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03/06/2023
New president Petr Pavel will be sworn in on Thursday March 9 at 2 p.m. by taking the oath of office at a ceremonial meeting of both parliamentary chambers at Prague Castle, the Czech News Agency reports.
The inauguration day will begin at midnight with the lowering of the presidential standard and the closing of Giants' Gate, which leads to the first courtyard of Prague Castle, as a sign of the vacancy of the presidential office. It will be opened again in the morning, when Petr Pavel and the new First Lady arrive at the Castle for a joint lunch with outgoing president Miloš Zeman and his wife. This will be followed by the official inauguration ceremony in Vladislav Hall at 2 p.m.
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03/06/2023
Czech president-elect Petr Pavel will go to Slovakia for a two-day official visit next Monday, just days after his inauguration. The date of the visit was announced on Monday by the Slovak presidential office.
The visit will take place at the invitation of his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Čaputová. The two heads of state will pay tribute to the founders of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Milan Rastislav Štefánik, and take part in a joint discussion at the Slovak National Theatre.
Pavel will assume the office on Thursday and has previously announced that he would make his first foreign trip as head of state to Slovakia, which has traditionally been the first destination to visit for newly incumbent Czech prime ministers and presidents.
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03/06/2023
The average monthly wage in Czechia in the last quarter of 2022 rose by 7.9 percent year-on-year to CZK 43,412, the Czech Statistics Office reported on Monday.
In real terms, taking into account inflation, earnings fell by 6.7 percent. However two-thirds of employees earn less than the average wage.
The median wage, a midway between the highest and the lowest levels, increased by 9 percent year on year to CZK 37,463. It was CZK 40,232 for men and CZK 34,554 for women.
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03/05/2023
Czechia has the seventh best traffic flow in the world, Czech Radio reported on Sunday, citing a ranking of 50 countries compiled by a UK-based insurance price comparison website, Compare the Market.
The list takes into account a series of criteria including road quality, traffic index, speed limits, deaths due to road accident injuries, and even legal blood alcohol levels. Overall, Czechia finished in the 25th place. The survey also suggests that Czech drivers are among the least satisfied with their country’s traffic infrastructure.
The best countries to travel by car, according to the survey, are Japan, the Netherlands and Norway, while the most dangerous are Thailand, Peru and Lebanon.
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03/05/2023
Real wages in Czechia had increased by 141 percent between 1993 and 2021, according to an analysis by the Czech Chamber of Commerce cited by the Czech News Agency on Sunday.
While in 1994, the average wage in Czechia stood at CZK 7,004, by the end of 2021 it reached CZK 40,135. Wages grew at the fastest pace in 1995 and 1996 due to a recovery in growth following the economic transformation. By contrast, last year saw the deepest decline in real wages as a result of energy crisis and inflation.
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03/05/2023
Monday will be mostly overcast with occasional snow showers and day temperatures ranging between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius.
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03/05/2023
Some two hundred people attended a commemorative ceremony in Lány marking the 173rd anniversary of the birth Czechoslovakia’s co-founder and first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
People laid flowers and wreaths at Masaryk’s equestrian statue outside the Masaryk Museum in Lány and sang his favourite song Ach synku, synku.
The anniversary of Masaryk’s birth falls on Tuesday, March 7, when an official commemoration will be held at his graveside in Lány cemetery.
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03/05/2023
Defence Minister Jana Černochová has awarded Ervin Hoida, a World War II veteran who lives in Great Britain, with the Cross of Merit. At the age of 104, Mr Hoida is one of the last surviving Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front, Mrs. Černochová wrote on her Twitter account. .
Mr. Hoida, who was born in Ostrava in 1918, escaped Czechoslovakia after the Nazi occupation in 1939 and served in France and leter with the Czechoslovak armoured brigade in the UK.
After D-Day, he took part in the liberation of Europe. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945, but went back to the UK few months later due to the rising communist threat.
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03/05/2023
Czechia’s Amálie Švábíková came third in the final of the women’s pole vault at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul on Saturday night.
Švábíková’s best clearance was of 470 metres, some 5 cm short of Slovenia’s Tina Šutej, who took silver. Wilma Murto of Finland won the gold medal with a jump of 480 cm.
It is the first medal from a major senior event for the 23-year-old athlete, who won the Junior World Championship in 2018.
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03/05/2023
Petr Václav’s Il Boemo about the life and career of the 18th century composer Josef Mysliveček was the big winner at the Czech Lion film awards at Prague’s Rudolfinum on Saturday night. Nominated in 11 categories, the film took six prizes, including for best film, best director and best costumes.
Vojtěch Mašek’s psychological and mystical thriller Arvéd, which had twelve nominations, picked up awards for best actor, best screenplay and best music.
The award for best documentary went to Adéla Komrzý and Tomáš Bojar for Art Talent Show, which explores entrance exams at different studios at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts.
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