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05/25/2022
Half of President Miloš Zeman’s team of economic advisors have quit, Seznam Zprávy reported. Five of the 10 members have stood down, saying that they had run out of patience or that regular meetings at the presidential retreat near Prague were a waste of time, the news site said.
Those who have resigned include the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Vladímir Dlouhý, the president of the Confederation of Industry, Jaroslav Hanák, the governor of the Czech National Bank, Jiří Rusnok, ex-MP and unions chief Jaroslav Zavadil and the chairman of the Union of Towns and Municipalities, František Lukl.
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05/25/2022
The Czech Republic lost 3:0 to hosts Finland in their final group game at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Tampere on Tuesday night. The Czechs, who are coached by Finn Kari Jalonen, finished third in their group.
They had already qualified for the quarter-finals, where they will face Germany in Helsinki on Thursday.
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05/24/2022
President Miloš Zeman on Tuesday turned down requests from 11 Czech citizens to join the armed forces of Ukraine, a spokesperson for the head of state said. Mr. Zeman rejected the applications on the recommendation of the Czech Ministry of Defence.
The president recently gave his approval to 103 Czechs seeking to fight for Ukraine against Russia.
Joining the army of another state without such an exemption is a crime under Czech law.
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05/24/2022
A second tent town for refugees from Ukraine will be created in Prague, a Ministry of the Interior spokesperson said on Tuesday. The centre will be erected in the city’s Malešice district within a week and should have a capacity of 150.
A tent town for refugees has been operating in the Troja district of Prague for some weeks.
The centre in Malešice was agreed by Prague’s mayor Zdeněk Hřib and the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, during talks on Tuesday.
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05/24/2022
The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, has proposed that benefits and grants for Ukrainian refugees be limited in parts of the country that have reached capacity as regards taking people in. The capital has been suffering from a lack of capacity for some time and its leaders have called for a greater sharing of the refugee burden with other regions of the Czech Republic.
Mr. Hřib said on Tuesday that the current situation in Prague was not sustainable and that increased living costs would impact the city’s residents.
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05/24/2022
The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in the Czech Republic, Seznam Zprávy reported on Tuesday. The chairman of the infectious medicine group at the JE Purkyně Czech Medical Society, Pavel Dlouhý, told the news site that the patient in question was being treated at Prague’s Central Military Hospital.
Monkeypox cases have recently been discovered across Europe, the United States and other countries.
The rare viral infection does not tend to spread easily between people.
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05/24/2022
The organisation that administers the Czech internet will on Wednesday cease to block eight websites that spread disinformation. CZ.NIC made the sites’ domains inaccessible on February 25, just after Russia launched its war on Ukraine, following consultation with the state authorities. The eight were accused of relativizing, justifying or approving of Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine.
A representative of CZ.NIC said the websites no longer posed a threat, in part due to the fall in their visitor numbers.
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05/24/2022
President Miloš Zeman’s office could face a fine of up to CZK 200,000 over the controversial shredding of classified documents, Czech Radio reported on Tuesday. The Office of the President has been accused of shredding an intelligence report relating to a Russian operation on Czech territory in 2013 that left two people dead.
Czech Radio said that the National Archive would now decide about any potential wrongdoing, adding that Mr. Zeman’s officials had also shredded hundreds of other classified documents late last year.
The destruction of the intelligence report came to light after police sought it to check if it had been handled by any unauthorised persons; some of the head of state’s closest associates lack security clearance.
The National Archive is currently preparing to investigate the matter. A fine of CZK 200,000 is the biggest punishment it can impose in such a case.
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05/24/2022
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected on the following days.
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05/24/2022
Apartment prices in the Czech Republic grew by 20.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, according to data from the bank Hypoteční banka cited by the Czech News Agency on Tuesday. House prices increased by 19.6 percent in that period, while sites went up by 23.7 percent.
The chairman of the board of Hypoteční banka said that an increase in interest rates implemented by the Czech National Bank had not yet slowed growth in property prices.
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