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03/12/2022
The Czech Republic has appealed for assistance under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in providing accommodation for 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. The state’s accommodation capacities have already been exhausted and it can only provide refugees with emergency shelter, a spokesperson for the national fire service said on Saturday, adding that the Czech Republic can no longer be a destination country for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country.
An estimated 200,000 Ukrainian refugees are already in the Czech Republic, with scores of thousands more expected. Around 30 percent of those who have so far registered with the local authorities have been in Prague.
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said on Saturday that in view of the refugee situation it would be logical to extend the current state of emergency, which began on March 4. It runs for 30 days, when any prolongation would need to be approved by MPs.
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03/12/2022
The Czech Republic has already granted special visas to over 120,000 Ukrainian refugees, the Ministry of the Interior said on Friday. The minister of the interior, Vit Rakusan, said on Thursday that nearly 200,000 Ukrainians seeking refuge from Russia’s war on their country had already arrived. He later stated that final number could be twice as high.
Prague’s mayor, Zdeněk Hřib, said that that situation in Prague with regard to refugees had become serious. He said available accommodation had been exhausted and that the city had been preparing emergency solutions.
Around half of the Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic are in Prague or the surrounding Central Bohemia Region.
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03/12/2022
Saturday marks the 23rd anniversary of the Czech Republic’s becoming a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, on March 12, 1999. Two weeks earlier the then Czech president, Václav Havel, had signed the instruments of accession, thus completing the process of joining NATO’s structures.
Havel said at the time that joining the alliance gave Czechs great hope that they would never again be occupied or the victim of an aggressor.
Two other former Eastern Bloc states, Poland and Hungary, also jointed NATO at that time.
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03/12/2022
The majority of Czechs are attempting to manage their budgets more carefully in view of the rising fuel prices and rampant inflation currently being seen in the country, according to a survey by the company Cofidis cited by the Czech News Agency on Saturday.
The report suggests that 83 percent of Czechs are trying to make savings on heating while 81 percent are trying to consume less electricity in their households.
Some 80 percent of those surveyed said they were being more careful when it came to food shopping.
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03/12/2022
The Czech police have released a video in Ukrainian warning refugees arriving in the country about the dangers of being tricked by conmen. The video was produced after the police uncovered cases of fraudsters trying to charge Ukrainian refugees to speed up the procedure of registering to stay in the Czech Republic, a service that is free.
The new arrivals, many of whom are women, have also been warned to beware of offers of lucrative jobs that could lead to them ending up in forced labour or prostitution.
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03/12/2022
It should be mainly bright in the Czech Republic on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 8 degrees Celsius. Daytime highs will hover around 10 degrees Celsius in the following days.
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03/12/2022
Some 8,365 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Friday, 110 more than on the same day the previous week. Reinfections were up by 60 to 1,652. This was despite the fact that fewer tests were conducted.
Friday was the fourth day this week when numbers were up on seven days earlier.
The reproduction number climbed to 0.99, with above 1.0 indicating that infections are accelerating.
Covid hospitalisations fell week-on-week to 2,146. One-hundred and 80 patients are in a critical condition.
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03/11/2022
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala welcomed the outcome of an informal EU summit in France on Thursday, saying that the Versailles Declaration contains a number of things that the Czech Republic feels strongly about. He said the declaration reflects EU unity in backing Ukraine's resistance to the Russian aggression and places emphasis on strengthening the transatlantic link as well as bolstering European defense structures in response to the Russian threat.
The Czech prime minister also welcomed the agreement that EU member states will also have the right to choose their own energy mix. For the Czech Republic this will mean investments in liquefied gas infrastructure, nuclear and renewable energy sources, Mr. Fiala said.
The Czech Republic, together with Poland and Slovakia, pushed hard for the opening of accession talks with Ukraine. The Czech prime minister said that Ukraine has proved beyond doubt that it belongs in Europe and that it deserves to be invited to join the family of democratic nations, given its brave fight in defense of freedom and Western values. However the EU was divided on the proposal and in the end ruled out Ukraine's call for a fast-track integration with the bloc.
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03/11/2022
At the request of the Ukrainian public broadcaster UA: PBC, Czech Radio is sending technical equipment essential for broadcasting to Ukraine. Thanks to this donation it will be possible to set up temporary Ukrainian radio stations in the event that the current broadcasting facilities are occupied or destroyed by Russian troops. Czech Radio has also launched an internet stream of the UA:PBC radio broadcast in Ukrainian. The stream will be available on the audio portal and in the mobile application mujRozhlas.cz. The aim of the project is to make information about the war in Ukraine available daily to refugees and Ukrainians in the Czech Republic.
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03/11/2022
A police officer from České Budejovice has been charged with inflicting bodily harm and misconduct for attacking a couple on the street. The officer slapped a woman who reportedly ignored his request for an ID. He also beat up her boyfriend when he came to her defense, felling him to the ground and kicking him in the head. If convicted the officer could face up to three years in jail.
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