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09/19/2024
Municipalities recovering from the floods have appealed for more volunteers to help with clean-up work, and say they need more dryers, pumps and other equipment used in the clean-up effort. Czech Television broadcast the appeal from 20 mayors in the affected areas. Appeals are also being posted on social media. Charity organizations and NGOs have already collected more than 221 million crowns in aid to the affected regions and are buying shovels, wheelbarrows, gloves, food and other basis necessities to provide both the locals and volunteers in the clean-up effort. The army has also been called on to help. There are fears that the onset of cold weather will make drying out the houses very difficult. On a visit to some of the worst affected areas President Pavel said that the reconstruction effort will take months or even years, urging the government to provide significant assistance to the municipalities in question.
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09/19/2024
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has proposed to the government that police officers and firefighters be rewarded for their exceptional service during the floods. He also reiterated a pledge to guarantee a five per cent pay rise for police officers in the next three years. The security forces had earlier planned a week-long protest outside the government office over low pay.
Meanwhile, the Czech Medical Chamber and the health unions plan to reiterate their demands for salary and wage increases at a press conference on Thursday. The unions have warned that if the government does not raise wages, they will call on health workers to terminate their contracts for overtime work in hospitals by the end of October.
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09/19/2024
Mobile teams from the Labour Office and insurance companies are now active in the flood-hit regions to help facilitate the payment of emergency benefits and advance payments on insurance claims which are now available within 24 to 48 hours. A number of banks have already announced that they are ready to accept applications for deferment or reduction of repayments on current loans and mortgages. They have online forms for the applications and people can also call their help lines. Energy companies are also being supportive and have announced that they will not disconnect affected premises from electricity or gas in the event of non-payment of advances.
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09/19/2024
The Ministry of Finance will prepare an amendment to this year's budget and will allocate CZK 30 billion to help deal with the damage caused by the September floods, the ctk news agency reported on Thursday citing ministry sources. This will increase the deficit in public spending to CZK 282 billion. In the 2025 draft budget, which is yet to be debated in Parliament, it will allocate another CZK 10 billion for reconstruction.
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09/19/2024
Preparations are in full swing for elections to municipal councils and a third of the Senate which take place on Friday and Saturday in what are exceptionally difficult circumstances for the flooded regions. The Interior Ministry is assisting the preparations both with people and material aid. According to the interior minister, 35 municipalities have been hard-hit by the floods, which represents an estimated 200 polling stations. He said that where polling stations cannot be set up or would not be accessible for all, voting can take place in tents. There are about 6 250 municipalities in the Czech Republic and about 14 000 precincts. The minister said that in addition to material aid, electricity would be secured by generators in all affected municipalities.
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09/19/2024
At least 17 people are reported to have been injured in a bus crash in Karlovy Vary on Thursday morning. According to early reports the bus crashed with a passenger car and fell from a several-metre high embankment onto a railway line. Emergency rescue teams are at the site of the accident. According to police, the driver of the passenger vehicle had a positive breathalyzer test. Rail traffic between the stations Karlovy Vary and Karlovy Vary Dolní nádraží has been halted.
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09/19/2024
An average of 136.2 litres of water per square metre fell in Czechia since last Thursday until Monday, according to newly released data by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, In Bohemia the average was 112.8 litres, while in Moravia it was 183.4 litres per square metre.
The highest rainfall total, 516.7 litres of water per square metres, were recorded at the Rejvíz measuring station in the Jeseníky Mountains.
The amount of precipitation surpassed the 1997 floods, which saw the national average of 97.5 litres per square metres, with 59.2 litres in Bohemia and 174.6 litres in Moravia.
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09/19/2024
Sparta Prague marked their return to the Champions League with a 3-0 win over Salzburg on Wednesday in their first game in Europe's top club competition in 19 years. The hosts opened the scoring just two minutes into the match with a goal from Kaan Kairinen, with further strikes added by Victor Olantuji and Qazim Laci in the 42nd and 28th minutes.
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09/18/2024
The semi state-owned power utility CEZ will establish strategic partnership with Rolls-Royce for the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), Prime Minister Petr Fiala told journalists on Wednesday, adding that the cooperation opens up the possibility for Czech companies to participate in the development of this type of nuclear sources and to join the global supply chain.
According to the Prime Minister, Czechia is not interested in buying ready-made small modular reactors, but wants to participate in their production on a global scale. Strategic partnership between CEZ and Rolls-Royce will make this possible, he said.
The first modular reactor in Czechia could be built at the site of nuclear power plant Temelin, southern Bohemia, in the first half of the 2030s.
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09/18/2024
The government has approved a new method of calculating the minimum wage. Under the new system, the lowest earnings will gradually rise from the current 41 percent of the average wage to 47 percent in 2029, the Labour Ministry announced on Wednesday. In January 2024, the minimum wage will increase to CZK 20,800, which will represent 42.2 percent of the average wage.
The government has also approved the increase of old age pensions, which should reach an average of CZK 21,060 in January.
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