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06/01/2022
Economist and former Rector of Brno’s Mendel University Danuše Nerudová has announced her candidacy for president. She made the announcement on Tuesday evening on Twitter, saying that "we all deserve hope for better times." Mrs Nerudová, who is 43, will start to collect the 50,000 signatures needed to officially register as a candidate.
Czechs will be voting for the future head of state in a direct election at the beginning of next year. Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Petr Pavel, a former high-ranking Czech army and NATO official, are regarded as the favourites, but they have not yet officially announced their candidacies.
Earlier in May, trade union leader Josef Středula also began collecting the signatures needed to run for president.
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06/01/2022
The Lower House of Parliament has approved stricter rules for Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic. The amendment to the so-called Lex Ukraine, a package of legislation aimed at helping Ukrainian refugees to integrate in Czechia, was approved on Tuesday evening by 158 deputies out of 161 present after a four-hour debate.
Under the new legislation, Ukrainian refugees with free accommodation, food and basic hygiene products will no longer receive the CZK 5,000 humanitarian allowance. Starting next month, the aid will also be tied to permanent residence in the Czech Republic, in order to prevent so-called benefit tourism.
The state will cover health insurance for refugees, except for children and the elderly, for a maximum of 150 days. The new legislation also envisages that the Czech Republic will no longer issue visas and residence permits to Russians and Belarusians.
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05/31/2022
The upcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will honour the late film historian and its long-time artistic director for Eva Zaoralová, her successor Karel Och said at a press conference on Tuesday.
As a tribute to Mrs Zaoralová, the programme will include Federico Fellini's The Road, which she herself described as crucial for her relationship to film.
The festival, whose 56th edition will begin on 1 July, will also commemorate Zaoralová with a photography exhibition. The organizers also unveiled the 33 films that will be screened in the festival’s competitions.
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05/31/2022
Over 40,670 hectares of forests were planted in the Czech Republic last year, according to data released by Czech Statistics office on Tuesday. That is an increase by 7,000 hectares on the previous year and a record-high figure in the modern history of the country.
Over 30 million cubic metres of timber was harvested in 2021, which was 5.5 million cubic metres less than a year before. Nearly 86.9 percent of the harvested trees were affected by bark beetle.
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05/31/2022
Wednesday will be partly cloudy with day temperatures ranging between 20 to 24 degrees Celsius.
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05/31/2022
The regular test of public emergency sirens in the Czech Republic will take place on Wednesday after a three-month break, the country’s fire service announced on Tuesday,
The alarms, which usually go off at noon on the first Wednesday of every month, remained silent for the past three months to prevent panic among the public and out of respect for the Ukrainian citizens who have sought refuge in this country.
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05/31/2022
Czech household debts dropped by CZK 20.1 billion month-on-month in April to CZK 2.067 trillion, after rising continuously since February 2016, according to statistics released by the Czech National Bank on Tuesday.
Year-on-year, the debts of Czech households to banks increased by almost CZK 162 billion in April and business debts rose by around CZK 76 billion.
The central bank also pointed out that the figures in the banking statistics for April were affected by the final revocation of Sberbank CZ's banking licence.
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05/31/2022
The Czech Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Prague, Alexander Zmejewski, on Tuesday morning over the use of real estate owned by the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic.
The authorities suspect that many of the buildings are not used for diplomatic activities. According to Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, this would be in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Earlier this month, the head of Czech diplomacy created a working group to deal with the issue of property rights to real estate used by Russia in the Czech Republic.
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05/31/2022
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has described Monday’s agreement on a partial oil embargo against Russia by EU leaders as an “excellent result” for the European Union and the Czech Republic, news site denikn.cz reported on Tuesday. He said that it was possible to tackle key issues related to the measure as all sides were able to reach a united position.
The Czech Republic negotiated an 18 month exception from the ban on purchasing products made out of Russian oil. Mr Fiala said that while oil deliveries coming from the sea will immediately be discontinued, those coming in via pipelines will be gradually discontinued.
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05/31/2022
The Czech economy grew year-on-year by 4.8 percent during the first quarter of 2022, according to an estimate released by the Czech Statistics Agency on Tuesday. Compared to the previous quarter, GDP grew by 0.9 percent.
The estimate shows that the Czech economy grew slightly more than had originally been forecast by economists as the previous agency forecast lay at 4.6 percent growth in the first quarter.
Vladimír Kermiet from the Czech Statistics Agency said that the first quarter of the previous year had been negatively affected by the pandemic and by a lack of industrial components. Meanwhile, in this year, statisticians can see the effect of growing prices and the limiting of household expenditure especially on long-term consumption goods.
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