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08/22/2019
President Miloš Zeman and Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman attended the opening of the annual agricultural trade fair Země živitelka 2019 in České Budějovice on Thursday. The largest domestic show of agricultural equipment, products and animals attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year.
The trade fair is accompanied by dozens of side events focusing on topical issues relating to agriculture such as bark beetle infestation, water management and measures to fight drought.
In his opening speech at the trade fair President Zeman called for common sense in fighting the bark-beetle infestation and opposed efforts to expand the no-go zones in the country’s national parks.
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08/22/2019
On Wednesday evening, thousands of people attended a protest march in Prague initiated by Million Moments for Democracy, the organization behind the largest demonstration in the Czech Republic since the Velvet Revolution in 1989, which brought an estimated quarter of a million demonstrators to Prague’s Letná plain in June. Organisers say the event was attended by 10,000 people and served as a reminder of the events of the Soviet invasion in 1968, the brutal Communist crackdown on protesters in 1969 and as a protest against the current prime minister and president.
Attendees met on Prague's Wenceslas Square in the evening hours before heading to Hradčany Square in front of Prague Castle.
The march was part of a wider string of demonstrations organized by the group this Wednesday. These were held in 93 sites across the country, including all of the Czech Republic’s major cities.
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08/22/2019
President Miloš Zeman will meet the new Social Democrat nominee for the position of culture minister, Lubomír Zaorálek, on Monday afternoon. The president’s spokesman Jiří Ovčáček tweeted the information on Wedensday evening, specifying that the meeting will také place in the head of state’s Lány residency.
Both President Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš have said that they accept Mr. Zaorálek as the new minister of culture. According to an earlier Castle statement, the president will name the Social Democrat nominee after their meeting.
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08/21/2019
Three men of Vietnamese origin received sentences between 9 to 10 years in jail from a court in Plzeň on Wednesday, the news site Novinky reports. Court spokeswoman Lucie Jíchová told Novinky that they were part of an organised crime group which, posing as a company called Alchema 3000, sold chemicals to methamphetamine produces across the country.
The three men, who were arrested in 2017, appealed the decision on the spot. They claim that they were merely company employees selling legal chemicals and that it was not their problem whose hands they ended up in.
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08/21/2019
Justice minster Marie Benešová met with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Wednesday to discuss the legal means through which the victims of the H-System housing scheme would have a chance for compensation. Speaking after the meeting she told journalists that no legal means through which to solve the problem were found. Instead she recommended that a special government measure could be another way of dealing with the issue.
The H-System project was founded in the 1990s. Back then, it promised to build cheap housing for its clients. However, it turned out to be a fraud, which only left only dozens of half-built up properties.
The victims of the scheme have since been trying to get compensation, but the minister warned that if their demands were met through the justice system it would open the floodgates to many others receiving compensation money for the many cases of fraud committed during what some call the era of “wild capitalism“.
The prime minister is set to meet with the legal representative of some of the H-System clients, Hana Kordová Marvanová on Friday.
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08/21/2019
The former Social Democrat deputy chair Lubomír Zaorálek is the new nominee of the Social Democratic Party for minister of culture, Social Democrat leader Jan Hamáček announced at a press conference on Wednesday. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said he has no problem with the choice. According to the Czech News Agency, Castle spokesman Jiří Ovčáček says that President Miloš Zeman agrees with the selection.
The president's office is currently identifying a suitable date for a meeting between Miloš Zeman and Mr. Zaoralek, after which the former will name him minister of culture.
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08/21/2019
Showers are expected to stop on Thursday with countrywide temperatures ranging in the mid-twenties. While in the west it is likely to be completely sunny, meteorologists predict more clouds in Moravia, Silesia and Southern Bohemia.
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08/21/2019
On the occasion of the 30-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution which led to the fall of communism in November 1989, the Czech Senate will hold three conferences, the speaker of the upper house Jaroslav Kubera told journalists on Wednesday.
These will not only focus on the Velvet Revolution, but two further events that took place during the last two months of 1989 – the canonisation of St. Agnes of Bohemia and the reestablishment of the Czech Scouts movement. According to Senate Speaker Kubera the reason behind organising the three conferences is the current relativizing of the values and heritage of November 17, 1989 and the Senate’s role as a guarantor of the constitutional order.
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08/21/2019
Following a largescale operation in close to 60 sites across the Czech Republic on Tuesday, the police have now charged 23 suspects with tax evasion and organised crime, the Czech News Agency reports. All except two of the suspects are currently being held in custody.
Members of the elite National Centre for Combating Organised Crime cooperated with the Czech Customs Administration and ordinary police units in the crackdown, which is connected to suspicions of tax dodging worth hundreds of millions of crowns.
The suspects could face more than 10 years in jail if their connection to organised crime is confirmed.
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08/21/2019
New research by scientists from the Water, Soil and Landscape Centre at the Czech University of Life Sciences suggests that another long-term spell of drought would result in an CZK 80 billion contraction of the Czech economy. Aside from financial effects, drought would also have an impact on population health and the environment. At a press conference on Wednesday the team suggested spending CZK 25 billion annually on preventative measures.
Researchers presented two scenarios of how the economy could be impacted by further droughts.
One scenario envisions a 25 percent decrease in the productivity of industries, such as textile or paper production, which are dependent on water supplies. In this case the economy would face a production capability decline between 0.9 to 1.6 percent of GDP.
The second scenario, counts on a 50 percent decrease that would cut production down by 2.8 to 4.8 percent of GDP.
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