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09/19/2022
The Czech national football squad have gathered in Prague ahead of their final two games in Group A of the current cycle of the Nations League. The Czechs will face Portugal at Prague’s Eden stadium next Saturday before taking on Switzerland away three days later.
Striker Patrik Schick is back in the squad after missing three successive international breaks due to injury. Striker Stanislav Tecl and midfielders Adam Vlkanova and Alex Král have also been called up to join the team.
Czechia are third in the four-team group with a one-point lead over Switzerland. Whichever team comes last is relegated
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09/19/2022
The prime minister, Petr Fiala, has called on Czechs to handle gas and electricity in a rational manner. In a televised address to the nation on Sunday evening, he said state organisations, companies and households should consider whether they were using power correctly and not wasting it.
Mr. Fiala said rational management of energy saved money for individuals but also reduced state expenditures, adding that he would ensure that state institutions would serve as a good example in this regard.
His government has introduced caps on gas and electricity prices for small consumers and a scheme to help businesses in the face of high energy prices.
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09/18/2022
Czech player Linda Fruhvirtová, who is 17, has won her first WTA final at tennis’s Chenai Open in India after overcoming Magda Linette of Poland 4-6 6-3 6-4.
The Prague-born Fruhvirtová had been losing 4:1 in the final set. However, her opponent suffered an injury that caused her to twice receive treatment on the court. When play resumed the Czech won five games in a row to lift the title.
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09/18/2022
It should be overcast with some rain in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. Cloudy weather is expected for most of the week.
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09/18/2022
Czech Railways will not increase its fares at the same level as current inflation in the next year, the minister of health, Martin Kupka, said on Czech Television on Sunday. Inflation in Czechia has been at around 17 percent year-on-year in recent months.
Czech Railways is planning to raise ticket prices in view of higher costs of energy and materials. However, such increases will not exceed 15 percent, Mr. Kupka said, adding that he would seek to ensure savings in the transport sector.
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09/18/2022
A freshly published opinion poll by the STEM agency for CNN Prima News suggests ANO would have won elections in September with 30 percent of the vote. The survey puts Tomio Okamura’s anti-EU Freedom and Democracy Party second on 14.3 percent, just ahead of government leaders the Civic Democrats on 14.2 percent.
Coalition party the Pirates enjoy 9.4 percent support, the poll suggests, while government colleagues TOP 09 and the Mayors are both on 5 percent. Another coalition party, the Christian Democrats, would fail to reach the 5 percent threshold with 4.5 percent. The Social Democrats and Communists would not make it back into the lower house, the survey indicates.
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09/18/2022
Demand for places at university dormitories in Prague is high, which such accommodation completely full as the new academic year starts, the Czech News Agency said. More students applied for places in halls this year than in 2021, despite the fact that charges have increased.
In view of the energy crisis universities are now looking to make savings, such as by reducing heating or lighting, officials said.
Prague’s University of Economics said it would adjust accommodation fees in line with developments in gas prices.
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09/18/2022
The Chinese Embassy in Prague says a current visit to Taiwan by Czech senators and ministry officials is undermining the political fundamentals of Czech-Chinese cooperation. On its website the embassy said that the visit supported separatist forces pushing for Taiwanese independence.
The Czech mission, headed by the head of the Senate’s Education Committee, Jiří Drahoš, is set to continue until September 24.
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09/18/2022
A Czech deputy minister of defence, Tomáš Kopečný, says that the transformation of Ukraine represents a huge opportunity for expansion of the Czech defence and security industry, perhaps the biggest in the last three decades.
Mr. Kopečný, who is responsible for industrial cooperation at the Ministry of Defence, made the comment in an interview for the Czech News Agency published on Sunday.
He said the manner in which Czechs had supported Ukraine since its invasion by Russia had opened the door to Ukraine for Czechia.
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09/17/2022
The architect Vlado Milunic, who was born in Croatia but spent almost all his life in Czechia, has died at the age of 81. He is best-known for co-designing Prague’s now iconic Dancing Building with the American architect Frank Gehry in the early 1990s. Milunic taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he himself had studied architecture.
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