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07/12/2023
Unemployment in Czechia dropped to 3.4 % in June, down by a tenth of a percentage point compared to May, according to data published on Wednesday by the Labour Office.
There were 249,792 people out of work at the end of June, 4,101 fewer than in May. Job vacancies, on the other hand, increased by almost a thousand to 286,690 positions.
The labour market is affected by an increased demand for seasonal jobs, along with long-standing high demand for blue-collar employees, highly skilled occupations or craftsmen.
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07/12/2023
Ronen Ginzburg is retiring as head coach of the Czech men's national basketball team after ten years. The 59-year-old native of Tel Aviv, who acquired Czech citizenship in October 2020, last led the national team at the end of February in Montenegro in the World Cup qualifier.
Under Ginzburg, the national team experienced the most successful period in independent Czech history. In 2015, the team won seventh place at the European Championships and four years later, it reached the World Championships for the first time since the division of Czechoslovakia. In 2021, it fought its way to the Tokyo Olympics, finishing ninth for the first time in modern Czech history.
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07/12/2023
Senior Czech politicians have been expressing their condolences following the news of writer Milan Kundera’s death.
According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Milan Kundera managed to reach generations of readers across all continents and achieved worldwide fame.
Culture Minister Martin Baxa said that with Kundera's death, Czech and world literature had lost one of its most outstanding contemporary writers.
Deputy Prime Minister Vít Rakušan tweeted that Kundera's life reflected the complex 20th century and that his literary qualities and his work would live on.
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07/12/2023
The celebrated Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died in Paris at the age of 94. The information was confirmed by Anna Mrázová, spokeswoman for the Moravian Library in Brno.
The best-known contemporary Czech novelist in the world, Kundera was born in Brno in 1929. His first novel The Joke came out in 1967 and was made into a film the following year.
Following the crushing of the Prague Spring, Kundera was sacked from Prague’s FAMU film school. In 1975, he emigrated to France, where he gained citizenship in 1981.
The library and archive of Milan Kundera was recently transported from Paris to his home city of Brno, where it opened within the spaces of the Moravian Library in April this year on the occasion of his 94th birthday.
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07/12/2023
This year’s edition of Bohemia JazzFest got underway at the Royal Garden at Prague Castle on Tuesday evening. The opening night of the annual event, organised by Czech musician Rudy Linka, culminated with a set by Portuguese fado legend Camane.
Bohemia JazzFest – now in its 18th edition – continues through the week at different towns and cities, including Plzeň, Hluboká nad Vltavou and Brno. All shows are free of charge.
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07/12/2023
A Czech government bill to slow the indexation of old-age pensions and tighten the rules for early retirement now stands before its third reading after a vote in the lower house on Tuesday. The vote followed a debate lasting over eight hours and concluded late in the evening.
MPs will vote on the matter for a final time next week at the earliest.
The minister of social affairs, Marian Jurečka, said on Tuesday that the move was necessary to maintain the long-term viability of the pension system. Alena Schillerová of main opposition party ANO said the only aim of the bill was to deprive present and future pensioners of money.
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07/11/2023
Markéta Vondroušová has reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon for the first time in her career. The Czech, who is 24, overcame American third seed Jessica Pegula 6-4 2-6 6-4 after a major turnaround in the third set at the All-England Club in London. Previously she had not gone beyond the second round.
Vondroušová will now face Elina Svitolina for a place in the final.
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07/11/2023
The Czech customs service arrested 13 people in May on charges of illegal cigarette production. The detained are accused of causing the state CZK 111 million in lost consumer tax revenues. The arrests followed a coordinated operation including Czech, Polish and Slovak customs offers investigating illegal tobacco products.
The Czech side uncovered 8.5 million fake cigarettes, mainly passing as Marlboro brand, after a tip-off from their Polish colleagues.
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07/11/2023
Retired Czech ice hockey player Dominik Hašek says European Union states should provide asylum to Russian and Belarusian sports people who condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. He made the comment on Tuesday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, at a discussion with MEPs on how to prevent Russian athletes promoting the Putin regime.
Hašek – one of Czechia’s greatest ever hockey players – said that if sports people did not clearly condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine they should be barred from participation in international competitions, including next year’s Olympics in Paris.
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07/11/2023
Czechia will make a major contribution to a NATO plan to boost the alliance’s international battle group in Slovakia, President Petr Pavel told journalists at the start of a NATO summit in Vilnius on Tuesday. Czechia will have one mixed battalion in Slovakia, he said.
Reinforcing international units on NATO’s eastern flank is central to collective defence plans being discussed in Vilnius, with troop numbers in such groups expected to reach up to 5,000.
At the end of last year the Czech-headed unit based in Slovakia’s Lešť had 1,000 soldiers.
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