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07/05/2023
Czechs are marking the legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius who came to Great Moravia in 863 to spread the Christian faith and lay the foundations of literacy with the Glagolitic alphabet.
The celebrations at the Velehrad pilgrimage site, attended by around 30,000 people from at home and abroad, included an open air mass, exhibitions, lectures and public debates. This year the mass was celebrated by the Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic Jude Thaddeus Okolo.
A charity concert held within the People of Goodwill celebrations on Friday evening raised over 800,000 crowns.
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07/04/2023
All PET bottles in Czechia will have to have attached caps by July 2024 at the latest, according to a new piece of legislation which comes from the EU's directive on single-use plastics. The obligation will also apply to composite packaging such as tetrapack cartons for juice. The idea is to make it easier and more likely that the cap will be recycled along with the bottle. According to a survey of beverage manufacturers, thirteen percent of PET bottles are currently returned without caps.
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07/04/2023
Isolated storms with rain, hail and strong winds are expected to hit most of the Czech Republic on Wednesday. The eastern part of the country is predicted to get the most rain. Temperatures should range between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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07/04/2023
The Spanish police have started investigating the Czech Deputy Minister of Justice Radomír Daňhel, news site Deník N reports. The Spanish authorities were alerted to Mr Daňhel's activities by the Czech watchdog website Kverulant, which accuses him of making his fortune by taking bribes from suppliers while he was working at the state-owned arms company Letecké opravny Malešice.
Mr Daňhel had or has shares in dozens of companies and owns 37 properties, including a hotel resort in the Spanish Canary Islands. According to Spanish law, Mr Daňhel has to prove to the local authorities that he acquired the money for the hotel resort legally.
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07/04/2023
The whole of Czechia is at risk of being hit by severe storms on Wednesday, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has warned, including heavy rainfall, small hailstones, and wind speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour. The storms are expected to be isolated and localised, but the high winds are expected to be felt even outside the direct locale of the storms themselves, especially in the west and northwest of Bohemia.
Precipitation will be intense for a short time, but the storms should move quickly. Total rainfall should thus amount to around 30 millimetres at most, except for the east of the country, where the total could reach up to 50 millimetres.
The storm warning applies to the western half of the country from 11 am to 5 pm and to the eastern half from 2 pm to 10 pm. The storms may pass through the same locality several times, especially in Moravia and Silesia during the afternoon and evening.
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07/04/2023
The harvest of staple crops such as wheat, barley, oats and rye is expected to be lower this year compared to last, according to initial estimates by the Czech Statistical Office. The harvest is estimated to fall by 8.1 percent to 6.955 million tons, mostly because of a decrease of 4.4 percent in yield to 5.57 tons per hectare, and partly due to a decrease in the amount of land used to grow cereals, which fell by 3.9 percent to 1.249 million hectares.
Meanwhile, rapeseed production is expected to rise by 4.9 per cent year-on-year to 1.223 million tons. The amount of land used to grow rapeseed expanded by 10.5 percent to 380,000 hectares, so even with a 5.1 per cent lower year-on-year expected yield of 3.22 tons per hectare, the overall harvest is still estimated to be higher.
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07/04/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala met with his Slovak counterpart Ľudovít Ódor in Prague on Tuesday to discuss energy and defence cooperation and the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine, among other topics. Mr Fiala said at a press conference afterwards that he considers both countries' decision to purchase CV90 infantry fighting vehicles from Sweden an advantage, as Czechia and Slovakia can try to use a joint discount. Their first joint meeting with Sweden is taking place next week.
President Petr Pavel received the Slovak prime minister at Prague Castle after the latter's meeting with Mr Fiala. The two spoke mainly about the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius. President Pavel wrote on Twitter afterwards that Czech-Slovak relations are strong and their mutual cooperation unshakable despite changes in personnel.
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07/04/2023
The annual pilgrimage festival marking the legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Greek missionaries who brought Christianity to the Czech lands, gets underway at Velehrad in South Moravia on Tuesday.
The two-day event, called the People of Goodwill Days, includes a number of cultural events, lectures and is traditionally attended by tens of thousands of believers.
The celebrations will be launched in the evening with a charity concert and will culminate on Wednesday with a national pilgrimage and a celebratory mass.
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07/03/2023
The Czech Financial Analytical Office (FAU) has so far granted 33 Czech entities exemptions from anti-Russian sanctions since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, with 45 percent relating to the pharmaceutical industry and 37 percent to nuclear energy, Seznam Zpravy reported on Monday.
According to the news site, the exemptions were sought for example by the energy group CEZ, which operates nuclear power plants in Temelin and Dukovany, in order to continue cooperation with some Russian-owned engineering companies, Seznam Zpravy said.
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07/03/2023
Prague Airport handled 4.4 million passengers in the first five months of this year, up by about 1.3 million year-on-year and about four million more than in 2021. May was the second month in a row this year when the number of checked-in passengers exceeded one million.
According to Prague Airport statistics, published on Monday, the most frequent flights from Prague are to London, Paris and Milan.
Prague Airport currently offers flights to 152 destinations, five more than last year, with 65 carriers operating the flights. In 2019, before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 190 direct flights from Prague.
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