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07/04/2023
The annual pilgrimage festival marking the legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Greek missionaries who brought Christianity to the Czech lands, gets underway at Velehrad in South Moravia on Tuesday.
The two-day event, called the People of Goodwill Days, includes a number of cultural events, lectures and is traditionally attended by tens of thousands of believers.
The celebrations will be launched in the evening with a charity concert and will culminate on Wednesday with a national pilgrimage and a celebratory mass.
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07/03/2023
The Czech Financial Analytical Office (FAU) has so far granted 33 Czech entities exemptions from anti-Russian sanctions since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, with 45 percent relating to the pharmaceutical industry and 37 percent to nuclear energy, Seznam Zpravy reported on Monday.
According to the news site, the exemptions were sought for example by the energy group CEZ, which operates nuclear power plants in Temelin and Dukovany, in order to continue cooperation with some Russian-owned engineering companies, Seznam Zpravy said.
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07/03/2023
Prague Airport handled 4.4 million passengers in the first five months of this year, up by about 1.3 million year-on-year and about four million more than in 2021. May was the second month in a row this year when the number of checked-in passengers exceeded one million.
According to Prague Airport statistics, published on Monday, the most frequent flights from Prague are to London, Paris and Milan.
Prague Airport currently offers flights to 152 destinations, five more than last year, with 65 carriers operating the flights. In 2019, before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 190 direct flights from Prague.
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07/03/2023
Tuesday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius.
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07/03/2023
Conditions in the Czech manufacturing sector deteriorated significantly in June, with the IHS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) dropping to 40.8 points, compared to 42.8 points in May.
Production and new orders fell at the steepest pace in six months, while employment fell at the fastest pace since July 2020. According to experts, the main factor behind the drop is sluggish demand, which failed to recover despite falling prices.
The 50-point index is a dividing line between growth and decline, with a figure above 50 points signalling an overall improvement in the sector. The index tracks production, new orders, employment, delivery dates, and supplies.
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07/03/2023
The Russian state nuclear concern Rosatom has definitively ceased its activities Czechia, a year and a quarter after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech news Agency reported on Monday.
The domestic branch of the company has now been deleted from the commercial register, with all its employees having left earlier. The communications agency that worked for Rosatom has also ceased its activities.
Rosatom had previously bid for the construction of a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant, but was excluded from the tender by the government after it emerged that Russia’s military intelligence was involved in the 2014 explosion at the munitions storage facility in Vrbětice.
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07/03/2023
The nominal debt of Czech government institutions rose by CZK 415.3 billion year-on-year to CZK 3,099 trillion in the first quarter of 2023.
The debt ratio increased in annual terms from 42.8 percent to 44.5 percent of GDP, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Monday.
Compared to the last quarter of 2022, the Czech government’s debt rose by CZK 102.3 billion and the debt ratio by 0.3 percentage points.
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07/03/2023
NGOs have warned that the tightened conditions for Ukrainian refugees, which went into effect on July 1, could leave many of them homeless. In line with an amendment to the law, Ukrainian refugees who have been in the country for longer than 5 months will no longer get accommodation for free. The state will continue to cover housing minors under 18, students of Czech universities, seniors over 65, people with disabilities and their care givers, as well as pregnant women and people caring for children under six. Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka defended the decision, saying that refugees could be helped to find work or alternate accommodation by labour offices, various aid organizations and local Ukrainian communities.
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07/03/2023
Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has criticized the fact that the Romany protest march in Pardubice on Sunday was held without approval from the local authorities. Around three hundred protesters gathered in the town to demand increased security for Romanies in the wake of a fight on Saturday night involving 18 people, in which a Romany man was allegedly stabbed by a Ukrainian national. The police has not confirmed that the attacker was Ukrainian, stating merely that the man detained was a foreign national. The protest march ended peacefully, but Justice Minister Blažek said that such actions could lead to unrest such as we are now seeing in France.
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07/02/2023
Monday should be bright and clear and dry with day temperatures between 22 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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