The Czech Republic has so far earmarked an amount worth 18 percent of its GDP to deal with the impacts of the coronavirus crisis, the third-largest amount in Europe, according to the International Monetary Fund. In proportion to the GDP, only Germany and Italy approved larger stimulus packages. While Berlin has set aside almost €1 trillion to help with the impact of the epidemic, which amounts to 28.5 percent of Germany’s GDP, Italy also approved a stimulus package worth 21 percent of its GDP. Although the Czech government agreed to financial support worth 18 percent of its GDP to boost the economy, the Czech Republic will also benefit from the German stimulus package as both economies are strongly interconnected. A considerable part of the Czech stimulus package will involve contributions to employers affected by coronavirus preventive measures so that they can continue to pay salaries to their employees. On Tuesday afternoon, the Czech government approved one-off support of 25,000 CZK for all who were forced to close their businesses within the restrictions and the introduction of the kurzarbeit system from April 6. “In the third quarter, we will start to revive the economy, so I set a new state budget. If the...
Desperate times call for…modern measures. While the rampant coronavirus pandemic is putting a severe strain on the health care system in countries all over the world, doctors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, are trying to find suitable solutions to the problem. VideoDoktor.cz is one such example. With this new web portal, you will be able to access online consultations with your GP and many other health professionals. The website allows people who are self-isolating to limit their movements and also protects the doctors themselves. VideoDoktor.cz is the first website to offer such a service to patients in the Czech Republic, supporting the community to access quality healthcare advice during this challenging time. How does it work? The service is free for both doctors and patients. The patient needs first to register himself and then can require for a video call. Once the patient receives the invitation, he can log in and open the video call. At this point, the doctor who issued the invitation receives a notification and joins the patient online. The doctor offers a distance medical consultation, using audiovisual supports: the medical consultation is then done through the computer screen or mobile phone, thanks to which doctor and patient can...
When restaurants and bars will open again its doors to the public, visitors have to maintain a social distance.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Czech government approved one-off support of 25,000 CZK for all who were forced to close their businesses within the restrictions and the introduction of the kurzarbeit system from April 6. Ministers discussed the proposal of the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Jana Maláčová (ČSSD). Maláčová pushed the State to pay two salary contributions to employers, 80 percent for those who had to close their businesses and 60 percent for those who decided on their own. “We want companies not to lay off people,” Maláčová said at a press conference. Applicants must fulfill several conditions by submitting an affidavit, including a fall in revenue of 10% year-on-year in the first quarter (January-March), and a minimum gross income of 180,000 CZK last year. According to the Ministry of Finance, payments can begin from April 12th. Originally the government intended to pay entrepreneurs 15,000 CZK per month. At the same time, the Government approved special incentives for businesses to limit personnel lay-offs. The Cabinet also approved a six-month moratorium on a mortgage and other loan repayments.
You would normally see them in courtrooms where they stand against each other and fight for each of their clients. But these are not common times. A group of leading Czech and Slovak lawyers launched the free online project “Právo v roušce”, designed to help residents, private entrepreneurs and legal entities in these times of crisis. It contains instructions, tips, sample statements, and other useful legal information that may come in handy during the state of emergency. The web portal is divided into the following categories: trade relations labor law taxes compensation for damage bankruptcy and debts tenders medical law migration legislation domestic violence family law The authors of the project at the same time reminded entrepreneurs that they have the right to demand compensation from the state for the rent of commercial space that they were forced to close due to quarantine. “Even for us lawyers, it is often difficult to keep up with all the daily changes. People often need to solve unexpected problems, and very quickly. For many of them, however, the services of lawyers are now unavailable, whether financially or logistically. Everyone should help as they can. This is how we can do it,” says Jana...
The International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the government of Japan and representatives of the Tokyo city government have agreed that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad will take place from 23rd July to 8th August 2021. “It is good news for everyone that we now know the target date that we can prepare for,” said Jiří Kejval, President of the Czech Olympic Committee. “ Postponing the Olympic Games by a year later is a logical step for many reasons. It provides the organizers and other interested parties with the maximum possible time to prepare in the current situation, which remains uncertain, and will permit the completion of the qualification, and also minimize the impact on the sporting calendar.” The Paralympic Games, originally due to start on 24 August, 2020, will now take place between 24 August and 5 September, 2021. IOC president Thomas Bach said: “I am confident that, working together with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese Government, and all our stakeholders, we can master this unprecedented challenge. “Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel. These Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at...
Tough new quarantine rules will force all travelers arriving in the Czech Republic from abroad into a two-week isolation period.
The number of people who recovered from COVID-19 has risen to 25 in the Czech Republic, but the number of deaths also grow to 23.
The Czech government is extending measures that limit people’s movement by another 10 days to April 11, to help curb the coronavirus outbreak. Travel to work or to visit family is allowed. On Monday 30 March 2020, the government decided to extend the emergency measure against the spread of the coronavirus. The extraordinary measure from the government following the declaration of the state of emergency, limiting freedom of movement and residence of persons until Tuesday, 24 March 2020, with certain exceptions, will now be extended until 06:00 on 11 April due to developments in the coronavirus pandemic in the Czech Republic. As of the same date, all other emergency measures still in force have been prolonged, such as restricting, for example, retail and service sales, prohibiting the presence of the public in restaurants, restricting the operation of offices, and cancelling payment in blue parking zones. The Czech government is debating a 2-week quarantine for all returning from abroad, as opposed to just those returning from high-risk countries. Starting on Wednesday, March 25, the ban on other people’s access to stores has been postponed from 8.00 am to 10.00 am, and now it only applies to retail food stores, sanitary goods,...
The Czech entrepreneurs are waiting to receive the second wave of government loans to help small and medium-sized businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis. However, Prague companies cannot apply (yet) for loans because the funds are provided from the European Union to support entrepreneurship and innovation in the poorer regions. Prague City is not one of them. 1.5 billion CZK will be set aside for applications for loans under the COVID II program and entrepreneurs will be able to claim from 10,000 to 15 million CZK. However, Prague businesses and companies can’t require loans, yet. “We wanted to deploy the money quickly, so we used European funds from the Operational Program Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness as the main source. However, they cannot be used for the Prague region. If a company is based in Prague but has branches in other Czech regions, it can apply for a loan. But only to cover operating expenses in those regional establishments,” said Jiří Jirásek, head of the Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development to Seznam.cz. Entrepreneurs affected by coronavirus will be able to apply for loans to pay operating costs, ie wages, rentals, energy, supplier-buyer invoices. It will not be possible to use this...
The Czech flag today celebrates 100 years. The red-white-blue flag was created as the state symbol of the Czechoslovak Republic, established in 1918. After its split in 1993, the Czech Republic kept the original flag, while Slovakia chose another one. The designer is generally accepted to have been Jaroslav Kursa, an employee at the Interior Ministry’s archives and the most active member of a Ministry commission set up to create the new flag. The flag was officially approved by the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on 30 March 1920 and since then, it has been in continuous use, with the exception of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II. Additionally, during a short period following the Velvet Revolution, between 1990 and 1992, the Czech part of the Czechoslovak federated state adopted the previous red and white flag. The first two colours Kursa picked were white and red – the traditional colors of Bohemia, representing the sky and the bloodshed for the freedom of the country. But because this flag would have been almost identical with the Polish flag and had the same colors as the Austrian flag Kursa added a blue wedge on the right-hand side. Blue is the traditional colour of Slovakia, but it...
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Sunday called on U.S. President Donald Trump to introduce mandatory wearing of the mask in public to help curb COVID-19 spreading. Babis, in a tweet message, asked President Trump to try to tackle the pandemic the “Czech way.” “Wearing a simple cloth mask decreases the spread of the virus by 80 percent! Czech Republic has made it OBLIGATORY for its citizens to wear a mask in the public,” he tweeted. He also shared with Trump a video shot under the slogan Masks4All (masks for all) explaining the reasons for wearing masks. The video encourages everyone to spread it to other countries where people do not use masks in the pandemic. In another tweet message, the prime minister said that he had sent a video to most European presidents and prime ministers calling on people to wear masks. The Czech Republic put into effect of the measure of obligatory wearing a face mask in public ten days ago. dir=”ltr”>Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, try tackling virus the Czech way. Wearing a simple cloth mask, decreases the spread of the virus by 80 %! Czech Republic has made it OBLIGATORY for its citizens to wear a mask in...
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