• Medical Chamber wants to double fee for emergency care
    11/21/2022

    The Czech Medical Chamber has voted to increase the fee for emergency care from 90 to 200 crowns,  the chamber's head, Milan Kubek announced on Sunday. The chamber argues that the service is frequently abused by patients and doctors serving in ER wards are overburdened. Health Minister Vlastimil Válek said he is not personally in favour of doubling the fee in the present economic circumstances but that he would open a debate on the proposal at the next session of government.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Health minister in favour of introducing supplementary insurance
    11/21/2022

    Health Minister Vlastimil Válek wants to discuss the possibility of introducing supplementary health insurance. The health minister says it is vital to bring more money into the health care system and doing it through supplementary insurance would be better than by raising taxes. Válek told Czech Television the option of supplementary insurance would have to be introduced gradually, and the new system could be implemented from 2025 or 2026.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Christmas trees for Prague on their way to the capital
    11/20/2022

    Lumberjacks in Kytlice in the Děčín region have felled two Christmas trees for Prague’s main squares, Wenceslas and Old Town Square.  The spruce tree for Old Town Square is 58 years old and measures 25 metres, the one for Wenceslas Square is 18 metres tall. The trucks with the spruce trees will leave Kytlice for Prague on Sunday afternoon and are expected to arrive in the capital shortly after midnight on Monday. The lighting ceremony will take place on the first weekend of Advent.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    11/20/2022

    Monday is expected to be cloudy to overcast with snow or rain showers and daytime highs between 1 and 6 degrees Celsius.

  • Czechia struggling with shortage of nurses
    11/20/2022

    Hospitals and medical centres in Czechia are struggling with a shortage of nurses. According to an analysis by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, the Czech health system currently lacks around 4,000 nurses. Nurses in hospitals are having to work overtime as a result and many specialists are having to do without a nurse. The Health Ministry has said it wants to increase the number of places in undergraduate courses for nurses by 20 to 30 percent.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czech crown strengthening due to developments on global markets
    11/20/2022

    The strengthening of the crown against the euro and the dollar to the strongest levels since February this year is mainly due to developments on global markets and a change in investors' attitude towards riskier assets, which include the Czech currency, according a poll among economic analysts. According to experts, the further development of the crown will depend on the actions of central banks in the EU and the US. Since the beginning of November, the crown has strengthened by 5.9 percent against the US dollar and had appreciated by 0.67 percent against the euro.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Close to 9,000 illegal migrants detained on Czech-Slovak border since September
    11/20/2022

    Police officers and soldiers, who have been conducting renewed checks on the Czech-Slovak border since September, intercepted almost 8800 illegal migrants, according to Leoš Tržil, head of the South Moravian police force. Most of the refugees claim they are from Syria. Approximately 150 police officers and soldiers are taking turns serving 12-hour shifts on the border around the clock. The border controls are expected to last until 12 December when the situation will be reviewed.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Real wages in Czechia see biggest drop in EU
    11/20/2022

    Real wages in Czechia will fall by 8.3 % this year due to two-digit inflation. It will be the biggest drop among the Visegrad Four countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) and a steeper decline than the EU average, according to an analysis by the investment company Cyrrus.

    Wages in the EU are expected to drop by around 2.3 percent on average this year, by 2.1 percent in Poland, 1.1 percent in Slovakia and 0.3 percent in Hungary.

    Czechia will likely see another decline in real wages next year, by an estimated 0.1 percent. Meanwhile,  real wages in the EU are expected to rise by 0.6 percent on average in 2023, by 0.6 percent in Poland, 0.7 per cent in Slovakia and 2.3 per cent in Hungary.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czechia preparing its own version of US Magnitsky Act
    11/20/2022

    Czechia will soon have its own version of the US Magnitsky Act, which would allow the country to impose national sanctions for serious violations of international law on individuals and legal entities who are not on the EU sanctions list. The state could, for example, bar them entry to this country or freeze their assets. Under the proposed law, which is now in the Senate, Czechia will be able to impose sanctions against individuals in the interest of national security, protection of fundamental human rights and combatting terrorism. The bill should also create a legal basis for the inclusion of entities on the EU sanctions list at the initiative of Czechia. Among the first to go on the list will be Russians and Belarusians aiding the Putin regime in the war on Ukraine.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    11/19/2022

    Sunday should be mostly overcast with scattered snow showers and daytime highs between -2 and 3 degrees Celsius.

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