If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix.
- The Czech Republic has sent an additional police unit to help guard the external border of the Schengen Area on the Hungarian-Serbian border, with a a 40-member contingent.
- The Czech government will be approving a further easing of coronavirus restrictions this and next Wednesday, Interior Minister Vit Rakusan (STAN) told CTK after a meeting. However, in spite of the improvement in the pandemic situation, he called for cautiousness.
- The average monthly pension will increase by eight hundred to a thousand crowns from June, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Marian Jurečka told Czech Television. The exact amount will be decided by the pace of inflation.
- Next week, Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) will travel to Brussels for his first summit in office, a two-day meeting between the European Union and the African Union representatives.
- A new project aims to create a new 9,801-kilogramme bell for Prague – to commemorate thousands of Czech church and tower bells stolen and melted down by the Nazis in summer 1942. The project’s title is #9801.
