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08/23/2023
Chimneysweeps are once again in demand and their numbers are rising, according to the Czech Chimneysweepers Association. In the last four years, the number of chimneysweepers increased by more than a tenth to 3,351. They reportedly have more work than they can handle, because due to higher energy costs, people are increasingly switching back to wood and coal heating.
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08/23/2023
Environment Minister Petr Hladík has proposed a change of legislation that would improve the protection of plant and animal species by protecting whole biotopes. The protection of endangered species would thus be based on the protection of their habitat and local populations. The amendment would establish three categories of protection, with plants and animals in the highest category receiving special attention. Care for individual biotopes would be based on regularly updated Red Lists published by the Nature Conservation Agency.
Animal and plant species have been disappearing at an alarming rate around Europe. Flying insect populations are particularly at risk. More than 75 percent of them have been lost over the last three decades.
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08/22/2023
Health Minister Vlastimil Válek has promised to resolve the ongoing shortage of some basic medicines on the Czech market by the end of September. At a press briefing in Prague on Tuesday, Mr. Válek said that the ministry had secured sufficient supplies of antibiotics and other now unavailable medicines to fully cover the nation’s needs in the autumn and winter season and leave a sufficient reserve. He said the deliveries should reach pharmacies by the end of September.
The health minister also noted that the EU was working hard to amend pharmaceutical rules so as to address the risks of drug shortages by making the industry more responsible for the security of supply and granting the EU Medicine Agency an increased coordination role.
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08/22/2023
Wednesday should be clear to partly cloudy with daytime temperatures between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius.
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08/22/2023
The July inflation rate in Czechia was the fifth highest in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, after Turkey, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, according to a report compiled by Utility Bidder. Czechia’s inflation rate in July was at 9.7 percent, Slovakia’s was 10.8 percent, Poland’s 11.5 percent, Hungary’s 20.1 percent, while Turkey’s 38.2 percent. On the other hand, the lowest inflation rate was reported by Switzerland 1.7 per cent, followed by Greece 1.8 per cent and Spain 1.9 per cent.
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08/22/2023
The ongoing heatwave has been breaking temperature records at monitoring stations around the country. Monday was an exceptionally hot day, with records for that day broken at 39 of the 163 stations monitoring temperatures around the country. The hottest temperature was in Strážnice in southern Moravia, where it reached 35.5 degrees Celsius, breaking an 80-year-old record. According to a long-term weather outlook, the next four weeks are expected to bring above average temperatures as well.
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08/22/2023
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic in Kolín will stop production from today due to a shortage of components, the company announced on its website. It lacks parts supplied by Novares CZ Žebrák whose production and storage facilities in Žebrák, Central Bohemia, were destroyed by fire last week. It is not yet clear when production will resume.
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08/22/2023
Government officials, unions and employers will meet to discuss further changes to the government’s austerity package aimed at reducing the state budget deficit. Trade unions and entrepreneurs are jointly pushing for nine changes, including, maintaining tax benefits for employees, or exempting energy-intensive production plants from taxes. Prime Minister Petr Fiala has ruled out changes to the basic framework. The package will be debated in the lower house this week. The opposition parties are strongly opposed to it but the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in both chambers. The package envisages savings of 94 billion crowns this year alone. The measures include the discontinuation of non-investment subsidies, tax changes, lay-offs and other moves.
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08/22/2023
The Catholic Faculty of Theology has fired the priest and church historian Tomáš Petráček, who is an advocate for equal marriage. At the beginning of the summer he criticised the ultra-conservative Alliance for the Family and the church's position on the issue of marriage for all.
The priest says that he has been dismissed due to pressure from within the Church and personal antipathy towards him, as in the past, he supported the current dean's rival for the post. The faculty and the dean deny this, saying the reason for his dismissal is superfluity and a need to cut costs.
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08/22/2023
Czechia is sending a team of firefighters, medical professionals and firefighting equipment to Greece, following a call from the Mediterranean country to help tackle new fires which broke out on Sunday night and Monday. Interior Minister Vít Rakušan announced on X, formerly Twitter, that there will be two detachments deployed: a ground-based firefighting team and an aerial firefighting team with a Black Hawk helicopter. The Prague Medical Rescue Service, which will provide medical support to the firefighters, subsequently announced on the X network that it will also send its workers and equipment to Greece.
A spokesperson for the firefighters told the Czech News Agency that the ground team will leave for Greece on Tuesday at 1 pm and should arrive on Wednesday evening, while the aerial squad will depart later in the day. In total, the deployment will include about 70 personnel and over 30 pieces of equipment.
Greece has been plagued by large-scale wildfires since mid-July, mostly in the central and southern parts of the island of Rhodes and near the northeastern port city of Alexandroupoli. New fires broke out in the Boeotia region west of Athens on Sunday night, and on the second-largest Greek island of Euboea and in the Dadia Forest National Park in northeastern Greece on Monday afternoon.
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