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12/01/2023
Saturday should be overcast with snow around the country and day temperatures between -4 and -1 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists have issued a heavy snow alert for the Vysočina and South Bohemia regions.
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12/01/2023
The Prague City Council has lifted the nighttime ban on motor vehicles is some parts of the Old Town. In a review procedure, the city council said the measure was not properly justified and the traffic signs placed in the given areas thus never actually came into force. The street signs were installed last week by the Technical Administration of Communications on the instructions of Prague 1.
Prague 1 councilor Vojtěch Ryvola countered on Facebook that the ruling invalidating the decision will not come into force for 15 days, and until then the signs are valid. He added that the district authorities would start discussing measures to enforce a new ban.
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12/01/2023
The funeral mass for the late Karel Schwarzenberg, a prominent politician and a member of one of the oldest noble families in Europe, in St Vitus Cathedral will be for invited guests only, the Archbishopric of Prague announced on Friday. The public will be able to watch the funeral liturgy live on television and on a large screen near the cathedral.
Karel Schwarzenberg, died on Sunday, November 12 in Vienna at the age of 85. His coffin will be on display for the public from Wednesday, December 6, to Friday, December 8, at the Church of the Knights of Malta of Our Lady Beneath the Chain in Prague. The funeral mass will take place in St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle on Saturday, December 9 at noon. In accordance with his wishes, Schwarzenberg's remains will be laid to rest in the family tomb at Orlík Castle.
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12/01/2023
The lower house has approved an amendment to the so-called Lex Ukraine, the law which allows the government to deal with the impacts of the Ukrainian refugee wave without the need for a state of emergency. The new provision, which was passed on Friday, would allow Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war in their country to extend their temporary protection in the Czech Republic by another year until the end of March 2025, as well as some other changes, including limiting the time that refugees can stay in free emergency accommodation. The amendment will now go to the Senate for a final vote before being signed into law by the president.
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12/01/2023
The partial strike announced by doctors working in hospitals, over 6,000 of whom refused to work additional overtime in December in protest at salary and working conditions for medical staff, began on Friday. However, it is not yet clear how much this will actually limit hospital services, due to the deal struck between the prime minister and the protesting doctors on Thursday. Some hospitals have said that because of the deal made with the prime minister, even planned minor operations will probably be able to take place, and any restrictions to services will probably only apply to the coming weekend and the first few days of next week.
Originally, hospitals were saying that due to the protests, they would only be able to provide emergency care, but after Thursday's agreement between doctors' unions and Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the vice president of the Czech Medical Chamber, Jan Přáda, called on doctors to abandon the protest. However, it will only officially be called off once the prime minister's offer of increased salaries for next year has been confirmed in writing, which should happen at the beginning of next week.
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11/30/2023
Police in Argentina have arrested a Czech man who has been on the run from the law for 25 years, Seznam Zprávy reports.
Josef Šindelek was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison back in 1998 for fraud. His sentence was later reduced to 30 months, but he fled the country instead. The Czech police have been looking for him since then.
The Argentinian police apprehended him in the border city of Puerto Iguazú in the northeast of the country on the morning of Friday, November 3, as he was travelling from Paraguay to Argentina.
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11/30/2023
An agreement has been reached between Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and the over 6,000 doctors who refused to sign overtime contracts for the coming month in protest at measures that increased the amount of overtime hours they were legally allowed to work. The doctors’ unions, who were originally demanding reduced overtime, instead accepted Mr. Fiala's offer of increased salaries for next year at the meeting he held with them on Thursday. The prime minister has promised an extra CZK 9.8 billion from public health insurance to go towards increasing doctors' salaries, with the precise conditions to be negotiated in the coming days.
Many hospitals were warning that they would only be able to provide emergency care from December 1 due to the anticipated staff shortages that would arise as a result of the overtime strike. The vice-president of the Czech Medical Chamber has said that the protest will be called off once the prime minister's offer has been confirmed in writing.
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11/30/2023
Friday will see heavy snowfall over most of Czechia, especially in the south and east of the country, with temperatures hovering at and just below zero degrees Celsius. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has issued a warning that up to 35 centimetres of new snow may fall in some places between Friday and Saturday.
Some 10 to 25 centimetres of snow is expected in southern and eastern Czechia, while the north-west and north should see around 5 to 15 centimetres.
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11/30/2023
The Czech Republic is ageing, according to the results of a new demographic projection presented on Thursday at a press conference by the Czech Statistical Office. By 2050, the number of people over 65 could rise from 2.2 million to 3.1 million, with the share of the population increasing from one-fifth to almost one-third. The over-85s will also see a significant increase in numbers, while the number of children and younger people will decrease.
Migration from abroad should help to slow down the ageing of the population, but there will likely still be a small decrease in the size of the population, which, according to the projections, could shrink slightly from 10.83 million to 10.69 million.
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11/30/2023
State-regulated electricity prices will increase significantly next year, the Energy Regulatory Office (ERÚ) announced at a press conference on Thursday. For households, electricity will increase by 65.7 percent year-on-year and gas by 38.8 percent, and the increase will be even bigger for businesses.
However, according to the ERÚ, the actual end price that customers will pay for electricity will not be that different from this year due to a drop in market prices, and they will in fact decrease for gas.
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