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The Geopolitician

Country risk, from the local press

Czechia country watch

Signals only — no written briefing yet. Every number links to the articles it counts.

Vigilance

No active vigilance flag · rules: Heightened vigilance for staff and travel · Pressure surge · Media polarisation spike

Flare-up watch

Flare-up watch: Watch (1.1) — driven by Internal tension and Safety & health

  • Internal tension +2.2
  • Safety & health +2.0
  • Agenda divergence +0.0
  • Attention −0.1

· the articles counted

Signals consistent with rising crisis risk. A composite of press signals, not a forecast.

Composite of the day's z-scores against the country's own history — Internal tension 0.25, Safety & health 0.20, agenda divergence 0.20, framing gap 0.15, attention 0.20; a missing component drops out and the others are renormalised. Calm below 0.5 · Watch to 1.5 · High above. Needs 14 days of history on two components. Method →

Risk pressure, last 30 days

Risk categoryLevelArticles, 30 daysBaselineChange vs previous 30 days (articles)Last signal
Regulatory riskno baseline yet63—▲ +63Lucembursko blokuje podíly ČEZ kvůli kauze Diag Human. Šikana, říká firma Lidovky.cz
Operational riskno baseline yet86—▲ +86Francie: stávky a omezení Kurzy.cz
Stability riskno baseline yet79—▲ +79Hluk, policejní auta a stovky uniformovaných mužů. Ve Spolaně se chystá velké cvičení Týden
Safety & health riskno baseline yet69—▲ +69Fatální incident v Rusku: vrátí se černá smrt? Má na svědomí miliony životů Aktualne.cz
Corporate riskno baseline yet95—▲ +95ČEZ obdržel oznámení o vydání rozhodnutí lucemburské soudní vykonavatelky týkající se majetkové účasti ČEZ ve společnostech Czech Gas Networks a Czech Gas Networks Investments Kurzy.cz
Financial riskno baseline yet436—▲ +436US OPEN: Wall Street pod tlakem ropy a polovodičů Kurzy.cz
Trade riskno baseline yet58—▲ +58EK prověřuje převzetí provozovatele prodejen nábytku Asko řetězcem XXXLutz Novinky.cz
Political riskno baseline yet598—▲ +598České firmy v rámci podnikatelské mise ministra Karla Havlíčka podepsaly nové dohody v dopravě, energetice a průmyslu Kurzy.cz

Pressure index from 30 days of history · 22 so far

Level = articles that passed the risk gate in the last 30 days, against the country's own baseline (mean of the previous three 30-day windows). Quiet 0 · Low up to the baseline · Elevated up to twice the baseline · High above. Counts, not severities: a press signal, not a rating. Every row links to the articles counted. Method →

Czechia in the world's press

Today 86 articles · ×0.9 vs 30-day average · led by Czechia, United Kingdom, Andorra, Israel, Kazakhstan press

Articles mentioning the country across the outlets we read, vs the 30-day average. Method →

Media polarisation

Normal · 98% of the day's topics covered by one side only

· independent 294 · power 40 articles · 300 topics, 6 shared

Share of the day's topics covered by only one side (power vs opposition outlets), from the outlets we read. Media polarisation, not public opinion. Method →

Media we read

17 outlets read every day

  • Aha! independent
  • Aktualne.cz independent
  • Blesk.cz independent
  • Cesky rozhlas state
  • ČT24 state
  • Denik.cz independent
  • E15.cz independent
  • iDNES.cz independent
  • IHNED.cz independent
  • Kurzy.cz independent
  • Lidovky.cz independent
  • Novinky.cz independent
  • Penize.cz independent
  • ShowBiz.cz independent
  • Super.cz independent
  • Týden independent
  • Tyden.cz independent

How we rate outlets →

Today's signals

· 115 articles

Every article counted this day →

All countries →