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08/22/2017
The Czech Republic’s Constitutional Court has ruled in its recent verdict that prisoners have right to maintain contact with their children.
The Constitutional Judge overruled a previous verdict issued by a District Court in Brno, which severed ties between a father and his children when the father was imprisoned. It argued that visits to prison would be too traumatic for them. The Constitution Judge stressed in his ruling that prisoners don’t lose their rights to be a parent.
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08/22/2017
A Czech tourist has drowned in the sea near the Ayia Napa resort in Cyprus on Monday afternoon, the daily Cyprus Mail informed on Tuesday. The 59-year-old Czech was found unconscious by lifeguards in the sea off the Aya Thekla beach. Police have ruled out foul play as no external injuries were detected.
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08/22/2017
Czechs should learn on Wednesday the precise dates when they should take part in presidential elections. Head of the upper house, the Senate, Milan Štech, says he will announce the dates on Wednesday. The second series of direct presidential elections must take place at the latest by January 19 and 20. A second round follows as a head-off between the best placed candidates from the first round. Current incumbent Miloš Zeman, who triumphed in 2013, has said he will stand again in the elections.
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08/22/2017
The Czech Republic has the chance to increasingly position itself as Japan’s gateway to the European Union after the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU, the Ministry of Trade and Industry suggested following a visit by Japan’s Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry, Hiroshige Seko. Seko met with his Czech counterpart Jiří Havlíček. The car industry, IT, defence, glassmaking, and food products were identified as areas for possible increased cooperation between the countries. Around 250 Japanese companies have already established themselves in the Czech Republic. Britain was previously one of the major gateways for Japanese investment in Europe.
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08/21/2017
The Czech government has agreed to the purchase of a pig farm at the site where a camp for Roma was created during WWII. The conditions for the purchase of the farm at Lety, near Písek, was agreed with the private owner, the company AGPI, two weeks ago. A final go ahead came during the government meeting on Monday. The Czech Republic has frequently come under international fire for the presence of a pig farm at a camp where hundreds of Roma died from illness and the harsh conditions. Most of those who did not die at the Lety camp were later shipped to Nazi death camps with few surviving. The financial compensation for the farm owners has not been revealed.
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08/21/2017
The Czech Association Of Private Farmers has warned of the consequences for the agricultural sector of proposed reforms of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the Czech sector. They warned that the Czech Republic, because of the large average size of many farm holdings is likely to lose out, as EU reforms look like they will shift more support towards smaller family farms. The association suggested the Ministry of Agriculture adopt a more flexible attitude towards the proposals made so far and work on polices that would mean more farmers can claim EU support in the future. Talks about the shape of the CAP after 2020 have started in part because of the likely reduced EU budget after Brexit.
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08/21/2017
The government decided at its meeting on Monday to raise the minimum wage by 1,200 crowns, or 11 percent, to 12,200 crowns a month from the start of January. The final decision represents a compromise between the increase of 1,500 crowns sought by unions and the 800 which employers pushed for. Employers have cautioned though against further significant rises in future years. The government estimates that after the increase the minimum wage should amount to 40.5 percent of the average wage in the country.
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08/21/2017
Czechs have paid homage to the victims and remembered the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia on the 49th anniversary of the event. A traditional commemoration took place at Czech Radio’s Prague building, the focus for clashes between the invading troops and citizens. An all day concert was scheduled to take place in Prague’s Wenceslas Square. Commemorations also took place in the second city, Brno, and other towns and cities. Speaker of the lower house, Jan Hamaček, stressed the importance of strong allies and membership of NATO as one lesson that should be drawn from the events of 1968. The Soviet led invasion was prompted by Moscow fears about the liberalisation taking place in Czechoslovakia under the then Communist leadership from the mid-1960s.
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08/21/2017
The weather on Tuesday is expected to be sunny in the far west but cloudy with sunny intervals in the rest of the country. Top temperatures will range between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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08/21/2017
Park authorities in the Šumava National Park are to decide on whether bans on public access to parts of the park should be introduced following heavy storms over the weekend which felled hundreds of trees.
The problem is at its worst in the southern section of the park where are many paths and cycle routes. Authorities have already warned the public to stay out of forest because of the danger of more trees falling. The tidy up operation is expected to take weeks.
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