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09/30/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. More grey skies are expected at the start of next week.
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09/29/2023
The Czech Senate commemorated the 85th anniversary of the signing of the Munich Agreement on Friday, with Senate President Miloš Vystrčil and his predecessors Petr Pithart and Přemysl Sobotka giving speeches. The Munich Agreement, on the basis of which Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia's border regions in 1938, carries an essential message for the present, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil said in his speech. Former senate president Přemysl Sobotka reminded the audience that no peace was ensured by the Munich Agreement, concluding that democracy must never yield to dictators.
Ambassadors from the signatory countries (Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy), historians and students also took part in the subsequent discussion that followed.
The event took place in the Green Lounge of the Kolovrat Palace, the former seat of the First Republic Czechoslovak government, where the country's leaders were informed of the wording of the agreement on September 30, 1938.
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09/29/2023
Hundreds of Slovaks, primarily students, set off from Prague's main railway station on Friday afternoon on a special free train to take part in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Slovakia. A second train will leave Brno for Bratislava shortly after 7 p.m.
The trains were paid for by four non-profit organisations with the aim of increasing voter turnout at the Slovak elections, given the large number of Slovaks living in Czechia. More than 1,000 people, of which roughly 60 percent were students, registered online for a place on the trains, according to the organisers.
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09/29/2023
The Czech Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens not to travel to the frozen conflict zone of Nagorno-Karabakh and areas near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan due to recent escalating tensions in the area. The ministry has also recommended avoiding large gatherings of people in central Yerevan, Armenia's capital, due to the increasingly high probability of clashes between protesters and police officers. According to the ministry, the Czech embassies in Yerevan and Baku have very limited capabilities of providing consular protection and assistance in hard-to-reach places.
Azerbaijani troops carried out a military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh last week, with large parts of the predominantly ethnic Armenian population fleeing amid fears of persecution and ethnic cleansing.
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09/29/2023
Saturday will see slightly cooler weather, with temperatures of between 16 and 19 degrees Celsius during the day. Skies will be mostly overcast or cloudy with a chance of some showers.
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09/29/2023
The Czech, German and Polish interior ministers have agreed to instate joint patrols on Germany's borders with Czechia and Poland and to create a joint operational group to fight human trafficking groups, the German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, announced on Friday. Concretely for Czechia, this means joint Czech-German patrols on the Czech side of the border.
The German minister had already announced on Wednesday that, due to the recent increase in human trafficking activity and illegal migration, Germany is introducing temporary increased controls on its borders with Czechia and Poland, with immediate effect.
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09/29/2023
The Czech government approved the purchase of 24 US-made F-35 aircraft on Wednesday, which Defence Minister Jana Černochová said would cost a total of CZK 150 billion, including all expenses related to beginning operations. However, the total cost for the entire life cycle of the fighter jets will be significantly higher than that, daily newspapers Mladá fronta Dnes and Právo reported on Friday, with the defence ministry estimating the total cost for the acquisition and operation of the jets until the end of their useful service life in 2069 at CZK 322 billion.
The first of the fighter jets will be ready in 2029 and all 24 will be in the country by 2035. The purchase will be the biggest defence contract ever signed by Czechia.
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09/29/2023
The 13th annual Architecture Day, a week-long festival celebrating quality architecture in Czechia and Slovakia, kicked off on Friday. Some 450 free events will be on offer throughout the week until October 5, including entry to buildings normally not open to the public, architectural walking tours, and guided bike rides led by architects and historians.
The program this year includes modern and forgotten historical buildings, towers, monasteries, churches, bridges and stadiums from across the country in a variety of architectural styles, from baroque through functionalism and brutalism to the present.
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09/28/2023
Businessman Dalibor Dědek, poet Miloš Doležal, and Catholic priest and philosopher Tomáš Halík were among the 17 people who received commemorative silver medals from the President of the Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, at an awards ceremony in the Valdštejn Palace on Thursday evening. The medals are awarded every year on the Day of Czech Statehood and St. Wenceslas Day, September 28, to people who have excelled in their field or contributed to the good reputation of the Czech Republic abroad.
The award was presented for the first time in 2012. This year's ceremony is the twelfth.
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09/28/2023
Accommodation facilities in Czechia are filling up over the long weekend, Czech Television reports. The Czech Hotel Association says it is experiencing an increase of almost 15 percent in demand for accommodation compared to this period last year.
The most popular locations are in South Moravia, thanks to the ongoing grape harvest and associated wine season, and in the Czech mountains. The Czech Tourism agency estimates that commercial accommodation capacities in South Moravia are up to 80 percent full.
Many Czechs are taking advantage of the fact that Czech Statehood Day, a public holiday, falls on a Thursday this year, by taking Friday off as well in order to spend an extended four-day weekend away. In addition, there are also state holidays in Germany during this period, which is further having an impact on the availability of accommodation.
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