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08/21/2023
As of June 30 this year, there were 1,036,798 foreigners living in the Czech Republic, according to the Interior Ministry's report on migration, which is published quarterly on its website. More than half of the total number of foreigners, 551,113 people, are Ukrainians. Slovaks made up the second-largest group with 118,130 people and Vietnamese people the third-largest with 67,047. Russians made up 42,505 of the total.
Around a third of the total number, 350,214 people, had temporary protection in Czechia, which Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war are entitled to. Roughly another third, 342,186 people, had permanent residence in the country, while 344,398 had temporary residence.
Last year, the number of foreigners living in Czechia exceeded one million people for the first time in the country's history as a result of the wave of refugees from Ukraine. The authorities registered 1,116,154 foreigners living in the country as of last December, so the number has slightly decreased since then.
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08/21/2023
Interest in electric vehicles is continuing to grow in Czechia, according to official statistics from large charging station operators cited by the Czech News Agency. The use of charging stations, in terms of overall consumption and the number of recharges, increased by over ten percent year-on-year, and in some cases by more than fifty percent. Energy giant ČEZ reported that the consumption now is around five times what it was five years ago.
There were roughly 1,360 charging stations for electric cars in the Czech Republic at the end of last year, and during the first half of this year, hundreds of new ones were added to the network.
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08/21/2023
What happened to Czechoslovakia in 1968 is happening in Ukraine now, Czech President Petr Pavel said during his speech at an event commemorating the 1968 invasion, adding that Russia has not changed in any way since then. Crowds of people gathered outside the Czech Radio building in Prague on Monday morning to commemorate the invasion and those who lost their lives because of it. President Petr Pavel, Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the speaker of the lower house Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil and Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda made speeches. The memorial ceremony began at 11 a.m. and also included the laying of wreaths to honour the memory of the fallen.
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08/21/2023
The gender gap in old age pensions has decreased this year, according to the Czech Statistics Office. At the end of last year, women received roughly a fifth less than men, in June of this year it was just 13 percent less, on average. Men receive an average monthly pension of 21,520 crowns, women get roughly 2,500 crowns less. The rise in pensions for women stems from a new amendment to the pensions’ law according to which they get an additional 500 crowns for every child raised.
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08/21/2023
Czechia is marking 55 years since Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invaded the country to crush the Prague Spring reform movement. The invasion dashed people’s hopes of democracy and Alexander Dubcek’s concept of “socialism with a human face”. Soviet troops were to remain stationed in the county for a period of twenty years and under the Kremlin’s directions pro-Soviet leaders launched a period of so-called “normalization” in which people who refused to support the regime lost their jobs and were persecuted by the secret police. Over 100 people were killed in clashes with the invading forces and thousands of intellectuals later fled the country.
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08/20/2023
Monday should be a dry and scorching hot day with temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius.
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08/20/2023
Czechia has exhausted all previous growth factors, lost its competitive advantages and has fallen into what economists call “ a middle-income trap”, in which countries catching up to the level of economically developed states sometimes find themselves, according to a report by the Czech Chamber of Commerce. The report, cited by the ctk news agency, says the consequences will be long-term economic stagnation, a slowdown in wage growth and a drop in living standards. The trend could be reversed by stronger support for production with higher added value.
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08/20/2023
The Czech government would like to see a new Ukrainian ambassador in Prague in the near future, Deputy Prime Minister Vít Rakušan said in a debate on CNN Prima News on Sunday. The post has been vacant for more than a year after Ukraine's last ambassador to the Czech Republic, Jevhen Perebyjnis, returned home to take up the post of Ukraine's deputy foreign minister. Mr. Rakušan said he hopes to see a Ukrainian ambassador in the country within a matter of weeks or months.
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08/20/2023
The Dvůr Králové nad Labem Safari Park says it has managed to breed rare Congo Muscovy ducks for the first time in its history. The three chicks, whose homeland is West Africa, were successfully hatched four years after the breeding program was launched. The Safari Park is spearheading efforts to save the rare species of birds whose numbers are rapidly declining around the world. The birds for the breeding program were acquired from the Netherlands, the USA and from the Prague and Ostrava zoos.
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08/20/2023
Rescue teams searching for a 16-year-old Czech who overturned with his kayak on the river Salze in Austria on Saturday say they have most likely found his body and are awaiting for identification. According to eyewitnesses the youth was swept away by a strong current. A search team found a dead body on the riverbank about 400 meters from where the accident happened.
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