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02/11/2023
The Prague branch of Czechia’s Pirate Party has voted in favor of entering into a coalition with SPOLU (a grouping made up of the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and TOP 09) and the Mayors and Independents, the party’s spokeswoman Martina Vacková has told the Czech News Agency, adding that 86 percent of Pirate Party members voted in favor.
The result of the two-day vote follows the earlier approval of the coalition by members of the other represented parties. The coalition agreement, which would see Civic Democrat politician Bohuslav Svoboda become the Czech capital’s mayor, is expected to be signed before February 16.
SPOLU is expected to hold five councilor seats in the new City Hall administration, of which three will be occupied by Civic Democrats and two by TOP 09 party members. The Pirate Party will hold four councilor seats and the Mayors and Independents two.
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02/11/2023
Girl band Vesna, which is set to represent Czechia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, will debut with a semifinal performance in Liverpool on May 9, Filip Platoš from the Czech delegation to Eurovision has told the Czech News Agency. The group will be performing their song My Sister’s Crown (Koruna mojí sestry).
May 9 will see the first of two semifinal rounds take place. The subsequent final round will then be hosted by the British city on May 13.
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02/11/2023
If the Czech crown remains as strong as it currently is against the euro, exporters could lose around CZK 210 billion in revenue when compared to last year, the deputy chairman of the Czech Exporters Association (Asociace exportérů), Otto Daněk, told the Czech News Agency on Friday. He added that this would also mean hitting red numbers for many of the concerned parties.
On Thursday when trading closed, the Czech crown was valued at a rate of 23.69 CZK/EUR, the best exchange rate since July 2008. Czech exports exceeded CZK 4.47 trillion last year.
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02/11/2023
On Friday, Czech rescue workers in the Turkish city of Adiyaman found 12 further casualties from the earthquake that hit Turkey earlier this week. In total, the Czech rescue team has recovered 32 bodies and two survivors during their work there, as well as assisting in saving one woman out of the rubble, the Czech News Agency reports, citing firefighter’s spokesman Jakub Kozák.
Turkey has so far registered 20,665 casualties of the earthquake that took place on Monday, with Syrian authorities reporting a further 3,553 dead.
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02/10/2023
Consumption of antibiotics has grown by 47 percent year-on-year and the rise in usage has had an effect on the availability of this medication over the past several weeks, Health Minister Vlastimil Válek said on Friday. However, he said that consumption rates are now declining, with Deputy Minister Jakub Dvořáček adding that the situation should stabilise around the end of February. The rise in year-on-year consumption was explained by the low infection rates in early 2022, when Covid measures were still in place.
Opposition parties have called on the minister to take personal responsibility for the shortage. He defended himself on Friday by saying that the issue is also present in other countries and cannot be solved on the national level. He named the limitation of packaging production in China and the war in Ukraine where much of the medication was produced as reasons.
The Health Ministry says it plans to find a long-term solution to the issue by a change in legislation which should become active this year.
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02/10/2023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Czech Olympic Committee and the National Sports Agency have all agreed that Czechia will not boycott next year’s Summer Olympic Games in Paris if Russian and Belurusian athletes end up taking part in the event, the Czech News Agency reported on Friday.
However, if Russia’s aggression against Ukraine continues, Russian and Belarusian athletes should not be able to take part in next year’s Olympic Games, the Chairman of Czechia’s National Sports Agency Ondřej Šebek told Czech Radio. The statement was made in an interview ahead of an online meeting of EU sports ministers on Friday, where Mr. Šebek is representing Czechia.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not yet ruled out the possibility that Russian and Belarusian athletes could take part in the Olympics. Mr. Šebek said that this has caused surprise as it was the IOC that was one of the first to call for the non-participation of Russian athletes.
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02/10/2023
A US court on Thursday rejected the lawsuit put forward by Czech low-cost airline Smartwings, which aimed to sue aircraft manufacturer Boeing for the forced shutdown of its 737 MAX model planes, Reuters reports.
The Boeing 737 MAXs were removed from operation in the spring of 2019 after two tragic accidents occurred. Smartwings wanted compensation from Boeing, claiming in March 2020 that the forced shutdown cost the airline around CZK 2 billion in damages.
A similar lawsuit issued by Poland’s flag carrier LOT was also rejected.
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02/10/2023
January 2023 was one of the warmest of its kind in Czechia for more than 60 years, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute informed on Friday. With an average temperature of 2 degrees Celsius, the month was 3.4 degrees warmer than the past 30 year average and ranks alongside January 1975 as the third warmest since 1961. Only the first months of 1983 and 2007 saw higher temperatures.
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02/10/2023
Saturday is set to see temperatures range around 4 degrees Celsius with overcast skies and rainfall, sometimes mixed with snow, expected across much of the country.
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02/10/2023
January saw year-on-year consumer prices rise by 17.5 percent, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Agency on Friday. In December, the figure lay at 15.8 percent. The rise is being explained by the end of the government savings tariff subsidies for energy, which ran until the end of last year and had a positive effect on energy rates for households. Heating, water and food costs have also risen.
The Czech National Bank, as well as analysts quoted by Czech Television, think that inflation peaked in January and is likely to begin falling in the coming months, going below 10 percent in the second half of 2023.
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