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04/08/2024
More than two-thirds of economically active refugees from Ukraine have jobs in Czechia, suggests a survey published on Monday by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Based on the latest data from the Czech Ministry of the Interior, there are currently about 339,000 refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection, which allows access to public health insurance, education and the labour market. Some 77 percent of them are economically active and 69 percent of them have a job, suggests the IOM survey.
According to the survey, the majority of people who fled Ukraine to Czechia are women, who often have a high level of education and were only able to get jobs below their previous qualifications. Finding a job is especially difficult for single mothers, respondents over 60 and people with health problems, the survey concludes.
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04/08/2024
Dust particles from the Sahara desert have been blown over Czechia again, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute reported on Monday. The dust cloud is most visible in the western part of the country.
Unlike during Easter, the particles of sand dust are moving higher in the atmosphere and are unlikely to cause smog. However, the sand in the air can reduce visibility and affect temperatures.
According to meteorologists, the incidents of Saharan dust intrusions are becoming more frequent in recent years and may be related to climate change.
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04/08/2024
Czech-born German politician Petr Bystroň from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the grouping’s number two candidate for June’s European Parliament elections, says he feels clear support from the party, following a meeting of its leadership on Monday.
Mr Bystroň, who was accused by the Czech counterintelligence service (BIS) of accepting money from a Russian influence network, made a statement to that effect to the Czech News Agency on Monday.
He also said the Czech government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala should now explain whether the counterintelligence service acted under pressure from abroad, such as Berlin or NATO.
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04/08/2024
Some 1,100 new cases of whooping cough were registered in Czechia in the past week, the State Health Institute said on Monday. It is the second highest weekly increase this year. Doctors have recorded a total of 6,397 whooping cough infections since the start of 2024.
Records show that the only year that has seen a higher number of cases was in 1959, a year after the start of compulsory vaccination.
Most of the current patients are between the 15 and 19 years old, with that age group accounting for nearly a third of the sick. So far, the State Health Institute has recorded three deaths related to whooping cough.
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04/08/2024
Jaroslav Bašta, an MP for the Freedom and Direct Democracy party and a candidate for the 2023 Czech presidency, has died at the age of 75 after a long illness. The politician and Charter 77 signatory had excused himself from parliamentary sessions for health reasons since about mid-May last year and had been in a serious condition in hospital since at least the end of May.
Mr. Bašta had been a member of Freedom and Direct Democracy since 2021. Between 2000 and 2005 he was the Czech ambassador to Russia and later became the Czech ambassador to Ukraine, where he served for three years. He finished fifth of eight candidates in the first round of the presidential elections on 14 January 2023, with 4.45% of the vote.
Marcel Dlask, the administrative director of the Chvaletice power plant, is slated to take over his seat in parliament.
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04/08/2024
The Czech authorities want to deport Russian-born Alexandr Stěpanov, who has been living in Czechia for almost 20 years, back to Russia, because they say he has connections with the Russian state and may pose a danger to the Czech Republic, Deník N reported on Monday.
According to the Czech authorities, Stěpanov had contacts with the Russian diplomats involved in the 2020 ricin scandal, when a Russian embassy employee brought the poisonous substance ricin to Czechia and through an anonymous email to the Czech secret service, tried to make it look like his colleague, with whom he had a feud, was involved in a plot to assassinate three Prague politicians - a plot which turned out to be entirely fictitious. Both the diplomats involved were expelled from the country following the case.
Stěpanov denies cooperating with the Russian secret service and has been trying to fight the decision to deport him in court for a year. According to Deník N, the authorities decided to revoke his permanent residence in Czechia based on one classified piece of information from the Czech intelligence services.
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04/07/2024
Temperature records for April 7 were broken around the country on Sunday. The highest recorded temperature was in České Budějovice at a sweltering 30.9 degrees Celsius, knocking off the original record of 30.6 degrees, recorded earlier the same day in Prague. Temperature records were broken on both Saturday and Sunday at all measuring stations keeping long-term records in South Bohemia, where České Budějovice is located.
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04/07/2024
The deputy head of the Christian Democrats and current Environment Minister Petr Hladík said on Czech Television on Sunday that he wants to propose the expulsion of his own party's former leader, Cyril Svoboda, to the party leadership, over an interview Mr. Svoboda gave to the pro-Kremlin Voice of Europe news site. The site has been on the Czech sanctions list since Wednesday after the Czech secret service discovered it was being funded by a Russian network paying off European politicians. Mr. Svoboda was one of the last Czechs to give an interview to the Voice of Europe website before it was sanctioned.
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04/07/2024
Czechia experienced its first tropical day of the year on Sunday, defined as when the air temperature reaches at least 30 degrees Celsius, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reported on Facebook. A temperature high of 30.6 degrees Celsius was recorded in Komořany in southwest Prague, where the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has its headquarters.
Until now, the earliest recorded tropical day was on April 17, 1934, when it was exactly 30 degrees Celsius in the town of Vlašim in the Central Bohemian Region. Last year, the first tropical day wasn't until June 18.
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04/07/2024
Monday should continue to be warm and sunny with only a few clouds. Daytime temperatures are expected to reach a high of 24 degrees Celsius.
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