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03/08/2023
The Czech Army will use compensation provided to Czechia by the United States for equipment delivered to Ukraine to upgrade eight donated helicopters. The aircraft will be delivered by 2026, Czech Air Force Commander Petr Čepelka said on Wednesday during a visit to the 22nd Helicopter Air Base in Náměšt' nad Oslavou in South Moravia.
The first new helicopters that Czechia ordered from the United States are set to arrive in May.
The US is providing Czechia with an additional USD 200 million to modernise its army in part compensation for materials the latter provided to Ukraine following its invasion by Russia.
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03/08/2023
The average mortgage rate in Czechia fell to 6.27 percent in March from 6.37 percent in February, according to market tracker Fincentre Hypoindex. Experts say the reduction in rates is the result of competition between banks as a new building season approaches.
The 0.1 percentage point reduction in rates is the most significant drop in two years.
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03/08/2023
The National Cyber and Security Information Agency has described the TikTok social media application as a security threat. The agency said on Wednesday that the Chinese-produced app should not be installed on devices owned by people with access to critical information infrastructure systems and other important information systems.
Officials also said that the Czech public should weigh up using the app and think about what they share on it.
Agency chief Lukáš Kintr said the amount of data being collected and handled, combined with the legal environment in China and the growing number of users in Czechia, left no alternative but to label TikTok a security threat.
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03/08/2023
A planned movie about Prague writer Franz Kafka has received the most in an annual allocation of state funding by the Czech Film Fund.
Franz by Oscar-winning Polish director Agniezska Holland is getting CZK 22 million of the total of almost CZK 61 million to be distributed, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Twenty-four projects applied for funding and seven were successful.
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03/08/2023
The mandate of Miloš Zeman as Czech president ends at midnight on Wednesday. His successor Petr Pavel will be sworn in as the country’s fourth head of state on Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Zeman has served the maximum two terms as Czech president after becoming the first directly elected holder of the post in 2013.
The president’s flag will be symbolically lowered at Prague Castle when his term ends at midnight. At the same time the complex’s Gate of the Giants will be shut, only to be reopened once Mr. Pavel has been sworn in.
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03/08/2023
It should be mainly overcast, with some rain, in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall considerably at the weekend.
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03/08/2023
Unemployment in Czechia remained at 3.9 percent in February, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Wednesday.
The country’s labour offices registered over 282,500 job seekers last month, some 550 fewer than in the previous month. The number of vacancies increased by about 2,000 to nearly 283,100.
The lowest rate of unemployment was traditionally Prague and in the regions of Central Bohemia, South Moravia and Pilsen, while the highest was in Ústí nad Labem with 5.8 percent and in Moravia Silesia.
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03/08/2023
Outgoing President Miloš Zeman has granted a pardon to the company Energie - stavební a báňská (ESB), which was banned by the court from participating in public procurements for three years for manipulating a CZK 200 million public tender at the Lány game park. ESB’s press spokesman Karel Samec said the firm did not ask for the pardon but appreciated the president’s decision, because they considered the verdict unfair.
The outgoing president has already granted pardon to the former head of the Lány Forestry Administration Miloš Balák, who was sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating the public tender. The Lány Forestry Administration is a contributory organization of the Office of the President of the Republic and Miloš Balák was a subordinate of the President's Chancellor Vratislav Mynář.
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03/07/2023
The incoming President Petr Pavel has published a report on the state of his health. According to doctors, a comprehensive health exam has shown that Pavel is medically fit to perform all his presidential duties.
The report was put together by Miroslav Zavoral, the director of the Central Military Hospital, who also looks after the health of outgoing President Miloš Zeman.
In the report, Zavoral described the president-elect as a healthy and vital man "who is able to fully perform all the duties of the office of the President of the Czech Republic".
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03/07/2023
Wednesday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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