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Spanish coach Santi Denia is in the frame to become manager of the Czech international soccer team, the Spanish sports daily AS reported. Denia, who is 52, has led several Spain youth teams and trained the squad that won gold at the last Olympics.

The previous Czech manager, Miroslav Koubek, resigned after the team performed poorly at the World Cup in North America, picking up only one point in the group stage.

No foreigner has ever been hired as Czech national team coach.

PM Andrej Babiš says his government will make changes to the unemployment support. He said on Tuesday that such support had been increased by the previous government in an illogical manner and that it had become advantageous not to work in Czechia.

The PM said whoever wanted to find employment in this country could do so and that there was a lack of workers.

The Czech police have dropped a case involving MP Filip Turek, who was linked to online hate speech, the news site iRozhlas.cz reported on Tuesday. The chief prosecutor said that the alleged hate speech, which appeared on social media, was covered by the statute of limitations.

An investigation into whether the media outlet that reported on the matter, Deník N, committed defamation against the Motorists party MP has also been shelved.

After last year’s elections, Deník N reported that dozens of hateful, racist and sexist comments had been posted on Mr. Turek’s social media profiles.

President Petr Pavel refused to name the MP a minister and he was subsequently appointed government commissioner for climate policy.

The administrators of the Krkonoše National Park in the north of the country have called on visitors to report any signs of a potential fire immediately. They also warned against lighting candles at memorials or shrines and the use of portable stoves in the countryside. Temperatures in Czechia in the coming days will approach 40 degrees Celsius, creating an increased risk of wildfires, an official told reporters.