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11/21/2023
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka has said the state will top up the low pensions of former dissidents to the national average and that his ministry would propose a draft law to address the problem. Individuals who stood up to the Communists have low pensions for reasons such as imprisonment, forced emigration or having to do menial jobs.
The minister voiced the assurances in an effort to cut short the protest of Charter 77 signatory Jiří Gruntorád who has gone on a hunger strike in protest of the treatment former dissidents were receiving under the minister’s management. Gruntorád, who has demanded the minister’s resignation, has said he will not back down.
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11/21/2023
Around 150 people gathered outside UNICEF’s Prague headquarters on Monday evening to draw attention to the fate of the Israeli children who were abducted by Hamas on October 7. The organizers of the event, held on World Children’s Day, urged UNICEF to make a bigger effort to secure their release. Participants held teddy bears and banners reading Bring Them Home Now as they marched to Old Town Square, where they lit candles next to photos of the missing children.
Hamas radicals kidnapped over 200 people during the attacks on Israel on October 7, among them some 30 children.
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11/21/2023
Hospitals are gearing up for a staff crisis in December after more than 6,000 doctors refused to sign overtime contracts for the coming month. According to the Czech Medical Chamber acute care will be provided, but thousands of outpatient appointments and hundreds of operations will have to be postponed. Health Minister Vlastimil Válek is due to meet with doctors’ unions on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to avert the crisis.
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11/20/2023
Thousands of children in schools around the country took part in a “Drumming Against Child Abuse and Domestic Violence” event on Monday. According to the organizers from Locika Centre, which helps abused children, the drums were to signify that children must be heard and none should remain silent victims of abuse. The event was organized in connection with International Day for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect observed on November 19, and World Children's Day on November 20. Over 43,000 children from 320 schools around the country took part. There will be lectures and debates all week long on preventing child abuse and helping child victims.
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11/20/2023
Tuesday should be overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 5 and 9 degrees Celsius.
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11/20/2023
Czech police are investigating a case of sexual coercion on social media involving teenagers. They have charged a 22-year-old man who threatened two girls that he would publish intimate photographs and videos that they had sent him, if they refused to have sex with him. If convicted the man could face a sentence of up to five years in prison. In connection with this case, the police have urged young people to exercise greater caution when communicating with strangers on the internet and for parents to be more aware of what their teenage children are doing on social networks.
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11/20/2023
Education Minister Mikuláš Bek wants to seek additional funds for his sector at a meeting with coalition partners on Tuesday, the ctk news agency reported. The minister wants to discuss proposals that would bring an additional five billion crowns to the ministry’s budget, which would avert looming nationwide strike action. School unions have announced a daylong strike of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens on Monday, November 27. Many schools fear that the funds earmarked for next year will not allow them to maintain the present quality of education, since they will be forced to lay off both teachers and assistants in order to maintain the present level of salaries.
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11/20/2023
Max Švabinský's oil painting “The Fusion of Souls” was sold at auction in the Municipal House in Prague on Sunday for CZK 15.872 million, including the auction surcharge. It is a record sum for a painting by Švabinský in a domestic auction, according to Miloš Svoboda from European Arts Investments which organized the auction. The starting price was CZK 10 million. The painting from 1901 is considered by experts to be a key work of Czech Symbolism.
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11/20/2023
The minister of labour and social affairs, Marian Jurečka, spoke to pre-1989 dissident Jiří Gruntorád outside the Office of the Government, where the latter is holding a hunger strike, on Sunday evening, Novinky.cz reported. Mr. Gruntorád is calling for Mr. Jurečka’s resignation over the fact that opponents of the pre-1989 Communist regime are today often on relatively low old-age pensions.
Mr. Gruntorád refused to speak to the minister on Sunday, saying he would only talk to his eventual replacement.
Mr. Jurečka said in spring that his officials would look into the matter. Individuals who stood up to the Communists have low pensions for reasons such as imprisonment, forced emigration or not being allowed to work in their chosen professions; many were only allowed to do menial jobs.
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11/20/2023
The three most valuable Czech firms are ČEZ, the EPH group and Agrofert, according to a list published on Monday by the news site Seznam Zprávy. ČEZ is a state-controlled energy company, EPH belongs to billionaire Daniel Křetínský and ANO was founded by ANO chairman and former prime minister Andrej Babiš.
The ranking of the 100 most valuable companies in Czechia controlled by domestic owners, which was co-created by consultants Deloitte, is based on an estimate of the price at which they could be sold or bought at present.
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