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11/11/2014
Forty-thousand people have signed a petition organised by the Civic Democrats calling for a referendum on whether the Czech Republic should adopt the common European currency. The leader of the right-wing opposition party, Petr Fiala, said on Tuesday that repeated opinion polls had suggested two-thirds of the population were opposed to bringing in the euro. The first deputy leader of the Civic Democrats, Jan Zahradil, said the petition represented a call on the Czech government to negotiate an exception under which the country would not have to adopt the currency.
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11/11/2014
A number of valuable works by Czech artists are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday. The auction house is selling off the collection of US couple Mary and Roy Cullen, who have amassed over a 100 pieces by Czech avant-garde artists in the last quarter century. Among the most sought after works is likely to be Message from the Forest by Toyen, which is expected to go for up to GBP 1 million.
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11/11/2014
The Czech ice hockey player Jaromír Jágr is now joint sixth all-time highest scorer in the history of the NHL after finding the net for his club New Jersey Devils in a 2:4 defeat to Boston Bruins on Monday. Jágr, who is 42, now has 708 goals, the same number as Mike Gartner. The Kladno-born right wing has achieved that tally despite leaving the NHL to play for Omsk in the Russian-centred Kontinental Hockey League between 2008 and 2011.
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11/11/2014
The first wine of the season, the so-called Saint Martin’s wine, will go on sale on Tuesday in the Czech Republic. The day of Saint Martin, which is celebrated in the country on November 11, has become an occasion for winemakers to present their young wines. First bottles of Saint Martin will be opened at 11 am on Tuesday at events all over the country. In Prague, festivities will be held in Náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad and other places. Nearly 2 million bottles of Saint Martin’s were sold last year.
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11/11/2014
The Czech Republic will commemorate Veterans Day with a number of events on Tuesday. Several events are being held to mark the occasion, including a ceremony at the national memorial on Prague’s Vítkov Hill and the decoration of sixteen war veterans by defence minister Martin Stropnický. A service conducted by the Archbishop of Prague, Dominik Duka, will also be held at the Church of St. John of Nepomuk in Hradčany.
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11/10/2014
Stanislas Wawrinka beat Tomáš Berdych 6-1,6-1 in his opening game at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London on Monday. Berdych, who did not earn a single break point, lost the match in just 58 minutes. The seventh-seed lost hasn’t had a good year. Several injuries meant that Berdych missed out on quite a few tournaments and didn’t win a single Grand Slam.
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11/10/2014
There are around 10.5 thousand “Russian little men” operating in eastern Ukraine, Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek said on Monday, the news website idnes.cz reported. Mr Zaorálek made the statement in a public debate on Czech foreign policy in the lower house, in reaction to a question from the public about who was responsible for the bloodshed in Ukraine. Mr Zaorálek statement is the first estimate given by a Czech official about the number of Russian troops directly involved in the fighting in Ukraine, the news website said.
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11/10/2014
Police experts were called to deal with a number of buried crates containing munitions which were found in the close vicinity of a rail track near Olomouc on Monday, the ctk news agency reported. The crates were discovered by diggers working near the rail track. The crates were not buried deep and most of them allegedly contained hand grenades. The track was closed for the day and pyrotechnics experts gradually removed the munition and searched the vicinity. Police are investigating the case.
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11/10/2014
Finance Minister Andrej Babiš has said he will file a criminal complaint against an Ostrava hospital formerly managed by the current Health Minister Svatopluk Němeček. Mr. Babiš claims the hospital squandered large amounts of public funds. The finance minister and health minister are locked in a highly publicized dispute with Mr. Babiš accusing Mr. Němeček of poor management of the health sector and Mr. Němeček saying that the finance minister uses media owned by his company Agrofert to damage his reputation. The row between the two members of cabinet is to be debated at a special meeting of the ruling coalition this week. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has expressed regret that his colleagues in cabinet are fighting out their differences in the media.
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11/10/2014
The opening of Prague’s newly completed tunnel Blanka scheduled for December 2nd may have to be postponed due to a slide in the schedule of the final technology tests, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reports. The paper says that while the city council has not yet announced a delay, the tests started on Friday and according to the contract signed are to last for a period of 55 days. The city’s former mayor Bohuslav Svoboda has criticized the new city council for having dragged its feet on issuing a public tender for the company which would undertake the tests. Deputy mayor Jiří Nouza told the daily that the company in question was working around-the-clock to try to meet the deadline.
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