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02/07/2020
The Labour and Social Affairs Ministry is planning to put forward an amendment to the law which would cut housing allowances to people on the dole who are not actively looking for work and to parents who do not send their children to school.
Labour Minister Jana Maláčová said the move is to help the local authorities deal with “problem” citizens. However many local administrations and NGOs working with socially disadvantaged groups have criticized the idea, saying it will make the plight of people living in poverty even worse.
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02/07/2020
The committee for social affairs in the lower house of Parliament has not recommended extending employees annual leave from four to five weeks.
The proposal that the law should guarantee a five week leave for all employees came from the Communist Party and only won support from the Social Democrats in the respective committee.
At present all public sector employees have a five week leave and some private companies offer an extra week as a bonus.
According to available statistics about four fifth of all workers enjoy a five week annual leave. Trade unions have been pushing for a five week leave for all, but employers are vehemently against it.
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02/07/2020
Police say they know the identity of the three women who led a group of pre-school children across a rail track when the red lights were flashing and the gates were down.
The incident, which happened in a Prague suburb, was recorded by Mall.TV which happened to be filming in the area and was placed on YouTube, causing a public outcry.
Police say they have questioned the women, but did not disclose whether charges had been brought against them. Hundreds of people die at Czech rail crossings every year.
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02/07/2020
Czech hotels and other accommodation facilities saw a record number of tourists in 2019, according to Czech Statistics Office data released on Friday. The overall number of tourists accommodated in Czech hotels, bed & breakfasts, and at campsites reached 22 million, 3.5 percent more than in the previous year. The number of overnight stays also rose, reaching over 57 million.
More than 10.8 million foreign tourists visited the country last year. Most were from Germany, followed by visitors from Slovakia and Poland. The number of tourists from China and South Korea has dropped.
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02/07/2020
The Czech Republic’s annual Muriel Award for the best comic book or graphic novel of the year has been given to Článek II (or Article II), about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust, was known as the “Butcher of Prague”. He died of complications after being ambushed and shot in May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak paratroopers in an action code-named ‘Operation Anthropoid’.
Apart from the Muriel Award, the graphic novel about the assassination, written by Jiří Šimáček and illustrated by Ján Lastomírský, also won the main prize of the Czech Academy of Comics and a prize for best script.
The Muriel Awards, established in 2008, were handed out on Thursday evening at a ceremony at Prague’s Bio Oko cinema.
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02/06/2020
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is in Brussels on Thursday to hold talks with the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Among the topics on the agenda will be the long-term perspective of the European budget ahead of the extraordinary summit scheduled for February 20.
Prior to his visit to Brussels, Prime Minister Babiš held talks with his Slovak counterpart Petr Pellegrini in Bratislava. Mr Babiš said after the meeting that he was against the current EU budget proposal for 2021-2027, which plans on cutting cohesion policy funding due to the impact of Brexit.
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02/06/2020
The National Museum in Prague has become available for exploration via Google Street View. As of Thursday, users can take a virtual tour of the building, including the Pantheon, the dome and the building’s second floor, which is not accessible to the public.
All of the Czech Republic’s UNESCO heritage sites as well as many castles and natural sites are now accessible via Google’s mapping service, which was first launched 15 years ago.
Among the Czech Republic’s most visited sites on Google Street View are Prague Castle, the South Bohemian town of Český Krumlov and the centre of the Czech capital.
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02/06/2020
The Ferdinand Peroutka Prize for journalist of the year has gone to writer and commentator Ondřej Štindl, who currently works as a columnist for the news site and weekly Echo 24.
Štindl has also written two novels and several screenplays, two of which received the Czech Republic’s most prestigious film awards, the Czech Lions.
He received the prize in a ceremony at Prague’s DOX centre for contemporary art on Wednesday evening.
The award is named after František Peroutka, one of the most significant figures of Czech journalism, who died in exile in 1983.
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02/06/2020
Friday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime temperatures ranging between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius.
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02/06/2020
The Czech Republic’s industrial production has declined for the first time in five years: it suffered a drop by 3.4 percent in December, the Czech Statistics Office reported on Thursday. The development was affected mainly by a lower production of motor vehicles, other transport equipment and machinery.
According to preliminary data, the country’s external balance in goods ended in a deficit of CZK 6.7 billion, which was worse by CZK 2.1 billion than in the previous year.
Exports decreased year-on-year by 2.4 percent to CZK 247 billion while imports fell by1.5 percent to 253.7 billion.
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