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10/01/2020
The Finále Plzeň film festival, which is focused on domestic productions, was won by Let There Be Light, a Slovak-Czech produced drama by Slovak director Marko Škop.
The documentary section was won by Solo by Artemio Benki, a French-born producer and director who lived in Prague for decades and died this year.
Amid special Covid restrictions over 100 films were screened during Finále Plzeň, which was held this year for the 33rd time.
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10/01/2020
Shares on the Czech stock exchange have fallen by 23 percent this year. This makes the Prague bourse one of the worst performing in the world in the first three-quarters of 2020, according to analysts interviewed by the Czech News Agency. The best performing company on the Czech stock exchange was Avast, which makes computer anti-virus programmes. Erste Group, a financial services provider, saw its shares lose the most value at 42.7 percent.
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10/01/2020
Two-hundred to 250 Czech police officers are going to help public health officials trace people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. The minster of the interior, Jan Hamáček, said his department and the Ministry of Health had agreed on this at a meeting of the Central Crisis Staff on Thursday.
Police President Jan Švejnar said the officers would be active throughout the country and would receive training in order to be ready from Friday afternoon or Monday. He said they would take part in this activity on a voluntary basis.
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10/01/2020
Some 2,932 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, according to official Ministry of Health information. It was the third biggest one-day jump since the start of the pandemic and brings the total number of active cases in the country to around 36,500.
Nine more deaths with Covid-19 were recorded on Wednesday for a total of 658 since March.
A raft of new measures aimed at containing the virus will take effect on Monday under a 30-day state of emergency.
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10/01/2020
Slavia Prague have failed to reach football’s Champions League after a 4:1 away defeat to the Danish side Midtjylland on Wednesday evening. The previous game in the tie had seen a 0:0 draw in Prague.
The Czech side took the lead early before the Danes equalised on 65 minutes. Midtjylland then went ahead with six minutes remaining after a controversial decision to let them take the same penalty twice and went on to find the net twice more before the final whistle.
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10/01/2020
It should be largely overcast in the Czech Republic on Friday, with an average temperature of 19 degrees Celsius. Saturday is expected to be warmer, but skies will also be cloudy at the weekend.
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10/01/2020
Around 30 activists from the group Extinction Rebellion blocked traffic on Prague’s Thunová St. outside the Czech Chamber of Deputies on Thursday morning. The protesters were calling for the government to declare a state of climate emergency and to discuss measures to combat climate change. A day earlier MPs had approved a state of emergency in view of the Covid situation.
The Czech News Agency reported that the activists had earlier tried unsuccessfully to enter the lower house. The police said security had detained 10 people and handed them over to them after they ignored calls to leave the building.
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10/01/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš does not plan to speak with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán on the margins of the EU Summit starting Thursday regarding his call for EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, a Czech national, to resign for having said in an interview Orbán was “building a sick democracy”.
In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published on Tuesday, Orbán wrote that his government had ended bilateral political contacts with Jourová, who also serves as vice president of the European Commission, following her “latest derogatory public statements” in the German weekly Der Spiegel.
In that interview, published the day for the EU Commission on Wednesday released its first-ever audit on rule-of-law and democratic issues, Jourová said “Mr. Orbán likes to say that he is building an illiberal democracy ... I would say: he’s building a sick democracy.” She has stood by her words but did not comment on Orbán’s letter.
Earlier, Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) said she had his full support, as have the leaders of most parties in the Czech parliament. Babiš said before leaving for Brussels only that the EC must communicate with the government and parliament, not only with the opposition.
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10/01/2020
Veteran diplomat Edita Hrdá took up the post of Czech Ambassador to the European Union on Thursday, replacing Jakub Dürr, who resigned following disagreements with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš over preparations for the Czech Republic’s EU presidency in 2022.
Hrdá had been managing director for the Americas in the European External Action Service of the EU. (EEAS) since 2016. Previously, she served as a Czech ambassador to the United Nations, Argentina and Paraguay and has held various high managerial posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dürr had long argued that CZK 1.24 billion budget the Babiš government set for the Czech EU presidency, roughly one-third that of the previous Czech presidency in 2009, was far too little for the country to organise events and advance its agenda.
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09/30/2020
MPs have approved a proposal to compensate victims of state violence that occurred during August 1969 demonstrations marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Apart from two out of four Communist Party representatives, all legislators present on Wednesday voted in favour of the proposal, which the government earlier rejected.
The proposal would give CZK 200,000 to the relatives of 5 people who died during the demonstrations, CZK 90,000 to 5 people who suffered permanent injuries, and CZK 40,000 to 26 people who suffered less serve injuries.
However, since some historians assume there was a higher number of victims, the bill provides for compensation of up to to CZK 4.5 million.
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