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11/13/2023
Czechs have been paying tribute to Karel Schwarzenberg, one of the country’s most prominent politicians of the post-communist era, who died in Vienna on Saturday at the age of 85.
Dozens of people gathered outside his house in Prague on Sunday evening to light candles and lay flowers in his memory.
Among those present were Prague deputy mayor and Schwarzenberg’s party colleague Jiří Pospíšil, who described Karel Schwarzenberg as the second greatest personality in the country’s modern history next to Václav Havel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will have condolence books for people to sign in memory of for the former foreign minister. They will be available in the reception area between 2pm and 4pm on Monday and between 10am and 12 am and 2pm and 4pm on Tuesday.
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Marketa Pekarová Adamová said Tuesday’s session of the lower house would start with a minute of silence in honour of the late politician.
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11/13/2023
More than thirty Czech university representatives have signed an appeal to academic institutions and to the leadership of faculties and departments not to allow the spread of anti-Semitism in the academic environment. According to them, its manifestations are also beginning to appear at universities in Czechia.
The authors of the letter criticize the tearing down of posters commemorating the Jewish victims of the 7 October Hamas attack and condemn the anti-Jewish slogans and calls for the genocide of the Jewish citizens of Israel. They demand that all legal steps be taken against any manifestations of hatred.
The letter was written by David Jan Novotný from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University and Věra Tydlitátová from the Faculty of Arts at the University of West Bohemia and was signed, among others, by professors Martin C. Putna and Helena Třeštíková.
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11/13/2023
Czechs have been paying tribute to Karel Schwarzenberg, one of the country’s most prominent politicians of the post-communist era, who died in Vienna on Saturday at the age of 85.
Dozens of people gathered outside his house in Prague on Sunday evening to light candles and lay flowers in his memory.
Among those present were Prague deputy mayor and Schwarzenberg’s party colleague Jiří Pospíšil, who described Karel Schwarzenberg as the second greatest personality in the country’s modern history next to Václav Havel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will have condolence books for people to sign in memory of for the former foreign minister. They will be available in the reception area between 2pm and 4pm on Monday and between 10am and 12 am and 2pm and 4pm on Tuesday.
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Marketa Pekarová Adamová said Tuesday’s session of the lower house would start with a minute of silence in honour of the late politician.
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11/12/2023
Former Czech ice hockey goaltender Roman Čechmánek, Olympic champion from Nagano and three-time world champion, has died at the age of 52, the daily iSport.cz reported on Sunday.
Čechmánek was a substitute for Dominik Hašek at the Nagano Olympics and won world championship titles in 1996, 1999 and 2000. He also won five Extraliga titles with his home club of Vsetín.
The native of Zlín, who faced serious financial problems in recent years, spent four seasons in the NHL, playing for the Philadelphia Flyers, where he was drafted in 2000. He retired from playing in 2009.
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11/12/2023
Monday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius.
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11/12/2023
People around the Czechia donated 624 tonnes of non-perishable products for the needy on Saturday within the bi-annual National Food Collection, the organizers announced on Sunday. It is the best result since the tradition was launched in 2013.
Some 2,000 shops and supermarket chains have joined the autumn collection to help seniors, single mothers, the handicapped, disadvantages families and children in care homes. People can continue to donate products bought online until November 21.
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11/12/2023
The opposition ANO party would win elections to the lower house of parliament if they were held today, according to an October poll conducted by the Kantar agency for Czech Television.
The results suggest ANO would get 33 percent of the vote, far ahead of the Together bloc consisting of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and TOP 09, who would place second with 21.5 percent of the vote.
The anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, along with the Pirate Party, would both finish in the third place, each receiving the backing of 10.5 percent of voters.
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11/12/2023
Czech tennis players failed to reach the finals of the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup in Seville, Spain, suffering a 2-1 defeat by Canada.
In the first semifinal match on Saturday, Barbora Krejčíková put the Czechs ahead with a 6-2, 6-1 singles win over 18-year-old Canadian Marina Stakusic.
However, Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, having arrived late from the WTA Finals in Cancun, was stunned by the 21-year-old Fernandez who claimed a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 win.
In the decisive doubles match, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková lost to Gabriela Dabrowski and Leylah Fernandez.
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11/12/2023
Tributes have been pouring in for former foreign minister, senator and honorary chairman of TOP 09 party Karel Schwarzenberg, who died in Vienna on Sunday at the age of 85.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala described Mr. Schwarzenberg as an important personality of the Czech exile and Czech politics of the last decades, and said he was honoured to sit with him in the Government.
According to Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, Mr. Schwarzenberg was one of the greatest political figures of our time and his passing is an irreplaceable loss for the whole society.
Former TOP 09 chairman and co-founder Miroslav Kalousek, said the party’s honorary chairman was one of the most important and kindest people in his life, adding that Czechia should be forever grateful to him for all he selflessly did for the country.
According to the current head of TOP 09, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, said Mr Schwarzenberg has had a profound influence on her life and left a legacy that is immortal and has to be carried on.
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11/12/2023
Former foreign minister, MP, senator and honorary chairman of TOP 09 party Karel Schwarzenberg has died at the age of 85 after a long illness. The one-time presidential candidate, noted for his pro-European views, had been hospitalised in Vienna for the past few days.
Mr Schwarzenberg, who had both Czech and Swiss citizenships, was born in Prague in 1937 into a noble family, which was forced to flee the country after the communist coup in 1948, settling in Vienna.
In the 1980s, Mr Schwarzenberg served as president of International Helsinki Federation for Human right, negotiating the question of human rights in former USSR, Bulgaria, Kosovo, and in Czechoslovakia. He also co-founded the Czechoslovak documentary centre supporting the Czechoslovak exile and dissent, which was seated in his family mansion in Bavaria.
After his return to Czechoslovakia in 1989 Mr. Schwarzenberg served as the chancellor to president Václav Havel until his abdication in 1992. He went on to be elected as Senator from 2004 to 2010 and to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2013.
In 2009, Karel Schwarzenberg, together with Miroslav Kalousek, founded the TOP 09 party, and in 2010 he was elected an MP. In 2013 and qualified for the second round of the presidential elections, finishing as runner-up against Miloš Zeman.
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