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12/15/2023
Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with daytime highs between 3 and 7 degrees Celsius.
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12/15/2023
As of December 15, the Czech law on whistleblower protection requirements has been extended to small companies with 50 or more employees. Previously, the law setting down the requirements for the protection of whistleblowers was only binding for firms with 250 or more workers. The new norms for companies include identifying secure reporting channels through which people can report corruption and identifying the person responsible for investigating the notification, among others. Companies that fail to guarantee these protection requirements could face penalties of up to one million crowns.
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12/15/2023
The ruling coalition is planning to push a bill on postal voting through Parliament next year, so that it will be in force in time for the 2025 parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said in an interview for Czech Radio. The two opposition parties in the lower house – ANO and the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party are both opposed to the bill, on the grounds of possible abuse, but the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in both chambers.
Minister Rakušan said he expected a constitutional complaint from the opposition, but noted that in other countries, postal voting had been tried and tested in practice and had passed the scrutiny of constitutional courts.
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12/15/2023
Ostrava is sending twenty-five trams to the Ukrainian city of Konotop. The first six vehicles are to be transported to the Ukrainian border on Friday, the rest will follow in the coming days, a spokesperson for the municipality informed journalists. The trams were taken out of operation due to the city modernizing its public transport fleet but are still fully functional and will help keep Ukraine’s public transport in operation. The city earlier dispatched ten Solaris diesel buses to Ukraine.
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12/15/2023
Numbers relating to people’s date of birth will remain on Czechs’ ID cards, despite the fact that the numbers can be used to decipher the age and gender of the bearer. The Senate approved an amendment to that effect on Friday, backtracking on earlier plans to stop using birth numbers on ID cards as of 2025. The bill was approved despite objections from the Office for Personal Data Protection which expressed concern over possible abuse. The amendment still recons on their being removed in due time, but there is no deadline by when the transition should take place.
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12/15/2023
Confidence in the government has fallen steeply, with only 17 percent of Czechs trusting the cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, according to the outcome of a poll conducted by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CVVM). The government now has the lowest trust rating among the country’s institutions. At this time last year it had a 30 percent trust rating. President Petr Pavel is trusted by 52 percent of Czechs, the Chamber of Deputies is trusted by 18 percent of Czechs and the Senate by 29 percent. Public trust in both chambers of Parliament has slid in the past year. According to the survey, 69 percent of respondents also expressed dissatisfaction with the political situation in Czechia in general.
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12/15/2023
Prime Minister Petr Fiala has welcomed the decision of the European Council to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. The Czech head of government described the decision as "a big step forward and a great success for Europe and EU". He said that starting accession talks with Ukraine was an important signal that the EU is interested in the future of the country. Mr. Fiala added that Thursday's European Council meeting was one of the most difficult he had ever attended. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was vehemently opposed to starting accession talks with Ukraine, eventually left the negotiating table, unblocking the EU’s decision.
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12/14/2023
Friday should be partly cloudy with scattered snow or rain showers and day temperatures between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/14/2023
Refusing to provide further care to a patient with no hope of recovery, which would only prolong their suffering, cannot be regarded as an act of discrimination, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, rejecting an appeal by the parents of a young girl who succumbed to fatal complications caused by a congenital disease in a Prague hospital. The parents sought an apology and financial compensation over doctors' refusal to transfer their daughter from intensive care to the hospital’s anesthesiology and resuscitation department. Doctors argued that her condition, which included multi-organ failure, was irreversible and would only prolong her suffering.
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12/14/2023
Prague 1 is determined to introduce a nighttime ban on vehicles entering parts of the city center, a spokesperson for the district reported. Prague 1 city councilors enforced such a ban three weeks ago, citing excessive noise pollution, but the Prague City Council invalidated it in a review procedure, saying the measure was not properly justified. The Prague 1 leadership insists that the measure is badly needed and wants to discuss the conditions under which it can be imposed with the Prague municipality.
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