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07/21/2023
The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has issued a storm warning for most of the country, with the exception of north Bohemia, for Friday afternoon and evening. There is a risk of very strong storms especially in the Vysočina, South Moravian, South Bohemian, Olomouc and Pardubice regions.
A forest fire warning also remains in force, with a high level of risk announced for many regions of the country, including Prague.
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07/21/2023
The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) has published on its website that the Czech Republic is officially free of bird flu in poultry as of July 11, 2023, the Czech State Veterinary Administration (SVS) announced in a press release. Obtaining the status is important for freeing up trade in poultry products with countries outside the EU, which limited the import of Czech poultry following the bird flu epidemic in the country.
There were 23 outbreaks of bird flu in Czechia on farms this year between January and May. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) warns of the constant risk of bird flu in Europe due to the persistent circulation of the virus in wild birds.
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07/21/2023
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has honoured the memory of the Czechoslovak paratroopers who died following Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate the Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich.
Mr Pistorius visited the Orthodox Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius on Resslova Street in Prague, where the paratroopers were holed up and were either killed or committed suicide after a long battle with Nazi troops.
The German defence minister also met with his Czech counterpart Jana Černochová to discuss the joint purchase of some Leopard 2A8 battle tanks. Czechia would like to purchase at least 77 of these, Ms Černochová announced at a press conference after the meeting.
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07/21/2023
The opposition ANO party would win elections to the lower house of parliament with 35.5 percent voter support, suggests a freshly released poll by the Median agency.
The Civic Democrats, the strongest party in the ruling coalition, would place second with 14 percent and the Pirate Party, which is also in government, would get 11 percent.
According to the survey, Tomio Okamura's populist right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy would come fourth, receiving the backing of 10 percent of voters.
The Christian Democratic Party, which is also part of the ruling coalition, only received a two-percent voter support and would not make it into the lower house if it ran independently.
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07/20/2023
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan and Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský will examine the possibility of including Rostislav Zorikov, the son-in-law of Russian arms dealer Boris Obnosov, on the national sanctions list. Mr. Rakušan made the announcement on his Twitter account on Thursday.
According to the news site Aktuálně, Zorikov lives in Prague and is using money from Russia's aggression in Ukraine to buy real estate and cars.
Czechia has so far placed three people on its national sanctions list for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They are Russian businessman Vladimir Yevtushenko and his son Felix Yevtushenko and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
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07/20/2023
Friday will be mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers and storms Day temperatures are expected to range between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius.
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07/20/2023
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is due to arrive in Czechia on Thursday. On Friday, he will meet with his Czech counterpart Jana Černochová to discuss, among other things, the joint purchase of some Leopard 2A8 battle tanks.
The German minister is also scheduled to visit the Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Prague – the site of the last stand of the Czechoslovak paratroopers who killed the Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich.
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07/20/2023
Neurologist Martin Bareš will stay on as rector of Brno’s Masaryk University for another four-year term. He was officially appointed to the position by President Petr Pavel on Thursday after receiving the backing of the academic senate earlier this year.
Mr. Bareš, who is 54, is a professor of neurology. Before becoming rector in September 2019, he served for many years as vice-rector and briefly as dean of the medical faculty.
Masaryk University, which is the second largest university in Czechia, has over 33,000 students at its ten faculties.
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07/20/2023
Czechs spent a total of 759.3 billion crowns on betting in 2022, a 44.2 percent rise compared with the previous year, according to data released by the General Financial Directorate.
Winnings paid out by betting companies amounted to CZK 705.5 billion, around 44.8 percent more than the previous year.
An increasing number of bets are made over the Internet. While in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, the volume of online bets amounted to 25.9 percent, last year it was 56.8 percent.
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07/20/2023
The Czech pension insurance system in the second quarter of 2023 ended with a deficit exceeding CZK 40 billion, according to Finance Ministry data released on Thursday. That figure is almost as high as for the whole of 2020.
Expenditures in the first six months of 2023 have risen by CZK 56.5 billion year-on-year. Revenues have also been rising, but not enough to cover the cost of pensions.
Despite the reduction of the indexation of pensions, a deficit of around CZK 80 billion is projected in the pension system this year with a total of around CZK 690 billion to be paid out, which corresponds to 30 percent of state spending.
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