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05/05/2022
The Bank Board of the Czech National Bank raised its basic interest rate by 0.75 percentage point to 5.75 percent, the highest level since 1999, the central bank’s spokeswoman told the Czech News Agency on Thursday. It is the sixth above-standard increase in the base rate of more than 0.25 percentage point in a row.
The increase is mainly due to the continuing rise in inflation, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and the central bank's efforts to dampen inflation expectations.
The bank has also decided to increase the Lombard rate, which deals with short-term liquidity loans to commercial banks and the discount rate, by 0.75 percent to 6.75 percent.
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05/05/2022
The Czech government will provide an additional EUR 18 million (around CZK 443 million) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský announced at a donor conference in Warsaw on Thursday. So far, the Czech Republic has provided EUR 22 million (over CZK 540 million) worth of aid.
Mr. Lipavský said more aid was needed in view of the ongoing conflict and growing humanitarian needs. The Czech diplomatic chief also said that Czechia could host another donor conference during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of the year.
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05/05/2022
Friday is expected to be partly cloudy with occasional rain showers in the south of the country and day temperatures ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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05/05/2022
A commemorative ceremony was held outside the Czech Radio building in the Czech capital on Thursday to mark the start of the Prague Uprising against years of Nazi oppression at the end of the Second World War.
It was a radio broadcast which sparked the rising and the building became the focus for some of the fiercest fighting over the following days in the city and surrounding countryside.
The event was attended by the speakers of the upper and lower chambers of Parliament, Miloš Vystrčil and Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Slovak Ambassador to Prague Rastislav Káčer as well as other public figures and witnesses of the events.
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05/05/2022
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala paid tribute to the victims of Nazism at Berlin’s Plötzensee prison, where the Nazi regime imprisoned its opponents and resistance fighters, including Czechoslovak freedom fighters.
During his visit to Berlin on Thursday, the Czech head of government is due to hold talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He will also be received by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The bilateral talks will focus on the crisis in Ukraine, energy security and Czech-German relations.
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05/05/2022
The Czech Republic has now granted special visas to over 326,750 refugees from Ukraine. Some 1,900 visas were handed out on Wednesday, according to Interior Ministry data.
Starting this week, refugees are required to report a change in their place of residence in Czechia in three days instead of the previous 30. The deadline for registering with the immigration police after entry into the Czech Republic has also been reduced to three days.
According to the ministry, this step will enable the use of the accommodation capacities in individual towns more effectively.
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05/05/2022
The Febiofest film festival came to a close in Prague on Wednesday night with the presentation of awards voted on by Czech film critics.
The coproduction film You Resemble Me by Dinah Amer, exploring the roots of radicalization, won the Main Competition as well as the Amnesty International Febiofest Award.
A Special Mention was awarded to the dark Italian comedy Other Cannibals directed by Francesco Sossai. The Febiofest, now in its 29th year, will now move on to the regions.
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05/05/2022
Celebrations of the 77th anniversary of end of World War II begin in Plzeň on Thursday. Three US and two Belgian veterans of the liberation of the West Bohemian city will take part in the commemorations, which are due to run until Sunday and expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors.
Plzeň is the only city in Europe which organises such large celebrations, including the attendance of American vets, every year, a spokesperson told the Czech News Agency.
The US Army liberated West Bohemia on May 5 but the liberation of Prague was left to the Soviets, who arrived some days later.
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05/04/2022
The Chamber of Deputies has voted unanimously to end what is called a state of pandemic emergency, which allowed for the issuing of measures against Covid-19 without the need for a state of emergency. The move means that respirators will no longer be compulsory at all health and social care facilities from Thursday. All 159 MPs present in the lower house backed the move.
Hospitals and similar facilities were the last places where respirators were still obligatory.
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05/04/2022
A survey of large animals in the Czech Republic’s Beskid Mountains carried out in February of this year found that they are home to lynxes and wolves. However, the presence of bears in the mountain range in the east of the country was not established, organisers said on Wednesday. The study was carried out by volunteers for the 38th time.
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