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04/18/2024
Frosts, which can damage ripening vegetables and flowering fruit trees, are set to appear in Czechia in the coming nights. The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said on Thursday that freezing temperatures are likely to be recorded in the country overnight on Friday as well as on Sunday and Monday.
Up to 40 centimetres of snow is expected to fall in the mountains, the forecasters said.
Temperatures dropped below zero in some areas on Wednesday night, while snowfall in the upland Šumava complicated traffic.
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04/18/2024
Opposition leader Andrej Babiš says that the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum is the greatest betrayal of Czechia in modern history. Speaking in the lower house on Thursday, the ANO chairman said that Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan were responsible for Czech acceptance of the agreement, which he called “insane and monstrous”.
Mr. Babiš said the two cabinet members had traded Czech security, culture and way of life for uncontrolled migration, a crime explosion and breakdown of society.
For his part Mr. Rakušan said the opposition were fear-mongering over migration.
After years of talks, the European Parliament recently approved an overhaul of the EU’s migration and asylum rules.
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04/18/2024
Some 21 million people visited cultural landmarks in Czechia last year, which was a 17 percent year-on-year rise on 2022. The data from the national agency CzechTourism was published by the Czech News Agency on Thursday.
Of nearly 10 million foreign visitors who used accommodation in Czechia last year some 43 percent visited at least one cultural landmark.
French tourists were the most likely to visit such a site: around three-quarters visited a cultural landmark while they were in the country.
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04/18/2024
The Czech and Belgian prime ministers have sent a letter to EU leaders about Russian attempts to interfere in the European Parliament elections, EP President Roberta Metsola told journalists on Wednesday ahead of an extraordinary EU summit. Prime ministers Petr Fiala and Alexander De Croo wrote in their letter, which De Croo shared on social media site X, that the attempted Russian interference "involved the transfer of cash, primarily in the Czech Republic."
Czechia calls in the letter for the inclusion of the media company Voice of Europe on European sanctions lists, as well as other individuals and legal entities involved in the Russian-funded influence network uncovered by the Czech counter-intelligence agency BIS in March. "We simply cannot allow Russia to get away with such a blatant attack on our democratic institutions and principles. We must arm ourselves against this both at the national and European level," the two prime ministers wrote.
The Czech daily Deník N and the German weekly Der Spiegel reported that money has been flowing from Russia via Voice of Europe to right-wing European politicians, including German MP Petr Bystron, the number two European candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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04/18/2024
The Netherlands has officially pledged its support for the Czech plan to purchase ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU, with the Dutch and Czech defence ministers signing an agreement on Wednesday. The lowlands country has agreed to contribute 250 million euros to the initiative.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in Brussels that thanks to the Czech initiative, 500,000 pieces of artillery ammunition had already been obtained, there were contracts for a further almost 200,000, and it was very likely that Czechia would be able to secure another 300,000, making a total of one million.
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04/17/2024
Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský is considering buying out Royal Mail, the British national postal service, Reuters and the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Křetínský's investment company confirmed to Reuters that it tried to buy International Distributions Services (IDS), Royal Mail's parent company, earlier this month, but the offer was rejected. The Czech investor already owns 27 percent of IDS through his company VESA Equity Investment, but in recent months, he has been working informally with advisors on a possible takeover of the entire company, the news agencies said.
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04/17/2024
Thursday is expected to be mostly overcast and rainy, although some parts of the country will see some sunshine. Daytime temperatures are expected to range between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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04/17/2024
Year-on-year inflation in the European Union decreased from 2.8 percent in February to 2.6 percent in March, while in Czechia, the inflation rate stagnated at 2.2 percent, according to the latest Eurostat data. A year ago the inflation rate was 8.3 percent in the EU and 16.5 percent in Czechia.
Inflation in the Eurozone is gradually approaching the two percent target set by the European Central Bank. The ECB started raising interest rates in July last year with the aim of bringing inflation under control, but since last October it has kept its base interest rate at 4.5 percent.
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04/17/2024
If Czechia were not part of the EU, the country would be faring a lot worse economically, according to an analysis by the Czech bank Česká spořitelna, the results of which were presented at a press conference on Wednesday. Since joining the EU, the standard of living in Czechia has improved, with GDP per capita in terms of purchasing power reaching 91 percent of the European average in 2023, compared to 80 percent in 2004, the analysis suggested. Real GDP per capita in the Czech Republic has increased by 40 percent since the country's accession to the EU, from CZK 249,000 in 2004 to CZK 675,000 in 2023.
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04/17/2024
The Czech Senate has allowed for the adoption of new rules for same-sex partnerships, which gives them most of the same rights as married couples, using an unusual but legal manoeuvre, whereby they voted to simply remove the item from the meeting agenda to avoid a lengthy debate. This automatically allows the one-month deadline for the upper parliamentary chamber to discuss laws, which in this case falls on Thursday 18 April, to expire, meaning the amendment will go straight to President Petr Pavel to be signed into law.
The unusual idea to strike the item from the agenda - the first time such a move has been used in the Senate's history - was suggested by Zdeňko Nytra, head of the ODS and TOP 09 parliamentary club. Nytra justified the proposal with regard to "what has happened recently" in discussions about the rights of same-sex couples, referring to the offensive language that was used by some MPs when the amendment was debated in the lower house.
The removal of the amendment from the program, which was motivated by the desire to avoid lengthy and potentially hurtful and offensive debates about LGBT people's rights, was supported by 47 of the 77 senators present. Those who voted against the proposal were mostly senators from the Christian Democrat party.
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