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. CZECH REPUBLIC Unemployment in the Czech Republic fell to 3.5 percent in September from 3.6 percent in August. The Central Labor Office registered 262,142 job seekers, approximately 5,700 fewer than in the previous month and almost 14,900 less than in September of last year. There are currently 357,911 job vacancies. The volume of carcinogenic and hormonal system-unfriendly substances released within emissions and waste in the air and water in Czechia steeply rose in 2020, with the Spolana chemical plant being the worst polluter of all for the seventh consecutive year. Voting in this year’s elections to the Chamber of Deputies began on Wednesday morning for those in quarantine in connection with Covid-19. They are able to vote at 82 special drive-in stations around the country. WORLD Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they are pausing the use of Moderna’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine for younger age groups after reports of possible rare cardiovascular side effects. The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before the end of the year, a...
The Czech Republic reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day for first the time since May 18, data from the health ministry showed on Wednesday. On October 5, tests identified 1,108 new cases, according to the data. On Tuesday, the laboratories performed 21,793 PCR tests and 29,220 antigen tests. Health Minister Adam Vojtech has said repeatedly that the government is not planning any tightening of existing measures, because most of those infected were not inoculated. As of Tuesday, 5.98 million people have been fully vaccinated. Compared to last autumn, the numbers of newly infected and hospitalized are significantly lower. One year ago, at the beginning of October, there were about 3,000 cases a day. More than 7,400 people have already received the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, which has been applied for two weeks now, Health Information and Statistics Institute (UZIS) director Ladislav Dusek told journalists on Tuesday, adding that about 40,000 people are eligible for a third jab. The number of hospitalizations increased by 28 to 267 week-on-week. Of the patients in hospital, some 40 were in a serious condition, which is a number similar to last Monday’s.
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. CZECH REPUBLIC Unemployment in the Czech Republic fell to 3.5 percent in September from 3.6 percent in August. The Central Labor Office registered 262,142 job seekers, approximately 5,700 fewer than in the previous month and almost 14,900 less than in September of last year. There are currently 357,911 job vacancies. The Czech Defence Ministry concluded on Tuesday the contract on the purchase of four batteries of the SPYDER air defence system from Israel that the Rafael Israeli firm would supply for 13.7 billion crowns on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement. The SHORAD (Short Range Air Defence) system is designed to protect cities, nuclear power plants, airports, industry centres and other important premises. UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings into “potential discriminatory incidents” during Rangers’ 1-0 Europa League defeat at Sparta Prague last week, European soccer’s governing body said. WORLD U.S. Democratic and Republican senators urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to expel 300 Russian diplomats from the United States if Moscow does not issue more visas for Americans to represent Washington in Russia. Spain’s coalition government...
On the 14th of October, it will be exactly a year since the first day of the lockdown in the Czech Republic when we were all shut up in our own homes but the e-shop www.boxxi.cz opened along with its bricks and mortar store. It has been a challenging year, but Boxxi is not letting up on its mission to get excellent fish onto Czech dining tables. “Our main goal is to continue to offer first-class, quality fish, seafood, and other delicacies. I am convinced that it should make an appearance on Czech menus more often. That’s why we took it upon ourselves not only to import quality fish but we hit upon the idea of fish boxes (boxxi) so that everybody could have access to great products of the sea whenever the mood takes them,” says Marek Jirovec, the founder of the company. “The Boxxi.cz e-shop does not aim merely to sell fish but also to educate, teaching Czech consumers about good fish and how to recognize and prepare it. Neither do we neglect to place an emphasis on sustainability and choose our producers who approach the oceans with respect and behave towards them with consideration,” he adds. Boxxi...
Prague’s LÁHVE wine shop — advertised as the ideal store for introverts — is hosting a sale campaign this week. Eager visitors will be able to taste some wines for free and purchase the ones they like with a 30 percent discount. Different wines will be available in the promotion each week; from October 4 to October 9, there will be six stamps from France — three red wines and three white ones. Customers can locate which items are under the promotion via a sticker on the shelves. For example, the white dry “Ma Maarsanne” from Domaine de Vigier winery can now be purchased for 185 CZK, rather than the usual 265 CZK. The brands participating in the promotion are taken into account in the store’s system of instant discounts, making it possible to purchase wines from various different countries (from Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria) with an additional benefit. Address : Českomoravská 2517/13, Praha, Libeň (see on the map ) Work schedule : Monday-Thursday — from 11:00 to 19:00 Friday — from 11:00 to 20:00 Saturday — from 10:00 to 14:00 Sunday — closed Domaine de la Provenquiere Chardonnay-Viognier Expressive wine with high acidity. The aroma...
On the eve of the Czech general election this weekend, opposition parties received a surprise present: among the worldwide Pandora Project’s leaked files was evidence that the PM Andrej Babiš had hidden his acquisition of a French chateau through a web of offshore companies. The only question is, can the opposition make use of it effectively? The bombshell dropped just hours before the start of a major TV Prima debate on Sunday evening between four of the party leaders, at which the new scandal was chosen as the first topic. The Slovak-born businessman was clearly flustered – he kept peering through his owlish glasses at a sheaf of papers, and his statements were littered with grammatical mistakes. He denied any wrongdoing and alleged that the whole international Pandora Project was somehow a “mafia” conspiracy to ruin his chances at the election. Babiš says he has proof that he paid tax on the money used to buy the chateau, though he has yet to furnish any. Nor has he explained why he used such a convoluted structure to hide the acquisition if it was all above aboard. The revelations are now being investigated by Czech police. “Babiš must prove that he used taxed money for...
A British expat in Prague has taken to cleaning hundreds of Holocaust memorial stones dotted around the city because dirt and grime meant the people they commemorate “were disappearing for a second time”. Trevor Sage, 61, a retired engineer born in Finchley, emigrated in 2006 after his wife died, and first happened across the Stolpersteine or “stumbling stones” by German artist Gunter Demnig while on a tour of his adopted city. “My knowledge of the Holocaust was limited to what I knew from watching films and TV documentaries but leapt when I took a tour of Theresienstadt with a guide (Pavel Stránský) who had survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Years later I was walking around Prague with a Czech friend who pointed out some hand-made memorial plaques set into the pavement,” said Trevor. He explained they were called Stolpersteine. Czechs call them the “stones of the disappeared”. They commemorate the Nazis’ victims, including Jews, LGBT, Roma, Sinti, resistance fighters, political prisoners and the disabled. The first Stolperstein was installed in Berlin in 1996. Today there are over 70,000 in 2,000 towns and cities across 24 European countries. Sweden and Denmark will be added later this year. It is the world’s largest...
The central star of this year’s Startup World Cup & Summit, which will take place on October 5 and 6 in Prague, will be Apple co-founder and computer engineering legend Steve Wozniak. However, it will be complemented by other no less important personalities including Janeček Karel, candidate to Czech presidency, and Kyle Corbitt, president of one of the world’s largest startup incubators. The Startup World Cup & Summit (SWCSummit) is one of the most important startup events in Europe, which takes place every year in Prague. The event sees startups, investors, and corporate representatives from all over Europe meet to boost global innovation, connect the startup ecosystem, open the door to talented entrepreneurs and find the best startups in the world. Those interested can watch the whole event live directly at the venue in the Azyl78 tent in Prague’s Stromovka, or online. Tickets can be purchased at swcsummit.com. The summit will see guest speakers talk about their success in their own fields- take Kyle Corbitt, who else can understand the needs of startup founders better than someone who founded his own startup, Emberall. The software engineer worked for Google and is now the director of Y Combinator – one of...
Gardens with massive landings, awnings or plastic or plexiglass walls should soon be disappearing from Prague. The municipality has expanded its Manual for Cultivated Prague, which aims to combat visual smog in public spaces. The changes could be seen as early as next season after a manual on how to get rid of visual smog in the streets was introduced last year. The manual has now been supplemented with new rules for the appearance of front gardens, in monument reserves and monument zones. “Restaurant gardens are to complement and enhance public space, not to create obstacles,” said Adam Scheinherr, Prague’s Councilor for Transport, who recently took over the responsibility for monument care. “They must also be made sensitively and with taste.” He pointed out, for example, that in Malé náměstí there is a fountain from the 16th century, which is currently drowned between umbrellas and landings of gardens occupying almost the entire square in the heart of the metropolis. The rules say the gardens should not look like separate restaurants, and equipment in them should be kept at a minimum. The rules will also apply to the actual placement of gardens in the space with the minimum area that must...
For the next several days, the Czech Republic can expect an onslaught of less than ideal weather conditions, thanks to a cold front moving through the territory on Tuesday. In front of it, the afternoon highs will reach 24 degrees Celsius, and on Wednesday, it will be 10 degrees less, according to meteorologist Dagmar Honsová. Cloudy to overcast weather replaced Monday’s generally clear or partly cloudy sky in some places in the west, with afternoon temperatures that ranged from 19 to 23 degrees Celsius. On Tuesday, it will be partly cloudy, with clouds gathering in the west again, along with showers and even occasional thunderstorms. The morning lows will range from 14 to 10 degrees, sometimes accompanied by fog or low clouds. The afternoon highs will reach 20 to 24 degrees, but in the west, it will only make it to around 16 degrees Celsius. Winds will pick up on Tuesday. “In the east, the territory will intensify significantly — on the peaks of the Jeseníky Mountains up to the speed of the storm, i.e. 110 kilometers per hour, in the Beskydy and Krkonoše Mountains to 90 kilometers per hour. Meteorologists have issued a warning against strong winds, applying to...
Prague City has tightened its rules for outdoor advertising as of 1st October which will restrict it not only in the immediate center of the city but in all other protected areas. Parts of Vinohrady, Smíchov, Letná and Dejvice will now also have stricter rules which means putting up posters or even handing out leaflets outside certain places there could now be against the rules. “I am glad that we are gradually cultivating advertising in Prague,” praised the Deputy Mayor of Prague and Councillor for Transport, Adam Scheinherr. “It is not possible for a giant tarpaulin to hang across the entire façade of the historic house opposite the Trade Fair Palace.” The regulation of advertising in the city has existed since 2006, but before it only concerned the most strictly protected places. “This is another important step in regulating advertising smog in the city and setting clear rules,” said Petr Hlaváček, responsible for regional development and planning. “We have set an excessively long time before the regulation enters into force, so that operators can prepare for the new rules in time.” Advertising is most strictly approached on the territory of the Prague Monument Reserve, in the very centre. The second zone will include monument zones, where...
Employers plan to increase salaries by an average of 8% in 2022, according to a survey by the HR agency Předvýběr.CZ. 71% of the respondents confirmed the increase in wages, while another 18% have not yet made a decision on wage policy for next year. Less than a third (29%) of companies will not increase wages for all, but only for selected professions, mostly technical and business. In addition to wage increases, companies are also counting on further support for recruiting new employees and increasing the attractiveness for current ones. In total, 62% will strengthen employee benefits, 31% will offer more part-time jobs and 7% will increase recruitment allowances. The Worldwide Wage Report has analyzed variations in the minimum wage in comparison to the cost of living in all countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 2010. The Czech Republic ranks fifth for the largest growth in the minimum hourly wage in the period studied. The minimum hourly wage in the Czech Republic has risen by 54% in the past ten years, from $4.10 to $6.30 (CZK 139). The top of the list was Lithuania, where the minimum hourly wage has more than doubled, followed by...
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