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04/04/2023
The price of eggs in Czechia increased the most of any EU country in February, the German statistical office reported on Tuesday. Year-on-year, egg pricess rose by 95.1 percent, while the EU average was 31.1 percent. The price of eggs in Czechia was also the highest in the EU in January.
Czechia recorded above-average price growth of all food prices in February; while the EU average was 19.5 percent, it recorded an increase of 25.2 percent.
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04/04/2023
Dozens of people attended the funeral service for General Emil Boček, which was held at Brno's Central Cemetery on Tuesday. The last surviving Czech airman who served in Britain’s RAF during WWII died on 25 March, a month after celebrating his 100th birthday.
Mr. Boček served with the RAF’s 312 and 310 squadrons and participated in over two dozen operational flights. After the war, he was persecuted by the communist regime and was only recognized for his services after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He received many awards including the highest Czech state distinction, the Order of the White Lion.
The ceremony, which started with a flypast of a Gripen fighter jet, was attended by representatives of the Czech Army, including the Chief of General Staff Karel Řehka and British Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Matt Field.
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04/04/2023
The environment in Czechia remains one of the worst in the European Union, according to a Prosperity Index compiled by the European Data Portal and Česká spořitelna. The Czech Republic finished 22nd out of 27 EU member states, improving by one spot compared to last year.
While the country has managed to slightly increase the share of recycled waste, it is falling further behind in reducing emissions, finishing below the EU average. As in 2022, Czechia scored worst of all EU countries in the share of land affected by drought.
The index assessed the state of the environment according to 14 indicators. Six countries fared worse than Czechia, including the Netherlands, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg and Cyprus. Sweden topped the rankings, followed by Portugal and France.
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04/04/2023
A Czech medic who was seriously injured in Ukraine has arrived at Prague’s Central Military Hospital. The man was hit by shrapnel in Donbas in March while serving as a volunteer providing medical care to Ukrainian soldiers on the front line. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the man’s transfer to Czechia had been handled by the country’s embassy in Kyiv.
The medic was serving with the Czech medical aid organisation Project Phoenix. It said he had received good care in Kyiv and Lviv and thanked those who had helped him.
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04/03/2023
The Czech and Slovak prime ministers, Petr Fiala and Eduard Heger, said in a joint statement on Monday that maintaining the unity of the EU and NATO was essential for reinforcing the defence of Ukraine, deterring the Russian aggressor and achieving a just and sustainable peace.
The comments were published after a joint meeting of their two countries’ cabinets in the Slovak city of Trenčín.
The two leaders also backed the continuation of various forms of support to Ukraine.
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04/03/2023
The Czech and Slovak cabinets met for a joint session in the city of Trenčín in western Slovakia on Monday afternoon. Speaking ahead of the meeting the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, said the ministers would discuss boosting energy security, moving away from dependency on Russian raw materials, competitiveness and defence cooperation.
Mr. Fiala said it was important to deepen regional cooperation and referred to the Visegrad Four and the Slavkov/Austerlitz group, both of which are currently being chaired by Slovakia.
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04/03/2023
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová has returned to the world top ten for the first time in two years, following her triumph in the Miami Open at the weekend. The 33-year-old is now 10th in the women’s rankings after her maiden victory in Miami.
Kvitová’s highest ever ranking was second in the world, which she reached in 2011, the year she won the first of two Wimbledon titles.
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04/03/2023
President Petr Pavel has named two possible candidates for positions on the Czech Constitutional Court. Speaking at a regular news conference on Monday, the recently installed head of state announced that Daniela Zemanová, a former head of the national union of judges, and the chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court, Josef Baxa, could be nominees. Mr. Pavel said he and his team were still working on a third contender.
The president also revealed several names from his nascent team of advisors and said others would soon be added.
He also reiterated he would be travelling to Ukraine this month but did not reveal a date.
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04/03/2023
The minister of labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka, says that a right under which people in demanding professions get state old-age pensions sooner should not pertain to hundreds of thousands of people. Monday’s comment came against a backdrop of reports that the government plans to raise the pension age.
The ministries of labour and health are set to revise the list of dangerous professions that qualify for earlier retirement, Mr. Jurečka said after a meeting with employers to discuss pension reform.
Trade unions say that around 400,000 workers should be included in this category.
Ministers are reportedly planning to raise the retirement age to 68 for people who are currently in their 30s.
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04/03/2023
Czech Post is set to make 950 people redundant by the middle of this year in connection with the closure of 300 branches around the country. Five hundred more jobs will go in the postal service’s logistics network, the organisation’s head, Miroslav Štěpán, said on Monday.
When the company first announced the branch closures last week it said it would shed 2,300 jobs.
Czech Post aims to save around CZK 700 million a year by shutting branches. The move should help it avoid insolvency this year; it has been in danger of seeing last year’s losses of CZK 1.75 billion rise to CZK 4 billion in 2023, the Czech News Agency said.
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