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07/14/2022
Bavaria has agreed to increase the daily capacity of the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL), through which Czechia receives oil from the Italian port of Trieste, by 17 percent from Friday, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Thursday after a meeting with his Bavarian counterpart Markus Söder.
Mr Fiala said he considers the decision as extremely important for Czech energy security, allowing the country to wane itself away from Russian energy dependency.
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07/14/2022
The ongoing summer wave of coronavirus cases is nearing a culmination point which should occur within a week or 10 days, the director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (ÚZIS), Ladislav Dušek, told Czech Radio on Thursday. The decrease in cases will be gradual and case numbers could continue to rise after the culmination point is reached, he said.
According to Jan Konvalinka from the Institute of Water and Environmental Technology, the current viral load present in the population is the largest seen yet. However, this is tempered thanks to a substantial level of the population being vaccinated as well as thanks to the factor of herd immunity.
Covid tests have detected on average around 2,000 cases a day over the past three days.
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07/14/2022
The share of cybercrime on the overall amount of criminal cases in Czechia has risen sharply over the past ten years from 0.5 percent to 6.2 percent in 2021, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing Czechia’s Police President Martin Vondrášek. According to the police chief, the share of cybercrime is continuing to rise this year as well, possibly at an even faster pace.
The most common cybercrime was fraud (42 percent of cases), followed by unauthorized access to and destruction of computer records (17 percent).
The Czech Police were able to solve around a quarter of criminal cases conducted in cyberspace last year. When it comes to crime overall, the police was able to solve 57 percent of reported cases in 2021.
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07/14/2022
It is clear that the only energy which will be cheaper than current source sis renewable energy, the Vice-President of the European Commission for the Green Deal Frans Timmermans said on Thursday, ahead of the second day of an informal meeting of EU environment ministers in Prague. Switching to renewables has become all the more urgent since Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr Timmermans said, appealing for unity among member states in solving questions related to the climate crisis.
The ministers are expected to discuss the EU’s joint stance at November’s UN COP 27 climate change conference, which will take place in Egypt. Czech Environment Minister Anna Hubáčková said that all member states are currently aiming to continue in lowering their carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Fiala said on Thursday that the government plans to re-establish its council for energy and raw materials to focus on developing Czechia’s energy strategy including renewables.
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07/14/2022
Yevhen Perebiinis, who was recalled from his position as Ambassador to the Czech Republic by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, has praised the solidarity of Czechs with Ukraine after Russia’s invasion of the country in February. Speaking to Czech Television, the ambassador said that he will never forget the large numbers of people who turned up to protest the invasion and the amount of financial support that Czech citizens sent to the embassy account for funding Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
He said that his main goal as ambassador when he arrived in Prague was to change how Czechs perceive Ukrainians and that, due to the war, he believes some progress has been made in this area. “I hope that Czechs don’t just see Ukrainians as hard working, but also as a brave people now,” the ambassador said, adding that Ukraine is not just a country of workers and cleaners but also of painters, doctors and university professors.
The ambassador said that it is normal for diplomats to rotate and that he was not surprised by president Zelensky’s decision to recall him. It has not yet been announced who will replace him.
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07/14/2022
According to the head of the Association of Regions of the Czech Republic, Governor Martin Kuba, 40,000 of the estimated 70,000 Ukrainian refugee children that are in Czechia have been registered in the country’s schools.
Interest among Ukrainian refugees for registering their children into the Czech education system is therefore smaller than the government had expected, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after a meeting with regional governors on Thursday. However, he said that this numerical discrepancy could also mean that the children in question are either no longer on Czech territory.
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07/14/2022
Temperatures are expected to range around 23 degrees Celsius on Friday with partly cloudy or overcast skies.
Meteorologists warn that there may be powerful storms over the east and south east of the country during the night from Thursday to Friday.
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07/14/2022
The European Commission’s summer macroeconomic forecast has raised its prediction for Czech economic growth this year from 1.9 percent to 2.3 percent, with the average rate of inflation expected to lie at 13.9 percent – the fourth highest in the EU after the Baltic states. The reason behind the improved estimate is the surprising level of productivity of Czech industry during the first quarter of 2022, which was less impacted by a lack of commodities than was expected.
Meanwhile, for next year, the forecast has lowered its expectations when it comes to the growth of the Czech economy. The country is now expected to grow by 1.5 percent instead of 2.3 percent in 2023. Inflation is expected to fall to 5.8 percent.
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07/14/2022
Data from the Prague sewerage system show that there is an extremely high load of Covid-19 in the population. According to experts from the Institute of Water and Environmental Technology, who are in charge of the monitoring, the incidence of Covid among the city’s inhabitants has reached a record level and is twice higher that it was at the height of the pandemic. The number of confirmed infections is now reported to be at around 2,000 positive cases daily. Although the number of people hospitalized with Covid is slowly increasing, the number of people who require intensive care remains low.
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07/14/2022
The European Union is preparing a seventh package of sanctions against Russia, but it is already clear that it will not curb imports of Russian gas as too many member states would be unable to adjust quickly enough, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala told Reuters. Fiala said the sanctions now being finalized would target more individuals, effect a ban on gold imports and broaden the list of dual-use goods banned for export to Russia. The European Commission should be ready to present the package in the coming days and member states could approve it immediately after, Fiala said in an interview.
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