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12/21/2023
Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured, ten of them seriously, in a shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts in Prague on Thursday afternoon.
The incident happened at around three o’clock at the faculty’s main building on Jan Palach Square in the city centre. The gunman, who began shooting on the fourth floor of the building, later committed suicide.
The identity of the shooter has not yet been confirmed, but the suspect is a 24-year-old student of the faculty from the village of Hostouň in central Bohemia, whose father was found dead earlier on Thursday. According to the police, he was inspired by a similar case abroad.
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said that a large number of weapons had been found at the faculty and the number of victims could have been much higher without a quick police response.
The wounded were transported to several Prague hospitals, which activated a special emergency plan to be able to deal with the large number of patients.
The incident was the worst fatal shooting in the country’s modern history.
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12/21/2023
The Board of the Czech National Bank on Thursday cut the base interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 6.75 percent. It is the first change in the interest rate since June 2022 and the first change the CNB has made under the leadership of Governor Aleš Michl. According to analysts, the development of the economy, which is stagnating, speaks in favour of such move.T
hursday‘s decision by the Czech National Bank’s Board marks the end of the longest period without an interest rate change since 2017, the year which saw the end of an almost five-year period when the base rate remained unchanged at 0.05 percent. Since 2017, the Board has changed rates at least once a year.
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12/21/2023
Friday will be mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers and day temperatures expected to range between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/21/2023
Czechia has seen one of the steepest increases in card payments in Europe, according to an analysis by the Boston Consulting Group.
With 235 card payments per capita in 2023, Czechia has reached Europe’s average, while ten years ago, it was one of the countries with the lowest number of such payments.
According to the analysis, Czechs will make an average 560 payments per capita in 2030, making Czechia one of the top ten countries in Europe in terms of card payments per person.
Over the past ten years, the number of card payments in Czechia has grown at the sixth fastest rate in Europe and according to predictions, in the next seven years, the growth will be the fifth fastest.
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12/21/2023
Billionaire Pavel Tykač has become the new owner of Slavia Prague. According to the news website Seznam Zprávy, he signed a deal on Thursday with the Chinese CITIC Group, which owned the club for five years. Before that, the club was owned by another Chinese company, CEFC.
The price for the sale of Slavia is unknown, but it is estimated at about CZK two billion. The transaction also includes the Fortuna Arena in Eden. The 21-time league champion will continue to be led by Jaroslav Tvrdík, while Tykač will head the supervisory board.
Mr. Tykač, who is 59, is the fourth richest Czech with a fortune of CZK 183.3 billion, according to the October issue of Forbes magazine.
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12/21/2023
Some CZK 2.5 million were raised in this year’s War Veterans Day collection, which is CZK 600,000 more than in the previous year, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The money will be used to help those in need within the Military Solidarity Fund.
The fund was established in 2015 to help war veterans cope with unexpected life situations and support the relatives of deceased or injured soldiers. The impetus for its launch was the death of five Czech soldiers in Afghanistan as a result of a suicide bomber attack in July 2014.
This year, the fund has so far helped ten soldiers and their families, according to the ministry.
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12/21/2023
Fuel prices in Czechia continue to fall, with petrol now at its cheapest in two years, according to data published by CCS on Thursday.
The average price of a litre of Natural 95 petrol is now CZK 35.59 per litre. The average price of diesel has also fallen to CZK 36.29 per litre, the lowest it has been since August.
Fuels are most expensive in Prague and cheapest in the South Bohemian region.
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12/21/2023
The Czech Philharmonic’s New Year concerts will be conducted by principal guest conductor Jakub Hrůša. The concerts will take place on December 31 and January 1 at Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall. The concert will feature mainly works by Czech composers, including Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček.
Hrůša, who is one of the ambassadors of the Year of Czech Music and a patron of the Smetana 200 project, is due to perform Smetana's opera Libuše with the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring and Smetana’s Litomyšl festivals.
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12/21/2023
ANO would have come first in general elections in November with 34.5 percent of the vote, while the Civic Democrats would have taken 15.5 percent, suggests a poll from the Median agency. ANO were slightly down compared to an October Median poll, while the Civic Democrats improved by two percentage points.
The Pirates returned to third place and would have received 11 percent of the vote, two percentage points more than in October. By contrast, support for Freedom and Direct Democracy dropped by two percentage points and would have been 8.5 percent in October, the survey indicates.
The Mayors and TOP 09 would also make the threshold for the lower house with 6 percent and 5.5 percent of the vote, respectively.
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12/21/2023
Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová has won the Golden Canary poll for best Czech tennis player of the year for the first time. The 24-year-old native of Sokolov received the award at a ceremony in Prague on Wednesday evening. She also won the award for the best female player of the year.
Among the men, Australian Open quarter-finalist Jiří Lehečka won the award for the best male player of the year for the third time in a row.
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