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02/09/2024
The Czech crown has weakened in response to the decision of the Czech National Bank’s Board to cut the base interest rate by half a percentage point to 6.25 percent on Thursday. The decision will accelerate the monetary easing, which the National Bank started in December by cutting rates by a quarter percentage point.
As of Thursday, the Czech crown was trading at CZK 25.21 against the Euro, which is 24 cents weaker compared to the previous close. This marks the weakest performance of the crown against the euro since May 2022. Against the dollar, the Czech crown fell 23 cents to CZK 23.44.
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02/09/2024
The Czech men’s ice hockey team entered the Swedish Games in Karlstad on Thursday night with a 1:4 loss against Sweden. The Swedish Games are part of the four-nation Euro Hockey Tour in which the Czechs are currently lagging four points behind the leading Sweden.
Meanwhile, the women’s Czech ice hockey team defeated the Germans 7:1 at the Euro Hockey Tour tournament in Liberec on Thursday evening. The bronze medallists from the last two World Championships won all three periods and are set to face Finland in their next game.
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02/08/2024
Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová arrived in Tel-Aviv on Thursday for talks with her Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant. On the agenda was the security situation in the Middle East and Europe, defence-industrial cooperation between the two countries and acquisition projects, the ministry said in a press release.
During her visit, the Czech defence minister expressed solidarity and unequivocal support for Israel in its fight against Hamas. She also expressed support for Israel's right to self-defence and condemned the crimes committed by Hamas against Israel and its civilian population.
Czech diplomatic chief Jan Lipavsky was the first foreign statesman to visit Israel in the wake of Hamas’ attack on October 7. Since then, there have been a number of high level visits to the country by Czech top officials, including President Petr Pavel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil and Lower House Speaker Marketa Pekarova Adamová.
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02/08/2024
Friday will be mostly overcast with rain and day temperatures ranging between 8 and 13 degrees Celsius.
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02/08/2024
The tabloid Blesk continues to be the most-read Czech daily with an average of 584,000 readers per issue, according to a survey by the Czech Publishers’ Association released on Thursday.
Blesk is followed by Mladá fronta Dnes with around 381,000 readers and the daily Sport with 146,000 readers. The dailies Právo and Lidové Noviny placed in the third and fourth spot, respectively.
According to the survey, some 81 percent of the people aged between 12 and 79 follow some printed media, with newspapers having a reach of 52 percent.
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02/08/2024
Meat production in Czechia fell by 2.6 percent to 435,908 tonnes last year, and is at its lowest level since at least 2000, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday.
Year-on-year, pork production dropped by 5.2 percent to 197,859 tonnes and poultry production fell by 1.3 percent to 167,687 tonnes. Only beef production slightly increased, reaching 70,230 tonnes.
Since the year 2000, pork production has fallen by 50 percent, beef by one third and poultry by 15 percent.
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02/08/2024
Almost 40 percent of Czechs have reduced the temperature in their homes this winter due to high energy prices, suggests a survey carried out by the Ipsos Agency for the heating products company Stiebel Eltron. In most cases, Czechs reduced their home temperature by two to three degrees Celsius.
According to the survey, more than two-thirds of Czechs currently prefer a home temperature of around 20 to 22 degrees Celsius. Nevertheless, only one fifth of respondent are considering investing in more efficient heating sources.
Last year, heat consumption in Czechia dropped by six percent year-on-year, mostly due to high energy prices but also due to the mild weather.
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02/08/2024
Some 22 million tourists stayed in hotels, guesthouses and campsites in Czechia in 2023, representing a year-on-year rise of 13.5 percent, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Thursday. The number of guests also slightly surpassed the pre-Covid year of 2019.
Approximately 12.5 million of the overall number of tourists were domestic guests. Overall, tourists spent a total 56 million nights in accommodation establishments, 10.7 percent more than in the same period last year.
The largest group of foreign guests, 2.3 million, traditionally came from Germany, followed by Slovakia with 868,000 and Poland with 759,000 visitors.
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02/08/2024
The organisation Jsme Fér, which advocates for marriage equality in Czechia, is withdrawing part of its billboard campaign to get MPs to approve same-sex marriage following criticism from both opponents and supporters of marriage for all. The campaign, called Children Waiting, was launched a few days ago and features billboards, some located near MPs' offices, that directly address specific legislators by name and call on them to approve the law with the message: "Thousands of children and families are waiting, please act. Give them marriage for all couples." This part of the campaign was criticised in the lower house during the second reading of the equal marriage bill on Wednesday.
Filip Milde from the organisation Jsme Fér said that the aim of the campaign had been to attract the attention of MPs and encourage them to go to the organisation's website, which, through families' personal stories and expert opinions, would inform them about the unequal position of two-mother or two-father families with children. He apologised on behalf of Jsme Fér for being unsuccessful in this aim and said the organisation was working on removing this part of the campaign as quickly as possible.
Voting on the bill will take place in the third and final reading, which will take place at the end of February at the earliest.
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02/08/2024
The government's stance on the conflict in the Middle East and their support of Israel has not changed and will not change, Transport Minister Martin Kupka said at a press conference on Wednesday evening after a cabinet meeting. Although the government is not indifferent to the human suffering caused, it thinks it important to maintain a clear and intelligible position on the conflict that also takes into account the history of Czech-Israeli relations, the minister added.
On Tuesday, over 80 prominent Czechs including former ombudsman Anna Šabatová, priest Tomáš Halík and bishop Václav Malý called in an open letter addressed to the government, the president and the House and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to change their stance on the conflict and stop unreservedly supporting the Israeli government, regardless of the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. They further called on Prime Minister Petr Fiala's government to join the call of the International Court of Justice for immediate provision of sufficient humanitarian aid to the victims of the conflict, to oppose violence against civilians and the actions of extremists on both sides, to support steps by the international community for a just settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, to ensure the safe coexistence of both nations and to emphasize a humane approach to all victims of the conflict and thereby contribute to the renewal of the peace process.
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