tomorrow (Tuesday, October 19) to debate activating Article 66 of the Czech Constitution which would transfer the president’s powers to other constitutional officials. Under Czech law, if the president isn’t able to act due to his illness or other reasons, the prime minister and the speakers of both houses of parliament will take over his presidential powers. Zeman was rushed to the Czech capital’s military hospital on October 10, a day after the election for the lower house of parliament. The hospital previously said Zeman was in an intensive care unit in stable condition, but further details about his health were unknown. As...
The freshly named Piskáčkových street is in the city’s Vysočany district. Libuše Eichlerová was six years old when her uncle, the resistance fighter Jaroslav Piskáček and his family were arrested in July 1942 by the Gestapo. “These are the death certificates of the Piskáček family. Uncles, aunts Tonička and Mirka. In Mauthausen, they were murdered by the Nazis,” Eichlerová explains. The last time she saw her aunt, uncle, and their then fifteen-year-old son was on holiday in Šumava. “They were very nice people, happy,” she adds. The family of Jan Piskáček were arrested in June 1942 after helping paratroopers Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, who had carried out the daring assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. On 28 December 1941, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš were, together with seven other paratroopers, dropped near Nehvizdy. Preparation for the attack took a long time – the scheduled date of the assassination was not until 27 May 1942. In the intervening time, Kubiš and Gabčik studied Heydrich’s movements, familiarizing themselves with his schedule, his habits, and the areas he frequented. Finally, everything was in place for the assassination to occur. The morning of May 27th 1942, Heydrich left his mansion...
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