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07/14/2020
More than 42,000 foreign workers left the Czech labour market in the second quarter of 2020, newly released statistics from the Czech Labour Office show. That means 7 percent of the country’s foreign work force was wiped off the labour market from March to June.
The Czech Republic entered a state of crisis on March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, complicating travel and forcing the shut-down of many businesses. A significant part of the foreign work force therefore chose to return home, while the process of securing visas for new workers was temporarily frozen.
The total number of foreign workers in the country at the end of June lay at 602,500.
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07/14/2020
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said it may be mandatory to wear facemasks when taking public transport as of October, when the normal seasonal flu could compound health risks stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
Vojtěch said during a tour of Diana Biotechnologies, a firm developing a new device for testing Covid-19 samples, that the incidence of the disease and common respiratory infections will determine whether such a step is necessary.
At present, facemasks are mandatory only in the Prague metro and in public transport in areas with high infection rates in the Moravian-Silesian and Jihlava regions. In addition, they must be worn in homes for the elderly, inpatient facilities, and at indoor events with more than 100 attendees.
On Monday 64 more cases of coronavirus were reported in the Czech Republic. Since testing began in March, 13,238 people have contracted the disease, of whom 8,373 have recovered. To date, 353 people infected with Covid-19 have died.
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07/14/2020
The government has backed a Senate proposal to amend the constitution to stipulate the right to defend oneself with a legally held weapon, Minister of Justice Marie Benešová told journalists late on Monday.
Hunters, gamekeepers and sport shooters launched a petition to amend the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms several years ago in reaction to the European Commission’s effort to restrict the possession of weapons, including legally possessed ones.
Benešová said the decision to back the Senate proposal came after a heated debate. Defence Minister Lubomír Metnar said that he was among the cabinet members who initially were against the proposal but had changed his mind due to the changing security situation.
The EU introduced tighter controls on firearms two years after a series of coordinated assaults by Islamist extremists in Paris in 2015, including restrictions on the private use of semiautomatic rifles, a move that the Czech Republic fought in court.
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07/13/2020
Tuesday should be cloudy and relatively cool with light winds and average daytime highs of 19 to 22 degrees Celsius.
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07/13/2020
Slovan Liberec will compete in the Europa League preliminary rounds thanks to its 2-0 victory at home on Sunday night against Mladá Boleslav, notably thanks to a goal by the Guinean Kamso Mara.
Slovan is the last Czech club to qualify for European competitions, after Slavia, Plzeň, Sparta and Jablonec. The northern Bohemian club last qualified for the prestigious European tournament in the 2016/2017 season.
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07/13/2020
The Czech state has increased the share capital of troubled coal miner OKD by 600 million crowns, half of what management has sought to avert bankruptcy.
OKD was acquired in April 2018 by the state-controlled company Prisko. In June, its management has asked for 1.2 billion crowns in share capital as part of an ongoing rescue plan.
In early July, OKD announced a temporarily closing of its black coal mines in the Karviná region due to an outbreak of Covid 19. A skeleton staff is due to remain in place through August.
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07/13/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) congratulated Polish President Andrzej Duda on his re-election via Twitter and said he looks forward to further cooperation within the Visegrad Four, which also includes Slovakia and Hungary.
Rudolf Jindrák, head of the Foreign Department of the Office of the President of the Czech Republic, said Duda’s re-election is good news for bilateral and regional cooperation.
Czech President Miloš Zeman has sent a congratulatory letter to his Polish counterpart, Jindrák said. Duda, a social conservative allied with the government led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, defeated socially liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski by 2.5 percentage points, winning 51.2 percent of the vote.
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07/13/2020
Prague City Hall will add another 46 million crowns to a special fund to support entrepreneurs affected by anti-coronavirus measures through interest-free loans, councillors agreed on Monday.
Previously, the Czech capital had allocated 640 million crowns to the fund, which seeks to aid entrepreneurs unable to apply for funds through the government’s Covid II relief programme.
Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) said earlier that the move would allow the city to guarantee loans of up to 1.55 billion crowns, through the Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank (ČMZRB).
Entrepreneurs can apply for interest-free loans ranging from 10,000 to 15 million crowns, or for a contribution of up to 1 million crowns to pay interest.
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07/13/2020
The organizers of the annual Leoš Janáček International Music Festival, cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, are preparing a series of eight special concerts this autumn, ČTK reports.
The concerts will take place in September and November in five cities in the Moravian-Silesian region. The first features the Hradišťan ensemble at the Hukvaldy amphitheatre, near composer’s birthplace, a spokesperson said.
In November, featured artists at venues in and around Ostrava include oboist Vilém Veverka, pianist Martin Kasík and bass-baritone soloist Adam Plachetka.
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07/13/2020
The Czech capital’s debt stood at 18.7 billion crowns as of June 30, down 1 billion crowns in annual terms, following repayment of loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Deputy Mayor Pavel Vyhnánek (Prague Sobě) said the capital has an approved budget for this year with revenues of 60.7 billion crowns and expenditures of 81.6 billion crowns.
The volume of Prague’s liabilities to the EIB is 8.61 billion crowns and the annual amount of depreciation for 2020 and 2021 is about 0.763 billion, Vyhnánek said. The remaining debt consists of bonds, which amounted to 10.08 billion as of June 30.
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