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10/08/2022
Czechs are marking the fourth annual Sokol Memorial Day, commemorating the anniversary of the order by Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich to arrest over 1,500 members of the Czech gymnastics association.
Those detained were sent to concentration camps and the organisation was banned a few days later. An estimated 5,000 Sokol members were murdered or died in battle during WWII.
A number of commemorative ceremonies and sports events are being held around the country on the occasion of the Sokol Memorial Day. The Sokol flags have also been hoisted over a number of town halls and regional offices.
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10/08/2022
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková defeated American qualifier Alycia Parks 7-6, 6-3 to advance to the semi-finals of the Agel Open WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava on Friday.
Krejčíková, ranked No 23, extended her winning streak to eight. She will next face Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, who secured a 7-6, 6-4 win over Czech wildcard Petra Kvitová in the quarterfinals.
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10/08/2022
The Nashville Predators opened the 2022-23 NHL season with a 4-1 win against the San Jose Sharks at Prague’s O2 Arena on Friday in the first of two games of the NGL Global Series.
The Predator’s new additions, Nino Niederreiter and Kiefer Sherwood, scored two of the winning goals, while the Prague-born Sharks forward Tomáš Hertl provided the only offense for his team.
The Global Series is an annual event, which sees NHL regular season games played oustide of North America. It has returned to Europe after a two-year break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The second game of the series takes place on Saturday.
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10/07/2022
EU leaders took part in an informal summit at Prague Castle on Friday. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in his speech at a press conference after the summit that proposals to separate the price of gas from the price of electricity, as well as releasing emission allowances from the reserve fund, were discussed as possible measures to lower energy prices. Mr. Fiala said that separating electricity and gas prices would mean a reduction in the price of electricity for all companies and households in the EU.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in her speech that 41 percent of European gas came from Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and now it is down to 7.5 percent.
The next EU council meeting will take place in two weeks' time in Brussels.
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10/07/2022
Saturday is expected to be overcast with daytime temperatures between 13 and 18 degrees celsius. Sunnier but colder weather is expected on Sunday.
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10/07/2022
Czech ministers will be travelling to Kyiv at the end of the month to attend a meeting with Ukrainian government officials on October 31, a government spokesperson told the Czech News Agency on Friday. They plan to discuss the Russian attack on Ukraine and the rebuilding of the war-torn country. Roughly half of the Czech cabinet will be in attendance. The Czech government regularly negotiates with its partners in Poland, Slovakia and Israel via a similar format.
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10/07/2022
An informal EU summit began on Friday morning at Prague Castle at which leaders of EU countries are discussing further aid to Ukraine and solutions to the soaring energy prices that Europe is currently facing. The possibility of capping the price of gas used for electricity production is on the table, but no decision can be expected at this meeting since it is informal, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. She said today's discussion was the first step towards preparing for the official EU summit in Brussels in two weeks.
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10/07/2022
The German state of Bavaria has increased controls at its border with the Czech Republic as of Friday due to increasing numbers of migrants on the so-called Balkan route trying to cross into Germany via Slovakia and Czechia, the Czech News Agency reports. The growing number of migrants coming to Germany via Czechia has been a political topic for several weeks now in the German states of Bavaria and Saxony, both of which share a border with the country. The most common countries of origin for migrants coming to Bavaria were Syria, Turkey, Moldova, Albania and Afghanistan.
At the beginning of September, the head of the German police Heiko Teggatz called on the Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, to reinstate permanent guarding of the border, but she declined to take such a step for now.
The chief political representative of the Sudeten Germans, Bernd Posselt, spoke out against the controls, saying they were contrary to the Schengen agreement and that there was a risk that this part of Europe would become parceled out again. He pointed out that Bavaria, Austria and Czechia have become much closer since the fall of the Iron Curtain and integration into a bloc without border controls and have become a common cultural and living space once again.
The Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann defended the decision, saying it was not only about illegal migrants from Syria, but also a possible threat from Russia.
The Czech Republic recently temporarily restored controls on the Czech-Slovak border. Austria also reinstated checks on the Slovak border last week.
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10/07/2022
A small demonstration attended by a few dozen people took place on Friday in Hradčany square by Prague Castle, the venue of the EU informal summit currently taking place in Prague. The demonstrators were calling for EU unity and support for Ukraine, and were also demanding the abolition of the veto right of member states, the Czech News Agency reported.
Several different groups were represented among the protestors, including a group carrying a banner reading "Russians against Putin", and members and supporters of the Volt Europa political party, which supports European federalism and joint solutions to European issues such as the covid pandemic and energy prices.
The demonstrators applauded European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they entered the summit. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda came to greet the demonstrators.
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10/06/2022
The Ministry of Finance will propose a windfall tax for companies in the energy, banking, petroleum and fossil fuel industries for a period of three years starting from January 1, 2023, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said at a press briefing on Thursday. 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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