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08/02/2015
Medical trade unions want to challenge the amount paid in health insurance for those in the state insurance scheme at the Constitutional Court, Czech Television reported. The unions want the government to increase the amount it pays in insurance premiums for pensioners, children, the jobless and mothers on maternity leave, which they say is too little in comparison with the amount paid by those in employment. The head of the Czech Doctors’ Trade Union, Martin Engel, said he would discuss backing for the plan with the chairman of the Senate, Milan Štěch; the support of at least 17 senators would be needed to force the Constitutional Court to consider the matter.
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08/02/2015
Around 4,000 people are attending a free techno music festival on the site of a former refugee camp in Červený Újezd in North Bohemia. The organisers had informed the local authority that they were planning a private event for 400 people. The local mayor said the techno festival had led to traffic and noise problems, adding that participants were camping and sleeping where they liked and not respecting private property. The event, which has reportedly drawn people from around Europe, is due to end on Monday.
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08/01/2015
One of Europe’s oldest theatre festivals, Jiráskův Hronov (Jirásek’s Hronov), got underway in the Northeast Bohemian town on Saturday. The event, which began in 1931 and has taken place every year since, is named after the locally born Alois Jirásek, who is regarded as among the greatest of Czech novelists. The programme of the week-long festival includes a broad range of theatrical productions, including experimental, student and puppet shows.
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08/01/2015
Temperatures in the Czech Republic will be above average in August, according to a regular four-week forecast issued by the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute on Saturday. The coming week will be the warmest of the month, with temperatures reaching up to 30 degrees Celsius, the forecasters said. There will also be relatively little rain in the next seven days, which will further exacerbate the worst drought felt in the country in over a decade.
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08/01/2015
Several rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from their new enclosure at the zoo in the Moravian town of Olomouc have returned. Seven of the monkeys came back to the enclosure in the night but two more were reported to still be outside its fence on Saturday; a zoo official said, however, that they were sticking close to the enclosure. Evidently disturbed by the commotion, the monkeys surprised zookeepers by managing a six-metre jump into a group of trees during its official opening on Friday.
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08/01/2015
A Czech mountain climber died in the Austrian Alps on Friday after falling on an ascent near the village of Leoben in the Styria region, the APA news agency reported on Saturday. The man, who has not been named, was one of a group of three attempting an 860 metre climb; in the final part he fell around 300 metres and was already dead when a rescue helicopter arrived at the scene. The Austrian police are investigating the accident.
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08/01/2015
Around 30 migrants from an asylum facility in Bělá pod Bezdězem, East Bohemia have been transferred to another facility at Zastávka near Brno for safety reasons, the Czech News Agency reported. More than 50 migrants at the facility attempted to break out on Thursday and about 100 rioted in protest at being held there on Friday following a visit by the Czech interior minister, Milan Chovanec, and police president, Tomáš Tuhý. A bus carrying families with children and a pregnant woman left Bělá pod Bezdězem for Zastávka on Friday evening. A spokesperson for the police’s foreign department said the Bělá facility had been calm on Friday night.
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08/01/2015
Eighty people died on Czech roads in July, making it by far the worst month of the year in that respect. The highest number of deaths on one day in 2015, 10, occurred on July 23. The overall figure is five higher than for the same month last year. June has seen the second highest number of road casualties this year, with 52.
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08/01/2015
Close to two dozen ice hockey players from the NHL are due to attend informal meetings in Prague and Brno with the new Czech national team coach Vladimír Vůjtek and his assistants in the next two weeks. Vůjtek, who is 68, was appointed in June following the resignation of Vladimír Růžička, who has been accused of bribe taking. Among the NHL players set to meet his replacement in Prague on Monday is New Jersey’s Patrik Eliáš.
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07/31/2015
The Czech Transport Ministry is discussing measures which would make rail crossings in the Czech Republic safer. In the wake of last week’s tragic Pendolino crash into a lorry which left three dead and a dozen injured, Transport Minister Dan Ťok said the ministry would commission an expert analysis on improved safety measures, including how many level crossings can be turned into grade-separated junctions and the possible installation of electronic chips which would alert a train to a large obstacle on the track. The minister is also in favour of introducing steep fines for those who break the rules on rail crossings.
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