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08/03/2015
Around 62 percent of Czechs are happy with their lives with 15 percent discontented according to a survey by the CVVM polling agency. The rest described themselves as neutral. The proportion of contented fell by three percentage points compared with June last year when a similar survey was conducted. The Czech Republic counts as the most contented post-Communist country in Central and Eastern Europe, according to United Nations figures. On the world level it is placed 31st and ahead of Spain and Italy. The proportion of contented Czech dipped during the economic crisis in 2011 and 2012.
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08/03/2015
The Czech Foreigners Police detained 197 illegal immigrants between Friday and Monday morning, the Ministry of Interior has announced. The daily average has now risen to 42 illegal immigrants, foreigners’ police spokeswoman Kateřina Rendlová told the ČTK news agency. Since checks were increased in mid-June, the total of illegal immigrants detained in the Czech Republic stands at 996. The ministry is discussing the provision of extra capacity for illegal immigrants. The number of those detained is expected to reach 3,500 by the end of this year and could double in 2016.
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08/03/2015
Industrial confidence in the Czech Republic firmed in July from June according to the latest survey of producers by the Markit financial services company. The monthly index climbed to 57.5 points in July from 56.9 in June. Manufacturing industry is growing at the fastest pace since April 2011, the company said in a commentary. New orders are at their highest level since May 2014, production has hit a peak for the last year but prices of raw materials are under control, the assessment added.
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08/03/2015
Convicted former judge Ondřej Havlín acquitted politician Karel Březina in exchange for the promise of a diplomatic post or money, the judge who handed Mr. Havlín a jail term, Petr Sedlařík, told the weekly Respekt. Mr. Sedlařík said recordings indicated that Mr. Březina and Mr. Havlín had reached a deal prior to the former’s trial in connection with his activities on the supervisory boards of two companies. Mr. Březina, who became a government minister in his late 20s, had stood to go to jail for two years if found guilty. Last week Mr. Havlín received a six and a half year sentence for influencing cases in favour of perpetrators, most of them drunk drivers.
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08/03/2015
Last month was the hottest July seen in the Czech Republic for nine years. Temperatures in July were 3 degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average, the Czech Hydro-meteorological Institute said on its website. Rainfall was at just 40 percent of the average level for the month, making July the fourth month in a row in the Czech Republic with below-average precipitation.
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08/02/2015
The Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech has beaten in his former English Premier League club Chelsea in his first competitive game for his new side Arsenal. The 33-year-old helped the Gunners to a 1:0 win over Chelsea in the Community Shield, a season curtain-raiser that pits the FA Cup winners against the holders of the league title. Čech achieved great success in 11 years at Chelsea, including winning the Premier League four times, the FA Cup four times and the Champions League in 2012.
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08/02/2015
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, says nobody invited refugees to the Czech Republic and if they don’t like it here they should leave. In an interview with the tabloid website Blesk.cz, Mr. Zeman said the Czech Republic could best help such people in their home state. In a reference to recent criticism he received from the Czech prime minister, Bohulav Sobotka, he said his comments might appear like an appeal to people’s worst instincts; however, his position is the same as Hungary building a fence to keep out Serbs or the USA doing likewise on its border with Mexico, he said. The Czech president praised the police’s recent increased efforts to uncover illegal migrants and said he had been told by the chief of staff, Josef Bečvář,that the army was capable of sending around 1,500 troops to guard the country’s borders.
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08/02/2015
Capacity at an asylum facility in Bělá pod Bezdězem, East Bohemia has been increased to 700, a police spokesperson said on Sunday. Around 100 illegal migrants detained by the police in recent days are to be transferred there today, increasing the current population to around 450. During a visit on Friday Interior Minister Milan Chovanec and Police President Tomáš Tuhý said officers from surrounding regions would be used to boost security at Bělá pod Bezdězem. Rioting occurred there at the end of last week and some families with children were moved to another facility for safety reasons. A new asylum facility with a capacity of 1,200 should be built in the Czech Republic by the end of the year.
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08/02/2015
The Railway Infrastructure Administration is considering linking Prague’s Main Train Station and the nearby Masarykovo nádraží station by means of an underground corridor fitted with moving walkways of the type found in airports. The project, which would cost around CZK 400 million, would ease connections between the city’s two busiest railway stations. It is part of a plan to build a new rail connection to Prague Airport and the town of Kladno, a spokesperson for the Railway Infrastructure Administration said.
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08/02/2015
Five and a half thousand people attended this year’s Summer Film School in the south Moravian town of Uherské Hradiště, which came to an end on Saturday. Numbers were down on last year, which organisers attributed to the fact that the event was celebrating 40 years of existence in 2014. The annual festival offered screenings of over 200 films – including retrospectives dedicated to Orson Welles, Polish cinema and the Berlin School – as well as accompanying events such as exhibitions, concerts and lectures.
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