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03/19/2023
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan says his Mayors and Independents will propose that legislators’ salary increases slow to the same rate as the indexation of state old-age pensions.
He made the comment on Prima CNN News on Sunday, days after President Petr Pavel called on the government to deal with the issue of freezing politicians’ salaries. The head of state said it wasn’t right to leave lawmakers’ pay as it was while at the same time lowering pension increases for the elderly.
Opposition leaders ANO have called for a five-year freeze on politicians’ pay.
Mr. Rakušan said each member of the five-party coalition government had its own formula with regard to how to reining in future pension growth.
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03/19/2023
As the current heating season comes to an end Czech reserves of gas are more than half full, Czech Television reported on Sunday. Consumers in Czechia used one-fifth less gas year-on-year in 2022, the lowest amount in eight years.
Usage levels were impacted by high prices and uncertainty stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine, while the relatively mild winter has also been a factor.
Czechia now gets most of its gas from Norway and LNG terminals, Czech TV said.
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03/19/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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03/19/2023
A Czech volunteer has been injured in Ukraine’s Donbas, Czech Television reported on Sunday, citing the Fenix organisation. A spokesperson said the Czech, who was treating Ukrainian soldiers injured in battle and helped saved dozens of people, had been hit by shrapnel in an artillery attack.
The volunteer’s injury is described as “relatively serious”. His transport to Czechia is being organised.
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03/19/2023
Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková have won the women’s doubles title at tennis’s WTA Tour 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. The Czech pairing, who were seeded first in the competition, beat the German-Brazilian duo of Beatriz Laura Siegemund and Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-1, 6-7(3), [10-7] in just under two hours on Saturday.
Siniaková and Krejčíková have won all four Grand Slams in doubles but had never previously taken the Indian Wells title. The Czechs have won all 11 matches they have played so far this year.
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03/18/2023
Three-time Olympic champion Ester Ledecká came first in the parallel giant slalom in a snowboard World Cup event in Germany’s Berchtesgaden on Saturday.
The win came just days after the Czech’s first event in almost a year, when she finished second. Ledecká she required protracted treatment for a broken collarbone in the summer of last year.
The Czech, who is 27, made world headlines for winning gold in parallel giant slalom in snowboarding and the super-G in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Four years later she took another gold medal in the former discipline.
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03/18/2023
A court in the UK has sentenced a Czech man to nearly 13 years in prison for attempting to illegally import a semi-automatic weapon and ammunition, the National Crime Office said on its website.
In 2018 border guards in Dover discovered a Slovak-made self-loading rifle and 465 rounds of ammunition in a van. Investigators later traced DNA on the weapon to a Czech 42-year-old, who was then serving a jail term for another crime in Czechia. When he visited Manchester last March police arrested him.
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03/18/2023
Most of the parties represented in the Czech lower house lost members in the last year, Czech Television reported. The only exceptions were Freedom and Direct Democracy and coalition party the Mayors and Independents.
Government leaders the Civic Democrats lost the most members year-on-year, Czech Television said.
The Communist Party and the Social Democrats, who fell out of the lower house at the last elections, lost about one-fifth of their members.
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03/18/2023
The leadership of the Czech Army and the Ministry of Defence are keen to dispel fears that increased defence spending next year will be effective, Právo reported on Saturday. A sharp rise in the army’s budget means that officials will have over CZK 150 billion at their disposal in 2024.
The chief of the General Staff, Karel Řehka, told the newspaper that tens of billions would be spent on munitions in the coming five years.
Ammunition for the newly acquired 52 French Caesar self-propelled howitzers alone will cost CZK 10 billion. Individual rounds cost up to hundreds of thousands, depending on their capabilities.
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03/18/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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