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12/14/2023
The rector of the Prague University of Economics, Petr Dvořák, has announced his decision to dismiss the dean of the Faculty of Economics, Miroslav Ševčík, on the grounds that he is damaging the institution's reputation. Dean Ševčík, who has been under fire over his behavior for months, said he considers the rector's decision illegal and politically motivated. He told journalists that he would defend himself against it in court.
The academic, who works with the ultra-conservative Tricolour party, made headlines when he appeared at a pro-Russian rally in Prague and was implicated when a mob tried to remove the Ukrainian flag from the National Museum. The Ethics Committee at Prague’s University of Economics later ruled that he had violated the school's code of ethics.
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12/14/2023
The state will release 3.5 billion crowns to help energy-intensive companies deal with increased energy costs in 2024, Prime Minister Petr Fila announced after Wednesday’s cabinet session. The support is to be directed to companies with large consumption such as steelworks, glassworks or packaging plants. Industry leaders have called for help from the state due to the high growth of regulated energy prices. They fear that a threefold increase in energy costs for some companies would weaken the competitiveness of the domestic industry.
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12/14/2023
Twelve European countries, including Czechia, have called on the EU to end its temporary political and economic measures against Kosovo, which include the suspension of high-level visits, events, and financial cooperation, news site Politico reports. In a letter addressed to the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell and the special representative to the Western Balkans, officials wrote that the international community should reaffirm support for Kosovo’s sovereignty, and pointed to questions about Serbia’s role in the recent months of violence.
Elections were held in North Kosovo, where more than 90 percent of the population are ethnic Serbs, in April, but were boycotted by the Serbian population, resulting in wins for ethnic Albanian mayors. Months of violence followed, including attacks by Serbs on international peacekeeping forces, police and the media.
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12/14/2023
Russian hackers have been taking advantage of a point of vulnerability in a widely-used piece of software made by the Czech company JetBrains, the US National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have said in a joint statement. The three organisations worked with Polish military intelligence and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to assess the problem.
The report concerns a program called TeamCity, which is used by software developers all over the world. The US authorities warn that by exploiting this weakness in the software, malicious actors can gain access to the developer's source code and implant their own malicious code, which unsuspecting users then install on their computers as part of their regular updates. This then gives the hackers permanent access to the networks, systems and supply chain operations of the targeted organisations.
The company behind the software, JetBrains, told the Czech News Agency that it was aware of the vulnerability and had fixed it in a program update released in September. They added that according to available statistics, less than two percent of users are running the unpatched software.
JetBrains was founded in Prague in 2000 by three Russian programmers, and over the next 20 years grew to over 1,000 employees. Big-name firms and organisations like Google, Samsung, Volkswagen and NASA have used its software in the past.
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12/13/2023
The agreement reached by around 200 nations at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to transition away from fossil fuels is a step towards modernisation through renewable energy, nuclear power, carbon storage, and hydrogen, Environment Minister Petr Hladík said on the social media site X on Wednesday, following the announcement of the deal. However, Richard Brabec, the Czech environment minister from 2014 to 2021, told the Czech News Agency that people should be wary of excessive optimism, particularly in light of the limited action on fulfilling the agreed goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Accords.
The deal struck at COP28 is regarded by some as historic, as it is the first time that fossil fuels have been explicitly mentioned in a COP treaty - previous agreements talked about reducing greenhouse gas emissions without explicitly mentioning fossil fuels. However, some were unhappy with the deal, which they view as having been watered-down.
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12/13/2023
Around 60 well-known people from the worlds of film, music, literature, academia, charities, NGOs, and politics have called on Prime Minister Petr Fiala to push for financial aid to Ukraine at Thursday's EU summit, even in the case of a Hungarian veto. In an open letter to the Czech leader, they wrote that it is not permissible for one person, who is suspected of being connected to the Kremlin, to block the will of a group of 26 economically strong democratic countries, and appealed to the prime minister to promote a separate financial mechanism for other EU countries to supply Ukraine with aid in the event of a Hungarian veto.
At Thursday's EU summit, leaders are supposed to discuss the start of EU accession talks with Ukraine, long-term financial aid worth 50 billion euros and military aid worth 500 million euros, and the twelfth package of sanctions against Russia. However, there are doubts about Hungary's position, as last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for the opening of accession talks not to be a topic on the agenda at the upcoming summit, but rather for a "strategic discussion" to be held about it first. Representatives of Hungary also announced in November that they would not support long-term financial aid to Ukraine.
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12/13/2023
Thursday is expected to be overcast with a chance of showers throughout the day. Temperatures should range between 2 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/13/2023
The singer Aiko will be representing the Czech Republic in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, Czech Television announced on Wednesday. The singer beat fellow performers Elly, Gianna Lei, Tom Sean, Tomas Robin, Lenny, and the band MYDY in the competition to be the face of Czechia in Malmö, Sweden next May, in a vote decided by the public. The seven contenders presented their songs in a performance broadcast live from Prague's Roxy club last week. People then had seven days to vote for their favourite, either via the official Eurovision Song Contest app or Czech Television's website.
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12/13/2023
There are 1,000 people with covid-19 now in hospitals, with that number expected to increase again by Christmas and in the second half of January, Deputy Health Minister Josef Pavlovic said at a press conference on Wednesday. The number of cases and hospitalizations is currently at its highest since last October. However, the minister said that patients are primarily being hospitalised for other reasons, not because of covid, and added that the Ministry of Health is not planning to take any general measures against the spread of the virus.
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12/13/2023
Foreigners legally residing in the Czech Republic now constitute ten percent of the total population, according to the latest figures published by the Czech Statistical Office on Wednesday. The number of foreigners with legal residence at the end of last year rose by 455,305 year-on-year to 1.12 million people. Ukrainians were the nationality that saw the biggest increase in number, and they also make up over half of the total number of foreigners in Czechia, with over 630,000 registered in the country at the end of 2022. Slovak and Vietnamese citizens respectively make up the next largest groups.
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