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☆ Prague bans bar crawls to discourage ‘drunk’ tourists
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Prague, a city as famous for its beer as its historic architecture, is set to ban late-night bar crawls, seeking to end its reputation as a party destination. Prague’s deputy mayor, Jiri Pospisil, said the city wants to discourage tourists who come “for a short time only to get drunk” in favor of “a more cultured, wealthier tourist,” according to the AFP news agency. The news, announced on Monday, follows complaints from residents in Prague 1, the city’s historic district – home to the UNESCO-protected Old Town Square, Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge – over noise caused by rowdy pub crawls. Prague joins many cities across Europe that have been pushing back against tourists in recent months. Officials in Venice, Italy recently limited tour group sizes to 25 people and banned megaphones, while Barcelona’s mayor plans to end apartment rentals for tourists by 2028.

Persons: Jiri Pospisil, Zdenek Hrib, Charles, Vaclav Starek, Starek, ” Simon Old, ” Organizations: CNN —, AFP, UNESCO, Czech Association of Hotels, Brits, stags, ”, CNN Travel Locations: CNN — Prague, Czech, Prague, Europe, Venice, Italy

☆ Central Europe braces for more flooding as death toll rises
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A man shovels debris in floodwater following heavy rainfall in Jesenik, Czech Republic, on Sept. 15, 2024. In Jesenik, a Czech town across the border that was inundated on Sunday, a clean-up was starting after waters receded to show damaged cars and debris on the streets. Flooded parts of the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava forced the closures of a power plant supplying heat and hot water to the city as well as two chemical plants. State news agency PAP reported five deaths in Poland, and in the Czech Republic one person died, a police official said. Slovakia’s capital Bratislava and the Hungarian capital Budapest were both preparing for possible flooding as the River Danube rose.

Persons: Donald Tusk, Michal Piszko, David W Cerny, ”, Zdenek Kuzilek, Emil Dragomir, Slobozia Conachi, Jacek Sutryk, Sandor Pinter Organizations: European Union, Reuters, “ Telephones, Facebook Locations: Europe, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Romania, European, Klodzko, Czech, Jesenik, Polish, Nysa, Slobozia, Romanian, Kozielno, Wroclaw, Silesia, Prague, Ostrava, Austrian, Lower Austria, Vienna, Slovakia’s, Bratislava, Budapest, Hungarian

☆ Storm Boris: 10 killed as a month’s worth of rain pounds central Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —At least 10 people have been killed in some of the worst floods to hit central Europe in decades as Storm Boris sweeps through the region, dumping well over a month’s worth of rain. Across the border in the Czech Republic, thousands of residents have been left without hot water and electricity after authorities shuttered heating plants. Authorities are also alarmed by the situation in the Czech town of Litovlje, where 80% of buildings are submerged. The town’s mayor, Viktor Kohout, told CNN Prima that the Morava river is expected to crest at 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. Police have extensively “warned the public about the danger” of walking along the river, a Bratislava Police spokesperson told CNN on Monday.

Persons: Boris, “, Johanna Mikl, Leitner, Jaroslav Ozana, Kacper Pempel, Wladyslaw Kosiniak, Kamysz, Viktor Kohout, Sergei Gapon, Zdenek Kuzilek, Viktor Orban, Orban, ” Orban Organizations: CNN, Veolia, CNN Prima, ” Firefighters, Moravska Ostrava, Reuters, TVN24, Polish, PAP, Authorities, Getty, Danube . Police, Bratislava Police Locations: Europe, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ostrava, Polish, Lower Austria, ” Lower Austria, Privoz, Nysa Klodzka, Nysa, Reuters Europe, Klodzko, Czech, Litovlje, Jesenik, Rudawa, AFP, Budapest, Slovakian, Bratislava

☆ What travelers to Morocco need to know following the recent earthquake
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Thousands of people are known to have killed in the Morocco earthquake, with the death toll expected to rise as rescuers continue to search for survivors. Zdenek Kajzr/iStock Editorial/Getty ImagesHow about the High Atlas Mountains? “Many hotels in the High Atlas Mountains have had considerable structural damage with some of them closing,” he says. “I would say that the only part to avoid is the High Atlas mountains, to help the authorities with the rescue process. Santiago Urquijo/Moment RF/Getty ImagesIs there an an alternative to the High Atlas mountains?

Persons: King Mohammed VI, that’s, Al Haouz, “, ”, Zina Bencheikh, CNN’s Ivana Kottosová, storeowners, Kottosová –, Bilal El Hammoumy, Vanessa Branson, El Fenn, Musee Des Confluences, Zdenek Kajzr, Kottosová, ” Kasbah, Richard Branson, El Hammoumy, –, Fez –, Abdelilah El Khadir, Francesco Riccardo Iacomino, Anabel Dean, she’d, Dean, Stallholders, Bencheikh, Ait, they’ve, I’d, ” El Hammoumy, ” Dean, ” Azrou, Santiago Urquijo, Ameziane, Meryem Organizations: CNN, Intrepid Travel’s, EMEA, AFP, Inclusive, Jewish, El, Musee Des, Marrakech medina, Expeditions, US State Department, Foreign Locations: Morocco, Spain, Qatar, UAE, Marrakech, Al, medina, Seaside, Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Intrepid Travel’s Morocco, Jemaa el, Bahia, Saadian, El, ”, Inclusive Morocco, reroute, “, Hassan, Rabat, Paris, –, Ait Benhaddou, Dades, Santiago

☆ A pig farm on the site of a Nazi 'Roma camp' is finally demolished. After decades of campaigning, Czech victims of Roma Holocaust are getting their memorial
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

He had spent decades campaigning for the pig farm to be torn down. Jana Kokyová is the chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic. “During communism and even long after the revolution, nobody wanted to admit there was such a thing as a Roma Holocaust, it was not something you would speak about openly.”Many of Rudolf Murka's ancestors perished in the Roma Holocaust. However, it took another two decades for the government to finally act on the most obvious symbol of anti-Roma discrimination, the Lety pig farm. Čeněk Růžička poses with a pick during the official start of the demolition of the industrial pig farm on the site of the Lety camp.

Persons: Czech Republic CNN — Čeněk, “, ”, Jana Kokyová, Růžička’s, Ivana Kottasova, Bětka, Bětka’s, grandma, ” Kokyová, Kokyová, Růžičková, Růžičková’s, Čeněk, ” Růžička, Rudolf Murka, ” Murka, Jana Horváthová, –, Horváthová, “ It’s, Sinti, Murka, “ We’d, we’d, Rudolf Murka's, Josef Serinek, Zdenek Serinek’s, Josef, Zdenek, Marie Zemanová, grandpa, ‘ White, ’ ” Zdenek, Tomas Novak, Andrej Babiš, ” Václav Klaus, ” Horváthová, Růžička, Tibor Danihel, Václav Havel, Tibor Berki, ’ ”, Berki’s, Petr Pavel, Havel’s Organizations: Czech Republic CNN, Nazi, Communist, Roma, Czech Committee, CNN, Moravian Roma, Czech, of Romani, Czech government’s, Roma Minority Affairs, Czechoslovak, Former, Czech Helsinki Committee, CNN Roma, Getty Locations: Czech Republic, Lety, Prague, Roma, Bohemia, Moravia, Europe, Auschwitz, Germany, Czech, German Nazi, Hodonín, Brno, Europe’s Roma, West Germany, Czechoslovak, Czech Helsinki, Písek, South Moravia, “

TAIPEI/PRAGUE, June 8 (Reuters) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu will make a previously unannounced visit to Europe next week, four sources briefed on the matter said, and is expected to appear with the Czech president at one event in a diplomatic breakthrough. Taiwan, which is claimed by China, has no formal diplomatic ties with any European country except the Vatican. Taiwan's foreign ministry declined to comment on Wu's Europe travel plans. In January, then-Czech President-elect Pavel and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen spoke by telephone shortly after his election, in a diplomatic coup for Taiwan that infuriated China. Beijing views Taiwan as being part of "one China" and demands other countries recognise its sovereignty claims, which Taiwan's democratically-elected government rejects.

Persons: Joseph Wu, Wu, Petr Pavel, Zdenek Hrib, Pavel, Tsai Ing, Ben Blanchard, Robert Muller, Ryan Woo, Andrew Gray, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Taiwan Foreign, European Union, Service, Prague, Copenhagen Democracy Summit, Thomson Locations: TAIPEI, PRAGUE, Europe, Czech, Taiwan, China, Vatican, Beijing, Central, Eastern, Ukraine, Brussels, Prague, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vilnius, Lithuania

Relațiile dintre Cehia și Rusia sunt tot mai tensionate după ce autoritățile cehe au anunțat în această sâmbătă, 17 aprilie, că 18 angajați ai ambasadei ruse din Praga urmează să fie expulzați. Pe urmele suspecțilorPoliția cehă a dat în căutare doi suspecți care au vizitat Praga și satul respectiv anume în acea perioadă. Replici „diplomatice”„Îmi pare foarte rău că relațiile dintre Cehia și Rusia vor suferi din cauza asta, dar trebuie să reacționăm”, a declarat Hamáček, ministrul ceh al Afacerilor Externe. Despre răspunsuri „neplăcute” din partea Rusiei a vorbit și președintele Comitetului pentru afaceri externe al Dumei de Stat Leonid Sluțki. Nemțov, un critic înverșunat al lui Vladimir Putin, a fost împușcat mortal în 2015, în centrul Moscovei.

Persons: Andrej Babiš, Jan Hamáček, Aleksandr Petrov, Ruslan Boșirov, Nicolai Popa, Tabarov, Serghei Skripal, Iulia, Petrov, Aleksandr Mișkin, Maria, Leonid, Karel Havlíček, Vladimir Putin, Nemțov, Ivan Konev, Guardian, Konev Organizations: Interne, Ministerului, GRU, Sputnik, Hřib, Armatei Roșii, Reuters, New York Locations: Cehia, Rusia, Praga, Republicii Cehe, Ucraina, Moscova, Austria, Tadjikistan, rus, străinătate, Federației Ruse, Rusiei, de, Cehiei, Industrie, New, New York Times, EPA

☆ Micii antreprenori din nordul țării, susținuți timp de patru ani de către Agenția Cehă pentru Dezvoltare și partenerii locali
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-04 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +4 min

Cincizeci și patru de antreprenori mici și mijlocii din Regiunea de Dezvoltare Nord au beneficiat de granturi în valoare totală de 210.300 euro pentru dezvoltarea afacerilor, promovarea serviciilor și produselor sau achiziționarea echipamentelor, în funcție de necesitățile individuale. Resursele financiare au fost oferite prin intermediul proiectului „Un nou impuls pentru dezvoltarea afacerilor în Regiunea de Dezvoltare Nord a Republicii Moldova”, finanțat de Agenția Cehă pentru Dezvoltare. Printre rezultatele acestui proiect se numără și înființarea Centrului de Informare și Consiliere în Afaceri din Regiunea de Dezvoltare Nord și oferirea suportului pentru crearea asociațiilor de business și start-up-urilor. Vitalie Rusu, manager de proiect, AO „Pro Cooperare Regională”, a precizat: „Succesul acestui proiect se măsoară prin succesul tinerilor antreprenori, care au fost încurajați și susținuți. Cu susținerea financiară a Agenției Cehe pentru Dezvoltare și datorită eforturilor partenerilor de implementare, 850 de persoane au beneficiat direct de activitățile proiectului.

Persons: Zdeněk, Krejči, Alina Reșetnicov, Silvia Bicenco, Maria, Vitalie Rusu, Alecu Russo Organizations: Agenția Cehă, Moldova, Agenția, ADR, Agenției, Universitatea de Stat Locations: Regiunea, Republicii Moldova, Republica Cehă, România, Polonia, Republicii Cehe, Republica Moldova, Edineț, Nord, Moldova, Germania, ADR Nord, Bălți, Agenției Cehe, Sângerei, Soroca

☆ “HOMECARE” House inaugurated with Czech support
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +3 min

“HOMECARE” House inaugurated with Czech supportThe public association “HOMECARE” has inaugurated the “HOMECARE” House with financial support provided by the Government of the Czech Republic through the agency of the Czech Development Agency. The Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Moldova Zděnek Krejčí said the inauguration of the new office of the Care Center is one more nice occasion for presenting an important accomplishment of the Czech Republic in the Republic of Moldova. The Czech Republic, through the agency of the Czech Development Agency, finances projects to improve the quality and availability of social services. With the assistance of the Czech Republic, ten homecare centers were founded in Chisinau and in Moldova’s regions,” stated Zděnek Krejčí. The Czech Republic annually supports development projects to the value of over €3 million in Moldova.

Persons: “, HOMECARE ”, ”, Tamara Adașan, Moldova Zděnek Krejčí, Zděnek Krejčí, Viorica Dumbrăveanu, Ștefan Organizations: Government, Czech Development Agency, Care, ”, Czech Development Cooperation, Social, Caritas Czech Republic, AO Pro Development, Swiss, Cross, Mobile, Health, Labor, The Locations: Czech, Czech Republic, Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of Moldova, Moldova’s, Cahul, Ceadâr, Vulcănești, Horești, Fălești district, Țaul, Edineț, Ocnița

☆ Echipamente de protecţie împotriva COVID, donate de Cehia
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-10 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

Viorica Dumbrăveanu: ”Îmi exprim recunoştinţa pentru suportul oferit de poporul ceh, Republicii Moldova, în contextul luptei cu pandemia COVID-19. Gestul făcut astăzi vine în sprijinul autorităţilor de a consolida măsurile de prevenire şi control a COVID-19 în instituţiile rezidenţiale, prin asigurarea cu echipamente de protecţie şi instruire în utilizarea corectă a acestora. Sper ca această asistenţă să contribuie la lupta cu COVID-19 şi să ieşim învingători, nu doar Republica Moldova, dar şi toate statele care se confruntă cu această provocare”. Ambasadorul Republicii Cehe în Moldova, Excelenţa Sa, Zdeněk Krejčí: ”Republica Cehă a alocat fonduri pentru a susţine Republica Moldova în răspunsul la pandemia COVID-19. Un alt obiectiv al proiectului este de a reduce impactul socio-economic al pandemiei asupra persoanelor cu dizabilităţi şi a familiilor acestora prin susţinerea activităţilor generatoare de venituri”.

Persons: MDL, Viorica Dumbrăveanu Locations: Republicii Moldova, Republica Cehă, Bădiceni, Soroca, Bălţi, Cocieri, Dubăsari, instituţiile, Cehe, Republica Moldova, Moldova, Spitalelor

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