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07/04/2019
Two Czech MEPs have been elected deputy chairpersons of the European parliament. Dita Charanzová (44) of the ANO party is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe political group. Before being elected to the European Parliament in 2014 as an independent, she worked in the Czech diplomatic service for over a decade. In the past election term, she was a deputy chairwoman of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Marcel Kolaja is a newcomer to the European Parliament, serving as an MEP for the Pirate Party since the 2019 election. Mr. Kolaja, who is 39, is a computer expert working with free software and the copyright and is a member of the Greens group. As an MEP, he wants to focus on the digital agenda, IT and consumer rights.
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07/03/2019
Italian MEP David-Maria Sassoli became the President of the European Parliament in the second round of the vote. Czech MEP Jan Zahradil of the Civic Democrats, a candidate of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, finished a distant second.
Zahradil’s loss means that Central and Eastern Europe lost its theoretical chance to gain one of the top EU posts for the next five-year term. Still, Mr Zahradil said after the vote that he regarded the result a success, considering that the conservative ECR group only has 52 MEPs.
The election of the 14 vice-presidents was due to take place on Wednesday afternoon, with Czech MEP Dita Charanzová of the ANO party, a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group, running for one of the posts.
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07/03/2019
The Czech political scene is divided over the nomination of German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen for European Commission president. While Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš hailed the nomination as a great success for the Visegrad Four group, opposition Pirate Party chairman Ivan Bartoš said the vote had side-lined democratically nominated candidates. He also criticised Mrs von der Leyen for not trying to appeal to voters beyond Germany’s borders.
Civic Democrat chairman Petr Fiala has welcomed the choice of the German minister over the Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans. He also expressed his hope that under her leadership, the European Union would be less activist and listen more closely to the individual EU member states.
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07/03/2019
Czech tennis player Karolína Plíšková has advanced to the third round of the Wimbledon singles main draw after beating Puerto Rican and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Monica Puig 6-0, 6-4.
Karolína Muchová has also advanced to the third round of the women’s singles, after defeating Madison Brengle of the U.S: 6-3, 6-4. In the men’s singles, Jiří Veselý defeated Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.
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07/03/2019
The European Union should be more flexible in allocating money to member states and should take their individual needs into greater account, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his Maltese counterpart, Joseph Muscat, agreed at a meeting in Prague on Wednesday.
Mr Babiš said that it was important for the Czech Republic to have its own say on how to use the EU funding it receives.
The two politicians also welcomed the outcome of the EU summit and expressed the hope that the European Parliament will confirm the nomination of Ursula von der Leyen as the European Commission president.
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07/03/2019
The Czech Federation of Jewish Communities recorded 347 anti-Semitic incidents, which is more than in the previous years, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday.
While physical attacks and discrimination remain uncommon, the incidence of anti-Semitic hate speech on the Internet is on the rise. Nearly 93 percent of all cases reported happened on the Internet, mainly on extreme right and anti-liberal websites.
According to the report, the Czech Republic still remains a relatively safe country in comparison to other central and western European countries.
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07/03/2019
Czech documentary film director Helena Třeštíková has been invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the annual Academy Awards, known as The Oscars.
The Academy this year invited altogether 842 new members from 59 countries, including the singer Lady Gaga and actress Elisabeth Moss and director Christopher Miller. Czech actors and stuntmen Ladislav Lahoda and Pavel Cajzl were nominated to join the Oscar Academy’s Members-At-Large category.
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07/03/2019
Night-time temperatures dropped below zero in some parts of the Czech Republic. The lowest temperature, minus 2.3 degrees Celsius, was recorded at Jizerka in the Jizera Mountains in the north of the country. Freezing temperatures were also registered in the Šumava Mountains in the south west and in Krušné hory in the north-west.
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07/03/2019
Thursday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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07/03/2019
The ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš would win elections to the lower house of Parliament with 32.5 percent of the vote, down by 1.5 percentage point since April, according to the results of an opinion poll conducted by the STEM agency, published on Wednesday. The Pirate Party is up by 4.5 percentage points since the last STEM survey with 15.6 percent of the vote, closely followed by the centre-right Civic Democrats, with 13.1 percent.
The Freedom and Direct Democracy Party finished in the fourth place, followed by the Communist Party, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats.
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