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02/20/2020
Prague City Hall is asking Prague residents to report Airbnb flats to municipal police officers and any connected problems, the Daily Hospodářské noviny reports. If the property owner is not registered with a Trade Certificate, he may be liable to a fine of up to CZK 1 million. City Hall has been trying for some time to get Airbnb to share the details on the owners of the flats who are believed to often avoid paying tax for renting out their properties.
Airbnb is one of the short-term letting platforms active in Prague, which has come under heavy scrutiny in recent years. Critics say that such platforms have moved from the original idea of a shared economy to a purely business venture, with up to 15,000 flats in Prague being rented out for this purpose, blocking flats for long-term rent as well as often causing unease for local residents who have to deal with loud tourists.
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02/20/2020
GFG Alliance is planning to invest EUR 750 million into its Liberty Ostrava steel mill in the Czech Republic, Czech Television reported on Thursday. Part of the investments will be focused on establishing new, hybrid technologies for steel making, which the company says will be the first of its kind in Europe. The local rolling mills will also be modernised, Liberty Ostrava announced.
GFG Aliance owner Sanjeev Gupta told Czech Television that the investments are being made with the goal of making Liberty Ostrava the foremost steel maker in Central Europe and transition it to carbon neutrality.
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02/19/2020
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says he does not expect this week’s exceptional EU summit, set to begin on Thursday, to lead to a mutual agreement between the 27 states on the union’s budget for 2021 to 2027. The positions of individual member states are simply too different, according to the Czech prime minister who has described the proposed framework as favouring wealthier states.
European Council President Charles Michel called the summit in January, hoping member states will reach an agreement on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework, stressing that failure to do so would jeopardise the continuation of current programs and policies as well as the launch of new ones.
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02/19/2020
The Chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Vojtěch Filip was taken to the General University Hospital in Prague due to a suspected heart attack on Wednesday morning. After undergoing cardiological surgery, he reamins in the hospital's intensive care unit, but says that he is feeling fine and is looking forward to going to work on Friday.
As Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies he was set to swear in the newly elected Czech Ombudsman Stanislav Křeček, but had to be substituted by deputy speaker Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party.
Mr Filip has been a member of the Czech lower-house since 1996 and was elected Communist Party leader in 2005, a post he has held ever since.
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02/19/2020
Climate change will be the focus of this year’s One World Film Festival, the largest human rights film festival in the world which is held annually in Prague and 36 other cities across the Czech Republic.
Festival director Ondřej Kamenický said on Wednesday that some 133 documentaries from 60 countries will be screened at the festival. He explained that this year’s festival slogan “Not till a hot January” (Až naprší a uschne) encapsulates two sides of the climate change problem – that of retaining water in the earth and the seeming indifference of current leaders to the issue.
Nearly all of the 15,000 seats for screenings in Prague have already been sold out.
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02/19/2020
The City of Prague Museum is hoping to build a new building dedicated to archaeology exhibitions in Prague 8’s Těšnov, museum director Zuzana Strnadová told the Tyden.cz website.
She said the institution is also having problems finding space for its modern history exhibitions and is hoping to secure the City Hall owned Desfours Palace located near Prague’s Masaryk Train Station sometime during this summer for the purpose.
The museum’s collection, which is largely made up of archaeological finds, currently numbers more than a million objects. However, the number could rise to 8 million due to the museum’s role as safe keeper of all archaeological finds in Prague, Ms Strnadová said. It is also why she believes that a museum specifically dedicated to archaeology would be useful and should go ahead even if the Desfours Palace spaces are secured.
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02/19/2020
The freshly appointed leader of the Czech upper house Miloš Vystrčil says that he is not opposed to a visit to Taiwan, but stressed that such a trip would first have to be discussed with experts. Answering questions ahead of his election, Mr Vystrčil said that as the leader of the Civic Democrats’ senate club and chair of the upper house, his priority will always be to defend the status of the Czech Republic as a country that defends human rights and freedoms, news site Aktuálně.cz reports.
The question was put to the candidates after Aktuálně.cz published excerpts of a letter sent by the Chinese Embassy to the previous senate chair, Jaroslav Kubera, ahead of his planned trip to Taiwan. In it, China warns that leading Czech companies’ business interests would suffer if the visit went ahead.
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02/19/2020
Showers and episodes of snowing are expected to stop on Thursday, with temperatures staying largely the same around 6 degrees Celsius. The sky above Bohemia is likely to be covered by thick clouds. Meanwhile, in Moravia there could be brief episodes of sunshine.
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02/19/2020
If his ANO party does not win the next general elections, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš will leave politics. Mr. Babiš made the statement in an interview with news site Blesk.cz on Wednesday. The next general elections are to take place in October 2021.
Mr Babiš’s party is currently firmly in the lead, poling regularly around 30 percent, with the opposition Pirate Party and Civic Democrats vying for second place at around 16 percent.
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02/19/2020
Czech Defence Minister Lubomír Metnar has reaffirmed his country’s promise to reach the 2 percent of GDP defence spending threshold agreed during the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales.
The ability of the Czech Republic to stay true to the pledge was recently questioned by Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, who said the country would either have to enact major changes to its budget or a serious debate on the state’s sources of income would have to take place.
In an interview with Czech Television on Tuesday evening, Mr Metnar said that he had no idea how the deputy premier came to this conclusion and stressed that no other government ministers had brought up the point. He said he is counting on the Czech Republic to reach the 2 percent threshold by 2024.
However, in a recent Facebook post, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš the Czech Republic could contribute 2 percent of GDP to defence by 2024 “if all goes according to plan” and there is “stable economic growth”
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