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01/03/2024
A parliamentary proposal to allow Czech citizens abroad to vote by post in elections has received the support of the government, one of the government's five coalition partners, the Pirate Party, said in a press release. The government discussed the proposal at their first cabinet meeting of 2024 on Wednesday. Czechs abroad could vote by post for the first time in the 2025 parliamentary elections to the lower house, and then utilise the option in presidential, parliamentary and European elections from 2026.
The opposition is against the introduction of postal voting, saying it represents a possible threat to democracy and goes against the constitutional rule guaranteeing that ballots are secret.
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01/03/2024
Czech universities will be stepping up their security measures using EU money, Education Minister Mikuláš Bek said after meeting with the Czech Rectors' Conference on Wednesday. These could include new rules on bringing luggage into university buildings and staff and students receiving security training.
Mr. Bek said that the measures would be adapted to each particular building. However, he said that he doubted that metal detector frames would be a widespread solution, although he could not rule it out in some cases. A new working group will discuss what precise steps are to be taken and will meet for the first time next Wednesday.
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01/03/2024
An 18-member team of Czech firefighters set off at noon on Wednesday for France, which is experiencing floods in the north of the country. They are bringing 15 pieces of firefighting equipment with them, including two large-capacity pumps, an amphibious firefighting vehicle and a rescue boat, to the French city of Saint-Omer, where they are expected to stay for two weeks. In doing so, Czechia is responding to France's request for help with the floods at the EU level.
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01/03/2024
Thursday is expected to be overcast and rainy with strong winds. Some patches of sun may appear amid the rain in the afternoon. Daytime temperatures should hover around 5 to 8 degrees Celsius.
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01/03/2024
Tuesday's heavy rain has once again raised water levels in many Czech rivers, with first or second-degree flood alerts reported at around 50 measuring stations at 9:00 am on Wednesday. Earlier in the morning, water levels in the Elbe River in the village of Vestřev and the Otava River in the town of Rejštejn reached the third and highest degree flood alert level, but have since receded, according to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
Heavy rain is expected in the Šumava, Krkonoše and Jizera Mountains until Thursday morning. A flood warning is in place until further notice.
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01/03/2024
The UK's Daily Mail newspaper has unearthed information from newly declassified archive files revealing that Terézia Javorská, the London-based director of the BBC World Service's Slovak section until 2005, was a Cold War spy for the notorious communist-era Czechoslovak StB or State Security Service. According to the files, she was recruited by an StB agent posted to London who met her at a cocktail party in the mid-1980s. The Daily Mail writes that security experts believe it to be the first known case of an agent from a foreign intelligence agency infiltrating the BBC since the start of the Cold War.
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01/03/2024
At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the government is expected to discuss a parliamentary proposal to allow Czech citizens abroad to vote by post in elections. The Czech Republic is one of only four EU countries that currently do not allow postal voting, the others being France, Croatia, and Malta. However, France has allowed its citizens to vote online from abroad since 2020, while Czechia doesn't currently allow this option either. Czechia's neighbour, Slovakia, has allowed citizens abroad to vote by post in parliamentary elections and nationwide referendums since 2006.
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01/03/2024
Prague’s Charles University is preparing a list of possible security measures for its buildings following a mass shooting at the Faculty of Arts last month that left 14 dead. Deans of individual faculties will receive a list of measures tailored to their faculties, the rector of the university, Milena Králíčková, said on Tuesday evening.
Regarding the coming semester at the Faculty of Arts, the rector said teaching would take place in alternative classrooms at other faculties and other institutions, as well as online.
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01/03/2024
There were 200,000 unoccupied flats in apartment buildings in Czechia at the start of 2021, a rise of 40 percent on the number a decade earlier, according to a Ministry for Regional Development study cited by the Czech News Agency. The report is based on data on national censuses carried out in 2021 and 2011.
The study suggests some of the apartments may have been bought as investments and used for other purposes or for short-term accommodation. The poor state of properties may have been another factor.
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01/02/2024
Czechia have reached the semi-finals of ice hockey’s World Junior Championship in Sweden. The Czechs overcame the favourites Canada 3:2 on Tuesday after Oliver Bonk turned a strike by Jakub Štancl into his own net with only 11 seconds of the game remaining.
Czechia had taken a 2:0 lead earlier in the match only to see a determined Canadian turn on the pressure and peg them back to 2:2.
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