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10/21/2022
Czechia’s priority is building a high-speed railway connection to Vienna via Prague and Brno, Czech Transport Minister Martin Kupka said ahead of an informal meeting of EU transport ministers in the Czech capital on Friday.
Apart from the expansion of the railway network in Europe, the ministers will also discuss the impacts of rising energy costs on the transport sector.
In addition to the ministers of the 27 EU member states, representatives from Ukraine, Moldova, Switzerland and Norway are also taking part in the meeting.
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10/20/2022
Households account for about 30 per cent of total energy consumption in Czechia, with two thirds of their consumption used for heating, according to the results of a survey by the Czech Statistics Office presented on Thursday.
About two thirds of Czech households reported heating their homes to 22 degrees Celsius. Some 16 percent of the overall consumption were used for heating water.
According to the survey, which was carried out in 10,000 households across the country in the second half of last year, households now get most of their energy from renewable sources, followed by natural gas.
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10/20/2022
Friday is expected to be mostly cloudy to overcast with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius.
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10/20/2022
The speaker of the lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, has called for the establishment of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
Mrs. Pekarová-Adamová made the statement in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday during a public hearing on Russian war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.
According to Daryna Pidhorna of the Ukrainian Regional Centre for Human Rights, who also attended the hearing, a tribunal must be established in Europe to hear and punish Russian war crimes.
The European Union has not yet agreed on the possibility of establishing a special tribunal over the war in Ukraine and is pushing for the country to join the International Criminal Court.
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10/20/2022
The first shipment of trams to Kharkiv in the northeast of Ukraine is due to leave Prague on Thursday afternoon to help the city renew transport following the Russian onslaught.
The convoy of trucks will set off from the Czech capital via Ostrava and Poland and is expected to reach the second-largest Ukrainian city in two days.
In total, the Prague Transport Company will donate twenty trams and two buses to Ukraine, which will be used in the city of Khmelnytskyy. All of the vehicles should be transported by the end of the year.
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10/20/2022
After several years of reconstruction, the Army Museum at the Military History Institute in Prague will be officially opened on Thursday. The renovation of the building, which is located at the foot of the city’s Vítkov hill in the Žižkov district, amounted to over CZK 900 million.
The renovation works included building a new entrance and enlarging the exhibition space. Access to the museum will now also be possible from the cycling path at the rear of the building.
Thursday’s opening ceremony will be attended by President Miloš Zeman. The museum will open to the public on October 28, which is a national holiday marking the birth of Czechoslovakia.
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10/20/2022
The police have proposed charging former TOP 09 MP Dominik Feri with three counts of rape, according to a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday. Mr. Feri, who is 25, faces up to 10 years in prison because prosecutors are also pursuing him for the crime of rape committed against a 17-year-old girl.
The one-time TOP 09 politician resigned from his seat in the lower house in June last year after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct about him appeared in the media. He told the Czech News Agency on Thursday that he was prepared to prove his innocence.
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10/20/2022
Seven people have been charged with subsidy fraud following Tuesday’s police raid at the Brno City Hall, the ctk news agency reported. The individuals in question are suspected of involvement in large-scale fraud related to city housing projects. Deputy Mayor Petr Hladík, who was slated to take up the post of environment minister, is not among those charged but his office was also raided by the police and his Christian Democratic Party is now expected to put forward a different candidate for the post. The party leadership is to meet on Thursday to discuss the matter.
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10/20/2022
Czech ambassador to Moscow, Vítězslav Pivoňka, attended a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry to discuss the escalation of tensions over the Czech House dispute. The Russian authorities recently ordered the removal of part of the fence surrounding the property which the Czech side considers to be a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the step would not go unanswered. The Russian Foreign Ministry claims the problematic fence is a long-standing issue and has nothing to do with the present political situation.
The Czech House, the largest property owned by the country abroad, has been operating in maintenance mode for several months now, with three Czech and four Russian employees overseeing its operation. The Foreign Ministry decided to close it down shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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10/19/2022
Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura has refuted an earlier claim that the windfall tax the Czech government wants to levy on companies in the energy and banking sectors would be retroactive for 2022. Following Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, Mr. Stanjura said the tax on companies in the energy, banking, petroleum and fossil fuel industries would apply from January 2023 to the end of 2025 as planned. The ministry is planning a tax rate of 60 percent on the excess profits of these companies. The special tax is expected to generate CZK 85 billion for the budget in 2023. Another CZK 15 billion is expected to be raised next year by European price caps for energy producers, as proposed by the European Commission.
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