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12/02/2022
The Ukrainian Consulate in Brno and a nearby school had to be evacuated on Friday morning due to concerns about a suspicious package that had been delivered to the consulate, Police spokesman David Chaloupka told the Czech News Agency. The package was similar to those that had been identified in Spain, where a local Ukrainian Embassy employee was injured on Wednesday after the device exploded.
The package sent to the Brno consulate was then x-rayed by the police. News site Novinky.cz has since reported that the police have found that the package contained organic tissue, adding that a closer laboratory analysis will follow. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko, the packages delivered to the Brno Consulate and to several other Ukrainian diplomatic representations across Europe contained animal eyes.
Czech Radio reported later on Friday that the Ukrainian Embassy in Prague received a similar package. The postal item is being analysed by pyrotechnicians, the Police stated. No evacuation was necessary in this case, only a partial closing of the surrounding street.
The Czech Police have called on all consulate employees in Czechia, as well as those working in companies producing arms materials, to act with maximum caution when inspecting new mail and to call the Police if they have any suspicions.
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12/02/2022
The Czech economy grew by 1.7 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of this year, according to a revised estimate released by the Czech Statistics Office on Friday. Compared to the previous quarter, GDP dropped by 0.2 percent.
The estimate shows that the Czech economy grew slightly more than it had originally been estimated by economists as the previous agency forecast for the third quarter stood at 1.6 percent growth.
According to experts, the year-on-year GDP growth was fuelled mainly by foreign demand and gross fixed capital formation. By contrast, household consumption expenditure had a negative impact on the economy.
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12/02/2022
Avian influenza has re-appeared in Czechia after a seven-month absence, the State Veterinary Administration has announced. An outbreak of the H5N8 virus, which is fatal to birds, was recorded at a duck poultry farm by the village of Frahelž in South Bohemia earlier this week.
Thousands of ducks at the farm were infected with bird flu and died within the past three days. In line with standard directives, special veterinary measures have been introduced in the immediate area of the farm, while the remaining poultry will be put down.
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12/01/2022
The state budget deficit in November rose to CZK 337.1 billion, up from CZK 286.7 billion in October, according to figures released by the Ministry of Finance on Thursday.
According to Minister Zbyněk Stanjura, the state will maintain the planned deficit of CZK 375 billion for the whole year.
Last year, the deficit was CZK 401.5 billion at the end of November, which was the worst interim result since the establishment of the Czech Republic in 1993.
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12/01/2022
The Czech tradition of timber rafting, recognized as part of Czech traditional folk culture, has been added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. The nomination was approved by UNESCO experts at a meeting in Morocco on Thursday.
The craft, dating back to the 14th century, involves the transport of wood by waterways from areas rich in woodland to those in which it is scarcer.
The nomination was submitted by Czechia along with another five European countries, including Germany, Austria, Spain, Poland and Latvia.
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12/01/2022
Friday is expected to be mostly overcast with occasional snow showers and day temperatures ranging between -1 and 3 degrees Celsius.
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12/01/2022
Czechia had the lowest rate of unemployment in the European Union in October, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday citing Eurostat data.
The general level of unemployment in the EU lay at 6.6 percent in in October, a decrease by 0.1 percent when compared to the previous month.
Data from the Czech Statistics Office indicates that unemployment in Czechia lay at 2.1 percent, compared to 2.2 percent in September. The country has had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU for several years now.
Eurostat estimates that there were nearly 13 million unemployed people in the EU in October, with over 18.8 million in the Eurozone.
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12/01/2022
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský is due to attend the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Łódź, Poland on Thursday.
At the meeting, the heads of diplomacy of OSCE member states are to discuss the far-reaching effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the security situation in Europe and on the OSCE’s activities.
The Czech foreign minister is also due to take part in an event which aims to draw attention to fundamental violations of international humanitarian law in Russia’s war against Ukraine, in particular cases of mass murder, torture and attacks on civilians.
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12/01/2022
This year’s Czech hop harvest was the worst in a decade, according to the data of the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture, published on Thursday.
The yield per hectare was the lowest since 2000, reaching only 0.9 tonnes. In total, 4452 tonnes of hops were harvested this year, compared to 8,306 tonnes in 2021.
This year’s crops were damaged by very high temperatures and droughts. Dry weather has also caused hops to have a lesser concentration of alfa acids, which are responsible for the bitter flavour in beer.
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12/01/2022
Up to 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers will be able to train in Czechia from next year, after the country’s Senate on Thursday approved legislation to that effect already passed by MPs. The upper house also gave its backing to the deployment of Czech soldiers to train Ukrainian soldiers in other European Union states.
Czechia has been a major supporter of Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russia earlier this year.
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