Zdeněk Hřib signed a contract with the Municipal Rental Agency, which helps people in need to find affordable homes
Five Czech crewmembers who were reported missing during the Second World War more than 80 years ago have been recovered and identified.
A new space for Czech and international modern and contemporary art is opening in Prague: Kunsthalle Praha.
Czech inflation accelerated at the end of 2021 but the focus of investors has already shifted to the start of this year when consumer prices are expected to rise at the faster pace in over two decades. The annual inflation rate rose to 6.6% in December, from 6% in the previous month, data from Czech Statistics Office showed Wednesday. The last time the country experienced such rapid inflation was in September 2008. The average rate of inflation for the whole of 2021 was 3.8 percent. This was also the highest seen since 2008. Three central bank board members said this week that price growth may approach 10% in early 2022 before it starts slowing later in the year. The central bank has pledged to continue with one of the European Union’s most aggressive campaigns of interest-rate increases, after lifting borrowing costs by a cumulative 3.5 percentage points since June. The biggest contribution to annual December inflation came from cost of transportation and housing. While commodity prices and supply-chain problems are among key price drivers, the central bank says its monetary-policy tightening is aimed at preventing current high inflation from becoming a long-term phenomenon The Czech Republic has the lowest jobless...
Omicron has become the dominant variant, exceeding 50 percent of the examined positive cases in the country.
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. A joint meeting of the Czech and the Slovak governments may take place in late April and early May, Slovak PM Eduard Heger told a press conference yesterday. Traditional Czech-Slovak cabinet meetings have been recently suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky (Pirates) has decided to suspend the implementation of firms’ licences for the export of military materiel to Kazakhstan over the current situation there. According to a January report from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), consumption and wages are on the rise. However, the public budget deficit has reached a record CZK 420 billion, nearly 7% of GDP. A new plaque was unveiled to Milada Horáková – a politician executed by the Communists – in Prague on Tuesday. The new memorial is on the building where she was born, on the corner of the streets Rumunská and Bělehradská. More than 50 percent of new coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic are the Omicron variant, and in many larger cities, the proportion is near 80 percent.
This is the highest number in the last three years despite the coronavirus crisis.
On Monday, the Prague Transport Company (DPP) began the construction of a trolleybus line from Palmovka to Čakovice.
The Czech Republic said on Monday it would allow critical workers such as doctors and teachers to go to work after a positive COVID-19 test.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s (ODS) government has published a program statement setting out its priorities, such as stabilizing public finances and orienting the state towards the European Union and NATO. It also includes pension reform, education, environmental protection, digitalization of the public administration and support for the free market, science and research, and housing. Mr. Fiala added that the declaration also takes into account current topics such as the pandemic or investment in sustainable development on the basis of the Green Deal. The aim is to ensure the energy self-sufficiency of the Czech Republic. The new center-right government will seek to lay the ground for a possible phasing out of coal by 2033, while also supporting nuclear power as part of its energy future. Other plans aim at simplifying life for businesses, something to be expected from a centre-right government. Though Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura (Civic Democrats) presented some changes to the taxation system, he has avoided wider reforms. The program does not mention concrete steps to fight inflation, public debt, or the budgetary deficit, the highest ever in 2021. The government wants to continue developing a strategic partnership with Israel and that cooperation in Visegrad, which has been united...
Citizens from Finland, Latvia, and the Azores will be subject to stricter entry rules upon their arrival in the Czech Republic.
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 new Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, will meet his counterpart Eduard Heger, President Zuzana Caputova and parliament chairman Boris Kollar during his visit to Slovakia on Tuesday. It is the first foreign trip since the elections. Slovak-born Czech film director and scriptwriter Dusan Klein, a Holocaust survivor, died at 82 on Sunday. Klein made his mark by a series of films about “teenage poets.” Klein shot tens of detective stories and comedies such as Yes, My Dear Friends (1989), a satirical story made at the close of the Communist regime, and also televised series. Defence Minister Jana Černochová told a press conference that her priorities for 2022 include recruiting more soldiers (around 2,000) and devoting greater attention to the education of future professional soldiers. The Czech Republic said on Monday it would allow critical workers such as doctors and teachers to go to work after a positive COVID-19 test, the latest European country to ease restrictions to keep services running as cases surge. Citizens from Finland, Latvia, and the Azores will be subject to...
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