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07/31/2023
Some 250 members of staff at Czech Post, most of them mail delivery people, had their last day of work on Monday. This comes after the closure of 300 branches of the postal service around Czechia at the end of June, when 574 workers were laid off.
A spokesperson for Czech Post told the news site iRozhlas.cz that the firm was not concerned that remaining post men and women would be overburdened, saying that the widespread use of electronic communication meant that it had 10 to 12 percent fewer deliveries every year.
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07/31/2023
President Petr Pavel has signed into law a bill that will see the tax rate on diesel in Czechia return to the level it was at before June last year. The amendment – set to take effect on Tuesday – approves an increase of CZK 1.50 per litre, and analysts say the price at filling stations should rise by CZK 1.80.
Originally, the current reduced rate was to be in force until the end of 2023. However, the government wanted to increase the tax rate now due to lower prices and in a bid to raise budget revenues.
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07/31/2023
Czech police say they are not planning to deport two Russian tennis players taking part in an ATP Challenger Tour competition in Liberec, north Bohemia this week. A spokesperson for the country’s migration police said on Monday that they had carried out checks on the two but found no shortcomings as they are in the country in accordance with Czech regulations.
Last week Czech police refused to allow a Russian player enrolled in this week’s Prague Open to enter the country. The organisers of the WTA tour event said no Russian or Belarusian players would be competing as there was a ban on athletes from their countries participating in events on Czech territory.
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07/31/2023
t should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected on the following days.
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07/31/2023
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Marian will represent Czechia at a summit in Saudi Arabia in early August at which Western and important developing countries are set to discuss Ukraine. The news was announced on Monday by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Czech News Agency said it was unclear whether delegates would attend a gathering in person or meet online.
The Wall Street Journey said on Saturday that up to 30 states would attend the summit. It said the US and Europe were trying to win broad international support for a peace deal whose terms are set by Ukraine. Russia is not invited to the event.
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07/31/2023
Former Pirate Party MP Lukáš Kolářík has stood down from all party posts following a call from the grouping’s leadership, which issued a statement to that effect on Monday. Mr. Kolářík resigned as deputy minister of the interior in the middle of July.
There have been reports that a month earlier he had a physical altercation with his female assistant, with whom he was having an extra-marital affair. The assistant said in the media that Mr. Kolářík had choked and kicked her.
The police are investigating the matter.
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07/31/2023
The Prague Open women’s tennis tournament got underway in the Czech capital on Monday. The top-seeded player in the WTA competition is Czechia’s Marie Bouzková, who is also defending champion.
Though some had registered for the Prague Open, the organisers said at the end of last week that no Russian or Belarusian players would be taking part after police prevented one Russian from entering the country under a government ban.
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07/30/2023
UK band Depeche Mode are due to perform in Prague on Sunday evening. The group, now containing two original members, have sold 60,000 tickets for their show promoting their most recent LP Memento Mori in the city’s Letňany district, organisers said.
Depeche Mode have performed several times in Prague, with their first show famously taking place in 1988, a year before the fall of the communist system in Czechoslovakia. They are affectionately known by the nickname “Depešáci” by their Czech fans.
Prior to Sunday’s concert they announced two more, indoor shows in Prague next year.
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07/30/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala says it is very likely that his government will manage to keep the state budget deficit below the target CZK 300 million this year. In a video posted on social media on Sunday he also said that next year Czechia was likely to meet a key Maastricht criterion for adopting the euro currency: reducing its budget deficit to beneath 3 percent of GDP.
In addition Mr. Faila said Czechia’s inflation rate next year should be close to 2 percent, adding that he welcomed the fact inflation had fallen below 10 percent, which he called a psychological border.
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07/30/2023
Czechia has received an invitation to a summit in Saudi Arabia in early August at which Western and important developing countries will discuss Ukraine. Czech officials are currently discussing who will represent the country at the gathering, a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Czech News Agency on Sunday. Russia is not invited to the event.
The Wall Street Journey said on Saturday that up to 30 states would attend the summit. It said the US and Europe were trying to win broad international support for a peace whose terms are set by Ukraine.
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