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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on Czech citizens to leave Russia due to the deteriorating security situation in the country for citizens of EU and NATO member states. Gas consumption in the Czech Republic has fallen by 18 percent year-on-year so far in 2022, industry and trade minister Jozef Síkela told the Czech News Agency on Monday. Consumption is now at its lowest since 2016. From November, Czech Post will increase the price of sending letters, parcels, and postal orders. Standard letter delivery will cost two crowns more than CZK 21, while priority mail delivered the next day will cost CZK 28 rather than CZK 26. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend the informal EU summit which will start in Prague on Thursday, Turkish Ambassador to the Czech Republic Egemen Bagis confirmed. River flows in three Czech regions have been below average every month for the past year, meteorologists from the Brno branch of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute have calculated.
Czechs have become the first citizens of a country to raise money through crowd-funding to buy a modernised Soviet-era T-72 tank that will soon be sent to the Ukrainian army to help it defend against Russia’s invasion, a Ukrainian government official said on Monday. The crowdfunding effort, run by the Ukrainian embassy in Prague, raised 33 million crowns as of Monday from 11,288 donors, the campaign website said. “The Czech Republic became the first country where ordinary people bought a tank,” Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Perebyinis said on Twitter. The tank, a T-72 AVENGER, has been modernised to improve its protective systems and to add modern night-vision and communications equipment. Fundraising is continuing to provide ammunition, the campaign said on its website www.zbraneproukrajinu.cz. Чехія стала першою країною, де звичайні люди купили для @DefenceU танк – модернізований T-72 AVANGER. Йому дали ім’я Томаш (на фото ліворуч). 33 млн. крон (понад 1,3 млн. дол.) через ініціативу “Подарунок для путіна” зібрали понад 11 тис. людей. Дякуємо!https://t.co/wyOJMt0EvH — Yevhen Perebyinis (@YPerebyinis) October 3, 2022 The Czech Republic, a NATO and European Union member, has been a strong backer of Ukraine. It has shipped surplus army stocks as well as privately sourced equipment funded by...
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 economy grew by 3.7 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to revised Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) data. The economy’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 percent in the previous quarter. An estimated half million senior citizens in Czechia are living on the verge of poverty, Czech Television reported on Sunday. There are over two million people of pension age in the country, with most living on old-age pensions alone and concerned about high inflation. Czechia’s Miloš Zeman and eight other presidents from Central and Eastern Europe have issued a joint declaration rejecting Russia’s annexation of territory in Ukraine and calling on NATO members to substantially increase military aid to Ukraine. The Czech government plans to tax the extraordinary profits of energy producers by 40 to 60 percent, the minister of transport, Martin Kupka. He added the specific amount would be decided at an upcoming meeting. Such a move could bring up to CZK 100 billion into the state coffers, he said. The Czech tennis player...
The Czech Republic boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in August, at 2.4 percent, while Malta was in third place behind Poland, with 2.9 percent, according to the Eurostat agency. Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 12.4 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 12.2 percent, the agency’s data showed. Eurostat reported that the EU average for August was 6 percent, stable compared with July. In total, 12.921 million unemployed people were registered in the bloc, which is 52 thousand less than in July. Unemployment in 19 countries of the eurozone in August did not change compared to July and amounted to 6.6%, which is the lowest figure in the entire history of its calculation, according to the data of the Statistical Office of the European Union. Analysts also predicted that the indicator would remain at the same level, according to Trading Economics. By comparison, unemployment was 7.5% in August 2021. The number of unemployed in the euro area last month amounted to 10.966 million people, having decreased by 30 thousand people over the month. Youth unemployment (population under 25) dropped to 13.9% from 14% in July. The number of unemployed in this age category decreased by 17 thousand compared to the previous month, to 2.136 million people.
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 will receive $106 million (approximately CZK 2.7 billion) from the United States for military modernisation, partial compensation for supplies to Ukraine and cyber protection. The financial aid, which is part of the second Supplemental Ukraine Package, was approved by the US Congress on Thursday. The purchase price of flats in Czechia has more than doubled over the past ten years, according to the data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday. Compared to the second quarter of 2012, residential property prices rose 132.6 per cent. The price of fuel in Czechia continues to fall, reaching the lowest level since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to CCS data, a litre of the most popular Natural 95 has fallen by almost 80 halers to CZK 37.56 per litre within the past week. The average price of Diesel is CZK 43.01 per litre, which is the lowest figure in five weeks. Russian hockey players from the San Jose and Nashville teams can take part in the upcoming NHL games...
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 Prague City Hall has closed the tent city for Ukrainian refugees in Troja due to the cold weather, the CTK news agency reported. The refugees have been moved to hostel facilities in Florenc and Smíchov districts. The Slovak prime minister, Eduard Heger, has criticized the Czech authorities for reinstating controls at the border with Slovakia due to a sharp increase in illegal migration. Mr. Heger said the decision had come without warning and needed to be discussed at EU level. The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says that EU member states should discuss steps to liberalise visas for citizens of Kosovo this autumn. Mr. Lipavský is due to visit Kosovo this week. Over 87,800 refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection visas are currently working in the Czech Republic, most of them in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Labour Office spokeswoman Katerina Berankova told CTK yesterday. One of the new commemorative stamps issued by the UK’s Royal Mail will feature a photo of Queen Elizabeth II taken at Prague...
The Czech government has imposed temporary controls on its borders with Slovakia to prevent irregular migrants from entering the country. An increasing number of irregular migrants are crossing the Czech border, most of whom are Syrians coming to the EU from Turkey. “What we are experiencing is an unprecedented situation in terms of illegal migration. Since the start of 2022, the police have seized a total of 11,000 illegal migrants on the territory of the Czech Republic,” Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan informed. Along with irregular migration comes organised crime like smuggling, which has also recently increased. To tackle the issue, the interior ministry wants to propose stricter punishment for those actively involved in smuggling. “We have exhausted all the standard options,” Rakušan said, explaining why the country decided to impose border controls with Slovakia, its closest ally. The Czech Republic is traditionally a transition country, with most migrants only passing its territory to reach neighbouring Germany. “This situation triggered nervousness even on the German side of the border,” Rakušan explained. The Czech police authorities will launch border controls for ten days from Thursday (29 September), in line with Schengen codex. During this period, further measures will be considered, including...
Large stores will be closed on September 28, which is a national holiday for St Wenceslas, also called Czech Statehood Day. The ban on stores being open took effect last year so shop workers could have a day off, like most other people. But some stores choose to defy the ban based on its vague wording. The only large supermarkets in Prague that will be legally open are Billa stores at Václav Havel Airport Prague and at the train station Praha hlavní nádraží. Fines for breaching the law can be levied in an amount up to 1 million crowns. The law closing most large stores on holidays will continue to be in effect on Christmas Eve on Decemeber 24 (in the afternoon), Christmas Day on December 25, and St Stephen’s Day on December 26. On September 28th Czechs celebrate St. Wenceslas Day September 28th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic. It is the feast day of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, and commemorates his death in 935. Wenceslas was born in 907 and was the son of the Duke of Bohemia. His father died in 921 and Wenceslas ruled from 922, when he was 15 years...
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. Renáta Kellnerová, widow of the late billionaire Petr Kellner, who died in a plane crash in the U.S. last year, has topped the list of the richest Czechs and Slovaks for the second year in a row in a ranking compiled by Czech publication Euro Weekly that was released on Monday. Confidence in the Czech economy is at an all-time low, according to data published on Monday by the Czech Statistical Office. It continued to decline in September, falling by four points month-on-month to 90.1. Shopping malls across the country had record sales in the second quarter of this year, which were 17.3 percent higher than pre-2019. Year-to-date footfall through August was 11.8 percent lower than three years ago. In response to the energy crisis, the Czech Ministry of Health is proposing to reduce the minimum permissible temperatures in the working environment. The draft amendment to the Occupational Health Regulation will be discussed by the government on Monday. On Wednesday, 21 September, acclaimed Czech poet and publisher Zdena Zábranská died at the age of 82. Zábranská was 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. Local elections 2022: the ANO party, in opposition since last autumn, won in 17 out of 27 large cities, but it came second in the two largest ones – the capital Prague and Brno, where parties of the current ruling coalition won. President Miloš Zeman will personally attend the presidential summit of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries on October 11th in Bratislava. The heads of state of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary will discuss the war in Ukraine or the energy crisis. Seven out of ten Czechs say they have experienced a decline in their standard of living in the past year, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Ipsos agency. Half of them say that the decline is significant. A further 23 percent of respondents expect their living standard to drop with the steep rise in energy prices in the autumn. In response to the energy crisis, the Czech Ministry of Health is proposing to reduce the minimum permissible temperatures in the working environment. The draft...
In response to the energy crisis, the Ministry of Health is proposing to reduce the minimum permissible temperatures in the working environment. As iRozhlas reports, for drivers, workers on assembly lines, or cashiers, the temperature should drop from the current 18 to 16 degrees Celsius. It should drop from 20 to 18 degrees in changing rooms, from 22 to 19 degrees in washrooms, from 25 to 19 degrees in showers and from 18 to 15 degrees in toilets. The draft amendment to the Occupational Health Regulation will be discussed by the government on Monday. “The main reason is to revise the legal framework in relation to minimum temperature requirements in the workplace in view of the current situation. Natural gas supplies are being reduced and interrupted, when a further increase and persistence of the energy crisis is expected,” the ministry said in a memorandum. The current set temperatures date back to 2007. “It is a temperature that no one is allowed to low,” added Válek. According to him, the ministry consulted sanitation workers and compared the proposal with other countries. According to Válek, the recommended temperatures have not changed for a long time, so they do not reflect global warming.”...
The Czech Republic will not issue humanitarian visas to Russian citizens fleeing mobilisation orders, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Thursday. Many Russians are trying to leave their country after President Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilisation on Wednesday as Russian forces fighting in Ukraine have suffered heavy losses. “I understand that Russians are fleeing from ever more desperate decisions by Putin. But those running because they don’t want to fulfill a duty imposed by their own government, they don’t meet the criteria for humanitarian visa,” Lipavsky told Reuters. His stance was in line with that of fellow European Union members Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which border Russia, who said on Wednesday that they would not offer refuge to any Russians fleeing Moscow’s mobilisation of troops. One-way flights out of Russia were rocketing in price and selling out fast after Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists. Finland said on Thursday it was considering barring most Russians from entering the country as traffic across the border from its eastern neighbour “intensified” following Putin’s mobilisation order. The European Commission stated earlier on Thursday that it is up to each individual EU member state whether they decide to accept people coming from...
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