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04/09/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 12 degrees Celsius. Higher temperatures are expected on the following days.
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04/09/2024
Officers from the police’s organised crime squad raided two city authority buildings in Liberec, north Bohemia on Tuesday. The mayor of Liberec, Jaroslav Zámečník, confirmed that the operation had taken place but refused to offer any reasons for it.
The news site Deník N said that eight people were suspected of criminal activity, while the Czech News Agency said it had information that two deputy mayors, from the Civic Democrats and ANO, were implicated.
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04/09/2024
ANO would now come first in Czechia’s elections to the European Parliament with 27.5 percent of the vote, suggests a new poll published by the STEM/MARK agency on Tuesday. The Together alliance of the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats would come second on 20 percent, the survey indicates.
The Mayors and Freedom and Direct Democracy would be tied in third on 10.4 percent, ahead of the Pirate Party on 10 percent.
STEM/MARK said turnout was expected to be relatively low for the vote, which takes place at the end of the first week in June.
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04/09/2024
The leadership of the Christian Democrats have distanced themselves from the statements of one-time chairman Cyril Svoboda. The party’s top brass said he had harmed its image and should consider quitting.
After a meeting of the party executive on Tuesday the current chair of the Christian Democrats, Marian Jurečka, said the subject would be discussed further by the broader leadership.
Mr. Svoboda has come in for criticism for giving interviews to the Czech-based website Voice of Europe, which was found to be a front for a Russian influence network that is also accused of giving cash to European politicians.
The Christian Democrats’ minister for the environment, Petr Hladík, has called for Mr. Svoboda to be expelled from the party over the matter.
Mr. Jurečka told iDnes.cz that Mr. Svoboda had frequently expressed views that defended the actions of the Russian regime.
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04/09/2024
Prague Zoo has become the first such institution in the world to breed a Pel’s fishing owl. The chick hatched at the beginning of the year and was later thrown out of the nest by the mother, before breeders at the zoo saved it, a spokesperson said. The bird was initially reluctant to feed and saw weight fluctuations. However, it is now thriving.
The Pel’s fishing owl lives near rivers and lakes in Africa and feeds nocturnally on fish and frogs that it snatches from the water.
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04/09/2024
The president of the Czech Tennis Association, Ivo Kaderka, and the head of its supervisory board, Vojtěch Flégl, must remain in custody on charges of large-scale corruption, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. Mr. Kaderka is believed to have had an appeal against his remand rejected, the news outlet said.
The case centres on alleged fraud involving millions of crowns in state subsidies intended for tennis and youth sports organisations.
The two suspects have been behind bars since the end of February.
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04/09/2024
Unemployment in Czechia has returned to below four percent after two months, falling to 3.9 percent in March, according to data released by the national Office of Labour on Tuesday.
Office head Daniel Krištof said the drop was caused mainly by warm weather, which saw earlier start of seasonal work, such as construction.
At the end of last month, 288,623 people in the country were out of work. The number of job vacancies rose slightly to 268,660.
The jobless rate in Czechia in March last year was 3.7 percent.
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04/09/2024
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský began a three-day visit to Brazil on Monday. The head of Czech diplomacy met with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Maria Laura da Rocha to discuss security, defence and culture. It is the first trip of the head of Czech diplomacy to Brazil, Czechia’s main trading partner in South America, since 2002.
Mr Lipavský is also scheduled to meet with the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, or the Vice President of Brazil and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Gerald Alckmin.
In the second half of the week, Mr. Lipavský will travel to Argentina, which has the largest and most active Czech expat community in Latin America.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the main motive of the diplomatic trip is to strengthen cooperation with the South American countries and to build on successful trade and cultural relations.
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04/08/2024
Tuesday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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04/08/2024
The police has not yet received any signals about specific security threats to the Ice Hockey World Championship scheduled to take place in Prague and Ostrava from 10 to 26 May.
The risks are being assessed by a team including experts from the National Counterterrorism, Extremism and Cybercrime Agency. Police are also consulting with Interpol, the head of the Czech police Martin Vondrášek said at a press conference on Monday.
Mr. Vondrášek said he expected that the most difficult task for the police will be to ensure smooth traffic flow, just as it was nine years ago. Police officers will also focus on petty property crime, counterfeit tickets, potential public order disturbances, cyber and disinformation threats.
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