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12/12/2022
Czechia will recruit thousands of experts from Ukraine to work in its arms factories, Deputy Defence Minister Tomáš Kopečný said in an interview for Czech Radio. He said agreement on this had been reached during a meeting between Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in October. The deputy defense minister said the arrangement would be beneficial for both sides since Czech arms factories are short of skilled employees. For example, the Tatra company from the Czechoslovak Group holding is short of five hundred people. He said the end number of Ukrainian workers would be in the thousands, depending on how the production capacities of Czech companies were increased.
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12/12/2022
Thousands of skiers descended on Czech mountain resorts as the season opened this weekend. Following the first heavy snowfall there is 20 to 40 centimetres of snow on the slopes of the Giant Mountains and many resorts have started making artificial snow as well. Špindleruv Mlýn welcomed over 4,000 skiers at the weekend, the ski resort Pec pod Sněžkou had more than 2,500 visitors. Some resorts are still only partially open with ski lifts operating only at the weekend.
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12/12/2022
Prague City Hall says it is not planning any New Year celebrations in the capital this year. City Hall spokesperson Vít Hofman told Czech Radio the city council does not consider it appropriate to organize celebrations this year. Among the main reasons cited are the war in Ukraine and the unfavourable economic situation of many households, as well as the need to economize in view of the energy crunch. Celebrations have been muted in recent years due to the pandemic, and even before that the Prague City Hall abandoned the traditional fireworks in favour of a videomapping show.
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12/12/2022
President Zeman has said he has no plans to declare an amnesty at the end of his second term in office. In an interview for Czech Radio, Zeman reiterated his earlier stand that pardons should be granted on a case-by-case basis. At the same time, he defended his decision to pardon for the head of the Lány Forest Administration, Miloš Balák, which has come under strong criticism. In the interview, the president did not rule out the possibility of appointing a new president of the Constitutional Court several months in advance. Experts say such a move may be legally uncertain, as the mandate of the current head of the court, Pavel Rychetský, does not end until August.
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12/11/2022
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with snow showers around the country and day temperatures between -1 and -5 degrees Celsius.
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12/11/2022
President Miloš Zeman met with opposition leader and presidential candidate Andrej Babiš at Lány Chateau on Sunday. The Office of the President released photos from the meeting, but no information was disclosed regarding its agenda. The two politicians last met in late October and the same day Babiš announced he would run for president. The former prime minister later told journalists that Zeman was happy that he had decided to run for the post of head of state.
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12/11/2022
The opposition ANO party would presently win general elections with a strong lead of 30.8 percent of the votes, according to the outcome of a December poll conducted by the STEM agency. The ruling Civic Democrats would come second with 13.9 percent of the vote,the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party would come third with 12.4 percent and the Pirate Party would be in fourth place with 9.4 percent. The Christian Democrats and TOP 09, which are in the ruling coalition, would not pass the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house.
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12/11/2022
Year-on-year inflation appears to have accelerated by several tenths of a percentage point in November, from 15.1 percent in October, according to analysts cited by the ctk news agency. They point out that, as in October, the reported inflation figure will be "reduced" by about two percentage points by the impact of the energy saving tariff. Inflation could thus accelerate once again in January when it will no longer be in force. The Czech Statics Office should publish the November inflation data on Monday.
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12/11/2022
The Christmas tree at the entrance to the European Parliament building in Brussels was felled in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and is decorated with blown glass ornaments made in the Koulier glassworks in the Chrudim region. The Art Nouveau ornaments were made especially for this occasion. Czechia is currently the country which holds the rotating EU presidency, but the organizers said they did not want to present only Czechia’s national colours in Brussels, and opted to accentuate something pan-European. The Art Nouveau period was selected since it is associated with a time of peace and prosperity for the Continent.
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12/11/2022
Trains in Czechia will start running according to a new timetable from Sunday, the ctk news agency reported. Apart from a change in departure times of most connections, the most significant novelty will be the acceleration of trains on some routes, for example from Prague to České Budějovice or Ostrava. Rail carriers have also launched several new connections and are increasing the price of tickets, with Czech Railways increasing prices by 15 percent.
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