Few things can spoil the urban landscape like improperly placed advertisement. This is especially valid for a historical city like Prague, whose beauty has few rivals in Europe. The capital city has announced a subsidy program to motivate business owners within the UNESCO Preserve of Historic Prague Centre to modify their banners, shop windows and advertising methods in such a way that respects the architectural value of the building in which they are located. Business owners can get up to CZK 200,000, to cover up to 70 percent of the costs. The program, which the municipality published on its website, explicitly includes the modification of the graphic design, the implementation and installation of signs signboards, company signs, showcases, menu boxes and menu boards, and the marking of department stores. “The establishment’s sign should fulfill not only its own advertising function, but its intention should also respect the architectural values of the property in question and the character of the environment of the Prague Monument Reserve. The visual and aesthetic cultivation of the public space of the street interior is a key point of the program,” the document reads. According to the municipality, such a designation should add value to both...
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 government has rubberstamped the deployment of Czech Army soldiers in foreign operations until 2024, the minister of defence, Jana Černochová, said on Twitter on Wednesday. The plan includes sending 1,200 troops to NATO’s eastern border. . A centre providing tents to Ukrainian refugees in the Prague district of Malešice is closed from Wednesday. The facility has been merged with another tent city in the Troja district, which has a capacity of around 250. The move follows a decline in the number of war refugees from Ukraine in Czechia. The Senate has approved a savings tariff to help households reduce their electricity, gas, and heating bills. The government will set the details of the tariff, i.e., how much the subsidy will be and who will be entitled to it, in August at the latest. The World Health Organisation has issued the highest level risk alert for monkeypox, with the highest risk in Europe. Speaking to Czech Radio, Health Ministry spokesman Ondrej Jakob said that In the coming days, the European Union will...
Festival Božského Vína is preparing a wine festival on the last Saturday in August 2022 – for the second time and in a larger format at Výstaviště, Prague 7. An inclusive festival which has attendees ranging from exhibiting winemakers to musicians, artists and everything in between, they want you to ‘join them and together we will create a wonderful world.’ The quality selection of wines will be provided by the family company @TAG, which will present wines from the Slovak region from the Šalša winery (Kyjov). The legacy of this family winery follows old family winemaking traditions (the first mentioned dates back to 1796). You will be able to taste in addition to traditional varieties such as Chardonnay, Tramin root, Ruland Gray, Palava, Riesling Vlasse as well as less known, interspecified varieties, for example, Hibernal, Malverina, Johanniter, Solaris and black dedicated to Laurot. Winery Žůrek Žeravice will also be in attendance- hailing from Žeravice, which is located in the Slovácko sub-region, near the town of Kyjova specializing in the production of bottled and mostly adjuvant wines. Their flagship varieties are Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir, and especially the red variety Neronet, with which they win many awards every year at international exhibitions. Since 2017, they...
The purchase of ICON is yoummday’s first acquisition in its invigorated growth strategy since receiving a €30M funding round from Armira Growth and Project A in February 2022. yoummday’s purchase of ICON accelerates the company’s international expansion as it seeks to disrupt traditional BPO and contact centre models. yoummday offers a work@home operating system (w@h OS) which empowers independent entrepreneurs with the ability to choose when and where they work across a variety of customer experience functions for a brand they desire. As a result, companies of all sizes in any sector can take advantage of an engaged and scalable workforce contributing a wide range of skills and languages to the yoummday talent pool. “The acquisition of ICON furnishes the opportunity to strengthen our growth strategy, which is predicated on integrating traditional BPO operators into our own proprietary marketplace platform. We look forward to working with the ICON team and weaving their unique capabilities into the yoummday brand”, emphasized Dr. Klaus Harisch, CEO and Founder of yoummday. yoummday customers can select from over 6,000 qualified entrepreneurs when building their workforce and may decide upon either a self-managed or yoummday-managed deployment of services. Within its platform, yoummday takes care of quality...
Slovakia, Poland and Italy have offered to send firefighting aircraft to the Czech Republic to help the country to contain a large forest fire in a national park. Currently, 410 firefighters from 83 units are fighting the fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park near the town of Hrensko, the country’s Fire Rescue Service (FRS CR) said on Tuesday. Four helicopters and two airplanes are also helping on site. “Within the framework of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, we requested three Canadair aircraft and two helicopters to manage the forest fire in Hrensko. Poland responded with an offer of a helicopter,” the Fire Rescue Service said in a tweet, adding that Slovakia and Italy also responded to “our request for help with aerial firefighting.” The forest fire, which broke out on Sunday, started spreading on Monday due to windy weather and it even crossed the country’s border with Germany. So far, it has affected an area of about 30 hectares in the park, according to local media reports. Local residents and tourists have been evacuated. No casualties have been reported. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after he visited the park on Tuesday that the fire was raging in a...
Energy suppliers in the Czech Republic have already raised prices several times this year. Families living in houses that heat water, heat and cook with gas will feel it the most. According to experts, a household consisting of four people will have to prepare approximately 56,000 crowns more than they were used to just for gas bills. The worst situation is for families with children who live in a house and heat with gas. In a block of flats without gas, a family of four will pay an extra 11,000 crowns for electricity this year. However, if they live in a house and heats with gas, electricity costs will rise by 22,000 crowns this year, and even by 28,000 for gas. However, it is not only households with children that are at risk. “The most vulnerable category of customers are typically pensioners who live in a house heated by gas and who have not invested in that house for a long time,” said Karel Polanecký, an energy expert from Duha. According to experts, energy prices have still not reached their ceiling. For example, if a family of four uses gas for heating and water heating in their home and paid...
Construction sites, factory assembly lines and warehouses across central Europe are scrambling to fill vacancies after tens of thousands of Ukrainian men left their blue-collar jobs to return home after Russia invaded their country. Ukrainian workers had flocked to central Europe in the past decade – drawn by higher wages and aided by an easing of visa requirements – filling jobs that weren’t highly paid enough for local workers in construction, the automotive sector, and heavy industry. Many of these workers have returned home to help the war effort since Russia invaded on 24 February, abruptly worsening labour shortages in some of Europe’s most industrialized economies. Before the Russian invasion, Ukrainians were the largest group of foreign workers in central Europe. The Czech Republic hosted Ukrainian workforce of around 200,000 respectively, according to industry trade groups. “The loss of Ukrainian workers has deepened the problems companies are facing,” Radek Spicar, vice president of the Czech Federation of Industry, told Reuters. “Companies say they can’t cover all the demand from business partners: they deliver with delays and pay penalties.” Before the Russian invasion, Germany-based recruiter Hofmann Personal had more than 1,000 Ukrainian candidates due to arrive in the Czech Republic between...
Remnant of social realism stands the test of time — and so does its name It has borne many names, among them Hotel Družba (Friendship), Hotel Čedok, Hotel Holiday Inn and Hotel Crowne Plaza Prague. But for most of its nearly 50-year existence, the 88-meter tall luxury accommodation establishment in Prague’s upper-class Dejvice neighborhood was known as Hotel International, and it is a name to which its latest owners have now returned after two decades. The only Stalinist building of its size in Prague, construction of the hotel started shortly before the deaths of the longtime Soviet leader and his man in Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia’s first communist president, Klement Gottwald. The development of the hotel was the idea of the country’s defense minister at the time, Alexej Čepička, who wanted to have a hotel built that would epitomize the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic and boast its rapprochement with the communist Soviet Union to the east. The building was completed in 1956 (around the same time Čepička was getting blamed for the cult of personality around Gottwald, who was also his father-in-law, and was purged by being demoted to a job in the government patent office), but finishing touches on the decorations inside were still...
If natural gas supplies were interrupted, breweries would only be able to produce and sell a limited amount, said Zdeněk Kovář, a spokesman for Plzeňské Prazdroje. According to him, the interruption of gas supplies would have a major impact on the entire brewing industry, including suppliers. Prazdroj is the largest brewery in the Czech Republic and uses gas in malthouses and breweries. Gas accounts for roughly 40 percent of the energy used for the production of beer and malt. According to Kovář, Prazdroj’s long-term strategy is to reduce the consumption of natural gas and replace it with renewable sources. “If there was a complete reduction in gas supplies, including reserves, it would have a major impact on the entire brewing industry, including our suppliers. We would be able to produce and sell in limited quantities,” the spokesperson added. Concerns about a stoppage of Russian gas supplies persist due to geopolitical tensions. The main route for the supply of Russian gas to the EU is the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Gas deliveries through this pipeline increased to 40 percent of the pipeline’s capacity on Thursday, the same level as before the start of the 10-day maintenance of the facility. Fears that...
The Czech Republic’s gas stores are 80% full, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Monday, as the country and other European Union member states continue to boost storage to protect against risks of a halt to Russian supplies. The EU aims to have gas storage facilities across the bloc 80% full by Nov. 1, but its efforts have been hit by temporary outages or reduced capacity via Nord Stream 1, a major pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe. Fiala said in a Twitter post that Czech gas storage levels were at a record level. “We are working to be as well prepared as possible for the winter,” he said. Deliveries of Russian gas via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline have now been limited to 20 percent. The annual gas consumption in the Czech Republic is about 9.4 billion cubic meters and the country gets about 98 per cent of its gas from Russia. The Czech Republic was nearly fully dependent on Russia for gas before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February pushed it to seek alternative supplies. Industry Minister Jozef Sikela said last week the country had secured 3 billion cubic meters of annual gas capacity – roughly a third...
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. Sales of electric appliances are reported to have skyrocketed as Czechs prepare for a harsh winter marked by a steep increase in the price of gas or its shortage. Salespeople report an increased interest in electric cookers and electric heaters. Coal or wood sellers are also overwhelmed with orders. . Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in eastern Germany and neighbouring Czech Republic amid evacuations in tourist regions and residential areas. Seven firefighters were injured, four of whom had to be treated in hospital for smoke inhalation. Almost half of the Czechs are planning to spend their holidays in the mountains, or at a campsite, according to a survey conducted by the 4camping.cz e-shop. Approximately two-thirds of people plan to go hiking, and a quarter of respondents intend to spend the night in the countryside. Czech lawmakers have approved a ban on the production and sale of single-use plastic items, including straws, plates, and cutlery, in line with European Union regulations. The measure will reduce the consumption of such items by about 1.77 billion...
On Saturday, August 13, after a three-year hiatus, Prague Pride parade will once again take place. The parade is the culmination of the entire Prague Pride festival, which is taking place from the 8th until the 14th, offering over 150 events celebrating LGBT+ people in the Czech Republic. The festival organizers are planning for some twenty thousand people to attend. “The Saturday parade will finally take place this year. We are still fine-tuning its exact form,” said festival director Tom Bílý. According to him, the organizers will strive for greater accessibility in the parade and at all other events this year, and will also work to improve the sustainability of the festival. Other Pride festivals have come under criticism for their effect on the environment. “The festival gives people the opportunity to be themselves, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity, and provides them with a safe space to do so. Prague Pride Parade 2022 Saturday 13th August 2022 – The parade will start from Wenceslas Square at 12.30 pm, setting off on a three-kilometer route towards Letná Park. Buses will be provided up the stairs. The parade takes approximately 3 hours to make its way through the streets of...
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