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The average wage in the Czech Republic fell by an average of 3.7 % in real terms in the first quarter of this year due to inflation, the Czech News Agency reported citing data from economic analysts. According to economists, the soaring inflation will continue to devalue wage growth throughout this year and an even bigger real decline can be expected in the second quarter. In nominal terms, wages are estimated to have risen by an average of around 7.2 percent in the first quarter.
The Sudeten German Association has launched a new app Sudeten.net designed to help Sudeten Germans search for their ancestors, but also to re-establish old contacts and find people who still speak some of the old Sudeten German dialects. Kathrin Krogner of the Sudeten German Association, which represents the interests of Sudeten Germans displaced from Czechoslovakia after World War II and their descendants, said in an interview that the app is also aimed at Czech users. It is available not only in German and Czech but also in English.
About 200 mainly Ukrainian women and children took part in a Mothers' March in the centre of Brno on Saturday. The aim was to draw attention to the growing number of child victims of the war in Ukraine. “The war continues, and each day more children are dying,” one of the organisers, Ilnara Dudašová, told the Czech News Agency. The Czech Republic has taken in over 350,000 Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war, most of them women and children.
Prague City Hall has announced that the hotels which opened to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic two years ago will close for them at the end of June. Several Prague hotels have been accommodating homeless people at the expense of City Hall since March 2020 and now serve about 160 people. Some of them will be given a place in the city's hostels, but some are at risk of having to return to a life on the streets, according to NGOs which are scrambling to help.
A rare ten-ducat coin from the Prague mint during the reign of Frederick the Great from the early 17th century sold for more than ten million crowns at an auction in Prague on Saturday, Roman Veselý of Aurea Numismatika, told the Czech News Agency. The starting price of the coin was two million crowns. The auction brought in over 100 million crowns in total.
Rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Eric Clapton will kick off his month-long European summer tour at Prague's O2 Arena on Sunday night. It will be his first performance in Prague since 2013, which drew a crowd of 14,000 fans from the Czech Republic and beyond. An earlier concert planned for 2020 had to be scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the published playlist, Clapton will play his solo hits and older songs he performed with Cream or Derek and the Dominos.
Monday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered showers and day temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.
Renowned Czech violin virtuoso Václav Hudeček is due to celebrate his 70th birthday this Tuesday June 7th. We take a brief look back at his life and work.
The vote on June 5-6, 1992 decided the fate of Czechoslovakia.
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