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02/01/2024
The government has excluded the US company Westinghouse from the ongoing tender for the construction of a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant. According to a statement issued by the government on Wednesday, Westinghouse did not fulfil the required tender conditions.
The government also said it was amending the ongoing tender with the remaining bidders, South Korea's KHNP and France's EDF, who will now be asked to make binding bids by mid-April for up to four new reactors in total to be built at the Dukovany and Temelín plants.
The Czech energy company CEZ will evaluate the bids and submit an evaluation report to the government for approval by the end of May.
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01/31/2024
Prague’s Kotva department store is due to close on Thursday for a two-year reconstruction. Following the overhaul, the building will accommodate luxury shops and offices. The area surrounding Kotva will also undergo a major transformation.
The seven-storey Brutalist building, which stands on the corner of Náměstí Republiky square and Revoluční Street, was one of the first such outlets in the city and its opening was a major event in 1975.
It was designed by the husband and wife team of architects Vladimir and Věra Machonin, who were also behind the Hotel Thermal in Karlovy Vary and the Czechoslovak Embassy in then East Berlin.
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01/31/2024
A total of 57,000 people died in Czechia in the first six months of last year, which was five percent fewer than in the previous year and about the same number as in 2020, the Czech Statistics Office announced in a press release on Wednesday.
The three most common causes of death were cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease, heart attack and brain stroke. There was a significant drop in deaths where Covid-19 was listed as the main cause, dropping from the fourth most common cause to the 18th.
Coronary heart disease has long been the most commonly reported cause of death in Czechia, with the exception of 2021, when it was replaced by Covid-19. Almost 7,600 people succumbed to it during the first six months of 2023, which was nine percent drop on the previous year.
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01/31/2024
Thursday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius.
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01/31/2024
The Czech government on Wednesday approved an increase in the Education Ministry’s budget by four million crowns, Education Minister Mikuláš Bek announced on X (formerly Twitter).
The ministry’s budget was initially set at CZK 269 billion this year, which is CZK 3.9 billion more than in the previous year.
According to the minister the money should be used mainly to to increase the salaries of university teachers and non-teaching staff in the regions.
Teachers unions in Czechia held a day-long warning strike in late November, seeking more money for the underfunded education sector.
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01/31/2024
Communist-era dissidents will start receiving average old-age pensions from next year, regardless of their contribution to the system, under an amendment signed by President Petr Pavel on Wednesday.
The change applies to around 1,900 people certified for having resisted the Communist or Nazi regimes. They should see their pensions increase to a minimum of CZK 20,635.
Recently former dissidents protested outside the Office of the Government over the fact many of them have been receiving relatively low pensions, often related to their mistreatment before 1989.
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01/31/2024
The prime ministers of Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia and the Netherlands have called for further support for Ukraine, which has been defending itself against Russia’s military invasion for nearly two years.
In an open letter published by Financial Times on Wednesday, the prime ministers say that if Ukrainian soldiers are to keep fighting, they will need more ammunition, and Europe should therefore redouble its collective aid effort, especially in terms of military support.
EU leaders will meet on Thursday at an extraordinary summit in Brussels that is to deal with further military and financial aid to Ukraine.
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01/31/2024
Czechia’s National Cyber and Security Information Agency says it registered a record number of cyber-attacks last year. The state organisation said on its website on Wednesday that it had recorded 262 such attacks in 2023, compared to 146 the previous year.
The agency said the increase was mainly due to repeated waves of DDoS attacks led by pro-Russian hacking groups.
Two of last year’s incidents were classified as very significant, which is the organisation’s highest threat level, an official said.
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01/31/2024
A special fund set up to help relatives of the victims of a mass shooting at a Prague university in December is already distributing some money to applicants for treatment or psychosocial support, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday. The Charles University Endowment Fund has allocated CZK 13.5 million for that purpose out of a total of over CZK 52 million raised in a public collection, the news site said. A spokesperson said the university had a clear plan of how the entire amount will be distributed following the current “acute phase”, roughly from mid-February.
Fourteen people died and many were injured when a student at the Faculty of Arts went on a shooting spree on December 21.
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01/30/2024
Three people fell from the northern side of Mount Sněžka, on the border of Czechia and Poland, on Tuesday. Two of those involved in the accident died when they slipped on a mountain slope, according to the website of the Polish station TVN24, which cited police on the Polish side of the border.
Both Polish and Czech rescue services were deployed following the accident.
The summit of Mt. Sněžka is the highest point in Czechia.
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