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. Russians that are leaving their country for fear of being subject to mobilisation do not fulfil the conditions for being granted a humanitarian visa in Czechia, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told the Czech News Agency on Thursday. The Czech Police has already detained 9,500 illegal migrants since the beginning of June more than half of them this month, Czech Television reported on Wednesday. Their number has been rising rapidly over the past few weeks. Czechia registered its first case of a death of a patient who was infected with monkeypox. Health Ministry spokesman Ondřej Jakob has since told the Czech News Agency that the patient died of pneumonia and that he also suffered from other diseases, such as HIV. The Czech Republic could increase its GDP by €15 billion, or roughly CZK 360 billion, by 2030 thanks to the digital economy. Growth will continue to be driven by e-commerce and the burgeoning information technology sector. The Office of the Government will save money in the Straka Academy and other buildings by...
Archaeologists digging near Prague have discovered the remains of a Stone Age structure that’s older than Stonehenge and even the Egyptian pyramids: an enigmatic complex known as a roundel. Nearly 7,000 years ago during the late Neolithic, or New Stone Age, a local farming community may have gathered in this circular building, although its true purpose is unknown. The excavated roundel is large — about 55 meters in diameter, or about as long as the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tall. And while “it is too early to say anything about the people building this roundel,” it’s clear that they were part of the Stroked Pottery culture, which flourished between 4900 B.C. and 4400 B.C., Jaroslav Řídký, a spokesperson for the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IAP) and an expert on the Czech Republic’s roundels, told Live Science in an email. Miroslav Kraus, director of the roundel excavation in the district of Vinoř on behalf of the IAP, said that revealing the structure could give them a clue about the use of the building. Researchers first learned about the Vinoř roundel’s existence in the 1980s, when construction workers were laying gas and water pipelines, but 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. The first Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines against COVID-19 adapted to the newer variants Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 arrived in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health informed CTK today. The delivery was of over 600,000 doses, and the same amount will arrive next week. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský will address a session of the UN Security Council in New York on Thursday. His speech would focus on the current security situation, Russia’s intention to annex other parts of Ukraine, and the proposal to establish an international tribunal on Russian war crimes. Prague Airport has managed a strong summer season without major complications. From June to August, over 3.8 million passengers were handled, which is one third less than in the record year 2019. Since the beginning of the year until the end of August 2022, nearly seven million travellers passed through airport gates. According to the analysis of the Neviditelní (Invisibles) project, over a million Czechs are part of low-income households. Previously, they often lived paycheck to paycheck, and their situation...
The heart of vinyl record making on Earth isn’t found in Tokyo or Los Angeles, but rather belongs to a small Czech village. From the small town of Loděnice, population 2,008, GZ Media, or “Gramofonové Závody,” produces 60% of the world’s vinyl records, and has continually operated since 1951 despite challenges from communism, the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the inventions of the CD and digital streaming, and COVID-19. President Zdenek Pelc has remarked that it was like the Wild West at times, having joined up with the company after it had become privatized in 1983 to steer it through his country’s division with Slovakia, and the industry-killing invention of the CD in the same decade. Yet as DW reports, the vinyl continued to be pressed in meager numbers for punk and metal bands seeking cheap production and tiny batches. During the 1990s, just 1 million records were sold across the entire United States. “It’s the only example I know of a product all but dying only to return,” said Pelc. “The world has too much digital information filling it up. Some people like to hold a nice package in their hand. It’s the same reason that books still exist.” True to...
Czechs want to protect the climate but are worried about the economy as slightly more than half of them (52%) believe the EU Green Deal will harm it, according to a survey presented by the STEM agency on Tuesday (20 September). But Czech citizens also have limited knowledge of the Green Deal, as just 12% of those surveyed knew its targets. Among everyone surveyed, a third said they wanted a strengthened Green Deal, while a third said they wanted it completely abolished or at least limited. Another third said they had no opinion. The survey also pointed to half the respondents associating the Green Deal with air and landscape quality improvements. “But they do not associate it with an improvement in their economic situation. And that, especially today, is a serious deficiency,” the survey’s authors said. Czech citizens also want the state to invest more in sustainable measures, such as renewable energy sources, according to the study called “Czech (non)transformation 2022”. Meanwhile, Environment Minister Anna Hubáčková said that all social groups, including low-income households, must have access to financial support for renewables or energy-saving measures. She added that few possibilities exist for low-income households to improve their heating or electricity...
The minimum heating temperature in Czech school premises outside the classrooms could be lowered, as proposed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. For example, in the gymnasiums, it could be 17 degrees Celsius instead of the current 18 and in the showers 21 instead of 24. In the classrooms, it should remain at 20 degrees Celsius, states the draft amendment to the Decree on Sanitary Requirements for School Spaces prepared by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Industry and Trade also proposed a special decree in August due to the energy crisis, according to which the heating temperature of public spaces would be lowered in the event of a gas supply failure. In the school classrooms, according to the proposal, it should then drop from 20 to 19 degrees. The school should remain closed if the temperature in classrooms drops below 18 degrees Celsius on three consecutive days, or below 16 degrees in one day. The proposed limits do not endanger the health of children and pupils, according to the Ministry. For example, in the UK, classrooms are heated to at least 18 degrees Celsius and in Germany to 20 degrees, in Austria, the recommended temperature in 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. Goodyear, a US tire manufacturer, must pay Czech inventor František Hrabal USD 65 million (CZK 1.6 billion). On Monday, a court in the US state of Ohio ruled on the matter. According to the court, the company appropriated the Czech inventor’s self-inflating tires. Public health insurance will cost CZK 471.7 billion crowns in the Czech Republic next year, according to the latest estimates from the Ministry of Health. The ministry expects that CZK 464.6 billion will be received in health insurance payments in 2023, leaving a deficit of CZK 7.1 billion to be covered from the reserve funds of the health insurance companies. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský will meet with ministers from the Visegrad Group countries, the Bucharest Nine, and the Foreign Affairs Council on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly currently taking place at the UN Headquarters in New York. The member states of the European Union formally approved a loan of five billion euros for Ukraine on Tuesday, the Czech News Agency reports....
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 first ship carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Czechia has arrived at the Dutch port of Eemshaven and is getting ready to lay anchor, ČEZ spokesman Roman Gazdík told the Czech News Agency on Monday. The ship arrived from the United States and carries 100 million cubic metres of gas, The Council of Prague City Hall on Monday approved a plan to purchase up to 200 new trams and asked the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) to commission the relevant tender, website Zdopravy.cz reports. The government plans to raise pensions by CZK 825 in January to an average monthly total of CZK 19,500, Czech Radio reported on Monday citing the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The increase should see the average pension be equivalent to 49.5 percent of the average wage in the country, the ministry states. In a televised address yesterday, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called on Czechs to use gas and electric power prudently to save their own money and help lower state expenditures, while also helping...
The Village of the Year in the Czech Republic is a national competition held since 1995, announced annually by the Ministry of Regional Development. Its aim is to promote the “restoration” and “development” of the Czech countryside through communal projects carried out by villagers themselves. Each year hundreds of Czech and Moravian villages enter the competition. Being focused on the countryside, the notion of rurality is one of the competition’s defining features. Kostelni Lhota in Central Bohemia has been named Czech village 2022. It has about 900 inhabitants. Between Poděbrady and Sadská, along the road that used to be called Slezká (Silesian) or Náchodská (according to the town of Náchod) there are four villages with Lhota as part of their name. They are as follows: Přední Lhota (Front Lhota), Vrbová Lhota (Willow Lhota), Písková Lhota (Sandy Lhota) and Kostelní Lhota (Church Lhota) respectively. The dominant building of Kostelní Lhota is naturally the local church that – together with the vicarage and school – comprises the historical village center. All of the above Lhotas were established in the second half of the 14th century. There used to be deep forest in this area before, as well as a rather wide-spread marshland...
The Krkonoše mountains located in the north of the Czech Republic recorded the first snowfall of the 2022-23 season on Sunday night. According to pictures from webcams, the highest point of the country – the Sněžka Mountain – is also slightly covered in snow.
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 architect Vlado Milunic, who was born in Croatia but spent almost all his life in Czechia, has died at the age of 81. He is best-known for co-designing Prague’s now iconic Dancing Building with the American architect Frank Gehry. A freshly published opinion poll by the STEM agency suggests ANO would have won elections in September with 30 percent of the vote. The survey puts Tomio Okamura’s anti-EU Freedom and Democracy Party second on 14.3 percent, just ahead of government leaders the Civic Democrats on 14.2 percent. A long-standing employee of the Czech Foreign Ministry cooperated with the Russian intelligence service (SVR) and leaked secret information to them, according to reports in Denik N on Thursday. The official had to leave the ministry, wrote Denik N, corroborated by the Aktualne.cz and Respekt.cz news sites. According to Median’s August election model, Andrej Babiš and Petr Pavel would advance to the second round of the presidential election, with Danuše Nerudová finishing third. Although Babiš is leading, he would lose in a duel with...
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. An employee of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs collaborated with Russia’s civilian intelligence agency the SVR, handing over classified information to them, the Deník N news site reported on Thursday, referring to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and the Czech BIS intelligence service. The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, and the minister of defence, Jana Černochová, say that the government aims to reach spending of 2 percent of GDP on defence in 2024, instead of the original target date of 2025. Another delegation of Czech senators and senior ministerial officials is going to Taiwan to continue with cooperation in epidemiology and cyber security, education and research and development of semi-conductors in the days to come, Senate press secretary Lada Faldynova told journalists today. Some 66,000 Ukrainian refugees are enrolled at Czech schools at present, 10,000 of whom have not entered the teaching process, Deputy Education Minister for Instruction Jan Mares said today. Mostly, around 51,000 Ukrainians, have enrolled at elementary schools. The ministry will have exact data after...
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