• Weather forecast
    07/03/2023

    Tuesday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech PMI drops significantly in June
    07/03/2023

    Conditions in the Czech manufacturing sector deteriorated significantly in June, with the IHS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) dropping to 40.8 points, compared to 42.8 points in May.

    Production and new orders fell at the steepest pace in six months, while employment fell at the fastest pace since July 2020. According to experts, the main factor behind the drop is sluggish demand, which failed to recover despite falling prices.

    The 50-point index is a dividing line between growth and decline, with a figure above 50 points signalling an overall improvement in the sector. The index tracks production, new orders, employment, delivery dates, and supplies.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Russia’s Rosatom ceases its activities in Czechia
    07/03/2023

    The Russian state nuclear concern Rosatom has definitively ceased its activities Czechia, a year and a quarter after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech news Agency reported on Monday.

    The domestic branch of the company has now been deleted from the commercial register, with all its employees having left earlier. The communications agency that worked for Rosatom has also ceased its activities.

    Rosatom had previously bid for the construction of a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant, but was excluded from the tender by the government after it emerged that Russia’s military intelligence was involved in the 2014 explosion at the munitions storage facility in Vrbětice.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech government’s debt up by CZK 415 billion year-on-year
    07/03/2023

    The nominal debt of Czech government institutions rose by CZK 415.3 billion year-on-year to CZK 3,099 trillion in the first quarter of 2023.

    The debt ratio increased in annual terms from 42.8 percent to 44.5 percent of GDP, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Monday.

    Compared to the last quarter of 2022, the Czech government’s debt rose by CZK 102.3 billion and the debt ratio by 0.3 percentage points.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • NGOs warn tighter conditions for refugees could leave many homeless
    07/03/2023

    NGOs have warned that the tightened conditions for Ukrainian refugees, which went into effect on July 1, could leave many of them homeless. In line with an amendment to the law, Ukrainian refugees who have been in the country for longer than 5 months will no longer get accommodation for free. The state will continue to cover housing minors under 18, students of Czech universities, seniors over 65, people with disabilities and their care givers, as well as pregnant women and people caring for children under six. Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka defended the decision, saying that refugees could be helped to find work or alternate accommodation by labour offices, various aid organizations and local Ukrainian communities.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Justice minister says Roma protest march was illegal
    07/03/2023

    Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has criticized the fact that the Romany protest march in Pardubice on Sunday was held without approval from the local authorities. Around three hundred protesters  gathered in the town to demand increased security for Romanies in the wake of a fight on Saturday night involving 18 people, in which a Romany man was allegedly stabbed by a Ukrainian national. The  police has not confirmed that the attacker was Ukrainian, stating merely that the man detained was a foreign national. The protest march ended peacefully, but Justice Minister Blažek said that such actions could lead to unrest such as we are now seeing in France.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    07/02/2023

    Monday should be bright and clear and dry with day temperatures between 22 and 27 degrees Celsius.

  • Czechia spending more on development aid abroad
    07/02/2023

    According to foreign ministry data, Czechia provided 20.86 billion crowns in development aid in 2022. Compared to 2021, this is an increase of 12 billion crowns. Aid to Ukraine amounted to 14 billion crowns last year. The foreign ministry has listed six priority countries for development cooperation, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Georgia, Cambodia, Moldova and Zambia. The Czech Development Agency spent 313 million crowns on development aid projects last year.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • UNHCR providing 37 million crowns to Czechia for refugee projects
    07/02/2023

    The UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) is transferring more than 37 million crowns (EUR 1.56 million) to Czechia to help with the integration of migrants. The money is to be used for Czech language courses, legal and social counselling and leisure activities for refugees, according to Ivana Milenkovičová, head of the UNHCR office in Prague. According to the ministry's data, there are presently 347 750 refugees in Czechia, most of them Ukrainian nationals.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Tensions between Romanies and Ukrainian refugees growing
    07/02/2023

    Several hundred Roma gathered in Pardubice to demand increased security for Romanies in the wake of a fight in the town on Saturday night involving 18 people, in which a Romany man was allegedly stabbed by a Ukrainian national. Three people were detained by the police who have not confirmed that the attacker was Ukrainian, stating merely that the man was a foreign national. It is not clear what sparked the conflict. There have been previous reports on conflicts between Romanies and Ukrainian refugees.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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