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04/15/2024
More than half of Czechs think that the country has taken in more refugees from Ukraine than it can handle, according to the results of a survey by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) published on Monday. Some 58 percent of people are of this opinion, the survey suggests, while roughly a third think that the number of refugees is manageable and five percent think that Czechia could accept even more.
As of the beginning of April, the Interior Ministry records around 339,000 refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection in Czechia. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Czech Republic has issued almost 600,000 temporary protection visas, half of which have expired.
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04/15/2024
The Czech Tennis Federation has so far not paid the almost CZK 30 million fine it was supposed to pay to the National Sports Agency by Monday as a penalty for the subsidy fraud committed by the federation’s president Ivo Kaderka and four other people. News site iRozhlas.cz reports that the organisation doesn't have enough money to pay the fine, with only approximately CZK 2.5 million in its accounts and having lost its main sponsor, which suspended its partnership with the association following the scandal. The National Sports Agency is expected to announce what the next steps will be at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
The five people associated with the Czech Tennis Federation were charged at the end of February for fraud involving millions of crowns in state subsidies intended for youth sports organizations.
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04/15/2024
There were 1,494 new cases of whooping cough in Czechia last week, the biggest weekly increase since the start of this year, according to the latest data from the State Health Institute. The total number of registered whooping cough cases so far this year is 7,888, the most in one year since 1959, i.e. one year after the introduction of the vaccine in Czechoslovakia, when there were 18,978 cases over the whole year.
The most affected age group is teenagers between 15 and 19 years old, who make up a third of the total number of cases. Some 119 infants under one year of age, for whom whooping cough can be very dangerous, have also been infected. Around 2.3 percent of those infected so far have required hospitalisation.
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04/15/2024
People around Czechia donated 467 tonnes of non-perishable foodstuffs and hygiene products for the needy on Saturday within the bi-annual National Food Collection.
Some 2,100 shops and supermarket chains joined the charity effort, which has been held twice a year since 2019. People can continue to donate products by April 23 by shopping at online stores.
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04/15/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has arrived in Washington for a two-day official visit. On Monday, Mr. Fiala is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss security cooperation and support for Ukraine, as well as mutual economic relations and nuclear energy.
They are also expected to talk about the latest developments in the Middle East, Mr. Fiala told reporters before his departure to the US on Sunday. The Czech Prime Minister will also meet with Czechs living in the US.
On Tuesday, the Czech Prime Minister will hold talks with the head of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and other members of Congress and give a speech at the Hudson Institute. Also on the itinerary is a visit to the memorials of the late Czech presidents Václav Havel and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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04/14/2024
Hundreds of people took part in Sunday’s Culture against Antisemitism event in Prague, organised by the Czech branch of the humanitarian organization International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
The event started with a march leading from Old Town Square to the Wallenstein gardens, where the main part of the program took place, including theatre performances and speeches.
Among the participants was Jenny Sividya, a survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which 1200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped. According to the organizers, the goal of the event was to commemorate and draw attention to the events of October 7.
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04/14/2024
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala wants to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and Iran’s large-scale air attack on Israel with US officials during his visit to the United States, he told reporters before his departure on Sunday.
He also wants to talk about further military support for Ukraine, without which, he said it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to stop the Russian aggression.
The Czech Prime Minister is due to hold talks with President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday. He also scheduled to meet with the head of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and other members of Congress.
Also on the itinerary are a meeting with Czechs living in the US, a visit to the memorials of the late Czech presidents Václav Havel and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and a speech at the Hudson Institute.
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04/14/2024
Monday will be mostly overcast with rain and temperatures ranging between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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04/14/2024
The opposition ANO party would win general elections in March with 34.5 percent voter support, suggests a freshly released poll by the Kantar Agency for Czech Television. ANO were slightly down compared to a February Kantar poll, while the Civic Democrats improved by 1.5 percent, receiving the backing of 16 percent of voters.
The Pirate Party would come third with 10.5 percent of the vote, followed by the Freedom and Direct Democracy with 8 percent. The Mayors and Independents would also make it to the lower house with the backing of 6.5 percent of the votes.
TOP 09 and the Social Democrats would not reach the five-percent threshold needed to win seats in the Chamber of Deputies, suggests the poll.
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04/14/2024
The elite Czech MMA fighter Jiří Procházka defeated Aleksandar Rakic of Austria at UFC 300 event on Saturday in Las Vegas. The former light heavyweight champion secured the win by TKO at 3:17 of the second round.
Procházka, who is 31, has been sidelined since last November, when he suffered a second round TKO loss to Alex Pereira in the fight at Madison Square Garden.
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