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11/25/2022
The exhibition Stories from Ukraine, which features three burnt out cars destroyed during the ongoing war in the Eastern European state, was the target of vandals in Hradec Králové, the director of the East Bohemian branch of the NGO Memory of Nations, Michal Bureš, told the Czech News Agency on Friday.
Mr Bureš said that some of the pieces of the cars were taken and that one of the vehicles was sprayed on with the words “Stop propaganda, Dombas”. There have also been calls to Hradec’s city hall asking that the vehicles be removed as they are making the city’s surroundings unpleasant, with some locals apparently planning to do this by themselves if the authorities do not, the NGO representative said. However, many of the inhabitants have taken a positive view of the installation, laying down flowers by the vehicles and lighting candles.
Stories from Ukraine is a traveling exhibition that is currently being exhibited in Hradec Králové until December 6. It will thereafter move to the Moravian city of Olomouc.
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11/25/2022
The website Zbraneproukrajinu.cz (weaponsforukraine) won the Crystal Magnifying Glass at the annual awards organised by media website Lupa.cz in Prague on Thursday night. Personality of the Year in the 17th edition of the survey went to the founder of the startup Shipmonk, Jan Bednář.
Opravdové zločiny (True Crimes) took prizes in both the Podcast of the Year and Popularity sections.
Some categories were voted on by the public while others were selected by experts.
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11/25/2022
Prime Minister Petr Fiala says he will take more time before asking President Miloš Zeman to name Petr Hladík as minister of the environment. He made the comment after talks with the head of state at the president’s residence near Prague on Thursday evening.
The head of Mr. Hladík’s party the Christian Democrats, Marian Jurečka, says he expects him to be given the job soon.
Mr. Hladík has been implicated in a corruption scandal in Brno, where he is deputy mayor. Mr. Fiala says this must be cleared up before more steps can be taken.
Mr. Jurečka has been acting environment minister since the previous occupant of the post stepped down for health reasons.
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11/24/2022
The Czech Senate on Thursday voted for a windfall tax on energy producers, banks and petroleum and mining companies. The tax will run from next year until 2025 and will be set at 60 percent.
The move is intended to help the state cover the cost of aid to households and companies impacted by rising energy prices.
The upper house included an amendment to the bill that would allow the Czech government to cap energy prices for large companies; ministers would like to impose such a cap but is waiting for agreement at the EU level before making such a move.
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11/24/2022
The leaders of the Visegrad Four states have reached a common position on helping and supporting Ukraine, despite differences of opinion, the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, told reporters after a meeting in Košice on Thursday. He said that it was also necessary to give the Kyiv government financial support.
The prime ministers of Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland were holding their first such summit in over six months.
Prior to the meeting Mr. Fiala said that it could show whether the V4 grouping had a future.
The Hungarian leader Viktor Orban recently caused offence when he wore a scarf of “Greater Hungary” – including territories that belong to Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania – at a football game. He has also been at odds with other EU leaders in his response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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11/24/2022
The acting minister of the environment, Marian Jurečka, says that Czech drivers could in future receive financial support for switching to environmentally friendly cars. He said this money could come the European Union’s Social Climate Fund, which is intended to support a transition to green power.
Mr. Jurečka made the comments at a meeting in Prague on Thursday to discuss European Commission proposals to combat air pollution.
He said he would advocate for the Social Climate Fund to be launched before 2025, the current planned date.
At present Czech firms and institutions receive support when they purchase electric cars, but this does not apply to individuals.
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11/24/2022
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has made a strong appeal to the new Iranian ambassador to Prague, Seyed Majid Ghafeleh Bashi, for his country to cease the violent repression of protests that are taking place there. Mr. Lipavský said on Twitter that Czechia usually welcomed ambassadors “to celebrate a new chapter of cooperation”, but that grave differences now weighed on relations between his country and Iran.
The Czech foreign policy chief said he had also called for an end to Iran’s support for Russian aggression.
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11/24/2022
The Czech minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says that the country’s presidency of the EU wants to treat migration as an issue facing all of the bloc’s states.
Mr. Rakušan made the comment in Prague on Thursday during a meeting with counterparts from Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. He said the states could offer a regional view of the crisis of refugees entering Europe.
Mr. Rakušan said countries in the region were seeking solutions to the pressure that migration on the Western Balkans route was placing on them.
Thursday’s talks came a day before a gathering of all of the EU’s interior ministers in Brussels.
Czechia currently holds the six-month revolving presidency of the bloc.
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11/24/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Friday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. The following days are also expected to be cloudy.
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11/24/2022
The top Czech MMA fighter Jiří Procházka requires a shoulder operation that will keep him out for at six months. The UFC light heavyweight champion was due to face Glover Teixeir of Brazil in a title fight in the US in a fortnight’s time.
Procházka, who is 30, says he is ready to defend his title at any time when he has recovered from the injury, which he sustained in training in Las Vegas.
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