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08/27/2023
Monday will continue to be cool and overcast with some rain. Daytime temperatures should range between 17 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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08/27/2023
The Security Committee of the lower house of the Czech parliament has asked Tomio Okamura, the leader of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, to explain some statements he made last week aimed at Ukrainian refugees in Czechia.
In a CNN Prima News talk show last Sunday, Mr. Okamura criticised the widespread acceptance of refugees from Ukraine, saying that criminal activity will increase in Czechia as a result and that the government does not have the refugee wave under control. Speaking on the same programme this week, MP Jan Lacina said that the coalition government believes his actions are bordering on a security risk that threatens all of society.
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08/27/2023
Karel Havlíček from Andrej Babiš's ANO party said on a CNN Prima News programme on Sunday that Prime Minister Petr Fiala had spoken "like a hardened communist" when he had called on food companies with record profits to reduce consumer prices. He compared his appeal to the statements of former communist leader Milouš Jakeš, who in one of his speeches criticised the increased incomes of some pre-Velvet Revolution artists.
The prime minister said on Thursday that some food companies that requested government aid last year had subsequently made record profits and that he found it distasteful when the owners of such companies blamed the government for not doing anything about the cost of living when they could reduce prices in their own companies with a single decision.
Former prime minister Andrej Babiš's Agrofert conglomerate reported a profit of around 13 billion crowns last year, more than double what it was the previous year.
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08/27/2023
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said on Czech Television on Sunday that the finance ministry is looking to reduce its support for renewable energy sources, possibly by changing the law to limit subsidies. This year, the state has been fully covering the costs of subsidised energy sources by itself due to high energy prices, but Mr Stanjura described this state of affairs as unsustainable. He said he will push for the system from previous years, when contributions were divided between the state and consumers, to return next year. The government will have to debate whether or not the share that consumers pay would be the same as before the energy crisis.
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08/27/2023
Brothers Petr and Martin Fuksa came eighth in the C2 500 at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany on Sunday, narrowly securing themselves a spot at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Kayakers Jakub Špicar and Daniel Havel also won a place for the Czech Republic at the 2024 Paris Olympics, finishing fifth in the K2 500.
As well as competing with his brother in the C2 500, Martin Fuksa will also be competing in the C1 1000 at the Olympics next year, having taken the gold medal in Duisburg on Saturday and becoming the new world champion in this discipline for the first time in his career. He will be joined in Paris by kayaker Josef Dostál, who came fifth in the K1 1000.
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08/27/2023
The Archbishop of Prague Jan Graubner has sent his resignation letter to Pope Francis after one year in office. All bishops are required to submit their resignation on turning 75, although the Pope may choose to extend their term in office. Graubner is due to celebrate his 75th birthday on August 29 but has stated that he is ready to continue in the role as long as needed.
Graubner became the 37th Archbishop of Prague at the beginning of August last year, after several years of waiting to take over from Cardinal Dominik Duka, who held the position for 12 years. Duka submitted his resignation upon turning 75 as required in April 2018 but was invited by Pope Francis to continue in office. Duka announced his successor only last year and Pope Francis finally accepted his resignation in May 2022.
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08/27/2023
Firefighters were called out over a thousand times to deal with incidents relating to the thunderstorm that hit Czechia on Saturday evening and night, most often to secure loose tiles on rooves, remove fallen trees, and pump water out from flooded areas. The most severe storms were in Vysočína, South Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia and the Olomouc Region.
Some 30,000 customers were left without electricity in South Bohemia and Vysočina as a result of the storm. The South Bohemian Region was especially badly affected in this regard.
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08/26/2023
A Czech man accused of billions of crowns of credit fraud has been extradited from Greece to the Czech Republic for sentencing, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday. He had been arrested by the Greek police on a yacht near the island of Corfu at the end of July, after a warrant was issued for his arrest and it was discovered that he was hiding abroad. After spending three weeks in Greek custody, the man is now in a police cell in Prague.
The identity of the suspect has not been revealed, but news site Seznam Zprávy speculates that it is 63-year-old Jiří Lišek, who was charged with credit fraud in a case relating to the Metropolitan Savings Association.
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08/26/2023
Isolated severe thunderstorms with torrential rain, wind and hail could hit many areas of Czechia on Saturday evening and night. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has issued a warning for people to be careful when outdoors or driving as trees may fall. There is also a risk of local flash floods due to the rainfall.
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08/26/2023
Czech painter Juliana Jirousová has passed away of natural causes just a few weeks shy of her 80th birthday. The writer and columnist Petr Placák announced her death on Facebook in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Jirousová was a signatory of Charter 77 and the wife of poet and dissident Ivan Magor Jirous, who was best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime's "normalisation" period. He passed away in 2011.
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