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01/26/2023
The Ministry of Finance has downgraded its growth forecast for the coming year, predicting that GDP will fall by 0.5 percent in 2023. The average annual inflation is expected to be 10.4 percent, according to the ministry's latest macroeconomic forecast released on Thursday. The outlook in both areas has worsened compared to the November forecast, when the ministry predicted an 0.2 per cent drop in GDP and 9.5 per cent annual inflation. The ministry revised the figures in light of the decline in household consumption in the second half of last year. However, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said he expects the recession to be short-lived, with the first signs of economic recovery expected in the second quarter of this year.
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01/26/2023
Czechs on the continent of America will begin voting in the second round of elections to choose a new head of state on Thursday. The polls will be open from 2 pm to 9 pm local time at Czech embassies and consulates general in North and South America, with the same hours applying on Friday, the Czech News Agency said.
The casting of ballots on the continent will begin in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, while Los Angeles will be the last city welcoming voters.
The reason voting begins before the polls open in Czechia is to allow time for counting prior to the end of the elections in the country.
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01/26/2023
There was a marked increase in voting among people in isolation with Covid-19 on Wednesday than in the first round of presidential elections a fortnight earlier.
Some 650 people with the virus out of a registered 1,900 drove to special polling stations to vote in the second round, compared to 354 out of a possible 2,300 previously.
Regular polls for the runoff vote between first round winner Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš open at 2 pm on Friday and close at the same time on Saturday. Mr. Pavel is the bookmakers’ favourite to win.
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01/25/2023
The Bohemian crown jewels, which were viewed by almost 34,000 people in the past week, have been returned to the royal chamber of Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral. As before the start of the exhibition, seven key-holders had to meet in the cathedral to lock the doors of the vault together.
The jewels, one of the symbols of Czech statehood, are only taken out on exceptional occasions. This year's eight-day exhibition was held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Czechia.
The key-holders are the president, the prime minister, the archbishop of Prague, the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the speaker of the Senate, the dean of the Metropolitan Chapter of St. Vitus Cathedral and the lord mayor of Prague
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01/25/2023
Czech MPs have backed in the first reading a bill that would do away with over 10,000 laws, regulations and decrees that are formally in place but are no longer used. The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said that this move would lead to more transparency in the country’s legal system.
The amendment will next go before the lower house’s Constitutional and Legal Committee.
Most of the laws are now obsolete but are still on the statute books. The remainder were cancelled under general decrees in the past but continue to appear in the legal system.
Examples of laws to be struck off include one from 1919 doing away with compulsory celibacy for female teachers and another relating to the fourth Communist five-year plan in 1966.
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01/25/2023
The two candidates for Czech president, Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš, faced off in the latest in a series of debates on Wednesday. The discussion for new site Novinky.cz had been postponed from Monday as Mr. Pavel was unwell.
Mr. Babiš reiterated his assertion that he is running a positive campaign. He said his press conference after the first round, in which he compared Mr. Pavel to Vladimir Putin, had not gone well as he was over emotional. He also said it had been a mistake to say that Czechia should not help Poland or the Baltics if they were invaded.
Mr. Pavel said his opponent had frequently lied during his campaign and described him as a chaotic micro-manager.
Mr. Babiš also said his ANO party would not consider the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy as a coalition partner.
Voters will decide between the two in a runoff on Friday and Saturday, with the results due on Saturday afternoon.
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01/25/2023
Over 100,000 new companies were set up in Czechia in 2022, the highest number recorded since 1994, according to the company Imper, which runs an online database of firms. Prague saw the most freshly established businesses, while the Karlovy Vary Region had the fewest. The number of companies that ceased to do business also reached nearly 100,000. Three-quarters of those were self-employed individuals.
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01/25/2023
Karolína Plíšková has failed to reach the semi-finals of tennis’s Australian Open. The Czech, who was ranked 30th in Melbourne, was beaten 6-3 7-6 by Magda Linette of Poland in Wednesday’s quarter-finals.
By contrast Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková did make it to the semi-finals in the doubles. The Czechs overcame the US-Dutch pairing of Desirae Krawczyk and Demi Schuurs 6-3 6-2.
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01/25/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 1 degree Celsius. The following days are also expected to see grey skies, but slightly lower temperatures.
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01/25/2023
If there were a war between NATO and Russia on the alliance’s eastern flank the professional army of Czechia would not be sufficient and selective mobilisation would have to be employed, says the head of the army, Karel Řehka. He made the comment in an interview with the Czech News Agency published on Wednesday. The chief of the general staff said the lesson of the war in Ukraine was that it was necessary for the whole of society to be involved in the defence of the country, not just the army.
Major General Řehka said that aid to Ukraine was extremely important for Czechia, not only for moral reasons but also for the country’s own security.
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