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07/14/2020
The multinational airline conglomerate Smartwings Group, whose portfolio includes Czech Airlines, is set to begin downsizing on Wednesday, news site Lidovky.cz reports, with the total amount of layoffs reaching around 15 percent of the company’s domestic workforce.
This week Smartwings plans to release 50 pilots, 75 stewards and stewardesses, as well as 45 support staff, Deputy-Chairman of the Smartwings Trade Union (OOZS) told the news site on Tuesday. He says a further 120 to 190 cabin crew are set to lose their jobs.
In total Smartwings is expected to release 600 of its 2,500 employees, writes Lidovky.cz
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07/14/2020
As of 3pm, Tuesday, hygienists in the Jihlava district have reinstituted the obligation to wear face masks in internal public spaces and at mass public gatherings. The decision was made in view of the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the district, where 14 people tested positive in one week.
Residents will have to wear facemasks when using public transport, or services such as hairdressers, pedicures, massage parlours. Covering one’s face is also required inside shopping centres, but not in gastronomic facilities.
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07/14/2020
The senate of the Supreme Administrative Court has found Prague Judge Alexandr Sotolář guilty of retroactively editing protocol statements connected to the Opencard public transport affair. The written form of the statements was subsequently different from the original sound recordings. As a consequence, Mr Sotolář has been demoted from the position of senate chair in Prague’s Municipal Court, but is still able to operate as a judge.
Justice Minister Marie Benešová wanted Mr Sotolář to lose his function as a judge altogether, but the Chairman of the Municipal Court in Prague Libor Vávra proposed the lesser sanction which ended up being approved.
Judge Sotolář admitted that there were differences between the sound and written protocol versions, but said that they were not made only to favour the prosecution, nor was there any intent to damage the defendants in the case.
Charges against him were originally brought forward by the Anticorruption Endowment (Nadační fond proti korupci) non-profit foundation.
Opencard was a CZK 1.5 billion municipal smart card system introduced in the Czech capital in 2008 with the aim of replacing the old paper ticket system. Outsourced to private contractors in what were seen as flawed tenders, the Opencard system was eventually replaced with the Lítačka card system and many municipal officials involved in the original tenders received suspended sentences.
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07/14/2020
Temperatures are expected to lie at around 24 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, with rainfall across the country except in the east of Moravia.
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07/14/2020
Facebook is threatening to remove the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party’s page on its website, SPD announced at a press conference on Tuesday. Under threat of removal are also the pages of the party’s chairman Tomio Okamura and vice-chairman Radim Fiala. Facebook is justifying the warning based on the party breaching user rules. SPD leaders dismiss the allegation and say they will defend themselves at court if necessary. An official statement from Facebook has not yet been released.
The SPD party has long come under fire for posting manipulative content on its social media. The Ministry of Interior’s annual reports on extremism have warned in recent years of the important role of the party in furthering racial, ethnic and religious hatred.
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07/14/2020
A government proposed amendment to the country’s law on hunting, which is currently pending approval from the Chamber of Deputies, has come under fire from eight Czech NGOs representing landowners, farmers and environmentalists who administer around half of all of the country’s hunting districts. In a joint statement they propose alternative legislation, which would halve the minimum size of hunting grounds to 250 hectares and give land administrators the right to hunt and manage the number of animals on their land.
Jaroslav Šebek, the head of the Association of Private Farming which is one of the NGO’s that are calling for change, said the government amendment is only a plaster on the long-term non-functioning concept of Czech hunting, where landowners and foresters are not given the same opportunities as the hunters themselves.
However, the Bohemian Moravian Hunters Union disagrees. Its chairman, Jiří Janota, says that making hunting districts smaller would not help limit overpopulation among wild animals, but rather increase it.
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07/14/2020
Mayors from the Karvina district in the Moravian-Silesian Region, which has now been at the centre of the most serious coronavirus outbreak in the country for several weeks, complained of a lack in information for the local public in a meeting with the region’s main hygienist and the governor on Tuesday.
People are more afraid of chaos then of the COVID-19 coronavirus itself, the Karvina district’s Chairman of the Board of the Union of Towns and Municipalities Jan Lipner told Czech Television. He said that some people have to wait several days in order to get their test results and that some tests have been lost.
The mayors want the regional authorities to improve the information campaign so that the ongoing situation is more clear and possible misinformation prevented.
According to the Health Ministry website, the relatively small Karviná district was responsible for 30 percent of all new coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic last week.
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07/14/2020
MEPs from the Committee on Petitions in the European Parliament have called on the European Commission to toughen its approach to Poland in regards to continued activity in the country’s Turów mine near the Czech border, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The committee did so after consulting a petition penned by citizens from the Northern Bohemian Liberec Region who complain that the mining activity is depriving many local communities of drinking water.
The Majority of MEPs who took part in the discussion agreed that Brussels should initiate infringement proceedings against Poland for breaching EU law.
In May, Poland decided to authorise continued mining in the Turów mine for another six years, despite argumentation from Czech authorities and citizens from the Liberec Region that this was in breach of EU directives on the environment and drinking water supply.
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07/14/2020
A children’s summer camp in Letiny near the West Bohemian city of Plzen had to be shut down after one of the participants tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, Czech Television reported on Tuesday. 80 children have since been placed into quarantine.
The individual, who was from outside the region began showing symptoms on July 9th. None of the other camp inmates tested positive, Michal Bartoš, the director of the regional hygienist clinic told news site iDnes.cz.
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07/14/2020
The makers of an upcoming documentary film about Karel Gott published the first pieces of footage on the occasion of the deceased singer’s 81st birthday. The full documentary, titled “Karel”, is set to premiere in cinemas on October 15, just over a year since his death. Its authors say that their aim is to depict Karel Gott not just as a phenomenal singer and painter, but also as a loving husband and father to his children.
Gott, who was known as the “Sinatra of the East” and is possibly the most famous Czech singer ever, is estimated to have sold between 50–100 million records worldwide. Aside from Czechoslovakia, he was especially popular among German audiences.
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