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09/18/2023
Some 14 percent of nurses in Czechia are aged 60 or over, says the head of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics. Ladislav Dušek made the comment at a meeting of health sector trade unions on Monday.
At present there is a shortage of around 2,000 nurses in the field of acute and long-term care. However, with the aging population, far more nurses will be required in future, Mr. Dušek said.
There are around 84,000 nurses in Czechia.
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09/18/2023
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has risen to 10th in the women’s singles world rankings. The 27-year-old – whose career-best placing was second – climbed three places after winning the San Diego Open on Sunday.
Krejčíková also lifted the women’s doubles title in San Diego and her partner Kateřina Siniaková has returned to number one in the doubles rankings.
The top ranked Czech woman in singles is Markéta Vondroušová, who is sixth.
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09/18/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be sunny.
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09/18/2023
The Northwest Bohemian town of Žatec and its surrounding hop-growing landscape have been granted UNESCO World Heritage status. Monday’s announcement means that Czechia now has 17 entries on the prestigious list.
Žatec, known in German as Saaz, is internationally famous for growing high-quality Saaz hops. It has seven centuries of tradition in the field and is responsible for a large part of Czechia’s total hop production.
World Heritage Sites are selected by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance.
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09/18/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský landed on American soil on Sunday evening for the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, which starts on Monday. Mr Pavel is leading the Czech delegation at the General Assembly for the first time since taking office. It will also be the first time a Czech president has addressed the assembly in six years, as since 2017 Czechia has been represented at the UN by either the prime minister or the foreign minister, rather than the president.
The main topics at the assembly are expected to be the war in Ukraine and climate change. Mr Pavel is due to give a speech on Monday at a summit about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and again as part of the General Debate of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Mr Lipavský will deliver a speech regarding the upcoming Summit of the Future.
President Pavel also has about a dozen bilateral meetings planned on the sidelines of the assembly, including with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and Liechtenstein's Grand Duke Hans Adam II.
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09/18/2023
A short animated film by Daria Kashcheeva, a student of Prague’s Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), has won the Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. Her film Electra, which doubles as her master’s thesis project, explores the ramifications of a father's absence with regard to his young daughter's psychological, emotional, and sexual development.
Kashcheeva previously won a student Oscar in 2019 for her short animated film Daughter, which was also nominated for Best Animated Short at the American Academy Awards and was shown in Short Cuts at the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year.
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09/17/2023
Around 185,000 people attended NATO Days over the course of the weekend, around 75,000 more than last year, the Czech News Agency reports. Around 100,000 attended on Saturday and 85,000 on Sunday.
The event, taking place at Ostrava’s Mošnov Airport, is the biggest air, military and security show in Central Europe.
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09/17/2023
In addition to Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, Jana Kánská, the daughter of Milada Horáková, is also on board President Petr Pavel's flight to New York for the UN General Assembly, which starts on Monday. The president's advisor, Petr Kolář, told Czech daily Deník N that the decision to invite Jana Kánská on board was made at the last minute.
Ms. Kánská is a long-term resident of the USA but was visiting the Czech Republic and was due to return home on September 14. However, while spending the weekend at Mr Kolář's summer cottage, he asked her if she wanted to postpone her departure and fly with them to New York. She and the president were both keen to take up the offer as they had narrowly missed each other in Prague.
According to Mr Kolář, Mr Pavel had wanted to personally thank Ms Kánská for her support in his presidential campaign. The presidential advisor described the meeting as "very pleasant and moving" and said that the two talked at great length.
Once the plane lands in New York, Jana Kánská plans to head straight from there to Bethesda in the state of Maryland, where she lives.
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09/17/2023
The Czech economy is at risk of stagnation, Dominik Stroukal, a member of the National Economic Council of the Government (NERV) told Czech Television on Sunday. Therefore, in approximately two weeks, both NERV and the Czech Chamber of Commerce are presenting recommendations to the government on how to kickstart the economy again.
The President of the Chamber of Commerce, Zdeněk Zajíček, said that fundamental steps need to be taken within a matter of months in the areas of energy, transport, data networks, affordable housing, labour market liberalization, education and science, and research and innovation. He would like the strategic investments to be approved by March next year.
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09/17/2023
The Czech National Bank expects inflation to decrease to around two percent early next year, the bank's governor Aleš Michl said on CNN Prima News on Sunday. He attributed the recent reduction in inflation to the strict fiscal policy the central bank has been following and said that he expects this trend of decreasing inflation to continue.
However, he ruled out an early interest rate cut in the coming months and said that people should rather expect higher interest rates over the next five years than they have been used to in the past decade. He added that he doesn't expect money ever to be as cheap as it was back in 2016 and 2017, when interest rates were sometimes even as low as zero and a large amount of money was printed. He described this as one of the biggest economic mistakes by a central bank in history and said that he wants to make sure that Czechia never again has the highest core inflation in the EU.
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