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05/02/2018
The Czech state-owned passenger train operator České dráhy has announced a public tender for the supply of up to50 electric trains for regional transport, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday.
The value of the tender is expected to reach over six billion crowns. The tender is expected to give the company a better chance of winning regional train contracts when the existing contracts expire at the end of 2019.
České Dráhy operates over 7,000 trains a day on average. Last year they transported nearly 175 million passengers.
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05/02/2018
Thursday is expected to be mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers and storms and daytime highs reaching up to 27 degrees Celsius.
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05/02/2018
People have paid their last respects on Wednesday to the late writer, translator and lyricist Pavel Šrut who died last week at the age of 78. Mr Šrut was one of the Czech Republic’s most respected authors of poetry and books for children. His popular trilogy Lichožrouti or Oddsockeaters won him the Magnesia Litera Award for literature.
Apart from his work for children, he was also a translator from English and Spanish. His translations include books of Robert Graves, D.H Lawrence and John Updike.
He also authored lyrics to many songs, including hits sung by Michal Prokop, Vladimír Mišík and Petr Skoumal.
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05/02/2018
In tennis, Petra Kvitová has advanced to the quarter-finals of this year’s biggest tennis tournament in Prague, the J&T Banka Prague Open. Kvitová eased past Russia’s Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6:3, 6:1. She will next face the winner of the match between Kateřina Siniakova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Kvitová, who is currently placed ninth in the WTA rankings, last played in a Czech tournament seven years ago.
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05/02/2018
German club Eisbären Berlin are hoping to land Czech hockey star Jaromír Jágr, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. The 46-year-old forward and the second most productive player in the history of the NHL joined his hometown club Kladno from Calgary at the end of January this year.
His name has also appeared among the 16 players listed on Kladno’s roster for the 2018–2019 season, which was published on the club’s website.
Several German newspapers reported earlier that the Berlin club’s management was already in contact with Jágr before the playoffs.
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05/02/2018
The number of long-term unemployed in the Czech Republic has continued to go down, according to data released by the Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday.
The number of Czechs who have been unemployed for more than a year has dropped over the past year by 7.8 percentage points to 31.4 percent (of the total number of unemployed). It is one of the lowest figures in the EU, with the exception of Scandinavia and the UK.
The number of unemployed between the ages of 15 to 24 stands at 6.3 percent, which puts the Czech Republic in second spot in Europe, right behind Germany.
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05/02/2018
A new festival dedicated to television series begins in Brno on Wednesday. The first edition of Serial Killer will screen noteworthy shows produced for TV and internet distribution at a number of cinemas in the Moravian capital and will get underway with the first two episodes of the Czech-produced series Most!
Festival organiser Kamila Zlatušková, formerly a well-known Czech Television producers, says Serial Killer aims to support original work and new formats. The event will come to a close on Saturday.
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05/02/2018
ANO’s national committee has backed further negotiations with the Social Democrats on forming a coalition government, the party’s deputy leader, Jaroslav Faltýnek, said on Tuesday evening. Mr. Faltýnek said a deal on a minority coalition, which would be supported by the Communists, should be ready by the end of the week.
The Social Democrats are pushing for a proviso under which ANO chief and acting PM Andrej Babiš would have to step down if found guilty of abusing EU subsidies. They also want to see the position of Freedom and Direct Democracy on lower house committees weakened. However, ANO have as yet been unwilling to accede to these demands.
ANO and the Social Democrats appeared on the verge of striking a coalition deal previously only for negotiations to collapse.
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05/01/2018
Political parties and other groups held events in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic on Tuesday marking May Day, which is a holiday. The Communist Party had a gathering at the capital’s Výstaviště, the Social Democrats were on Střelecký ostrov, ANO were at Ladronka and the Civic Democrats were on Petřín hill.
Anarchists organised a gathering in Prague while the far-right Workers Party of Social Justice and other groups came together in Plzeň.
In the Czech Republic May 1 is also considered a day of lovers and homosexual rights group We Are Fair created a huge cake in Prague in support of marriage equality.
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05/01/2018
The text of an agreement on a coalition between ANO and the Social Democrats supported by the Communists on key votes should be completed this week. The leaders of the three parties should confirm the text on Friday, Czech Television reported on Tuesday.
However, disagreements remain, with ANO against the Social Democrats’ efforts to include a proviso under which ANO chief and acting PM Andrej Babiš would have to step down if found guilty of abusing EU subsidies.
ANO are also unwilling to accede to the Social Democrats’ demands to weaken the position of Freedom and Direct Democracy on lower house committees.
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