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...
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...
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