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09/11/2024
Investigators from the National Office against Organized Crime (NCOZ) intervened at the Prague Archbishopric on Tuesday evening as well as several other locations. According to the supervising prosecutor, police officers were gathering evidence in a case of suspected fraud in which the Archbishopric was the damaged party. No one has yet been arrested or charged in the case. According to Czech Television the case involves financial damage to the tune of CZK 200 million.
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09/10/2024
Doctors' and nurses' unions and the Czech Medical Chamber have called on doctors and other healthcare workers in hospitals to refuse to sign contracts on overtime as of October 30. They want to achieve a change in remuneration, which they say the Health Ministry promised and failed to deliver. Currently, overtime accounts for 40 percent of a doctor's salary in Czech hospitals.
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09/10/2024
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast, with rain in the western parts of the country, and daytime highs between 17 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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09/10/2024
Brno councilors have approved a request for a ban on the entry of electric scooters and unicycles into the pedestrian zone in the city centre. The reason is repeated complaints from pedestrians who fear for their safety. The request will now be discussed by the Brno City Council's transport department. If approved it should come into force at the beginning of next year. Ostrava banned electric scooters in the city centre two years ago and the measure has won praise from both officers and pedestrians. A similar ban is being considered by the authorities of Prague 1.
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09/10/2024
Screenwriter and director Jiří Mádl's film Waves has been selected as the Czech Republic 's official entry for the 97th Academy Awards where it will compete in the Best Foreign Film category. The Czech Film and TV Academy announced its decision on Tuesday. The film was inspired by the true story of a group of journalists from the international service of Czechoslovak Radio and their determination to bring independent news to the public during the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Waves premiered at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where director Mádl won the Blue Cube Award for outstanding artistic performance. It hit Czech cinemas on August 15.
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09/10/2024
A Czech breeder of Cane Corso dogs had his champion dog, who died of a heart failure earlier this year, cloned in the United States, the news site Novinky.cz reported. The two-month-old puppy arrived in Prague at the beginning of September and is now in quarantine. It is reportedly the first cloned dog in Central Europe. The procedure cost approximately two million crowns.
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09/10/2024
The spread of Covid is reported to be accelerating around Europe and the Czech Vaccinological Society has called on high-risk groups in the population to get a shot against the new strain of the disease. The appeal comes in the wake of a similar call by the World Health Organization, which said that vaccination rates among the elderly and health care workers have fallen alarmingly in the past two years. In the Czech Republic, vaccination against Covid is even lower than against the regular flu. According health data several dozen patients are currently hospitalized with Covid in Czechia and eight people are in emergency care with complications.
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09/10/2024
Following Monday’s meeting with Justice Minister Pavel Blažek on pay rises, unions in the judiciary are not ruling out strike action. Trade Union representatives said the planned salary hikes for next year are insufficient and many employees in the judiciary will remain CZK 5,000 to 6,000 below the average wage in public administration.
Police officers are also planning to protest outside the Office of the Government over low pay in the coming days. The government has said it will increase salaries by 5 to 8 percent for some employees in the public sector next year but only on a selected basis. The only public sector employees who have been guaranteed a pay increase are teachers.
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09/10/2024
The Ministry of Justice is preparing a new law to help in the fight against money laundering in the Czech Republic. The proposed legislation should make it easier for courts to freeze and confiscate suspicious bank accounts. Their owners would then have to prove that the money was legally acquired. The Justice Ministry wants to have a draft of the new law ready by the end of the year. Tens of billions of crowns are laundered in this country every year, according to the National Centre against Organised Crime. Detectives have calculated that in 2020 and 2021 money was laundered to the tune of 100 billion crowns.
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09/10/2024
Labour market conditions in the Czech Republic have worsened for the third year in a row and are the tenth worst in the EU, mainly due to low flexibility and large gender inequalities in pay, according to an analysis by European Union Open Data Portal. The report says that the Czech Republic is failing to create favourable conditions for employees on the labour market despite having the lowest unemployment rate in the EU. For instance, Czech employees often do not have the option of part-time work, which makes it difficult for parents looking after young children to be at least partly economically active. According to the analysis the best work conditions for employees are in the Netherlands, Austria and the Scandinavian countries.
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