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01/14/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 1 degree Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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01/14/2024
Sunday is the final day of the annual Three Kings charity collection campaign on the streets of Czechia. The donation drive, in which members of the public can place money in sealed boxes, has been running for over two decades and is organised by the group Charita ČR. Tens of thousands of volunteers take part every January, the organisers say.
Last year’s edition of the Three Kings raised a record CZK 161 million.
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01/13/2024
Ivan Bartoš has been re-elected chairman of the Czech Pirate Party for another two years at a national congress in Brno. Mr. Bartoš defeated his only challenger, MEP Markéta Gregorová, in Saturday’s vote.
Earlier the dreadlocked party leader said in a speech that the Pirates should keep offering voters change.
Vít Rakušan, head of the Mayors party with which the Pirates jointly ran in the last general elections, told delegates he looked forward to competing with them in 2025, as well as further cooperation at regional level.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala of coalition leaders the Civic Democrats thanked the Pirates for their cooperation in government.
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01/13/2024
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says he is sceptical whether a meeting of the premiers of the Visegrad Four states would at present lead to any results. Czechia currently holds the rotating presidency of the group, which also includes Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, but has not yet convened a gathering at prime ministerial level.
Speaking in Brno on Saturday, Mr. Fiala said such a meeting was not necessary in view of how things were going at the European Council, but also said he was ready to call a gathering of V4 leaders in future.
The positions of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak PM Robert Fico have recently diverged at European level from those of Czechia and Poland, especially with regard to support for Ukraine.
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01/13/2024
The Czech tennis player Jiří Lehečka has won his first ever title on the ATP tour. The 22-year-old overcame Britain’s Jack Draper 4-6 6-4 6-3 in a time of two hours and nine minutes in the final of Australia’s Adelaide International on Saturday.
The final came on the eve of the start of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open.
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01/13/2024
A new approach to care in the form of social health services could be introduced in Czechia next year, according to a draft amendment that has been put forward by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday.
Under the proposed changes, such services should be provided by hospitals, long-term care facilities, old folks’ homes and mental health facilities. From 2027 patients would have to pay at long-term care facilities after the initial three months.
The proposals were met with criticism when they were first floated by the ministry a year ago.
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01/13/2024
Rescue workers have found the body of a man who died after being carried away by water while doing research at a mine. The man was exploring the historic Jeroným tin mine in the Sokolov area of West Bohemia on Friday afternoon when he was swept away by a surge of water.
A number of fire units, USAR experts and specialised divers took part in the search for the man. The Mine Rescue Service also had to stabilise the part of the mine where the accident occurred. The man’s body was found after water had been pumped out.
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01/13/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 2 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected at the start of the week.
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01/13/2024
Karel Janovický (real name Bohuš František Šimsa), a Czech-born composer, pianist, writer and broadcaster, died this week in the United Kingdom at the age of 93, his family said. The Plzeň-born Janovický and his future wife escaped from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1949 and settled in London. He worked for the BBC and headed the station’s Czechoslovak section in the 1980s.
Mr. Janovický was also active in the scouts, where he had the nickname Joviš.
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01/12/2024
Budějovický Budvar brewed a record 1.865 million hectoliters of beer last year, up 4.3 percent year-on-year, the head of the brewery Petr Dvořák told the ctk news agency. He says the brewery expects record sales of more than CZK 3 billion in 2023. This year, Budvar is planning to spend CZK 60 million to expand its capacity to gradually increase production to 2.1 million hectoliters. In 2026, it plans to start upgrading its visitor center and grounds at a cost of hundreds of millions. Budvar raised the price of its beers between 5 and 8 percent at the end of last year, and says it is not planning a further increase this year.
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