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09/06/2023
Two Czech women, Irena Moozová and Lenka Filípková, are due to be appointed to high-ranking positions in the European Commission. The news was announced by Štěpán Černý, head of the European Affairs Section at the Czech Office of the Government, on Wednesday.
Irena Moozová will become the deputy director-general for Justice and Consumers at the Directorate-General, while Lenka Filípková will head the Directorate-General for Budget.
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09/06/2023
Thursday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 25 and 28 degrees Celsius.
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09/06/2023
Sixty-six companies in Czechia have called on Prime Minister Petr Fiala to support the adoption of a bill legalizing marriage for same sex couples. In an open letter addressed to the head of government, they say that unequal conditions for LGBT+ people present extra costs for employers and economic losses for the society.
The initiative was presented on Monday at a press conference hosted by Vodafone CEO Petr Dvořák and representatives of other companies and organisations.
Since July 2006, gay and lesbian couples in Czechia can enter into registered partnerships. A bill legalizing marriage for same sex couples has recently been approved by the lower house of Czech Parliament.
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09/06/2023
The number of suicides in Czechia increased in 2022, after dropping for three consecutive years, according to the data released by the National Centre for Mental Health on Wednesday. Last year, 1,302 Czechs took their own life, which was around six percent more than in the previous three years.
The increase was most significant in the younger age categories from 15 to 34 years of age. The highest numbers of suicides was in the 45 to 49 age group, with 148 people taking their own life in 2022. The data also suggest that Czech men are much more likely to commit suicide.
According to experts, there are multiple factors behind the trend, including the economic crisis but also the unavailability of mental health care.
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09/06/2023
The wife of Czech president Petr Pavel, Eva Pavlová, has travelled to Kyiv for a summit of first ladies organised by Olena Zelenska, the spouse of Ukraine’s president Volodymr Zelensky, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday.
The Czech First Lady arrived in the Ukrainian capital for the third such meeting on Wednesday morning against the backdrop of air raid alerts and shortly after air defence systems shot down a number of Russian missiles, a Czech Radio reporter said.
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09/06/2023
Czech tennis player Karolína Muchová has reached the semi-finals of the US Open for the first time in her career. The tournament’s 10th seed overcame Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-0 6-3 at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday.
Muchová will now face Cori Gauff of the United States for a place in the final of the Grand Slam tournament. The 27-year-old got to the final of the French Open earlier this year but only has one WTA title to her name, from the Korea Open in 2019.
Whatever the result in New York the Czech will now climb to a career-high eighth in the world rankings.
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09/05/2023
Television and radio licence fees in Czechia are set to increase for the first time in many years, the minister of culture, Martin Baxa, announced on Tuesday. The monthly fee for Czech Television will rise by CZK 25 to CZK 165, while the fee for Czech Radio will go up from CZK 45 to CZK 55 a month.
The changes should be introduced as part of a major amendment to the law on public service media that has been agreed by the coalition government, Mr. Baxa said.
In addition the number of people liable to pay the licence fees will increase to include those who can watch or listen to the public broadcasters on a mobile phone or computer. The price of a TV license has been at the same level for 15 years, while the radio one has not gone up for 18 years.
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09/05/2023
The most decorated Czech jockey of all time, Filip Minařík, has died at the age of 48. Minařík was a four-time German horseracing champion and won almost 1,800 races until a career-ending injury in 2020, after which he was placed in an artificial coma for four months.
The jockey’s death has been announced by Czech and German horseracing news sites and there have been reports that he committed suicide after suffering from severe depression.
Minařík, whose first race was in 1991, had followed in the footsteps of his father Ferdinand Minařík, also a successful jockey.
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09/05/2023
A plan to introduce charges to drive cars into some historical parts of Prague from next year may not be implemented, Novinky.cz reported on Tuesday. The idea has been put forward by the deputy mayor for transport, the Pirate Party’s Zdeněk Hřib, and the central Prague 1 district. However, it is not supported by the mayor, Bohuslav Svoboda of the Civic Democrats, other representatives of the three-party Together alliance or districts neighbouring Prague1, the news website said.
The head of City Hall’s transport committee described the proposed charges as nonsense and populist.
There have been reports that motorists will have to pay CZK 200 to enter some streets in the city centre.
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09/05/2023
MPs from ANO say they will challenge government legislation restricting early retirement and slowing pension increases at the Constitutional Court. They made the announcement after a meeting of the opposition party’s parliamentary group on Monday evening. ANO’s Alena Schillerová said the petition could be filed by the end of October.
Ms. Schillerová said the government’s bills were illegitimate for two reasons: the overriding of usual procedure in the lower house, and breaching the principle of expectation in the case of the regulations on early retirement.
A lower house debate on the government amendments, currently in the second reading, is expected to run for some days.
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