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10/13/2022
Friday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 14 and 18 degrees Celsius.
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10/13/2022
Sales of new hybrid vehicles in Czechia increased by 20.5 percent year-on-year to nearly 20,390 in the first three quarters of 2022, according to data released by the Car Importers Association on Thursday.
Of these, plug-in hybrids saw a 21 percent drop, while sales of the so-called full hybrids, which recharge while driving, continued to increase. Demand for electric cars increased by 57 percent, with 2,869 sold.
Japan's Toyota remains the best-selling hybrid brand, with 4,861 cars sold, followed by Ford and BMW. Among electric cars, domestic Škoda Auto has been the most successful with 1,071 Enyaqs sold, followed by Volkswagen and Hyundai.
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10/13/2022
State and local government spending on the Ukrainian refugee crisis amounted to CZK 16.9 billion at the end of September, the Ministry of Finance announced on Twitter on Thursday.
According to Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura, the costs for the whole year are likely to be lower than the initially estimated CZK 25 billion.
Most of the costs, CZK 13.9 billion, were earmarked from the state budget. The largest item in the costs were social benefits, which amounted to CZK 7 billion.
Healthcare costs associated with Ukrainian refugees reached CZK 3.5 billion and accommodation costs CZK 2.4 billion.
According to Czech Labour Office data, more than 120,000 Ukrainian refugees found employment in Czechia by the end of September.
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10/13/2022
Czechia, along with another fourteen NATO member states, signed a declaration of intent to jointly purchase air defence systems that protect allied territory from missiles, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht announced on Thursday.
The European states, which want to participate in the joint defence initiative, dubbed “European Sky Shield”, signed a declaration on the sidelines of a meeting of defence ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
According to the German defence minister, Israel’s Arrow 3 system, US patriot and Germen IRIS-T are among the options being considered.
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10/13/2022
Former Czech Army officer and NATO official Petr Pavel would take the most votes in the first round of voting for a new president next January, suggests a new Median poll. Mr Pavel would receive 24 percent of the vote, the survey indicates, ahead of the ANO leader Andrej Babiš with 23.5 percent.
It is the first time since last September that Mr Pavel placed ahead of the former prime minister, who has not yet declared whether he will run for office. Although the difference is within the margin of statistical error, it shows that Mr Pavel’s preferences are steadily increasing.
The new survey, carried out by Median in September, puts economist Danuše Nerudová in third place in the first round, with 10 percent, followed by senator Pavel Fischer with eight percent of the vote.
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10/13/2022
The 10th edition of the Signal festival of light and digital culture gets underway in Prague on Thursday evening. The event takes place along two routes in the Czech capital and offers video mapping projects, installations and other works.
Among the highlights should be an installation by Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky using real destroyed cars from the conflict in Ukraine and Turkish-US artist Refik Andadol’s Prague Dreams, a video work based on an enormous amount of data from the city’s streets.
The festival concludes on Sunday night.
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10/13/2022
Viktorie Plzeň were beaten 4:2 by Bayern Munich of Germany in football’s Champions League on Wednesday night. It was the fourth defeat in four group stage games so far for the Czech league champions, who have zero points and a goal difference of minus 13.
Viktorie Plzeň’s final two Champions League games are against Inter Milan, away, and Barcelona, at home.
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10/12/2022
From Tuesday October 25 Czechia will bar the entry of Russian citizens with Schengen visas from any EU state who are travelling for the purposes of tourism, sport or culture. The move was approved by the Czech cabinet on Wednesday afternoon and announced at a news conference by the minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský.
According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs data up to 200 Russian citizens travel to Czechia through international airports every day.
Mr. Lipavský said entry would be denied to those who come to Czech territory via external Schengen borders – meaning through airports – for the reasons outlined.
The Baltic countries, Poland and Finland closed their borders to Russian tourists in recent weeks.
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10/12/2022
Opposition leaders ANO would have come first in elections to the Czech lower house in September with 30.5 percent of the vote, suggests a poll conducted by the Median agency published on Wednesday. Government leaders the Civic Democrats would have finished second on 16 percent, the survey indicates. Freedom and Direct Democracy had 11.5 percent support and the Pirate Party had 11 percent.
TOP 09 and the Mayors were hovering just above the 5-percent cutoff and the Christian Democrats were some way below it on 2.5 percent.
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10/12/2022
A planned cut to the old-age pensions of prominent figures in the pre-1989 Communist regime will affect around 3,000 people, the Czech minister of social affairs, Marian Jurečka, said on Wednesday. The one-time officials will lose CZK 300 a month for each year, or year started, in their posts under draft legislation, which should take effect in 2024. A list of those concerned will be created by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Mr. Jurečka said.
The bill will affect members of or candidates for the Central Committee of the Communist Party, chairs of parliamentary and national committees, general and chief military prosecutors, selected soldiers and high-ranking police officers, as well as top members of the People’s Militia and border service.
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