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10/17/2019
There are around 230,830 homeless people living in the Czech Republic, according to a census carried out in the spring by the research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs and published on Thursday.
The majority of the homeless are men and about 2,600 people of the total number are people under the age of 18, the report says.
Most of the homeless concentrate in large cities and towns. About 3,250 of them live in the Czech capital.
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10/17/2019
More than a third of Prague car owners prefer to use public transport in the city and only use their car for travelling outside the capital, according to a survey carried out by the STEM / MARK agency for the car-sharing company Anytime. They are mostly put off by parking problems and the high costs of owning a car.
Around six percent of Prague drivers have already tried a car-sharing service, the survey suggests, and another 24 percent are considering it. There are currently several car-sharing companies operating in Prague, including Car4Way, Autonapůl and Anytime, which is one of the world’s largest providers of car-sharing.
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10/17/2019
Friday will be partly cloudy to overcast with daytime highs ranging between 15 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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10/17/2019
One of the two German citizens, who were accused of spray-painting graffiti on Charles Bridge earlier this year pleaded guilty to the charges at a hearing in a Prague court on Thursday.
Niclas Steiger, one of the two brothers caught by police in June spraying a logo on the stone bridge support said he wasn’t aware that the wall was part of the famous 14th century monument.
The two men, aged 23 and 30, were expelled from the Czech Republic and fined 100,000 crowns. They face jail sentences of up to three years on charges of damage to property.
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10/17/2019
More than 600 Charles University students, graduates and employees have called on its rector Tomáš Zima to step down over a controversial partnership agreement with consumer lender Home Credit.
Under the cooperation agreement, Home Credit, which is part of the PPF Group controlled by Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, was to give Charles University half a million crowns annually. Following a wave of criticism, the company withdrew from the deal.
“The incident clearly shows that the rector of Charles University failed in negotiating the deal with Home Credit and put the university’s good name at risk,” the academics wrote in an open letter addressed to the Academic Senate, which is to hold a meeting on Friday.
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10/17/2019
The Náchod district court has ruled that Pavel Wonka, believed to be the last Czech political prisoner to have died in prison under Communism, had been illegally incarcerated.
His brother had filed a lawsuit to have him ‘rehabilitated’ and can now claim damages from the state over the unjustified imprisonment.
Following the verdict on Wednesday, Jiří Wonka told reporters that it was a moral victory and that he had not filed the lawsuit to get compensation.
Pavel Wonka was imprisoned in April 1988 for several weeks and died under unclear circumstances. He had initially been released due to bad health, but a judge sent him back to prison for another five months.
Wonka was posthumously awarded the Medal of Merit in 2013.
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10/16/2019
In the interests of “energy security”, the Czech Republic must build new nuclear units even if it contravenes European Union law, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said on Wednesday.
Addressing MPs on the Committee on European Affairs, he said both the country’s nuclear power plants of Dukovany and Temelín should be expanded.
Mr Babiš did not specify which EU laws might be violated in the process. Previously, such efforts were scuppered due to provisions regarding state aid.
At Dukovany, in operation since 1985, there are four blocks with a total output of 2040 megawatts. Temelín, put into operation in 2000, has only two blocks, but a total output of 2164 megawatts.
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10/16/2019
Thursday should be clear to partly cloudy, with sporadic light rain likely in north-western Bohemia. Average daytime high should range between 14 to 18 degrees Celsius.
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10/16/2019
Rules for breeding dogs and commercial “puppy farms” are likely to further tighten.
An amendment to the Veterinary Act approved by MPs on Wednesday, among other measures, would require breeders of three or more dogs to report their activity, and require all puppies to have ID chips ahead of being sold.
In May, the Czech government amended the Act on the Protection of Animals against Cruelty as part of a crackdown on puppy farms and other commercial pet breeders operating under “unfavourable conditions” or on such a large scale as “to cause suffering or deny dogs and cats their needs”.
MP Monika Červíčková (ANO) had pushed for the chips requirement. Her proposal to explicitly prohibit the operation of shelters that did not cooperate with municipalities in caring for stray and abandoned animals was rejected.
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10/16/2019
The Museum of Romani Culture has announced an international competition to design a memorial to Roma victims of the Holocaust at the site of the Lety concentration camp, where more than 300 Roma men, women and children died during WWI.
After years of negotiations, the Czech government agreed in 2017 to remove a pig farm built at the site in the 1970s and turn the site into a memorial, which should open by 2023.
Museum director Dr. Jana Horváthová said the winner of the competition should be announced in May 2020. The process of demolishing the now-defunct pig farm will depend on the winning design.
During the first phase of construction, the plan is to develop the area surrounding the current smaller memorial at Lety and create a visitors centre with a small exhibit.
According to Dr. Horváthová, the main exhibits will be located in Prague at a new Centre for Roma and Sinti peoples, which will be part of the Museum.
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