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. Checks on the border between Czechia and Slovakia will probably continue even after the previously specified deadline of October 28, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Czech TV on Sunday. Mr. Rakušan said that the government could choose to extend border checks for another month, i.e. until November 28 Popular theatre and film actor Josef Somr died on Sunday at the age of 88. Over the course of his career, Somr portrayed more than 170 characters in films, with his most famous role probably being the train dispatcher Hubička in Jiří Menzel’s Oscar-winning 1966 film Closely Watched Trains. Over the past seven days, 3,574 Ukrainian refugees received temporary protection visas in Czechia, 719 less than the previous week. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech state has granted a total of 446,811 temporary visas. Spirits distilled from fruits, such as the famous Czech product slivovice (sometimes anglicised as slivovitz), are expected to increase in price by 15 to 20 percent after the new year, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday. About 350,500 Czechs, mainly university students, had taken part in international...
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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. Czechia is for the EU to introduce a system of regular and predictable financial support for Ukraine faced with Russian invasion, Czech Minister for European Affairs Mikulas Bek said today, adding that Ukraine cannot do without support and more order needs to be brought into its financing. Fifteen NATO states, including Czechia and Slovakia, have signed a declaration about their intended joint purchase of anti-aircraft defence systems, Reuters news agency has quoted German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht as saying today. This is a project of the joint anti-rocket defence of which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke in Prague in August. The EU member countries do not intend to unify social support for refugees and some will keep providing special aid, while others open their regular welfare system to them, Czech Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurecka said after the EU labour ministers’ meeting in Prague today. State and local government spending on the Ukrainian refugee crisis amounted to CZK 16.9 billion at the end of September, the Ministry of Finance announced on...
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. From Tuesday October 25 Czechia will bar the entry of Russian citizens with Schengen visas from any EU state who are travelling for the purposes of tourism, sport or culture. Opposition leaders ANO would have come first in elections to the Czech lower house in September with 30.5 percent of the vote, suggests a poll conducted by the Median agency published on Wednesday. Czech Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurecka has proposed that the retirement pensions of senior officials in the former Communist regime should be cut by CZK 300 for each year they spent in their posts, he told reporters before the lower house session today. The proposal would apply to around 3,000 people. On Thursday, the German Parliament will discuss a proposal by the conservative opposition to tighten migration policy, which includes the possibility of introducing permanent checks at the border with the Czech Republic. This was announced by a spokesman for the parliamentary faction of the conservative CDU/CSU union, the most significant opposition force in the Bundestag. Czech...
As of Tuesday, 25 October, Russian citizens with a valid Schengen visa issued by any EU Member State travelling for tourism, sport or cultural purposes will be denied entry to the Czech Republic. This was approved by the government at its meeting on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates) announced at a press conference. According to the ministry’s data, up to 200 Russian citizens arrive in the Czech Republic via the international airport every day. The Czech Republic thus joins the Baltic States, Poland and Finland, which closed their borders to Russian tourists in the previous weeks. The Baltic countries been urging the rest of the EU to do the same – so far without success. France and Germany are reluctant to end tourist visas, fearing it would block the exit of Russians who oppose Putin’s regime. The European Commission last month issued guidance calling for tighter security checks when issuing visas to Russians. The Czech Republic was the first EU member state to suspend the issuance of visas to Russian citizens across the board, the day after the invasion of Ukraine, on 25 February. The ban is still in place, and the Czech Republic later also imposed it on...
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 heads of state of the four Central European countries belonging to the Visegrad Group are holding a summit in the Slovak capital Bratislava. Czech President Milos Zeman and his V4 counterparts are discussing the war in Ukraine, the global security situation and the energy crisis. Labour Minister Marian Jurečka will submit to the government a proposal to raise the minimum wage from January. Minister’s proposal the minimum wage should correspond to 41 percent of the average wage in Czechia. According to current data, it would amount to around CZK 350. The minimum wage is now CZK 16,200. Czechia has no plans to withdraw its diplomats from Ukraine or temporarily close its diplomatic mission in Kyiv, in connection with the bombings of Ukrainian cities, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said in a statement for the Ukrainian news agency. On Tuesday morning, shares of Czech energy group ČEZ fell nearly 7% on the Prague Stock Exchange, continuing a recent downward trend. The more significant drop started last week when the government announced the specific...
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 head of the Czech Security Information Service (BIS), Michal Koudelka, warned at a conference on Monday that there is still a danger of Russian subversive operations in Czechia and that the state must be prepared to face them, the Czech News Agency reports. Automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto will newly be also active in Vietnam. The company, which is part of Volkswagen Group, will start selling cars imported from Czechia on the Vietnamese market from next year. The unemployment rate in Czechia grew by 0.1 percent to 3.5 percent between the months of August and September, the Labour Office announced on Monday, with 256,380 people registered as looking for work. Liquefied natural gas from the Eemshaven terminal in the Netherlands is already being used in the Czech Republic, said the spokesman of Czech energy company ČEZ, Roman Gazdík. The gas was being used to supply ČEZ clients, with some of it being stored in facilities located in Czechia, he added. Czech President Milos Zeman will hold a round-table debate on energy issues...
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 Czech Ministry of Defence is preparing a change in legislation that would enable more effective protection of critical infrastructure in Czechia due to Russian aggression against, the ministry’s chief Jana Černochová said in a debate programme on Czech Television on Sunday. Some 320 soldiers are being deployed as of Sunday to assist police and customs officers in guarding the state border with Slovakia. Soldiers from ground forces and members of active reserves will be based in the South Moravia, Zlín and Moravia-Silesia regions. The export of military equipment from the Czech Republic to Ukraine has totalled CZK 47 billion this year, including CZK 4.2 billion provided by the state, Defence Minister Jana Cernochova told journalists yesterday. The opposition ANO party would win elections to the lower house of parliament with 29.5 percent voter support, suggests a freshly released poll by the Kantar Agency for Czech Television. Czech President Milos Zeman will hold a round-table debate on energy issues at the presidential summer residence at Lany near Prague next Thursday, Presidential Office...
Czech member of the European Parliament Tomáš Zdechovský received death threats on social media after embracing a joke on the Czech Republic annexing the Russian region of Kaliningrad. The joke started when an anonymous Polish account on Twitter wrote about dividing Kaliningrad between Poland and the Czech Republic so that the countries could “finally have access to the sea.” On September 29, Zdechovský—who has been an MEP since 2014—reposted the tweet, translating it into English for an international audience. “I decided to make a joke much more serious,” he told Newsweek. “But it’s obviously ironic. Everybody knows it’s ironic.” But Zdechovský said his statements on social media are followed by many Russian journalists, who are aware that he has a strong pro-Ukraine stance and took the joke as a serious threat. “They took it seriously because they have an agenda,” Zdechovský said. “I know Russian propaganda very well, I spent a lot of time studying their behavior and from the first moment it was absolutely clear that Russia will react. I know how nationalist they are.” Russia’s state-affiliated RT published an article on September 30 saying an “MEP wants Russian region split between two EU states” and had suggested holding a referendum in the region. “Je čas rozdělit Kaliningrad, aby naši čeští bratři měli konečně...
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 Prime Minister Petr Fiala met for talks with the British head of government, Liz Truss, on Thursday ahead of the European Political Community’s meeting at Prague Castle. They discussed bilateral cooperation, the security situation and support for Ukraine. Gas consumption in the Czech Republic fell by 20 percent year-on-year in the third quarter. According to Rajdl the drop in consumption is linked to the later start of the heating season and probably also the closure of some companies due to the energy crunch and soaring inflation. The export of military equipment from the Czech Republic to Ukraine has totalled CZK 47 billion this year, including CZK 4.2 billion provided by the state, Defence Minister Jana Cernochova told journalists yesterday. According to Fincentrum Hypoindex, the average offer rate for mortgages fell slightly for the second time in a row. The Czech National Bank (ČNB) left base interest rates unchanged at its September meeting, while some banks cut mortgage rates as part of their autumn discount promotions. Qatar will open an embassy in...
The Czech government extended its checks on the border with European Union neighbour Slovakia by another 20 days, seeking to control a spike in the flow of illegal migrants, Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said on Wednesday. Czech police started checks on the 252-km border on September 29, initially for 10 days. Within the first 24 hours of activating checks, the Czech police have detained 11 migrant traffickers and 247 illegal migrants in the South Moravian Region. Border checks across 17 crossings on the Czech-Slovak border were put in place in light of a rise in illegal migration to Europe, particularly from Syria. Before the checks, the Czech Republic had detained around 12,000 illegal migrants in 2022, a 12-fold increase from a year ago. The vast majority have been Syrians, mostly coming from Turkey, the government has said. They mainly continue to Germany and elsewhere. Slovakia has criticised the Czech border checks as being against the principles of the border check-free Schengen area within the EU. Rakusan also argued that Hungary was to blame for the problem as the country has stopped observing the readmission agreement of reciprocal acceptance of refugees. Rakusan also said he would like to discuss modifications 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. The Czech Republic will extend the checks at its border with Slovakia by another 20 days from the original 8 October deadline, until 28 October. The cabinet approved this proposal from Interior Minister Vit Rakusan today. On Thursday, the new European Political Community (EPC) will discuss security and peace, energy, climate issues, and the economic situation at its inaugural summit in Prague. Representatives of 44 countries were invited to attend the summit Czech President Miloš Zeman and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, signed an agreement on economic cooperation at a meeting at Prague Castle on Wednesday. They are also due to approve an agreement on investment protection. Renáta Kellnerová, widow of the late billionaire Petr Kellner, who died in a plane crash in the US last year, is the wealthiest Czech, according to an annual rich list published by Forbes on Wednesday. The market value of her assets is estimated at CZK 382.9 billion. The cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) confirmed the price cap on electricity and gas. Citizens...
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