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Government approves free emissions vouchers for polluters
The government has approved an Environment Ministry request to allocate free emissions vouchers that will save energy companies and other polluters tens of billions of…
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Top court blocks construction of new runway at Prague airport
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Wednesday to cancel parts of Prague’s urban development plan that included a project to build a new runway at the city’s Ruzyně…
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Bats at risk due to extreme cold
Wildlife conservationists are busy saving dozens of bats which have been woken from hibernation by the extreme cold. Experts say bats woken from hibernation are at serious…
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Leaders say cabinet deal could smooth programme negotiations
Negotiations between the three coalition partners continued on Wednesday on the four out of seven policy areas where they have still to reach agreement. Hopes have been…
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Czech Academy of Sciences rejects Ministry of Industry and Trade’s proposal to change environmental law
The Czech Academy of Sciences has warned against passing a proposal for changes in ecological law by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The head of the academy’s…
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Prague Food Festival kicks off
The 4th year of the open-air Prague Food Festival opened in the Prague Castle gardens on Friday. The three-day event features some 30 renowned Czech chefs and restaurants…
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Average Czech life expectancy reaches 76 for men and 82 for women
Average life expectancy for Czechs has this year risen to almost 76 years for men and 82 years for women, an increase of around seven months on the figures recorded in…
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Czech Republic faces santions from EC over incomplete list of protected localities
The European Commission decided to initiate proceedings against the Czech Republic over an imcomplete list of European protected localities, Environment Minister Richard…
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Ombudswoman says country needs to improve care for the elderly
Czech Ombudswoman Anna Šabatová will attend a meeting of the government on Monday where she wants to talk about the need to improve care for the elderly. Šabatová has been…
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Second wave of subsidies for green heating project
Czechs willing to replace their old stoves with pellet stoves for burning biomass will be able to draw state subsidies within a second wave of a government project in aid…
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Czech Republic ranks 22nd in world quality of life index
The Social Progress Index, a world ranking monitoring social and economic progress and the quality of the environment in 128 countries around the world, has put the Czech…
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Finance minister proposal sent to president
The proposal for ANO member of parliament Ivan Pilný to become the new finance minister replacing Andrej Babiš was forwarded to President Miloš Zeman on Thursday, prime…
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Explosion at chemical plant kills six, two injured
Six people are reported dead and two injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou, north of Prague. The two injured are reported to be in stable…
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NATO chief and Czech PM to meet US soldiers crossing Czech Republic in convoy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka will on Wednesday meet with US soldiers crossing the Czech Republic in a convoy, a Czech…
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No compensation for Ostrava woman seeking compensation for air pollution
The Prague Municipal Court has rejected an appeal from an Ostrava woman who a lower court refused to award compensation for the fact that she is forced to live in an…
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Auditors propose to close state culture fund
The Czech Supreme Auditing Office on Monday proposed to abolish the State Culture Fund, along with other similar bodies, on the grounds that they fail to fulfil their…
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New regulation will allow communities to ban high-emission vehicles
A new governmental regulation from the Environment Ministry will allow communities introducing low-emission zones to ban high-emission vehicles. Such bans would require…
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Czech authorities order recall of GlaxoSmithKline vaccine
The Czech Institute for Drug Control on Monday ordered the recall of one batch of children’s hexa vaccine, produced by the firm GlaxoSmithKline, over a risk of…
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Israeli coach takes over Czech national basketball team
The Czech Basketball Federation has hired Israel’s Ronen Ginzburg as the head coach of the men’s national team, the federation said in a press release on Friday. Mr…
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Ústí region to push for lifting of coal mining limits
The Ústí region, in the north of the country, will push for the lifting of government-imposed limits on coal mining, the region’s governor Oldřich Bubeníček, of the…
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Former Green leader to form own party
Former leader of the Green Party Martin Bursík has announced plans to form a new political group. Mr Bursík, who left the Greens because he objected to the party’s shift…
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Transit authority negotiating sale of three metro stations
The Prague transit authority, Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy, is negotiating the sale of three metro stations: Českomoravská, Vysočanská and Kačerov. The city is reportedly…
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Jan Stráský appointed head of Šumava National Park
Environment Minister Tomáš Chalupa appointed on Monday former Czechoslovak prime minister Jan Stráský the acting head of the Šumava National Park. The minister chose Mr…
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Czech students join climate change protests
Hundreds of young people gathered on Prague’s Old Town Square and in many other Czech towns and cities on Friday joining the international climate change protests launched…
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