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12/05/2022
Despite close to a quarter of Czech households being eligible to apply for the state housing benefit (příspěvek na bydlení), only 4 percent actually do, according to the results of a survey conducted by PAQ Research as part of a joint project with Czech Radio. The survey, conducted at the turn of October and November of this year, indicated that 24 percent of households in Czechia spend more than around a third of their net income on rent and associated costs.
According to sociologist Daniel Prokop, around 45 percent of those who would be eligible think that they are not. While among pensioners the reason is often a fear of too much bureaucracy, people in working age are often ashamed to ask for a benefit, Czech Radio writes.
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12/05/2022
Temperatures are expected to range around 3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, with rain and snowfall expected across the northern and central parts of the country.
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12/05/2022
Real wages, meaning wages adjusted for inflation, declined year-on-year by 9.8 percent in the third quarter of 2022, according to data from the Czech Statistics Agency. The nominal wage during the same period grew on average by 6.1 percent to CZK 39,858.
The country’s median income rose by 6.5 percent in the third quarter of this year, reaching CZK 37,530 for men and CZK 32,171 for women.
According to the head of the Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department of the Czech Statistics Agency, Dalibor Holý, the lowest rise in wages was identifiable in sectors where there is a large number of state employees. These were health and social services, public administration, defence and education.
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12/05/2022
The crown jewels of the Kingdom of Bohemia, one of Czechia’s most prized historical artefacts, are to be displayed to the public from January 17 to 21, 2023, the head of the Office of the President, Vratislav Mynář, announced on Monday. For the first time since 1955, the crown jewels will be displayed in the transept of Saint Vitus Cathedral. The skull of Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech nation, will be displayed in the Saint Wenceslas Chapel within the cathedral.
The crown jewels are composed of the Saint Wenceslas Crown, which was originally made for Charles IV.’s coronation in the 14th century, the sceptre and the orb, which were added to the crown jewels later.
The Bohemian crown jewels are normally locked away from the public and tend to be exhibited only once every five years. The last time they were shown to the public was in January 2018, the year that marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.
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12/05/2022
A plane flying from Poland to the UK was diverted to Prague airport on Sunday night following a report of a “possible bomb” on board the aircraft. The EasyJet flight from Kraków to Bristol landed at the Václav Havel Airport shortly before 11 p.m.
After a three-hour search by explosive experts, the airport announced that there was no dangerous object found in the Airbus.
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12/05/2022
A 1967 painting by the Czech surrealist artist Toyen called ‘Mirage’ sold for CZK 31.2 million at an auction in Prague on Sunday. It is the second most expensive painting of Czech post-war art sold at the country’s auction after 1989.
The starting prize of the painting, considered one of Toyen’s most important oils from her post-war period, was CZK 12 million. Her most expensive work sold at a domestic auction is the ‘Circus’, which was auctioned off last year for nearly CZK 80 million.
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12/04/2022
A total of 21.2 kilometres of new motorways and 14.2 kilometres of first-class roads will opened in Czechia this year, according to a survey by the company CEEC Research, citing data from the Ministry of Transport.
This is about twice less than last year, when the state opened 46.5 kilometres of new motorways and about 23 kilometres of first-class roads.
At present construction work is being carried out on 247 kilometres of motorway and first class roads. Next year, a further 40 kilometres of motorways are set to be constructed.
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12/04/2022
Sunday will be mostly cloudy with occasional drizzle or rain and day temperatures ranging between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius
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12/04/2022
Ukrainian soldiers have arrived for a planned exercise at the Libavá military area in Central Moravia, Chief of the General Staff Karel Řehka told the news website idnes on Sunday.
According to the website, the ministry did not disclose the exact number of soldiers or information on when they had arrived in the country for security reasons.
The parliament this week approved a bill that enables Ukrainian soldiers to be trained in Czechia as well as for Czech solders to train Ukrainians in other EU member states.
The training is to be carried out in five stages, planned until the end of 2023. Each exercise cycle will last four weeks and will be able to accommodate up to 800 soldiers. Its total cost is estimated at CZK 975 million.
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12/04/2022
Sales of Christmas and New Year's Eve package tours are 20 percent lower than in 2019 so far, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing the Association of Travel Agencies of the Czech Republic.
According to the association’s director Jan Papež, around 250,000 Czechs are expected to travel abroad by air at the end of the year. Most often they choose holidays by the sea.
Spokeswoman of the Čedok travel agency, Kateřina Pavlíková, told the Czech News Agency that there is increased interest in more luxurious exotic destinations for Christmas this year, such as Zanzibar, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar.
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