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11/18/2022
Although consumer price growth remains in double digit figures and real incomes have been falling the majority of Czechs are optimistic about the future. In a survey conducted by Patron GO two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents aged between 18 and 50 said they expect their financial situation to change for the better within a year. A fifth of respondents fear they will be worse off than they are now. The remaining 17 per cent believe their financial circumstances will remain more or less the same.
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11/18/2022
The lower house will vote on the government's proposal to completely abolish the bill on electronic sales registers (EET) next Friday, the ctk news agency reported, citing the speaker of the lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
Although the ruling coalition has a majority in the lower chamber, the opposition ANO party, which introduced the bill, is expected to put up a fight for it, arguing that it reduced tax evasion and brought more funds to state coffers. The present coalition government of Petr Fiala claims the law is a big burden for entrepreneurs and questions its benefits for the state.
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11/18/2022
President Miloš Zeman will pardon a Polish couple, Jaroslaw and Karolina Kordys, who were convicted by a Czech court of importing and distributing a hallucinogenic beverage called ayahuasca used by shamans in Peru. They were served five-and-a-half and eight-and-a-half year sentences. The sentences were considered by many as being too harsh and Justice Minister Pavel Blažek on Friday tweeted that he welcomed the president’s pardon as a humane gesture. The drink contains the hallucinogenic substance DMT, which is banned in Czechia. It has been used for ritual purposes by shamans in the Peruvian jungle for over 5,000 years.
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11/18/2022
On Thursday evening the annual Memory of Nations Awards were handed out to honour five individuals from Czechia, Slovakia and Ukraine who resisted the Nazi and Communist regimes.
Among the recipients were Marie Susedková, who spent two and a half years in communist labour camps to help her cousin, Anna Šestáková, who refused to inform on her family and friends despite pressure from the Communist authorities, Pavel Eli Vaga, who as a twelve-year-old boy hid with only his sister in the Slovak mountains to avoid Jewish transports, Marie Henzlová, who supported the partisans during the Second World War amid great danger, and to Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovyč, who spent seven years in a labour camp and five years in exile in Kazakhstan during the 1970s and 1980s.
The award ceremony in the National Theatre in Prague ended with the playing of the Ukrainian national anthem.
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11/18/2022
The European Union has unblocked subsidies for Agrofert projects which were until now withheld due to an audit into the possible conflict of interest of the former prime minister, Andrej Babiš, Czech Radio’s news site iRozhlas.cz reported on Friday citing a letter sent by the European Commission to Czech officials. However, some subsidies remain blocked – two for the business Cerea and and one for the company Fatra. The withheld subsidies were already paid out to Agrofert by the Czech state.
The block was initiated 2019, after the launch of an EU audit into the possible conflict of interest of Mr Babiš, who was then prime minister.
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11/17/2022
Thousands of people gathered at Opletalova street on Thursday to attend a protest march to the headquarters of Czech Television in Kavčí hory, demanding that one of the chief organisers of anti-government protests earlier this year, Ladislav Vrabel, be allowed to appear on the programmes, the Czech News Agency reports.
Czech Television tweeted that such an appearance would be against its codex and declined the request. Police are monitoring the demonstration.
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11/17/2022
Climate change strikes that took place at several universities in the country this week culminated in a protest march throuh on Thursday. The demonstrators demanded quick and fair solutions to the climate crisis from the government.
The students called on the government to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Your catalog of demands will be handed over to the government commissioner for human rights, Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková.
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11/17/2022
According to a survey conducted by consulting company RSM, 39 percent of companies in Czechia are planning to further increase wages by the end of this year. Asked about how much the increase will be, 14 percent of respondents said around 2 to 5 percent. Meanwhile, 7 percent said that they are planning no increases this year or the next. The majority of businesses that took part in the survey said that they are not planning to raise wages any further in 2022.
Inflation has been particularly high when compared to the rest of the EU this year, with year-on-year inflation lying at 15.1 percent in October.
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11/17/2022
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský received the Magnitsky Award during his visit to the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday.
The head of Czech diplomacy also met with his British counterpart James Cleverly, Minister of State for Trade Policy Greg Hands as well as several other MPs.
Mr Lipavský’s trip to Britain was concerned with deepening diplomatic, security and trade ties between the two countries, as well as clarifying the so-called Statement of Intent memorandum on joint cooperation. The Czech Foreing Ministry highlighted that the United Kingdom is one of the closest allies of Czechia.
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11/17/2022
The section of Prague’s C metro line between the stops Pražského povstání and Florenc as well as the section between Strašnická a Depo Hostivař on the A line are closed until Sunday due to repairs, the website of Prague’s Public Transit Company informs. The work will continue until midnight Sunday.
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