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12/13/2022
UK outfit Jamiriquai is set to headline at the Metronome Prague music festival next June, the organisers said on Tuesday. The band, who had a string of hits in the 1990s, have played at Prague’s O2 Arena and Colours of Ostrava festival in recent years.
The next edition of Metronome Prague is due to take place on June 22 to 25. The festival was first held in 2016 and previous headliners include Iggy Pop, the Chemical Brothers and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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12/13/2022
An increasing number of Czech teachers are criticizing the planned code of ethics for educators, which was unveiled last week by the Education Ministry. The code calls on educators to promote sustainable development, to set a good example by their online presence and their private life. Some teachers have voiced reservations to what they see as excessive interference in their private lives. They also point out that the code would be hard to enforce and argue that they should have been invited to participate in the its drafting.
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12/13/2022
Czechia, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, is negotiating support for a ninth package of sanctions against Russia. The list of newly sanctioned goods proposed by the European Commission includes technological products that could be misused by the Russian military in the war on Ukraine, such as drones and their components, laptops, hard drives, cameras and other electronics. There should also be a complete ban on European investment in the Russian mining industry. Moreover, the list of persons with travel bans and frozen assets is to be expanded by around 200 more names. The ninth package of sanctions is currently being debated in Brussels at the last meeting of EU foreign ministers this year.
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12/12/2022
Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between -1 and -5 degrees Celsius.
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12/12/2022
The inflation rate rose to 16.2 percent year-on-year in November, up from 15.1 percent in October, the Czech Statistics Office reported. The inflation was driven by higher costs of housing, food and non-alcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages and tobacco. Meanwhile, prices slowed down in the areas of transport, recreation and miscellaneous goods and services. On a monthly basis, consumer prices increased by 1.2 percent, after a 1.4 percent decline in October.
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12/12/2022
Call and mobile data prices in Czechia remain among the highest in Europe, the Supreme Audit Office says in a report on how the Czech Telecommunications Office managed state finances and property between 2018 and 2022.
The 2020 auction of radio frequencies organised by the Czech Telecommunications Office with the aim to reduce prices and increase competition on the market did not meet expectations, the report says. The prices of calls and mobile data in the Czech Republic were among the highest in Europe in 2021 and the frequencies were shared out between the three existing large operators without significant competition," the auditors said.
The Czech Telecommunications Office is the central administrative authority in market regulation and setting conditions for business in the field of electronic communications and postal services.
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12/12/2022
Czechia will recruit thousands of experts from Ukraine to work in its arms factories, Deputy Defence Minister Tomáš Kopečný said in an interview for Czech Radio. He said agreement on this had been reached during a meeting between Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in October. The deputy defense minister said the arrangement would be beneficial for both sides since Czech arms factories are short of skilled employees. For example, the Tatra company from the Czechoslovak Group holding is short of five hundred people. He said the end number of Ukrainian workers would be in the thousands, depending on how the production capacities of Czech companies were increased.
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12/12/2022
Thousands of skiers descended on Czech mountain resorts as the season opened this weekend. Following the first heavy snowfall there is 20 to 40 centimetres of snow on the slopes of the Giant Mountains and many resorts have started making artificial snow as well. Špindleruv Mlýn welcomed over 4,000 skiers at the weekend, the ski resort Pec pod Sněžkou had more than 2,500 visitors. Some resorts are still only partially open with ski lifts operating only at the weekend.
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12/12/2022
Prague City Hall says it is not planning any New Year celebrations in the capital this year. City Hall spokesperson Vít Hofman told Czech Radio the city council does not consider it appropriate to organize celebrations this year. Among the main reasons cited are the war in Ukraine and the unfavourable economic situation of many households, as well as the need to economize in view of the energy crunch. Celebrations have been muted in recent years due to the pandemic, and even before that the Prague City Hall abandoned the traditional fireworks in favour of a videomapping show.
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12/12/2022
President Zeman has said he has no plans to declare an amnesty at the end of his second term in office. In an interview for Czech Radio, Zeman reiterated his earlier stand that pardons should be granted on a case-by-case basis. At the same time, he defended his decision to pardon for the head of the Lány Forest Administration, Miloš Balák, which has come under strong criticism. In the interview, the president did not rule out the possibility of appointing a new president of the Constitutional Court several months in advance. Experts say such a move may be legally uncertain, as the mandate of the current head of the court, Pavel Rychetský, does not end until August.
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