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05/30/2022
The Czech Telecommunication Office (ČTÚ) has prepared a proposal to regulate the Czech mobile phone market, news site Lupa.cz reported on Monday. The new proposal, which takes recommendations from the European Commission into consideration, has been published on the ČTÚ website.
In its analysis the regulator argues that retailer mobile service prices, especially when it comes to mobile data, is disproportionately higher than the EU average.
A previous regulation proposal created by the ČTÚ was rejected by the European Commission and the Czech Republic’s Office for the Protection of Competition.
The Czech mobile operator market is currently composed of three major providers – O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone. A fourth operator could enter the market at the end of 2024, the Czech News Agency writes.
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05/30/2022
The National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) issued a warning on Monday against risks connected with using smart electricity meters from countries that do not possess credible legal environments. The warning is aimed at electricity distribution system operators, as these are required to evaluate possible threats when selecting suppliers.
NÚKIB says that there is a risk in using technologies that do not come from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the OECD or NATO. The state cyber security agency’s director, Karel Řehka, warned that risks from using compromised equipment could include a state-wide blackout.
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05/30/2022
The Czech Republic’s main public health insurance company, VZP, expects that the influx of 350,000 Ukrainian refugees could raise this year’s expenditures on care by around CZK 6.9 billion. Roughly two thirds of this number will be covered by insurance premiums paid by the state or employers. VZP representatives announced on Monday that close to 333,000 Ukrainians had thus far registered with the insurer, with a further 38,000 having registered with smaller insurance companies.
Around 18 percent of Ukrainians who are in a productive age have already managed to find jobs in the Czech Republic since they arrived, according to VZP data.
The insurance company’s director, Zdeněk Kabátek, said that he expects insurance costs will probably decrease overtime as more Ukrainians either find work in the Czech Republic or return to their home country.
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05/30/2022
The number of people who drink alcohol either daily or every second day declined from 19.8 to 15.4 percent between the years 2020 and 2021, according to a study conducted by National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ). The institute informed on Monday that the average rate of pure alcohol consumption per person also decreased, from 2020’s 8 litters to 6.9 percent in 2021 (excluding abstainers).
On average, one in six Czechs currently drink alcohol on a daily or semi-daily basis, according to the SZÚ. Meanwhile, 10.6 percent of men and 4.1 percent of women drink alcohol daily at harmful amounts.
Around a quarter of the population still smokes, the study indicates, although people are increasingly using alternatives such as e-cigarettes. While the number of smokers actually increased by 1.3 percent from 2020 to 2021, the National Institute of Public Health states that the overall trend has been one of smokers declining in the population since 2012.
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05/30/2022
Poland could construct a second floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) aside from the one already being planned in the port city of Gdansk. The option is being considered due to high interest in purchasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday citing Poland’s Environment Minister Anna Moskwa. Both countries are currently looking to cut their dependency on Russian gas and are therefore exploring alternate delivery methods.
Poland is already planning the construction of a floating storage and regasification unit in Gdansk, which should be finished by 2026 and have a capacity of transforming six billion cubic metres of gas a year.
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05/30/2022
Prague firefighters began constructing a tent town for Ukrainian refugees in the capital’s Malešice district with a capacity of 150 beds on Monday. The improvised settlement will include an eatery and showers and is mainly intended for those refugees who have recently found themselves stranded at Prague’s Main Train Station. Construction should be finished by the end of the day.
It is the second tent town to spring up in Prague in recent weeks, following the construction of a similar facility in the capital’s Troja neighbourhood.
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05/30/2022
Tuesday will see temperatures range around 22 degrees Celsius with overcast skies and the possibility of rainfall in the southern parts of Bohemia.
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05/30/2022
The Czech capital hosted a two-day meeting of the directors of NATO member states’ military intelligence agencies last week, the spokesman of Czech Military Intelligence, Jan Pejšek, told the Czech News Agency on Monday. The meeting was held as part of discussions within NATO’s Military Intelligence Committee. Mr Pejšek said that six partner states also joined in the meeting, with a Ukrainian representative speaking via video call.
The Czech Republic is currently chairing the NATO Military Intelligence Committee.
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05/30/2022
Czech police suspect a married couple of espionage due to their connection with Russian intelligence agents who carried out a deadly operation on Czech territory in 2014, Radiožurnál and Respekt reported on Monday.
The news outlets said that detectives believe that Nikolai Shaposhnikov, an ex-Russian solider with a Czech passport, and his wife Elena wrote emails about sensitive arms deals to GRU major general Andrej Averyanov, whose unit is suspected of blowing up arms stores in Vrbětice eight years ago, killing two people and causing major material damage.
Shaposhnikov also met Averyanov in Portugal, according to the former’s daughter, who reporters spoke to in North Moravia.
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05/30/2022
Players from the Czech national football squad gathered in Prague on Monday ahead of four Group A games in the Nations League in June. Coach Jaroslav Šilhavý will have to get by without some key players, with Patrik Schick, Antonín Barák and Tomáš Holeš out injured.
The Czechs welcome Switzerland on June 2 before playing Spain in Prague three days later. Four days after that they take on Portugal away, followed by a match in Spain four days later.
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