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12/15/2022
The Czech government has approved a measure capping electricity and gas prices for large firms at the same level as prices for households and small firms that are already in place. Industry Minister Jozef Síkela said the measure was to help large companies survive and stay competitive. The price cap for large companies will be set at 5 crowns per kilowatt hour of electricity and 2.5 crowns per kilowatt hour of natural gas, excluding value-added tax. It will only apply to 80% of past consumption in order to promote savings.
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12/14/2022
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with snow in the eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 0 and -4 degrees Celsius.
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12/14/2022
Forty-eight percent of people disagree with the government’s decision to scrap electronic sales registers, according to the outcome of a poll conducted by NMS Market Research at the end of November. On the other hand, 32 percent of people support the decision. A fifth of respondents said they have no opinion on the matter. The law on electronic sales registers which was pushed through by the ANO party of Andrej Babiš as an instrument to fight tax evasion. The Senate is expected to approve the bill abolishing electronic sales registers on Wednesday, despite efforts by the opposition to allow them to remain on a voluntary basis.
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12/14/2022
The State Veterinary Administration has imposed a ban on outdoor poultry farming in Czechia as of Wednesday, December 14, due to the growing number of bird flu outbreaks. The decree orders poultry farmers to place their poultry indoors. If this is not possible, they must confine the animals outside and minimize their contact with wild birds. There are already six outbreaks of bird flu in the country. Emergency veterinary measures have been taken in all the affected regions and tens of thousands of birds have been culled. The spread of the disease has accelerated across Europe, with 54 outbreaks reported to date.
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12/14/2022
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Tuesday inaugurated a Václav Havel Street in Luxembourg, named after the world-renowned dissident, playwright and former Czechoslovak president. An interactive work by Czech artist Jiří David highlighting Havel's famous quote “Truth and Love Must Prevail over Lies and Hatred” stands at one end of the street, in the Kirchberg district. There is a small pillar from which the authentic voice of Václav Havel can be heard at the press of a button, as well as a QR code that translates his words into other languages. The ceremony marked the symbolic end of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, which Sweden will take over from January 1.
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12/14/2022
The US Senate has approved the nomination of investor Bijan Sabet for the post of US ambassador to Czechia. When he appeared before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sabet said his priorities as US ambassador to Prague would be to follow Václav Havel's legacy of protecting human rights and media freedoms and to develop US-Czech security cooperation, including supporting negotiations on the Czech purchase of US F-35 fighter jets. Sabet is co-founder and general partner of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm. Previously, he worked as an executive at a number of Silicon Valley technology startups in California and Massachusetts. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston College, where he received his undergraduate degree. The post of US ambassador in Czechia has been vacant for two years now.
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12/14/2022
EU states again failed to reach agreement on gas price caps in talks lasting over eight hours on Tuesday. However, the Czech industry minister, Jozef Síkela, said their positions had become closer and there was a chance of agreement being struck at another meeting next Monday.
Mr. Síkela chaired Tuesday’s meeting in Brussels as Czechia currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
Ministers are hoping to prevent a repeat of this year’s record gas price increases.
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12/14/2022
The Chamber of Deputies has approved an amendment allowing for Ukrainian refugees to extend their temporary protection visas in Czechia until the end of March 2024. The bill was passed in a fast-track process on Tuesday evening, with MPs from ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy abstaining. The legislation must now be passed by the Senate.
At present temporary protection visas are valid until the end of March next year. However, Czech officials say the current situation in Ukraine does not suggest they will be able to return by that date.
There are over 350,000 Ukrainian refugees in Czechia at present. More applied for temporary protection but some have since returned to their home country.
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12/13/2022
The State Veterinary Administration has barred the outdoor breeding of poultry in Czechia due to the current high incidence of avian flu. The measure will come into effect from Wednesday.
Breeders must move their birds into buildings; where this is not possible, contact with wild birds must be kept to an absolute minimum. Such measures were last imposed at the end of November.
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12/13/2022
The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, says that the country adheres to a UN Security Council resolution as well as the unified position of the EU when it comes to the possible relocation of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The EU is opposed to such moves and does not recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
On Sunday Czech President Miloš Zeman said he expected the government to approve such a relocation, which he favours, soon. A spokesperson for the prime minister, Petr Fiala, said he was inclined toward moving the embassy but was currently focused on the Czech EU presidency and the war in Ukraine.
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