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06/17/2022
The Czech Republic presently has the fourth highest inflation rate in the EU, according to data released by the European Statistics Office Eurostat on Friday. Inflation in Czechia is now at 15.2 percent and analysts predict it may peak at 18 percent in July. The Baltic states currently top the inflation ladder in the 27-member block. Estonia has 20.1 per cent inflation, Lithuania 18.5 per cent and Latvia 16.8 per cent. The EU inflation average has now reached 8.8 percent.
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06/17/2022
The High State Prosecutor's Office in Prague has proposed taking into custody three of the eleven people charged with corruption in a case related to mismanagement of the Prague Transport Company. According to the prosecutor, there is a risk that the accused could flee or influence witnesses or co-defendants who have not yet been questioned. Among those implicated in the case is the now-former deputy mayor of Prague, Petr Hlubuček and Prague businessman Michal Redl who are both reported to have had close links to the deputy chair of the coalition STAN party Petr Gazdik. Hlubuček resigned from all party positions, and withdrew his candidacy in the autumn local elections.
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06/17/2022
Former political prisoner Miluška Havlůjová has died at the age of 93, the organisation Post Bellum, which collects 20th century oral history recordings, informed on Friday.
Havlůjová was born in May 1929 in the small village of Dušníky near Prague. After the communist putsch in 1948, her family’s sawmill was confiscated and her father ended up in prison.
She was arrested in 1953 and sentenced to five years behind bars for attempted sedition against the Republic and spying, in spite of having an 18-month-old son.
After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she became involved in politics by joining the Civic Forum. In 1992, she became mayor of Rudná u Prahy, a position she held until 1998.
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06/17/2022
Some 2,160 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic over the past seven days, which is about 360 more than in the previous week, according to Ministry of Health data.
The reproduction rate has been above 1.0 in recent days, which indicates that the epidemic is accelerating. There are now on average 20 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 17 a week ago.
While the number of detected cases has been growing for two weeks in a row, the number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 has been decreasing. A total of 94 coronavirus patients were in hospital on Thursday, which was 13 fewer than on the same day a week ago.
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06/16/2022
The war in Ukraine has sharply raised expectations for the upcoming Czech EU Presidency, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after a meeting with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola in Prague on Thursday.
During the traditional meeting ahead of the presidency, Mr Fiala outlined the priorities for the second half of this year and agreed with the EP leadership on future cooperation. He also praised Mrs Metsola’s support in the course of preparations for the upcoming Czech presidency.
Mr Fiala also said he would like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend an informal summit of the European Council in Prague in autumn, if the situation allows.
The Czech EU presidency will officially open on July 1, in the east Bohemian town of Litomyšl with a joint meeting of the Czech government and the European Commission.
The Czech Republic's top priorities during its presidency of the Council of the European Union will be managing the refugee crisis and the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, energy security, and the strengthening of Europe’s defence capabilities and cyber security.
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06/16/2022
Friday will be partly cloudy with day temperatures ranging between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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06/16/2022
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Austria’s limitation of benefits for children living abroad violates EU law, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Thursday.
Until now, Austrian allowances were paid on the basis of an indexation corresponding to the cost of living in the countries of residence of the children.
The controversial regulation introduced in 2019 affects many families of workers from other EU countries, including thousands of Czechs.
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06/16/2022
A record 120 veteran cars embarked from Prague on Thursday morning on a three-day ride to the Slovak capital Bratislava and back.
The annual event, called the ‘1000 Czechoslovak Miles’, is a reference to the legendary race that took place in First Republic in the 1930s and was organised by the 1000 Miles of Czechoslovakia Society together with the Veteran Car Club Prague and the National Technical Museum.
This year’s ride commemorates the 125th anniversary of the start of car production in the Czech Republic, when the first car, named President, rolled out of the Kopřivnice factory in 1897.
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06/16/2022
The Prague centre for Ukrainian refugees in Vysočany closed down on midnight Wednesday. An information service remains on the site to inform refugees where they can seek help.
According to Prague Mayor, Zdeněk Hřib, the centre was closed due to overburdening of the capital and the lack of a system of relocation to other less crowded regions.
The facility will remain closed until the government introduces a system of redistribution for refugees so that the burden can be balanced out more evenly between the various regions.
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06/16/2022
Car production in the Czech Republic increased by 12.8 percent year-on-year in May to 120,186 vehicles, according to data released by the Automotive Industry Association on Thursday.
It is the first time that Czech car producers recorded a year-on-year growth this year and also the first time they returned to a pre-Covid monthly production volume.
Some 481, 535 cars were produced in the Czech Republic over the first five months of 2022, which is still 14 percent lower than in the same period last year.
The reasons for the decline from January to the end of May were a shortage of semiconductor chips, disrupted supply chains due to the Russian war in Ukraine, reduced logistics flows due to anti-pandemic measures in China, as well as some local events, such as a fire at a key supplier of Skoda Octavia, or the restructuring of Toyota's Kolin plant.
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