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07/24/2024
Prague Airport handled 7.18 million passengers in the first half of 2024, up by 23 percent on the previous year, according to fresh data released on Wednesday. Despite the year-on-year growth, Václav Havel Airport did not equal the figures from 2019, when it handled 7.8 million people in its first six months.
Most flights from Prague were to London, with more than 633,000 people travelling there in total. Paris came second with around 360,500 passengers, followed by Amsterdam, Milan and Rome. In terms of countries, the United Kingdom was the most popular in the first six months, followed by Italy, Spain, France and Germany.
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07/24/2024
The number of people diagnosed with hepatitis E and C in Czechia in 2023 was twice as high as in the previous years, the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
In 2021 and 2022, the State Institute of Health reported about 300 new cases of hepatitis E, while last year, it was 684. Hepatitis E used to be a common disease in countries with low hygiene standards, where it was spread through contaminated water or poor hand washing. In recent years, Europe has seen a surge in hepatitis E cases.
The number of people diagnosed with hepatitis C last year was 1,300, the highest number in the country’s modern history. Doctors say the increase may be caused by more frequent testing of people recovering from drug addiction.
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07/24/2024
Six Czech police officers will be part of a multinational team overseeing security in France during the Olympic Games in Paris, David Schön, a spokesman for the police presidency, told the Czech News Agency on Wednesday.
Two explosives experts and four dog handlers travelled to the country last week. They will be deployed to detect explosives and weapons at various sports venues during the Games, not only in Paris but also in other French cities.
The Olympics begin in Paris on Friday and run until August 11. The Paralympics follow from August 28 to September 8. Tens of thousands of police officers will be deployed to secure both events.
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07/24/2024
Czechia has made significant progress in the past year in reforming its prosecutor's office as well as in completing a review of conflict of interest legislation, but it still has some shortcomings when it comes to investigating high-level corruption cases, according to the European Commission’s Rule of Law Report published this Wednesday.
Despite progress in some areas, the executive organ of the European Union also recommends Czechia to address the implementing of reforms on transparency of information on media ownership and take measures to address the remuneration of judges and judicial and prosecutorial staff.
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07/24/2024
Three Czech films will be shown as part of some of the smaller competitions at this year's 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place from 28 August to 7 September, Jiří Vaněk from the Czech Film Fund has announced.
After Party, the debut film by director and screenwriter Vojtěch Strakatý, will be competing in the Orizzonti Extra category, which features works of different genres aimed at innovating and demonstrating creative originality. Fragile Home by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina, a mixed reality film about Ukraine, is competing in the Venice Immersive category, which is entirely devoted to immersive media and Extended Reality (XR). Finally, the Czech-Italian-Croatian-Austrian-Slovak co-produced documentary Wishing on a Star by Slovak director Peter Kerekes will be competing in the Orizzonti competition, which is for films representing the latest aesthetic and expressive trends.
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07/24/2024
Czechia's oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline from Russia have not been affected by the problems that Hungary and Slovakia are experiencing, the state oil pipeline operator Mero has said. Czechia's oil supplies are stable and the country is still receiving oil both via the Druzhba pipeline and via the TAL pipeline from Italy.
Slovakia and Hungary announced recently that they had not been receiving oil from the Russian company Lukoil. Ukraine unilaterally decided to ban the transit of oil from Lukoil through its territory in June and added the company to its sanctions list.
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07/23/2024
Wednesday should see slightly cooler weather than over the last few days, with a temperature high of 24 degrees Celsius. Skies are expected to remain overcast with a chance of rain.
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07/23/2024
The Liberty Ostrava Steelworks, Czechia’s largest producer of steel, plans to close its coke plant and is preparing to lay off workers, the company said in a press release, without specifying how many employees would be laid off. Liberty submitted a proposal to reduce the number of employees to the trade unions on Tuesday.
The head of the KOVO trade union organisation, Petr Slanina, told the Czech News Agency that the redundancies could affect up to 2,600 people, with 2,300 employees leaving by the end of November and 300 by the end of January, according to information the trade union leaders received from the management.
The company currently employs about 5,000 people, although the majority have not been working since last December, when most of Liberty's operations were forced to close down. The employees have not been paid for two months and are being compensated by the state.
The steelworks has been in insolvency since June, after the company admitted it was unable to meet overdue liabilities exceeding CZK 5 billion.
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07/23/2024
A ban on cars and taxis at night in part of Prague's Old Town district will come into force on Wednesday or Thursday, Prague 1 city councillor Vojtěch Ryvola told the Czech News Agency. The measure aims to reduce noise at night in the area around Dlouhá Street, where a large number of night clubs are located and where local residents have long been complaining about noise. The ban on entry between 10 pm and 6 am will apply to the area between the Dvořák embankment, Pařížská street, Old Town Square and Revoluční street.
Prague 1 tried to introduce the ban last November, but it was immediately revoked by the municipal department of road transport after it was criticised by Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda.
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07/23/2024
The US semiconductor supplier company Onsemi has signed a multi-year contract with Volkswagen (VW) to be the primary supplier of power modules for the German car manufacturer's next generation of electric vehicles. Onsemi, which also operates in Czechia and recently announced the expansion of production at its manufacturing facility in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, was selected to power the VW Group’s vehicle lineup across several brands, which includes Škoda Auto. Onsemi will provide VW with an integrated module solution that can scale across all power levels, from high to low power traction inverters, so as to be compatible for all vehicle categories.
The deal is expected to bring technological advances in electric cars, as Onsemi's silicon carbide-based technologies enable higher performance, reduce energy loss and increase the range of electric cars, the companies said in a joint press release. The Volkswagen Group will also benefit from Onsemi’s plans to expand manufacturing in Europe and establish an end-to-end production facility for the traction inverter system in Europe. Onsemi announced in June that it was going to invest USD 2 billion to build a silicon carbide production plant in the Czech Republic.
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