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09/22/2023
The lower house of Parliament has started debating the government’s austerity package, aimed at reducing the state budget deficit, in its final reading. The package will raise taxes for individuals and companies, introduce layoffs, lower wages in the public sector, and further increase consumer prices. It aims to save 94 billion CZK (around EUR 4 billion) in 2023 and generate potential savings of up to CZK 150.7 billion combined for 2024 and 2025. The measures have come under fire from the opposition parties, which are expected to table numerous amendments and delay the bill’s approval for as long as possible. However, the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in both houses and is in a position to push it through.
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09/22/2023
Saturday should be mostly overcast around the country with rain in the southern and eastern regions and day temperatures between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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09/22/2023
Police officers in South Moravia detained a van carrying 33 refugees from Syria on Thursday evening during a random road check near the Slovak border. Among them were ten children. The driver has been charged with people smuggling. It is the fifth such incident this month. Last weekend the police detained a van with 27 migrants from Syria near Hodonín and a few days prior to that eight migrants were detained on a road near Prostějov after the smuggler’s car broke down.
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09/22/2023
Czech Railways is planning to increase ticket prices by around ten percent as of December, with the onset of a new timetable, the news site Novinky reported. The discount for students and seniors will remain. Just a year ago the largest domestic railway carrier increased the price of tickets by 15 percent. The state-owned company managed to return to profit last year after three years of losses.
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09/22/2023
The Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a ceramic statuette of a naked woman believed to be 29,000 years old and considered one of the oldest artefacts of its kind in the world, has been transported to Prague under tight security. This priceless item of prehistoric art was found at a Stone Age settlement in the Moravian basin south of Brno, and is rarely displayed in public. It will be shown at a joint exhibition of the National Museum and the Museum of Moravia which opens on Friday, September 22 and will run until the end of February.
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09/22/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel will end his working visit to the United States, where he attended a meeting of the UN General Assembly, with a trip to the arms factory Colt CZ in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday. Colt, an American arms manufacturer whose tradition dates back to the mid-19th century, was bought by the CZG - Česká zbrojovka Group in 2021. The company later changed its name to Colt CZ Group.
On Thursday President Pavel met with Czech expats in New York, visited an exhibition at the Czech Center and the One Vanderbildt skyscraper. At the exhibition, which was prepared to mark 30 years since the break-up of Czechoslovakia, the president met with its curator, Charlotte Kotíková, the great-granddaughter of the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
In the 2020 census, 1.4 million people in the United States claimed Czech roots or identity.
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09/22/2023
The leading Czech screenwriter and dramaturge Václav Šašek has died at the age of 89. As a dramaturge he worked on such well-known films as Behold Homolka, My Sweet Little Village and the Oscar-winning Kolya, as well as Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen’s Ball by Miloš Forman.
Šašek’s movie scripts included Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia and Oil Lamps and he was one of the writers of Ivan Passer’s Czechoslovak New Wave classic Intimate Lighting.
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09/22/2023
Czech football teams got off to winning starts in European competitions on Thursday evening. Slavia Prague overcame the Swiss side Servette 2:0 away in the Europa League, while Sparta Prague beat Aris Limassol of Cyprus 3:2 at home in the continent’s second-tier competition.
In the third-tier Conference League Viktoria Plzeň beat Ballkani of Kosovo 1:0.
Group games in the two competitions continue in two weeks’ time.
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09/21/2023
Almost 20,000 gymnasts will take place in an All-Sokol Slet at Prague’s Eden Stadium in July next year, representatives of Sokol said on Thursday. The budget for the event – which was last held in 2012 and 2018 – will be over CZK 150 million, with some funding coming from the National Sports Agency.
The slet, or meeting, will be the 17th since the Sokol gymnastics and sports organisation was established during the 19th century Czech National Revival.
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09/21/2023
One person died when a house was destroyed by an explosion in the village of Otinoves in the Olomouc Region, the local police force said. The blast on Thursday also damaged several other houses nearby.
Police said they were working to establish the cause of the explosion and had sealed off the area.
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