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Municipalities in Czechia began issuing voter cards on Thursday to those who want to vote outside their home constituency in January's presidential elections. The card entitles you to vote in any of the roughly 15,000 polling stations in the Czech Republic and abroad. Czechs living abroad will also be able to get a card from the Czech embassy in their country of residence. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 14,370 people have registered for the presidential elections at embassies this year.

Thursday is also the deadline for municipalities to announce the addresses of polling stations where people can vote, although these usually do not change.

Sněžka, Czechia's highest peak, was hit by hurricane force winds on Wednesday, the Czech News Agency reports. The wind on Sněžka reached a speed of over 136 kilometers per hour in the morning, according to data from the Anežka measuring station at the top of the mountain.

The upper section of the mountain's cable car route had to suspend operations, as it can only run in wind speeds of up to 60 km/h.

Czechia is headed for a recession, according to a survey by the consulting company PwC in which 90 percent of CEOs of large and medium-sized domestic companies expressed this opinion. A large number of them anticipate a decline in the economy as early as the first half of 2023. Only nine percent of directors believe that the country will avoid recession in the next two years. For 40 percent, this year was the most difficult year in recent times.

Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová has proposed a media law to unify media regulations across the EU. The proposal aims to prevent politicians from influencing the media and make funding more transparent. In an interview with iRozhlas.cz, Ms. Jourová said that in some member states, it had got to the point where public media was no longer fulfilling its function.