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A taxi driver in Prague charged a foreign tourists in Prague over 6,000 crowns for a 14-kilometre ride, Irena Seifertová, a spokesman for the police, told the Czech News Agency. The woman hailed the taxi at the Old Town Square in the centre of Prague. The driver initially demanded 480 euros (around 12,000 crowns) for the ride. An average fare for 14 kilometres would be up to 500 crowns. The tourist filed a criminal complaint against the driver, who is now being investigated by the police.

Number of the long-term unemployed in the Czech Republic has been gradually dropping, according to the data of the Czech Labour Office released by the Czech News Agency on Sunday. In June, there were 166,691 people in the country unemployed for more than a year, while the number of vacancies stood at 183,500. That figure is twice as low as in 2014. Four out of ten unemployed are jobless for more than a year, and three out of ten for more than two years.

Tropical temperatures are set to return to the Czech Republic next week, according to a long-term forecast from the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute. The remaining weeks should be slightly cooler, with daytime temperatures expected to range between 23 and 25 degrees Celsius. Rainfall levels over the next four weeks should also be average for the time of year.

Ethnic Czechs from the western Ukrainian province of Volhynia celebrate 70 years since the return to their homeland. On Saturday, a plaque marking the post-war events in the border areas was unveiled at a train station in Žatec, the final station of the first transport which took place in February 1947. On Sunday, a commemorative ceremony will take place in Český Malín, a village founded by Czech immigrants in 1871 in what is today Ukraine. The village was burnt to the ground by the Nazis during WWII and most of its inhabitants were murdered.