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04/13/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala is due to set off on a diplomatic tour of Asia on Saturday evening, starting with the Philippines and ending in Uzbekistan on 25 April, the government announced in a press release on Thursday. He will also visit Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan.
He will be accompanied by a business delegation on his ten-day trip, which will include representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Export Guarantee and Insurance Company (EGAP), and the Czech Export Bank.
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04/13/2023
Year-on-year inflation in Czechia eased to 15 percent in March, down from 16.7 percent in February, according to figures published by the Czech Statistical Office on its website on Thursday. Inflation is thus at its lowest point since last April. According to analysts, the slowing down of the inflation rate was due to fuel getting cheaper.
Food prices continued to rise, however, with food and non-alcoholic beverages 23.5 percent more expensive than in March last year. The cost of eggs, sugar, milk, rice, flour, and pork has particularly suffered, with eggs almost 75 percent dearer, sugar and semi-skimmed milk around 50 percent, and rice, flour and pork about 33 percent more expensive.
Overall, the price of goods rose by 17 percent year-on-year in March, and the price of services by 11.7 percent.
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04/13/2023
The Fiala government has approved a proposal to close down 300 branches of Czech Post within extensive cost-cutting measures. The state owned company has suffered heavy losses due to a sharp decline in demand for postal services.
The plans have raised concern among elderly people living in small villages whose branch is due to close. It has been severely criticized by mayors and governors who say Czech Post did not consult them about which outlets would be closed down. Further negotiations are expected to take place as regards the branches slated for abolition, but the overall number is not negotiable.
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04/13/2023
President Petr Pavel has condemned a brutal video of a Russian soldier beheading a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The president said that if the video’s authenticity is confirmed it would put Russia on a par with the Islamic State. In any case, he pointed to the fact that there were many other atrocities committed by Russian troops, which had been verified, and which have no place in the 21st century.
The harrowing video that is circulating on social media has shocked the international community. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky labelled the Russian soldiers “beasts” and vowed to punish the perpetrators.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was ''horrified'' by this and other videos which showed flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.
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04/12/2023
Thursday should be cloudy to overcast with rain, particularly in the eastern parts of the country, and day temperatures between 8 and 13 degrees Celsius.
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04/12/2023
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura has said that, within broad budget consolidation plans, he wants to reduce the volume of subsidies paid to farmers by tens of billions of crowns. He said the cuts in subsidies could be a possible response to the rising price of food and agricultural products, if it is confirmed that farmers have been making significantly higher profits. Stanjura indicated that other sectors could expect cuts in subsidies as well within a consolidation package under which he wants to reduce the budget deficit by 70 billion crowns.
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04/12/2023
President Petr Pavel visited the General Staff of the Czech Army on Wednesday, inspecting the headquarters of the army leadership, from which he commanded the army ten years ago. According to Vlastimila Cyprisova from the press department of the General Staff, the president’s meeting with the military top brass focused on a revision of the army’s plans and priorities in connection with the war in Ukraine, help to that country, modernisation projects and new military capabilities. On Wednesday afternoon, President Pavel will attend a meeting of the State Security Council.
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04/12/2023
Police are investigating a devastating fire in the stables on Císařský ostrov in Prague in which eight horses died on Tuesday. The owners of the riding school have refused to comment on the tragedy. The preliminary damage estimate is 3.5 million crowns.
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04/12/2023
Food banks have been under siege in the past few months and are close to empty ahead of the national spring food collection, the head of the Czech Association of Food Banks Aleš Slavíček told journalists on Wednesday. He said the bank was now serving a much higher number of people than in previous years, including people from the middle class who had never needed help before. In the course of 2022 food banks helped 300,000 people, many on a regular basis. National food collections take place twice a year, in the spring and summer. The last one took place in November of last year and assembled 520 tons of goods. The spring collection is due to take place on April 22.
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04/12/2023
The Czech army is to hold a training exercise for a potential conscription of civilians in the event of war. The General Staff says the exercise, which is expected to take place simultaneously in all regions on May 18, is nothing out of the ordinary and is a routine practice which is taking place for the 9th year in succession. Local GPs have been invited to the conscription procedure.
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