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03/23/2025
Support for the ANO party has dropped slightly in the latest STEM poll, but the main opposition party would still win general elections with 32.7 % of the votes. The coalition of three ruling parties SPOLU Together (Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and Christian Democrats), has seen a slight boost in support and would come second with 18.7 %, while the Mayors and Independents of the ruling coalition would place third with 11.1 %. The Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, the coalition Enough!, the Motorists and the Pirate Party would also cross the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the lower house.
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03/23/2025
Czech footballers won their first World Cup qualification match this year with a 2-1 victory over Faroe Islands. Patrik Schick scored in the 25th minute of the Group L game giving Czechs the lead. In the 83rd minute Gunnar Vatnhamar shocked the sold-out stadium in Hradec Kralove with an equalising goal, but two minutes later Schick scored again. On Tuesday, coach Ivan Hašek's charges will face Gibraltar.
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03/23/2025
Police evacuated the lower end of Wenceslas Square in Prague for more than an hour on Saturday night after the discovery of a suspicious object. Hundreds of people were evacuated while a bomb squad searched the premises. According to Novinky.cz, firefighters and an ambulance were also present at the scene. The operation ended at close to midnight and the area was reopened.
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03/23/2025
Around 200 protesters gathered on Prague’s Jan Palach Square on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against the rise of the far-right and growing racist and xenophobic sentiments in Europe. Participants expressed solidarity with Gaza, and criticized politicians and parties such as Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and Germany’s AfD for their populist policies. The event was co-organized by several organizations, including Prague4PalestineYouth, the Czechoslovak Anarchist Association, Socialist Solidarity and World Without War and Violence. The protest ended peacefully and no incidents were reported.
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03/23/2025
The Czech government will do everything possible to ensure that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is based in Prague, can continue to operate, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala told the Financial Times. Mr. Fiala said that he himself had listened to the station during the days of communism in Czechoslovakia and is very proud that RFE/RL is now based in the Prague, where it moved in 1995. He called for the creation of a "coalition of states for a European solution". European Affairs Minister Martin Dvořák said this week that nine EU countries have backed the Czech initiative to support RFE/RL in Europe. Czech officials are discussing the matter with representatives of the European Commission, including EU Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin. The station’s existential crisis was precipitated by the decision of the Trump administration to cut funding.
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03/23/2025
Czech President Petr Pavel is convinced that Czech troops should be part of the peacekeeping force in Ukraine after a peace agreement is concluded. The Czech head of state, who paid a two-day visit to Ukraine this week, said this in an interview for Jevropejska Pravda website published on Sunday. He said the Czech Republic is already part of the "coalition of the willing", a group of countries that are discussing a possible peacekeeping force and further ways to help Ukraine, and noted that if and when a common will to deploy such a force is found, the Czech Republic should be part of it. He added that in this way it would also be working for its own security.
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03/22/2025
Ester Ledecká won silver in the parallel slalom at the World Snowboard Championships in St. Moritz on Saturday. After Thursday's triumph in the giant slalom, she lost to Japan's Tsubaki Miki in the final. The World Cup winner avenged her two-day-old defeat in the battle for gold. Zuzana Maděrová, another Czech athlete, finished seventh.
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03/22/2025
Sunday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 12 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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03/22/2025
Fuel prices in the Czech Republic have been dropping and are now at their lowest since October 2021, according to data from CCS. The best-selling Natural 95 petrol sold for CZK 34.89 per litre last week, which is 53 halers cheaper than a fortnight ago. Diesel was 54 halers cheaper at 34.34 crowns per litre, the lowest since last November. According to analysts, prices may drop further in the coming days.
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03/22/2025
The Czech Chamber of Deputies may expand a proposed ban on the sale of energy drinks to children under 15 to all energy products such as sweets, chewing gum and bars containing stimulants. The expansion, proposed by a group of opposition and coalition MPs, led by Iveta Štefanová of the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, will be debated in the bill’s second reading in the lower house. Energy drinks are widely consumed by teenagers and critics point to the fact that the prevalence of diseases associated with excessive consumption of energy drinks and foods is growing.
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