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12/16/2022
Coal mining at the ČSM black coal mine in the Karviná district in north Moravia will continue until the end of 2025, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura and Roman Sikora, board chairman of mining company OKD, said on Friday.
OKD is the only producer of hard coal in the country. According to the original plans, mining was supposed to end there this year, but in June a decision was made to extend it until at least the end of 2023.
OKD is the only producer of black coal in Czechia. In recent years, however, most of its mines have ceased production because it was not profitable in the long term.
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12/16/2022
The European Commission on Friday approved a €1.2 billion scheme for Czechia to support greener and more efficient district heating based mainly on renewable energy.
The measure will contribute to the implementation of the Czech National Energy and Climate Plan and to the EU's strategic objectives related to the Green Pact for Europe, in particular the EU's 2050 climate neutrality target.
Czechia intends to promote decarbonisation and modernisation of heat generation units. The scheme, which will run until January 2026, will support the installation of new heat generation units based on renewable energy and the modernisation of existing heat generation units to operate with biomass instead of coal.
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12/16/2022
The Czech Meteorological Institute has issued low temperature warnings for the whole of Czechia for the coming weekend. In some mountainous areas, temperatures are expected to dip to as low as -16 degrees Celsius during the night. Day temperatures may be around -10 degrees in some parts of the country.
Extreme temperatures should become more moderate by Monday. Meanwhile, snowfall during the weekend is not expected to be as intense as on Friday.
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12/16/2022
Saturday will be mostly overcast with occasional snowfall and day temperatures ranging between -5 and -1 degrees Celsius.
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12/16/2022
The lower house of Parliament approved an amendment to the Education Act on Friday, which sets the minimum average teacher’s salary in Czechia in 2024 at 1.4 times the average gross monthly wage from the previous year.
According to the Czech Statistical Office, the average gross monthly earnings of teachers last year were CZK 46,843, which is 115 percent of the average national wage. Despite increases in recent years, educators’ salaries in Czechia are still are among the lowest in all developed countries.
The draft, which will now be discussed by the parliamentary education committee, is also intended to allow professionals with university degrees to teach for up to three years in secondary and high schools without teaching qualifications.
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12/16/2022
The total number of deaths related to Covid in Czechia has now passed the 42,000 mark. The country of 10.7 million has suffered one of the world’s worst per capita death rates since the coronavirus pandemic began. According to the website our World in Data, it has the ninth highest rate, with 4,001 deaths per million inhabitants.
The first Covid-related death was reported on 22 March 2020, while the highest daily death toll, 261, was recorded on November 3, 2020. There have now been over 4.7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Czechia, including re-infections, since the start of the pandemic.
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12/16/2022
A new outbreak of bird flu was detected at a small breeding farm in the village of Rovečné in east of the country on Friday. It is already the seventh outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain in the country since the start of the month.
Emergency veterinary measures have been taken in all the affected regions and tens of thousands of birds have been culled. On Wednesday, the State Veterinary Administration has imposed a ban on outdoor poultry farming.
The decree orders poultry farmers to move their poultry indoors. If this is not possible, they must confine the animals outside and minimize their contact with wild birds.
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12/16/2022
EU leaders agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, the Czech Presidency of the EU Council confirmed on Twitter on Thursday evening. This ninth set of sanctions is intended, among other things, to limit investment in the Russian mining industry.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council, thanked Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his team at a press conference after the one-day summit, saying that the Czechs proved themselves to be very active and committed in the role and that they successfully maintained European unity.
This was effectively Czechia's final major task at the helm of the rotating presidency, which will be taken over by Sweden from next year.
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12/16/2022
The heavy overnight snowfall which continued into Friday morning has caused traffic james and delays in Czechia, particularly in the region of Moravia. Traffic ground to a halt on the D1 highway near Velká Bíteš early on Friday morning after a truck heading in the direction of Prague crashed, causing a several-kilometre-long traffic jam. The railway connection between Mosty u Jablunkova in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and Čadca in Slovakia is not running because a tree fell on the track on the Slovak side and damaged the tracks. There are also transport and traffic problems in the Olomouc, South Moravia and Central Bohemia regions.
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12/15/2022
The total fertility rate rose to 1.83 in Czechia last year, the highest since 1992. The Czech Statistical Office announced these findings at a press conference on Thursday.
The fertility rate has been growing in the Czech Republic over the last decade, and last year, it had one of the highest in Europe. However, around the turn of the millennium, the country had one of the lowest in Europe, with the total fertility rate sinking to 1.13 in 1999.
Despite the increase in fertility, the population of the Czech Republic is still only increasing thanks to the arrival of foreigners.
The total fertility rate of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to live from birth until the end of her reproductive life and if she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates throughout her reproductive life.
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