Czech Republic News

Prague buying land lots to build new and improved water sports area in Troja

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor The City of Prague is moving forward with consolidating the properties it needs in order to build a new and enlarged water sports area, including resting areas, a new water canal and other...

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Million Moments Movement turns to more protests, sooner than promised

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor Another series of protests organized by the Million Moments Movement is set to take place next Tuesday in Prague and the following week outside the capital. This is in reaction to recent European Commission audit results...

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Machete wielding man still at large

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor A man walked into a petrol station in Liberec - Krásná Studánka on Wednesday, holding up a machete and demanding the cash from the register. He got what he came for and left peacefully. The masked man remains unidentified,...

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Some ski lifts are open and the season is launched in Czechia

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor This past weekend was the first to have some open ski lifts in the mountainous areas if the country. Although natural snow is insufficient, snow machines were working throughout the week to get the slopes ready for the...

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Oldest Czech citizen passes: 108 years old from Kroměříž

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor Magdalena Kytnerová was born before the existence of Czechoslovakia, in the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, in Austria, in March 1911. During her childhood she became an orphan, which never makes life easier. One of her key...

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Bill to push waste separation to be debated today

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor Today, the government is to debate the increases and changes to the billing of garbage. The main discussion points are the billing options for garbage, in order to push more people to recycle. The bill would come into effect...

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Visegrad 4 capital cities sign pact – pledge cooperation on climate and housing shortcomings

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor The city of Prague plans on signing a Pact of Free Cities with Budapest, Warsaw and Bratislava. During a meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall the four capitals came to draft the Pact. The...

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Four waste proposals passed yesterday: Criticism from the opposition and environmentalists

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor The main part of the bill is, naturally, increasing the rate on which residents pay for waste landfilling, scheduled to gradually increase from CZK 500 a ton to CZK 1850 by 2030. There will...

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Gov't offices "in flames": Greenpeace against Czechia blocking carbon neutrality

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor Czech PM Andrej Babiš plans on probably being the only leader from the European Union to block the carbon neutrality agreement, which would help the world avoid a drastic increase in average temperatures, and make millions...

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Prague-Řeporyje will build monument to the fallen "Vlasovci"

January 18, 2020

Prague Daily Monitor Řeporyje local council passed a bill in which the city will build a monument to the fallen "Vlasovci," which died fighting during the final days of the Second World War during the Prague Uprising. read more

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