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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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03/15/2022
While women have no problem finding work in the Czech Republic, their salaries are still lower on average when compared to those earned by their male colleagues occupying similar positions, according to a new survey conducted by consultancy company PwC.
In year-on-year terms this difference has widened, with women earning around 20 percent less than men on average. Women are also less represented in leadership positions in companies, PwC writes, suggesting that the coronavirus pandemic stalled the gradual removal of the gap between the two the two sexes in the professional sphere.
The Czech Republic currently occupies 21st place out of the 33 OECD countries where PwC has been conducting its workplace gender study.
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03/15/2022
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is set to visit the Czech Republic on Thursday where he will meet with his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský. Discussions between the two heads of diplomacy are set to revolve around the situation in Ukraine and Czech involvement in military missions in the Baltic region.
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03/15/2022
Temperatures are expected to range around 11 degrees Celsius on Wednesday with overcast skies and occasional rainfall in the north-east of the country.
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03/15/2022
In view of the ongoing situation, electric plants that use coal could remain in use for longer than was initially planned, ČEZ CEO Daniel Beneš said at a press conference on Tuesday. This, he said, could be both more effective and cheaper in the short term.
ČEZ announced in its strategy last year that it will gradually reduce coal as an energy source before completely removing it as a heat plant source in 2030. The company plans to end brown coal mining in its facilities in northern Bohemia by 2038. The current government‘s manifesto vows to move the country away from coal by 2033.
ČEZ is one of the largest energy providers in Central Europe and is majority owned by the Czech state.
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03/15/2022
Monday’s Czech Radio benefit concert for Ukraine, which saw the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform famous Czech and Ukrainian compositions in Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall, raised a total of CZK 2,900,709. The money was raised both through sales of seating as well as through DMS donations via text message which viewers of the streamed concert could send to Czech NGO People in Need.
The concert was attended by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic Yevhen Perebyinis, People in Need CEO Šimon Pánek and Ukrainian musician Taras Voloshchuk. It was broadcast live by several Czech Radio stations as well as by Romanian and Lithuanian public broadcasters. It will also be offered for listeners as a repeat by public broadcasters in Sweden, Greece, Bavaria and Canada.
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03/15/2022
Car manufacturer Škoda Auto saw a 43.2 percent rise in its operating profit in 2021 reaching 1.08 billion euros, the company’s owner Volkswagen announced in its annual report on Tuesday. Higher margins, positive developments in foreign currency exchange rates and lower charges for above-limit carbon dioxide emissions were all factors that contributed to the profit increase.
Meanwhile, Škoda’s revenues rose by 3.9 percent to EUR 17,7 billion.
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03/15/2022
There has been a tenfold rise in interest among Czechs to serve in the country’s army active reserve forces over the past month, Ludvík Cimburek who serves as an advisor at the army general staff told the Czech News Agency on Tuesday. Nearly 1,400 people have applied for training since mid-February and more than 500 have applied for volunteer training. The Czech Army is therefore increasing its training capacities. The rise in interest to serve is a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Czech News Agency reports.
There are currently 3,640 men and women serving in the active reserves. The army aims to recruit 1,200 new reservists this year, Mr Cimburek said.
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