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07/27/2023
Prague’s authorities are considering banning a concert by the Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko set to take place in the city in October, Seznam Zprávy reported. The news site said the event’s organiers would seek financial compensation from the city if it is blocked.
Netrebko was placed on a Ukrainian sanctions list following Russia’s invasion of the country. In the past the opera singer repeatedly backed pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. While she has condemned Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine last year, she has refused to criticise Vladimir Putin, to whom critics say she is close.
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07/27/2023
The tax rate on diesel in Czechia is likely to increase in the coming months, returning to the level before June last year, after the Senate approved an increase of CZK 1.50 per litre on Thursday. Analysts say this could make a litre of diesel at the pumps more expensive by CZK 1.80.
Originally, the current reduced rate was to be in force until the end of 2023. However, the government wants to increase the tax rate now, due to lower prices and in a bid to raise budget revenues.
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07/27/2023
River flows in Czechia are currently at between 15 and 45 percent of normal levels for this time of year, the minister of agriculture, Marek Výborný, said on Thursday. Conditions in most river basins are severely below normal, he said. However, there is no threat of water shortages for Czech households or industry, Mr. Výborný said. The minister was speaking after a meeting with the directors of companies managing the Vltava, Morava, Ohře, Odra (Oder) and Labe (Elbe) river basins.
He said 52 edicts limiting the removal of water were currently in place, compared to 39 in the same period last year.
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07/27/2023
Four-fifths of Ukrainian parents who moved to Czechia after the Russian invasion of their country last year have secured school places for their children aged three to 17 for the coming academic year, suggests a study carried out last month by PAQ Research in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Eleven percent of respondents said they did not know whether their children would enter any school. Six percent have not enrolled their children at a school and three percent said they had not been accepted.
PAQ Research said refugees who want to stay in Czechia most often have their children’s school attendance secured. Among those who plan to return to Ukraine, 60 percent of people have arranged for their offspring’s education in this country.
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07/27/2023
A rise in water temperatures in Czech ponds due to climate change is leading to inferior water quality and making it more difficult to carry out traditional fish breeding, according to a new study released on Thursday. The report is the work of CzechGlobe, the Global Change Research Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Mendel University in Brno.
The study says there will be a sharp rise in the number of days every year on which water surface temperature is above 29 degrees Celsius, causing a rapid decline in dissolved oxygen in the water. Between 1961 and 1980 such temperatures were never recorded in today’s Czechia.
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07/27/2023
Prague football team Bohemians 1905 are in Norway to play their first game in European football in over three decades. The team, who last participated in a European club game in 1987, reached the qualification rounds for the UEFA Europa Conference League after an unexpected fourth place in the Czech top flight last season.
Bohemians are playing against Norwegian team Bodø/Glimt in the opening game of the second preliminary round of Europe’s third-tier club competition on Thursday evening.
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07/27/2023
Hundreds of fish have died in a roughly four-kilometre stretch of the River Oder near the Czech-Polish border, the Czech News Agency reports. The exact cause is still unknown but from a preliminary assessment of the situation, the most likely cause was a lack of oxygen in the river, probably caused by the three-week-long heatwave that Czechia recently experienced.
Samples were collected on Wednesday and the laboratory results will be known in a few days. It is estimated that around two percent of the total fish population in the river has been lost. The Czech Environmental Inspectorate, the state enterprise Povodí Odry, and the police are looking into the case.
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07/26/2023
Thursday is expected to be mostly overcast with a chance of some rain in the afternoon. Daytime temperatures should range between 17 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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07/26/2023
The Senate Constitutional and Legal Committee has recommended the upper house of parliament not to ratify the Istanbul Convention, Senator Zdeněk Hraba announced on Twitter on Wednesday. In its recommendation to the Senate, the committee called the Istanbul Convention an "ideological document" which doesn't actually help victims of domestic violence in any practical way. The recommendation however also states that the committee supports the efforts of the Ministry of Justice to strengthen legal protection for domestic violence victims.
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07/26/2023
The Lower house has approved the government's long-awaited set of pension reforms, which include tightening the rules around early retirement and reducing the indexation of pensions. The approval of the controversial bill took three parliamentary sessions, with MPs having already sat down to discuss the bill on Wednesday and Friday last week without getting to vote, due to fillibustering from the opposition.
In order to counteract this, the government coalition pushed through a limit on speaking time and set a fixed time for the vote this week.
The bill will now go to the Senate. The majority of the reforms should begin to apply from as early as September, if things go according to the cabinet's plan.
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