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08/13/2020
The Athens government is to remove the Czech Republic from a list of states whose citizens can only enter Greece with a negative Covid-19 test. The news was announced by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who said he had secured the concession after speaking to his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Mr. Babiš said the decision had been reached after the Czech Republic had provided new information to Greece on the coronavirus situation in the country. The negative test requirement had been due to enter force on Monday.
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08/13/2020
It should be largely overcast in the Czech Republic on Friday, with temperatures of up to 27 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected over the weekend.
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08/13/2020
The tabloid Blesk remained the Czech Republic’s most read newspaper in the first half of 2020, according to figures released on Thursday. Blesk recorded an average daily readership of 827,000 between January and July, which was a fall of 8 percent on the same period last year.
The second most read newspaper was Mladá fronta Dnes, with almost 480,000 readers a day; this was a decline of 3 percent.
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08/13/2020
Part of a train was derailed at Tišnov outside Brno on Thursday morning. The last two wagons of an express train heading from Prague to Brno came off the tracks when the train took a turn at a switch but did not turn over. Fire officers evacuated 150 people from the train and there were no injuries. The cause of the accident is now being investigated. It follows a number of such incidents in recent weeks in the Czech Republic.
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08/13/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says the Czech Republic will not exclude a Russian bidder from a tender process to build a new nuclear unit. On Wednesday the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said in Prague that partnership with the Russians would undermine Czech national security and sovereignty. Speaking in an interview for Mladá fronta Dnes, Mr. Babiš said that he had made clear to Mr. Pompeo that the Czech Republic could not eliminate bidders from a tender under EU rules.
Russian state company Rosatom is among the bidders for a contract to build a new unit at Dukovany, one of the Czech Republic’s two nuclear power stations.
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08/13/2020
The Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček summoned the Belarusian ambassador to Prague, Valery Kurdyukov, on Wednesday in order to highlight his country’s disagreement with the events surrounding last week’s presidential election in Belarus and the subsequent violent crackdown on opposition protestors. The ministry also dismissed the statement by President Lukashenko that the Czech Republic is organising demonstrations in Belarus, Mr. Petříček tweeted on Thursday.
President Lukashenko achieved a landslide victory in the elections according to official results. However, the opposition says the vote count was rigged and its protesters were subsequently crushed by police action during which at least one protestor died. The Belarusian president also accused the Czech Republic of being one of the states from which the initial protests on Sunday were organised.
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08/13/2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made unsubstantiated attacks on China, tarnishing the country’s name and inciting disagreement between China and other states, the spokesman of the Chinese Embassy told the Czech News Agency after Mr. Pompeo’s remarks during his meetings with Czech leaders on Wednesday.
The US secretary of state said that the Chinese Communist Party is a more serious threat than Russia in his speech to the Czech Senate and complimented Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil for his planned visit to Taiwan, something China has vehemently protested against. He also warned of possible Chinese and Russian influence threatening Czech national security if the Czech government decides to employ these states’ companies in the planned construction of a new bloc at the Dukovany nuclear power plant.
“[Pompeo’s] words and acts are full of ideological preconceptions and Cold War thinking, which do not belong in today’s times,” the spokesman told the Czech News Agency.
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08/12/2020
The currently ruling ANO party, led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, would win an election into the Chamber of Deputies with 29 percent of the vote, according to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) conducted in July. The opposition Pirate Party would come in second with 14.5 percent of the vote, followed by the Civic Democrats who would receive 12 percent. In total, eight parties would get into the lower-house.
The Social Democrats, who are ANO’s current coalition partner, would receive 9.5 percent of the vote, slightly less than when measured in June. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia would be voted by 7.5 percent of the electorate and the Christian Democrats by 6.5 percent. CVVM measured that the Freedom and Direct Democracy movement would receive 6 percent and the Mayors and Independents would scrape into the Chamber of Deputies with 5.5 percent.
The TOP 09 party would not be able to cross the 5 percent threshold to remain in the lower-house, according to the poll, as they would receive just 3.5 percent of the vote.
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Social and health insurance contributions in Czech Republic among highest in CEE region, study shows
08/12/2020At 33.8 percent, Czech companies and employees pay some of the highest social and health insurance contributions when compared with other Central and Eastern European states, a new study conducted by tax advisory firm Mazars shows. These costs are higher only in Slovakia, where the same groups have to pay a contribution of 35.2 percent.
Meanwhile, at 27 percent, Hungary has the highest value added tax rates. With its minimum rate of VAT at 10 percent, the Czech Republic is still above the regional average, according to the Mazars’ study.
With an average private sector net salary of EUR 1,025, Czechia trails behind Germany (EUR 2,221), Austria (EUR 2,131) and Slovenia (EUR 1,241), but tops the list when compared to other Visegrad Four countries, Mazars’ data states.
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08/12/2020
Saturday will see the end of the Prague City Hall ban on vehicles serving alcohol to tourists while driving through the capital’s centre. The “beer bikes”, as these devices are commonly referred to, were banned earlier this year. However, the decision had to be cancelled after a court ruling stated that the ban is not within the competencies of City Hall, but has to be made by the respective road authorities in individual Prague districts.
Deputy Mayor Adam Schienherr has sent a letter to Prague districts asking them to approve the cancellation of beer bikes on class I roads themselves in cooperation with City Hall.
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