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04/01/2022
Film incentives in the Czech Republic are expected to generate between 8 to 9 billion crowns in 2022, just as in the last year before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the director of the State Cinematography Fund (SFK), Helena Bezděk Fraňková, announced on Thursday. The SFK is responsible for listing the incentives.
For years now, foreign film studios have been increasingly interested in shooting productions in the Czech Republic. Demand has been growing steadily since 2018, when global streaming platforms began investing in their own productions.
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04/01/2022
The Czech Republic’s public deficit grew by 5.9 percent in 2021 to a total of 41.9 percent of the country’s GDP, the Czech Statistics Agency announced on Friday. The deficit in 2020 lay at 37.7 percent of GDP.
Creditas Chief Economist Petr Dufek told the Czech News Agency that the numbers are not surprising given the government spending last year, which was not only affected by coronavirus emergency subsidies but also by new legislation abolishing the so-called "super gross wage" and the lower productivity of the economy in general.
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04/01/2022
Czech Army planes took over the surveillance of the Baltic airspace on Thursday as part of a NATO mission, the army announced on Twitter. Five Jas-39 Gripen fighter jets and 95 military personnel will be monitoring the Baltic airspace as part of a NATO mission until July.
This is the fourth mission of Czech pilots in the Baltics and the seventh time in total that the Czech Air Force has been deployed to protect NATO member states. The Czechs will be based in Lithuania and collaborate with Spanish and French air forces.
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04/01/2022
Jiří Šalamoun, one of the most notable Czech illustrators of the late 20th century and the creator of the popular animated character of Maxipes Fík, died on Thursday at the age of 86.
Mr Šalamoun was born in Prague in 1935 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the University of Graphic Design and Illustration in Leipzig.
His work included almost 100 illustrated books, theatre and exhibition posters, and a number of animated films. He was also a long-time head of the Studio of Illustration and Graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
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03/31/2022
The Czech Republic produces the best cars available on the British market, according to a study of car brands carried out by a UK automotive consumer advice site, The Car Expert. Czechia scored 76 percent on average in the rankings, ahead of Sweden and Germany.
According to the British car experts, the entire range of Škoda cars sold in the UK performed well. The Enyaq iV was the best performing vehicle, scoring 88 percent, while the Scala was the lowest performing car with 64 percent.
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03/31/2022
A reconstructed pyramid of human bones should return to a famous 14th century ossuary near the town of Kutná Hora this year, restorers announced on Thursday.
The former medieval chapel, which houses the bones of an estimated 40,000 to 70,000 people who died during the mid-14th century plague and in the subsequent Hussite Wars, has been undergoing an extensive renovation since 2014.
There are a total of four pyramids as well as other formations made of bones and skulls in the Sedlec ossuary, which attracted half a million tourists annually in the pre-Covid years.
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03/31/2022
Czech theologian Tomáš Halík and former diplomat and head of the Václav Havel Library Michael Žantovský have proposed that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In a letter sent to the chairwoman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, they say that by leading the Ukrainian nation in resisting the Russian aggression, Zelensky is defending peace for the whole of Europe.
The petitioners, who also include businessman Luděk Sekyra, also argue that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a local conflict, but has become a symbol of the struggle for universal values.
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03/31/2022
Friday will be mostly overcast with rain and snow showers and day temperatures ranging between 1 to 5 degrees Celsius.
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03/31/2022
The S.A.W.E.R. technology developed in the Czech Republic, which uses solar energy to extract water from hot desert air, has been awarded the Innovation Prize at the World Expo in Dubai.
The news was announced on Wednesday by the head of the Czech pavilion, Jiří František Potužník. The award ceremony was held just before the end of Expo 2020, which closes its doors on Thursday.
The device, called S.A.W.E.R. or Solar Air Water Earth Resource, was developed by experts from the Czech Technical University and uses two systems for extracting water out of the desert air and for cultivating the desert into fertile land.
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03/31/2022
The Czech economy grew by 3.3 percent year-on-year in 2021 and by 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter, according to the refined estimate by the Czech Statistics Office published on Thursday. It represents the best result since 2017, when GDP grew by 5.4 per cent year-on-year.
However, the growth was not sufficient to counter the extent of the recession of 2020, which saw the country’s gross domestic product fall by 5.8 percent. That figure represented the biggest drop in the recent history of the Czech Republic.
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