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07/15/2024
Czechia supports Serbia in its efforts to join the EU, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said following a meeting with the head of Serbian diplomacy Marko Djuric in Prague on Monday. The two officials discussed bilateral relations, Serbia's progress in EU accession talks and the situation in the Western Balkans. Serbia wants to meet the conditions for EU entry by 2027. The country has had candidate status since March 2012. At the same time, it maintains close cooperation with Russia. While Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has condemned the Russian invasion and expressed support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, he has refused to join anti-Russian sanctions.
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07/15/2024
The Czech House for the Olympic Games in Paris will be inaugurated by snowboard cross champion Eva Adamczyk. The ceremony will take place on 26 July at 4 pm, just before the opening ceremony of the Games. There will also be acrobats and a light show, the Czech Olympic Committee said in a press release on Monday. The sports and cultural programme will be provided by the Pyroterra art group, the AirGym Art Company acrobats, the dance troupe Rapid Deployment Unit and representatives of Sokol Paris. The musical accompaniment will be provided by the brass sextet of the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra.
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07/15/2024
Tuesday should be partly cloudy with scattered showers around the country and day temperatures between 23 and 27 degrees in Bohemia and as high as 32 degrees in Moravia.
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07/15/2024
A joint meeting of the Czech and Ukrainian governments will take place in Prague on Tuesday, the Office of the Government announced on its website. The main topics of the meeting will be defence cooperation, migration, cooperation in the energy sector and Czech involvement in the reconstruction of Ukraine. Bilateral meetings between individual ministers are also scheduled.
The last joint meeting of the two governments took place in Kyiv in October, 2022. Czechia is one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters in the EU.
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07/15/2024
MEP Martin Hlaváček from the ANO party will not be taking up his second mandate in the European Parliament. He made the announcement on the X network on Monday, citing serious personal reasons. Hlaváček, who is one of ANO’s agricultural experts, said he would continue to work with the party. ANO will be part of the Patriots for Europe faction in the European Parliament together with a number of right-wing, nationalist parties from around Europe.
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07/15/2024
The government coalition is divided over the proposed state budget deficit for 2025, Czech Television reported. While Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura is pushing for a deficit of CZK 235 billion, TOP 09 leader Markéta Pekarová Adamová would favour a bolder cut in public finances. to below CZK 200 billion.
On the other hand, the Mayors and Independents and the Pirate Party argue that any budget cuts must take into account the pressing needs of several key sectors, such as the need to increase spending on education, internal security and housing support. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala has expressed support for the projected CZK 235 billion state budget deficit in 2025.
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07/15/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says he will continue to push for a restriction on the movement of Russian diplomats in the Schengen area. In an interview with iRozhlas.cz published on Monday, he said that after months of lobbying Czechia had managed to formally propose such a move but that some countries were reserved on the matter.
Mr. Lipavský said there were 3,000 Russian diplomats in Europe and that the country’s agents had used diplomatic cover to carry out heinous acts.
The Czech foreign policy chief also said that he would submit a new strategy on China to the government in the autumn.
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07/15/2024
The abolition of an electronic cash register system in January last year meant the loss of a key mechanism for targeting tax evasion, Czechia’s Supreme Audit Office said on Monday. In the case of value added tax, the system, which was connected to a central database, chiefly helped to detect entities that did not register as taxpayers even though they exceeded the legal limit for mandatory registration, the state agency said.
The electronic record of sales system was introduced in 2016 but was suspended in spring 2020 during the Covid crisis and later became de facto voluntary. It was formally ended at the start of last year.
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07/14/2024
High temperatures are expected in Czechia in the coming days. The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said that it would be over 31 degrees Celsius in south and southeast Moravia, Central Bohemia and the Ústí nad Labem region on Monday. The following day should be similarly hot in most of Moravia and Silesia.
Meanwhile, river levels in Czechia, which had been high, should generally return to normal on Monday, the meteorologists said.
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07/14/2024
The Czech government has discussed a new strategy aimed at making better use of wood harvested in the country, Czech Television reported on Sunday. Under the plan, wood produced in Czechia would be increasingly processed directly in the country and the rules for constructing wooden buildings would be simplified.
Environmentalists complain that at present wood harvested in Czechia is often exported in a raw state. Greenpeace activists told Czech TV that they had tracked wood by GPS and found that even valuable varieties often ended up being used in an inadequate manner.
The minister of agriculture, Marek Výborný, said his officials were planning a marketing drive presenting wood as the material of the future.
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