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05/17/2024
Saturday is expected to be overcast and rainy with day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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05/17/2024
Police have proposed filing charges of fraud against six people and two companies in the case of a CZK 160 million contract for the purchase of linear accelerators for Prague’s Bulovka University Hospital. Among those charged are former Civic Democratic Party MP Marek Šnajdr and the hospital’s former director Andrea Vrbovská. Investigators suspect Šnajdr of accepting a bribe to ensure that a particular company wins the tender for the linear accelerators.
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05/17/2024
The environment group Children of the Earth have won a legal battle over the construction permit for the Hulín-Fryšták section of the D49 highway in the Zlín Region. The Supreme Administrative Court on Friday overturned a 2022 ruling of the Municipal Court in Prague, which confirmed the legal validity of the building permit. According to the director of the Road and Motorway Directorate, Radek Mátl, the ruling will threaten the planned opening of this section of the highway this year. The Ministry of Transport must now deal with the objections of Children of the Earth, including a noise assessment study, which they say is underrated. Transport Minister Martin Kupka described the situation as unfortunate.
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05/17/2024
The government is putting Štiřín chateau near Prague, up for sale, the government’s office announced on its website on Friday. The sale will take place through an electronic auction starting on September 11. The starting price is CZK 3.3 billion.
Štiřín chateau was built in the mid- 8th century. It acquired its present appearance around 1900 after modifications designed by architect Jiří Stibral. Between 1985 and 1993, the chateau was renovated so that it could be used as a hotel. In 1945 it was purchased by the state and is used for government meetings with foreign dignitaries.
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05/17/2024
The umbrella trade union organization of Bohemia and Moravia has called off a planned protest against the government's pension reform and changes to the Labour Code. Representatives of the union said they did not want to raise tensions in the country, considering Wednesday's assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. The union said it had cancelled the demonstration after consultations with its Slovak colleagues. At the same time, the union called on Prime Minister Petr Fiala to address the problems that the protest aimed to highlight. The prime minister has welcomed the move saying the government is ready to return to the negotiating table.
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05/17/2024
The Prague Zoo has announced that the baby orangutan born in its care at the start of May is a male. The sex was determined by a DNA test. As of Friday, the public can send in suggestions for his name. It will be announced on the baby's one-month birthday on June 20.
The mother of the orangutan cub is 11-year-old Diri, who was also born in Troja. Prague Zoo has been breeding orangutans almost continuously since 1961. Previously, the last baby to be born here was the male Pustakawan, who will be four this November.
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05/17/2024
A pupil at a school in Hradec Králové collapsed after eating candies containing muscimol, a narcotic and hallucinogenic compound found in Amanita muscaria and related species of mushroom, Czech Radio reported on Thursday.
The jelly sweets containing this substance can be purchased without restriction on the Internet, simply by conforming that the buyer is over 18 years of age.
The Czech government recently imposed a ban on the sale of the psychoactive substances HHC, HHC-O and THCP in response to a number of children and adolescents ending up in hospital after overdosing on products containing them.
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05/17/2024
Fifteen EU states, including Czechia, have called for “new ways” to handle illegal migration, including making deals with third countries along the main migrant routes which would ease the burden on the bloc member states. In a letter to the European Commission the member states have urged changes to the bloc’s asylum policy that would include mechanisms to detect and intercept migrants on land and at sea and place them in “partner” third countries outside the EU, while their request for asylum is being processed. The letter cites as a model a controversial deal Italy has struck with Albania, under which thousands of asylum seekers picked up at sea can be taken to holding camps in the non-EU Balkan country, while their case is assessed. Czech parties critical of the migration pact says the question of illegal migration should not be solved on EU ground.
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05/16/2024
Czech police have increased their vigilance at the Ice Hockey World Championships, especially in Ostrava, where the Slovak team is playing in the preliminary group, following the assassination attempt against the Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, a spokesperson for the police presidium said on Thursday. He also said that the police have no information that a similar attack is imminent in Czechia.
On Wednesday, police wrote on the X network that they had stepped up security measures at high-risk areas and increased surveillance at the Slovak embassy in Prague.
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05/16/2024
The number of Slovaks living permanently in Czechia is gradually increasing, reaching nearly 67,200 at the end of this March, according to the Ministry of Interior data. The number has almost tripled over the past 15 years.
According to the Czech Labour Office, there were about 213,900 Slovak employees working in Czech companies and institutions in March, accounting for more than a quarter of the foreign workforce.
Many Slovaks settle in Czechia after completing their studies. According to the Ministry of Education data, students from Slovakia make up almost two-fifths of foreign university students.
The total number of Slovaks staying in Czechia in March reached around 119,800.
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