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03/16/2022
The European Commission has approved a EUR1.4 billion Czech scheme to partially compensate energy-intensive companies for higher electricity prices, the Commission informed on its website on Wednesday.
The scheme, approved under EU state aid rules, will provide compensation for the energy price hike resulting from indirect emission costs under the EU Emission Trading System (ETS).
According to EC Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, who is in charge of competition policy, the measure will allow Czechia to reduce the risk of carbon leakage for its energy-intensive industries while maintaining the incentives for a cost-effective decarbonisation of its economy.
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03/16/2022
Thursday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius.
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03/16/2022
Laboratories in the Czech Republic registered 10,715 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. This represents an increase by 230 than on the same day a week ago, despite a lower number of tests being carried out. Positivity was particularly high among those tested as a precaution.
The seven-day average incidence also increased and currently stands at 508 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. According to Ministry of Health data, there are currently 2,212 patients hospitalised with Covid.
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03/16/2022
According to a report by the General Inspectorate of the Security Forces (GIBS), the police was not responsible for the death of a Romany man in Teplice last year.
The 46-year-old man collapsed on the pavement shortly after police restrained him by kneeling on his neck and died in an ambulance shortly after.
The report concluded that the procedure was not proven to be related to the man's death; the cause of his death was a heavy overdose.
The incident, which happened in the town of Teplice in June of last year, made international headlines, with comparisons between the Romany man’s death and that of George Floyd in the United States.
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03/16/2022
Vera Gissing, one of the children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton from Nazi-occupied Prague, has died at the age of 93. Mrs Gissing was born in a small town of Čelákovice in Central Bohemia.
Together with her sister Eva, she left Czechoslovakia in 1939 on a “kindertransport” train Mr Winton had organised to London. She has been living in the UK permanently since the late 1940s.
Mrs Gissing’s story was recently depicted in a book by the Czech-born children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís, called Nicky & Vera. Mrs Gissing also published her own wartime memoirs called Pearls of Childhood.
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03/16/2022
Over 94,000 Ukrainian refugees have been registered by the Czech migration police at assistance centres set up for that purpose in all the country’s regions.
The total number of special visas handed out to Ukrainians reached more than 170,000 on Wednesday, according to Ministry of the Interior data.
Most of the people who received a special visa, over 40,000, have registered in Prague, followed by the Central Bohemia region with nearly 25,000 people and the South Moravia region with over 15,000 refugees.
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03/16/2022
Representatives of the Czech government and of regional administrations agreed on Tuesday that the state will contribute between 200 to 250 crowns per refugee for housing costs.
The decision is yet to be officially approved by the government as a whole. Subsidy payments such as these make it possible for regional administrations to rent private housing facilities such as hotels and lodging houses for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict in their home country.
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03/16/2022
The total debt held by Czech households rose by a record CZK 365 billion in 2021 to a total of CZK 2.97 trillion. The main reason for the high increase was a rise in people taking mortgages, according to CRIF – Czech Credit Bureau, a global company specializing in the development and management of credit registry services.
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03/15/2022
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to soon set up a representative office in the city of Uzhhorod in western Ukraine, which lies just a few kilometres from Slovakia, Aneta Kovářová from the Ministry’s communications department told the Czech News Agency on Tuesday.
The Czech Republic’s Foreign Ministry does not currently have a physical office in Ukraine to house its diplomats.
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03/15/2022
Several leading politicians from the Czech Republic’s ruling coalition have expressed their support for Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s decision to travel to Kyiv on Tuesday where he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky together with the prime ministers of Poland and Slovenia.
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told Czech Television that Mr Fiala’s visit expresses Europe’s support for Ukraine and is a strong political gesture. Meanwhile, Prague Castle spokesman Jiří Ovčáček has said that the trip also has the full support of Czech President Miloš Zeman.
The meeting is set to be the first visit by high ranking foreign officials to Ukraine since the launch of Russia’s invasion of the country on February 24.
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