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09/11/2023
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has decided to set aside CZK 10 million in aid to Morocco to help with the aftereffects of the powerful earthquake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, which hit the country on Friday night, killing at least 2,122 people and injuring at least a further 2,421. If the specialist USAR team, which is still waiting for an official request from Morocco, is deployed, then most of the money will go towards the search and rescue operation. If it is not deployed, then the money will be used for other purposes at the request of the Moroccan authorities.
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09/11/2023
Tuesday will continue to be warm and dry but is expected to be slightly cooler and more overcast, with daytime temperatures ranging between 21 and 29 degrees Celsius.
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09/11/2023
The pace of year-on-year inflation in Czechia has slowed for another month in a row, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Office on Monday. While consumer prices rose by 8.8 percent year-on-year in July, in August the inflation rate was slightly lower, at 8.5 percent.
Energy and other utilities were the biggest reason for inflation in August, with heating and hot water costs increasing year-on-year by 37.3 percent, natural gas by 34.5 percent, electricity by 23.1 percent, water by 16.3 percent, sewage by 26.9 percent, and rent prices by 7.6 percent. Food prices also saw a significant year-on-year increase, with potatoes, for example, rising in price by 63.5 percent and sugar by 48.7 percent.
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09/11/2023
The Czech Urban Search and Rescue team will not be deployed to earthquake-hit Morocco if they do not receive approval from the Moroccan authorities by 4 p.m. on Monday, a spokesperson for the Czech Fire and Rescue Service told the Czech News Agency. However, until that time the team will remain on standby, ready to be deployed, as it has been since Saturday.
According to the fire service spokesperson, the Moroccan prefecture hit by the earthquake has expressed interest in deploying the Czech USAR team. Without an official note, however, it is not possible to send a foreign team to the country. The Czech ambassador to Morocco, Ladislav Skeřík, told Czech Radio on Monday that foreign search and rescue teams have not yet received an invitation because the roads in the mountains are still impassable and it is not yet possible to reach the worst-hit areas.
Rescue teams from other European countries, such as France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, are in a similar situation. Morocco's interior ministry said on Sunday that it had so far only accepted offers to send rescue teams from Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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09/11/2023
In the first half of this year, Czechia imported around 65 percent of its oil from Russia, the highest proportion since at least 2012, a spokesperson for the state oil company Mero told the Czech News Agency on Monday. Last year the proportion was around 56 percent and in previous years it was even lower.
Czechia gets its oil from two main sources: from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline, and from Germany via the IKL pipeline, which connects to the Italian TAL pipeline. The EU banned Russian oil imports last year, but Czechia was granted an exemption when importing oil via the Druzhba pipeline.
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09/11/2023
The departure of the Czech urban search and rescue team to earthquake-hit Morocco has been delayed. The Czech Fire and Rescue Service is still waiting to receive an official request from the Moroccan authorities.
According to the spokeswoman of the Czech national fire service, Martina Götzová, the Moroccan prefecture hit by the earthquake has expressed interest in deploying the Czech USAR team. Without an official note, however, it is not possible to send a foreign team to the country.
The powerful earthquake, which on Friday struck in the High Atlas Mountains, some 70 kilometres south-west of Marrakesh, killed over 2,000 people and left over 2,000 others injured. It is said to be the strongest in a century in the country.
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09/11/2023
The population of Czechia increased by 46,000 to 10.87 million in the first half of this year, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Office on Monday. The increase is due to foreign migration, especially from Ukraine.
From January to the end of June, 79,776 people immigrated to Czechia, while 22,266 people left the country. The figures include Ukrainians granted temporary protection due to Russian military aggression.
According to the freshly released data, the first six months of 2022 saw 45,200 births, which is a drop by 11 percent year-on-year. The number of deceased also went down to 56,700.
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09/10/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel is the most trusted foreign politician in Slovakia, suggests a new survey conducted by the polling agency Focus for Slovak TV Markíza released on Sunday. The Czech head of state received the highest credit rating, having won the trust of 38 percent of respondents.
Pavel is followed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with 36 percent and French President Emmanuel Macron with 35 percent. The fourth most trusted politician for Slovaks is European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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09/10/2023
A commemorative plaque for British Royal Airforce airman Václav Leitensdorfer, a member of the 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron, was unveiled in his hometown of Rovensko pod Troskami in north Bohemia on Sunday. During World War II he served as a deck gunner of the RAF and took part in 53 operational flights.
He was born in Rovensko in November 1913 and died in May 1984 in Leicester, England. The memorial plaque is placed near the local church of St. Wenceslas, since Leitensdorfer’s birth house no longer stands in Rovensko.
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09/10/2023
Monday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius.
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