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02/18/2015
The Czech Army is unaware of plans announced by President Miloš Zeman on Wednesday for a Czech field hospital for Syrian refugees to be established in Jordan. Mr. Zeman said the deployment of the field hospital had been agreed at a meeting at Prague Castle attended by senior officials, including Defence Minister Martin Stropnický. However, a senior Czech Army spokesperson said it knew nothing about the deployment, which does not figure in an approved army mandate for this year and 2016. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who was also at the Prague Castle meeting, said Mr. Stropnický had been asked to look into the possibility of such a field hospital and that further discussions on the matter were planned.
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02/18/2015
The price of a yearly pass for Prague’s public transport system is set to fall considerably after the city council approved a proposal put forward by the Green Party and the Three-party Coalition. From July a yearly ticket will cost CZK 3,650, down from the current price of CZK 4,750. To make up for the difference, the city will boost its subsidies for the transport system by up to CZK 400 million a year. The move is aimed at encouraging residents to use Prague’s buses, trams and metro trains rather than drive into the centre.
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02/18/2015
Interest rates in the Czech Republic have again reached a record low. In January the average mortgage rate was 2.34 percent, down from 2.37 percent in the last month of 2014, according to a regular index produced by market analysts Fincentrum, who have been mapping average interest rates without regard to fixed-rate period since 2003. A representative of Fincentrum said they did not expect the current low level to persist for long.
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02/18/2015
Carmaker Škoda Auto has unveiled a new model of its Superb line, which will go on sale in June. Two previous versions of the Superb have achieved total sales of 700,000 since 2001. Speaking to journalists from around the world at the launch of the latest model in Prague’s Karlín on Tuesday, Škoda Auto CEO Winfried Vahland said the company expected its flagship car to achieve sales 25 percent higher than its predecessors. A high-end model of the new Superb will be named Laurin&Klement, a nod to the founders of the firm that later became Škoda Auto.
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02/18/2015
A Czech humanitarian aid convoy, organized by the Czech government, the Czech Red Cross and the NGO People in Need, arrived in Kiev in the early hours of Wednesday. Four trucks, an ambulance, and support vehicles transported medical supplies, blankets and other equipment for the people displaced from their homes by the conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian separatists. The supplies will be unloaded in the course of the day and subsequently distributed in Kiev and other parts of Ukraine, such as Mariupol and Odessa. The convoy is expected to return to the Czech Republic on Thursday.
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02/18/2015
Germans living close the Czech border are complaining about an unpleasant smell from Czech factories that is allegedly causing them health problems, such as headaches, diarrhoea and nose bleeding. The inhabitants on the German side of Krušné Hory say the chemical factories in the Most and Litvínov area produce an odour reminiscent of a cat smell. The Czech Environmental Inspectorate has received 13 complaints this year from the inhabitants of the affected villages. The German environment minister is scheduled to discuss the matter with his Czech counterpart in Prague next week.
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02/17/2015
The Czech grain harvest increased by 17 percent in 2014, hitting an overall yield of 8.8 million tonnes, the Czech Statistical Office announced on Tuesday. Last year’s harvest of grain is the third highest in the country’s history. The harvest of wheat, the main crop, has risen by 16 percent to 5.5 million tonnes. Farmers have also harvested a record 1.3 million tonnes of rapeseed, an increase by 94,000 tonnes.
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02/17/2015
The Czech Republic’s national carrier Czech Airlines has lost one fifth of passengers on its regular lines, the company’s spokesman Daniel Šabík told the Czech News Agency on Tuesday. Some 2.27 million passengers travelled with Czech Airlines last year. The Czech carrier, which has been focused on Russia and the former Soviet Union, ascribes the drop in passenger numbers mainly to the situation in Ukraine.
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02/17/2015
Some 43 percent of Czechs trust President Miloš Zeman, according to a survey conducted by the STEM polling agency in January. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has the trust of three fifths of respondents. Trust in the Czech president reached its peak in October last year, when he had the support of 57 percent of respondents. However, the president’s trust rating took a sharp dive following a series of controversial moves, including his use of vulgar language in a radio interview. Mr Zeman currently enjoys the highest support among the sympathizers of the Communist and the Dawn parties.
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02/17/2015
A court in Olomouc on Tuesday upheld a six-year sentence and a four-year ban on driving for road pirate Christo Dimitrov Klisurov. The driver was found guilty of reckless and aggressive driving on the country’s D1 highway. According to eyewitnesses, Mr Klisurov edged a car off the highway, causing the driver to swerve off the road and hit the crash barrier. One person suffered light injuries during the accident. Mr Klisurov had previously received several fines for speeding.
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