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05/03/2022
The Czech Republic ranks 20th in the world in this year’s Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. The Central European state occupied the 40th spot last year. Czechia also ranks the highest among the states of the Visegrad Four (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), with Slovakia coming in second at 27th in the world.
According to RSF, freedom of the press in the Czech Republic is threatened by the high concentration of privately owned media and the pressure exerted on public broadcasting.
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05/03/2022
The Czech Republic is among 10 EU member states who have asked Brussels to provide money for managing the Ukrainian refugee crisis. The countries are proposing that the European Commission uses its budgetary reserves or emergency funds for the purpose, the website of Czech Television reported on Tuesday. The text of a joint letter adressed by the countries to Brussels has been published on the website of Politico.
The information follows last week’s statement by the prime ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic that both countries will cooperate in their efforts to secure refugee funding from Brussels and lobby for Ukraine to acquire EU candidate status.
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05/03/2022
The Financial Analytical Office of the Ministry of Finance has frozen the assets of Ostrava-based company Vítkovice Steel, an export focused steel manufacturer which is owned by supranational investment funds belonging to the countries of the former Soviet Union. The asset freeze is connected to sanctions on Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, Czech Television reported citing the spokeswoman of the Finance Ministry Michaela Lagronová.
In March, news site Info.cz reported that Vítkovice Steel shareholder control can be traced back to Russia’s development bank VEB. However, this was denied by the company’s spokesperson, who said that the owners of Vítkovice Steel are businessmen from the states of the former USSR and not Russia.
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05/03/2022
Wednesday is expected to be cloudy with rainfall across the country. Temperatures will lie at around 20 degrees Celsius.
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05/03/2022
The Czech Republic had the lowest rate of unemployment in the European Union in March, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday citing Eurostat data. The general level of unemployment in the EU lay at 6.2 percent in March, a decrease by 0.1 percent when compared to February. In the Eurozone the number was slightly higher at 6.8 percent.
Data from the Czech Statistics Office indicates that unemployment lay at 3.4 percent in the Czech Republic in March. The country has had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU for several years now.
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05/03/2022
A Czech volunteer in Ukraine has died after coming under fire from Russian soldiers, news site Voxpot reported on Tuesday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to the Czech News Agency that the individual is missing and that officials are in contact with his family, but that his death cannot yet be confirmed.
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05/03/2022
Under certain conditions the Czech Republic would support an end to Russian oil supplies by the end of this year, Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela said on Monday after an extraordinary meeting with his EU colleagues which was focused on ensuring sufficient gas supplies. The minister also said that the Czech Republic continues to refuse to pay for Russian gas in roubles, as has been demanded by Moscow.
EU states have been discussing cutting Russian oil deliveries in their new package of sanctions which is set to be proposed this week. The Czech Republic would consider supporting the proposal if a system of shared EU energy purchases proves functional and the union will have sufficient oil reserves to cover possible shortages on the European market, Mr Síkela said.
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05/03/2022
The state budget deficit rose to 100.1 billion crowns at the end of April from 59.1 billion in March, the Czech Finance Ministry reported. The 2022 state budget, approved in March, envisages a deficit of 280 billion crowns, roughly 100 billion crowns lower than that proposed by the former government of Andrej Babiš. Although the Fiala administration is determined to reduce the gap in public finances, economists say that in view of the repercussions of the war in Ukraine it will be impossible to keep the deficit within the projected 280 billion crowns. The government has sent military aid to Ukraine to the tune of 3 billion crowns, taken in over 320,000 refugees and has approved social benefits for low-income families to make up for the soaring inflation.
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05/03/2022
Art collector, patron and founder of the Museum Kampa in Prague, Meda Mládková has died at the age of 102. Mládková spent more than half of her life in exile, mostly in the United States where with her husband she established a collection of modern Czech art which she brought to the US from behind the Iron Curtain. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Meda Mládková returned to Czechoslovakia and donated her entire collection to the country. In 1999 she established a foundation which acquired Sovovy Mlýny, a historic building a few hundred meters from Charles Bridge in Prague, and transformed the building into a thriving art museum.
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05/02/2022
Tuesday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain predominantly in the eastern parts of the country and day temperatures between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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