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10/23/2023
Danuše Nerudová has resigned from her position as the head of the Department of Accounting and Taxation at Mendel University in Brno, Deník N reports. Ms Nerudová herself confirmed the news to the Czech daily, citing disagreements over the direction in which the faculty is heading and wanting to focus on next year’s European Parliament elections, in which she standing for election, as reasons for the move. However, she will continue to work at the university as a professor.
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10/23/2023
The new owner of a listed 18th-century baroque chateau in Chlum u Třeboně is causing concern and anger in the small town by carrying out demolition work in the building without a permit and refusing to communicate with the relevant authorities, news site Deník N reports.
Daniel Bakaev, an entrepreneur with Russian-Kazakh roots, bought the chateau last year. However, hopes that the historic building and with it the town would get a new lease of life soon faded away after he fenced off the entire area, prohibiting locals from walking through the grounds, as they had been used to doing for decades.
He also began renovating the building without a building permit. The authorities ordered him to stop the building works and let them into the castle, but according to Deník N, he refuses to let anyone in or to communicate with the local authorities, including the town hall, saying that the castle is his and claiming what he does there isn't anyone else's business.
The chateau, located in South Bohemia near the Austrian border, is notable for being the former summer residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The archduke stayed there the night before his fateful departure to Sarajevo in 1914, where he was assassinated, triggering the First World War.
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10/23/2023
A ban on the sale of flavoured heated tobacco products came into force in Czechia on Monday, bringing it in line with an EU directive issued last year. EU member states were required to implement the prohibition into national law by July 23, 2023, and apply it with effect from October 23, 2023. The directive does not allow for a transition period to sell off remaining stocks after this date.
The ban is part of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to “create a Tobacco-Free Generation” where less than 5% of the EU population uses tobacco products by 2040, compared to around 25% today. One of the main reasons for the ban is the growing popularity of these tobacco products, especially among young people. According to lung doctors, the nicotine-containing aerosol produced by heated tobacco products has a very similar composition of demonstrably carcinogenic substances to cigarette smoke.
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10/23/2023
Three liberal Czech political parties, the Pirates, the Greens and Senator 21, have agreed to join forces for the 2024 Senate elections. They will run on a joint ticket in 10 out of the 27 constituencies where new senators will be elected next year.
In a press release published on Senator 21's X (formerly Twitter) profile, the head of the party, Václav Láska, said that at the moment, Czechia had a predominantly conservative government, lower house and Senate, and that liberal parties had to work together more to make sure their voice is heard in Czech politics.
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10/23/2023
The company Energoaqua is responsible for the poisoning of the Bečva River that occurred on September 20, 2020, the Vsetín District Court ruled on Monday. However, the judge ruled that it was a misdemeanour rather than a criminal offence, meaning that no punishment was imposed. The court acquitted the director of the company, Oldřich Havelka, of the charges of poisoning the river and referred the matter back to the Czech Environmental Inspectorate.
The director of Energoaqua, Oldřich Havelka, again denied responsibility for the accident, telling reporters after the verdict that there was no evidence that the company had caused the disaster.
Environment Minister Petr Hladík told the Czech News Agency that he is sorry that the court was unable to find the culprit and impose the appropriate punishment, but he respects the decision of the court.
According to the public prosecutor, Energoaqua caused the poisoning of the Bečva River with cyanide and hexavalent chromium that got into the river through the company's wastewater, resulting in the death of over 39 tons of fish.
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10/23/2023
The two-day international Crimean Platform summit, which seeks to restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine and to end the Russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula, begins on Monday with a dinner at Prague Castle that will be attended by Czech President Petr Pavel. Legislators from four dozen countries have confirmed their attendance, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, also the founder of the platform, due to speak via a live video call on Tuesday.
The Crimean Platform summit was initiated by President Zelensky in the summer of 2021. The first edition took place last year in Zagreb, Croatia.
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10/22/2023
Monday is expected to be mostly cloudy but dry, with daytime temperatures of between 9 and 17 degrees Celsius. There should be a few hours of clear skies and sunshine in the late morning and early afternoon.
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10/22/2023
Random checks on the Czech-Slovak border may be extended even further, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Czech Television on Sunday. The Czech government has already extended the original ten-day random border checks, which started on October 4, by another 20 days to November 2. Germany's checks on its border with Czechia could also be extended by up to two months. Mr. Rakušan reiterated that the European Union needs a workable joint solution to the issue of migration, with a focus on protecting the external Schengen border.
The opposition ANO party's shadow interior minister Jana Mračková Vildumetzová criticised Mr. Rakušan for having supported the EU's draft migration agreement, which she said "invites migrants to Europe". However, the interior minister objected that the very fact that large numbers of migrants were coming to Europe and that return procedures and asylum proceedings weren't working well was caused precisely by the fact that no joint migration pact had been approved.
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10/22/2023
House prices in Czechia are going down, mainly due to decreased interest in homeownership as a result of the currently high mortgage interest rates, Czech Television reports. While sale prices for new buildings are generally steady, older apartments and houses have seen price drops of between CZK 100,000 to sometimes CZK 1 million or more. This trend can be seen in most large cities, including Prague.
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10/22/2023
Some 360,000 packs of penicillin will be delivered to the Czech Republic by the end of November, Health Minister Vlastimil Válek said on CNN Prima News on Sunday, referring to the long ongoing drug shortage in Czechia. He added that penicillin is gradually reaching pharmacies, although not all pharmacies are equally well-supplied.
MP Kamal Farhan from the opposition ANO party countered that there was no guarantee of there being enough additional medication in pharmacies this autumn.
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