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04/08/2022
The opposition ANO party on Friday blocked debate on an amendment which would tighten the law on conflict of interest in the lower house of Parliament. The proposed amendment includes a provision strictly banning deputies, senators or government ministers from media ownership. Unlike the present law it would no longer allow the owner of a media outlet to circumvent the ban by placing the company in a trust fund. MPs representing the opposition ANO party blocked the planned debate by a series of obstructions, saying the bill is clearly directed against their leader, former prime minister, Andrej Babiš.
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04/08/2022
Slavia Prague drew with Feyenoord Rotterdam 3-3 in the opening match of the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals in Rotterdam on Thursday. The second leg will be played in Prague next Thursday.
The Czech team, headed by Jindřich Trpišovský, is striving to equal the Czech maximum on the European stage from the 1995/96 season, when Slavia reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals. In 2021 and 2019, the Czech team was knocked out in the quarter-finals.
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04/08/2022
Unemployment in the Czech Republic dropped by a tenth of a percentage point to 3.4 % in March, according to figures released on Friday by the national Labour Office. Unemployment in the Czech Republic last March stood at 4.2 percent.
Over a quarter of a million people were out of work last month. The number of vacancies dropped slightly on the previous month to nearly 362,000.
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04/07/2022
The first case of XE, a more transmittable Covid-19 variant, has been detected in the Czech Republic, the State Institute of Health announced on Thursday. The sample was identified by the National Reference Laboratory.
According to information from the World Health Organization the XE strain could be about 10 percent more infectious than the original omicron variants. However, there is not enough information yet to assess whether it could become the new dominant variant in the future.
According to the State Institute of Health, the dominant coronavirus variant in the Czech Republic at the moment is the omicron subtype BA.2, which started spreading from Denmark in December last year.
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04/07/2022
The Office of the President is suspected of having shredded another 32 classified documents, Czech Radio reported on Thursday. They contained, for instance, intelligence information on the activities of Russian armed forces near the border with Ukraine or NATO information on the security situation in Iraq.
The information is based on Prague Castle meeting protocols, which Czech Radio reporters obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Earlier this year, Czech Radio reported that the Office of the President had destroyed a classified report on the involvement of Russian secret agents in the 2014 explosions in a munitions depot in Vrbětice, Moravia.
According to an audit carried out by the National Security Authority, the shredding of the document was personally ordered by president Zeman’s head of office, Vladimír Mynář.
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04/07/2022
Friday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain or snow showers and day temperatures ranging between 6 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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04/07/2022
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra will mark the start of the Czech Presidency of the EU Council with a special concert on a floating stage on the Vltava River on September 2, the organizers announced on Thursday.
The “Concert for Europe” will feature Bedřich Smetana’s symphonic poem Vltava and Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival as well as Leoš Janáček’s monumental Glagolitic Mass.
The event is organized by the Czech Philharmonic together with the Prague Sounds festival.
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04/07/2022
The Czech Republic can end its membership in the International Investment Bank (IIB) and the International Development Cooperation Bank (MBHS), the Czech Senate ruled on Thursday.
The lower house of Czech Parliament approved the withdrawal at the end of March, citing Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the option that these banks could give the aggressor state the chance to bypass sanctions.
The Czech Republic will cease to be a member of both institutions following the standard six-month notice period.
According to Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura, two-thirds of member countries have decided to leave MBHS, including Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
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04/07/2022
The remains of General František Moravec who headed Czechoslovak military intelligence before and during WWII and is said to have ordered Operation Anthropoid, should return from the US to his hometown of Čáslav in central Bohemia later in April, Defense Minister Jana Černochová told the Czech News Agency.
František Moravec fought with the Czechoslovak Legions in World War I and eventually became head of military intelligence in the First Republic, a post he kept under Edvard Beneš’s government in exile in London.
The general, who spent the rest of his life in the US, will be buried in the Čáslav town cemetery, according to his wish. The symbolic transfer of his remains to his home country will be part of the Czech defence minister’s trip to the US.
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04/07/2022
The Czech Republic has now issued nearly 269,000 special visas to Ukrainian refugees, according to the Ministry of Interior. The influx of refugees has been slowing down in the past two weeks. On Wednesday, the ministry handed out some 3,000 visas, which is about 500 fewer than on the same day a week ago.
Prague remains the most popular destination, with around 64,600 refugees registered in the capital. According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the number of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic is estimated at around 300,000.
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