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05/10/2024
Unemployment in Czechia fell month-on-month by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 percent in April, according to data released by the national Labour Office on Friday.
At the end of last month some 280,000 people in the country were out of work. The number of vacant positions dropped slightly, reaching just over 268,000. The decrease was mainly due to the start of seasonal work.
The unemployment rate in Czechia in April last year was 3.2 percent.
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05/10/2024
Some 4.1 million tourists stayed in hotels, guesthouses and campsites in Czechia in the first quarter of 2024, representing a year-on-year rise of 9.9 percent, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Friday.
Approximately 2.2 million of the overall number of tourists were domestic guests. Overall, tourists spent a total 10.6 million nights in accommodation establishments between January and March, 7.7 percent more than in the same period last year.
The largest group of foreign guests, nearly half a million, came from Germany, followed by Slovakia and Poland.
Tourism has been rising continuously since the second quarter of 2021 and tourist numbers have already surpassed the pre-Covid year of 2019.
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05/10/2024
Prime Minister Petr Fiala is going to propose the appointment of Marek Ženíšek as the new Minister for Science, Research and Innovation to President Petr Pavel on Friday. The prime minister described him as an experienced politician who will be an asset to the government.
After meeting with Mr. Fiala on Friday morning, Mr. Ženíšek said that they had agreed on priorities for this election period and on increasing the budget in the field of science to prevent brain drain. The candidate for minister also said he is preparing for a meeting with the president on Tuesday.
The post of science and research minister was previously held by TOP 09's Helena Langšádlová, who resigned after her party criticised her for lack of communication and failure to sell her work to the public. Economist Pavel Tuleja was initally slated to take over her role but gave up his candidacy last Friday after it emerged that he had published poor-quality academic articles in pay-to-publish journals.
Ženíšek's nomination was approved by the leadership of his party, government coalition partners TOP 09, on Thursday.
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05/10/2024
After a short overnight break, MPs resumed the second reading of the postal vote bill for Czechs living abroad on Friday. The first day of the debate on Thursday went on for 14 hours, only stopping for the night at 1am due to filibustering by the opposition. Friday is expected to be no different, as around 20 MPs are still registered to speak.
The coalition government wants the bill passed before the next parliamentary elections in autumn 2025, saying it would strengthen Czech citizens' right to vote by providing them with more options. However, the opposition fears that votes could be manipulated or interefered with if sent by mail. Radek Vondráček from the opposition ANO party told Czech Television that they plan to use all the legal instruments available to prevent the proposal from being passed before next fall.
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Survey: Czechs vote in EP elections to express opinion on government rather than influence EU policy
05/09/2024The most commonly cited reason for Czechs to participate in the upcoming European Parliament elections in June is to express their opinion on the current government, a survey by the Ipsos agency for ČTK Connect has found. More survey respondents said they would vote in the EP elections for this reason than said they would to influence the direction and content of European Union policy.
According to the survey, roughly six out of ten Czechs are interested in the EP elections and around a third of eligible voters are planning to go to the polls on June 7 and 8.
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05/09/2024
Friday is expected to be cloudy but dry, with some spells of sunshine here and there. Daytime temperatures should range between 12 and 18 degrees Celsius.
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05/09/2024
Over 9,000 reports have been filed by schoolchildren via the application 'Nenech to být' or 'Don't Let It Be', about half of which concern bullying, the platform announced in a press release on Thursday. The other 50 percent are related to learning difficulties (10 percent), problems at home (10 percent), and the remaining 30 percent fall into the "other" category.
The app was invented in 2017 by three high school students from Brno, functioning as an online trust box through which students can contact their schools about anything concerning them or their classmates. In the seven years that the app has been around, 2,050 of Czechia's 4,276 primary and 1,304 secondary schools have joined the platform, and it is also used by schools in the USA, Germany, Slovakia, Finland and Norway.
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05/09/2024
Forward Roman Červenka will be the captain of the Czech hockey team at the 2024 Ice Hockey World Championships beginning on Friday in Prague and Ostrava, team spokesperson Ondřej Kalát announced in a press release. The 38-year-old Červenka is the most experienced player on the team and was also captain at the previous two tournaments. This will be his 11th time playing for the national team at the hockey world championships.
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05/09/2024
Czechia ought to have an ambassador in Russia, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a video debate for the Czech daily Deník on Thursday, although he added that he could not say how long the position would remain vacant. He said that filling the role in Moscow was a goal for the government but was not specific about the timeline.
The current Czech ambassador to Russia, Vítězslav Pivoňka, has been recalled by the government and will be leaving his post at the end of this month.
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05/09/2024
More than a third of the population of the V4 countries, including Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, perceive attempts by foreign states to influence the upcoming European elections as a major problem, suggests a survey carried out by the Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO). In Czechia, this is the case with 35 percent of the population.
While Czechs, Poles and Hungarians are most worried about Russian influence, Slovaks are more concerned about EU influence, according to the survey. Czechs and Poles also showed a higher level of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy compared to the other two countries surveyed, with about a quarter of the Czech population trusting the European Parliament and the European Commission.
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