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08/29/2022
Czech Prime Minsiter Petr Fiala and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed in Prague on Monday that a Europe-wide solution to the issue of energy prices had to be found. The two leaders were speaking to the media following a two-hour meeting.
Mr. Scholz said that present electricity prices were unjust because the cost of production was not so high, adding that structural change was needed.
Mr. Fiala reiterated that Czechia wished to be involved in the development of a European energy infrastructure and to acquire capacity in natural gas terminals that Germany plans to build.
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08/29/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 22 degrees Celsius. Sunny skies are expected later in the week.
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08/29/2022
The Czech minister of industry and trade, Jozef Síkela, said on Monday that Europe must separate gas prices from electricity prices. Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU energy ministers that he has convened for September 9, Mr. Síkela said they would discuss setting a cap on prices of gas, which is used to produce electricity.
The minister said this would be a functional and relatively affordable method of reining in electricity prices.
Mr. Síkela said there would be a need for greater fluidity in the energy market and for market interventions, which states could make in cooperation with energy traders.
Czechia currently holds the revolving presidency of the European Council.
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08/29/2022
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, says that the first meeting of a proposed new European political group will take place in Prague in the coming weeks. Czechia currently holds the presidency of the EU.
Speaking on Monday, Mr. Macron said that the new group would regularly discuss security issues facing Europe.
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said on a visit to Prague on Monday that he was also in favour of the creation of a “European political community”. He said the new forum could hold discussions once or twice a year.
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08/29/2022
Czechia’s second city Brno is seeking to become a European Capital of Culture in the year 2028. It is running under the slogan Brno With You.
The organisers of the project will find out on 14 October if the Moravian capital has made it into the second round. If Brno advances, more details of its bid will be revealed.
Prague was a European Capital of Culture in 2000 while Plzeň received that honour in 2015.
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08/29/2022
Speaking in Prague on Monday, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said he was in favour of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Western Balkan states joining the European Union in future. In an address to students, Mr. Scholz said that the further enlargement of the EU would help transition the bloc to a majority voting system.
The German leader also proposed the creation of a new air defence system in Europe.
On his one-day visit Mr. Scholz is also due to hold talks with his Czech counterpart, Petr Fiala.
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08/29/2022
Last year, Czechia saw its government debt rise the fastest out of all EU member states, by 4.2 percent of GDP, the Supreme Audit Office announced on its website on Monday. However, it highlighted that the country’s debt still remains one of the lowest in total among EU member states.
At 3.3 percent of GDP, Czechia also had one of the lowest rates of growth in the EU in 2021, lagging 2.1 percent behind the EU average, the agency says.
The Supreme Audit Office also stated that Czechia still has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the EU.
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08/29/2022
Bell #9801, the name for a symbolic 9,801kg bell that was cast to commemorate the many church bells that were melted down by the Nazis during World War II, was unveiled on Prague’s Smetana embankment on Sunday evening. Members of the organisation Sanctus Castulus, which initiated the project, sounded the bell for the first time on the occasion.
The bell will remain in its current location at least until the end of September. From 2024, it is planned that the bell will be placed on Prague’s Rohan Island.
The bell was cast in Austria by the Grassmayr workshop. The bell’s weight, 9,801 kilograms, is corresponds to the number of bells stolen by the Nazis.
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08/28/2022
Around 700 Czech soldiers, together with units from seven allied countries, are set to take part in the Ample Strike military exercise on Monday. The main aim of Ample Strike is to train the coordination between targeting units, the air force and ground commanders.
It is the ninth time that Czechia will be hosting the excercise, which will run until September 16 in various airports and training facilities across the country.
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08/28/2022
Canoeist Gabriela Satková won the water slalom World Championships race in Pau, France, on Sunday. Satková came in first in the semi-final round, going on to win the category after finishing the race 4.4 seconds ahead of Slovakia’s Zuzana Paňková, who took silver.
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