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A memorial ceremony was held at Ďáblice cemetery in Prague on Sunday, one day before the official Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Communist Regime on May 27. The event was attended by representatives of the government and army, foreign diplomats and former political prisoners.
In a speech the minister of defence, Jana Černochová, said that the Communists had placed no value on human freedom and life. Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said that today’s reincarnation of communist totalitarianism had unleashed a war of aggression in Eastern Europe.
The remains of around 200 victims of Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime were dumped in mass graves at Ďáblice cemetery.
May 27 is the anniversary of the execution in 1950 of politician Milada Horáková, the only female victim of judicial killing by the Communists.
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura says that the government will increase public sector salaries next year, but pay rises will not keep pace with inflation. He made the comment on Czech Television on Sunday.
The minister did not specify how much more public sector employees could expect. Trade unions are demanding rises in line with inflation from July this year; nine have declared a “strike standby” and four others support them.
Year-on-year inflation reached 16 percent in the Czech Republic in May.
The minister of finance, Zbyněk Stanjura, says the government aims to keep this year’s budget deficit below the figure of CZK 330 billion. A 2022 budget with a deficit of CZK 280 billion is currently in place but the minister said on Czech Television on Sunday that he would submit a new one to the government next month.
Mr. Stanjura said the cabinet will seek to ensure the budget deficit next year will be below CZK 280 billion.
ANO party deputy chairman Radek Vondráček says the whole leadership of the Mayors and Independents could face criminal charges over an alleged corruption case centred on the Prague transport authority, if investigators treated them as a legal entity. He made the comment on a CNN Prima News debate show on Sunday.
The Mayors’ ex-deputy mayor of Prague, Petr Hlubuček, is in custody over the matter while the grouping’s Petr Gazdik stepped down as education minister over his links to the alleged ringleader.
The deputy chairwoman of the Mayors, Věra Kovářová, said on CNN Prima News that the party had responded resolutely to the affair and had the support of its government partners.
Hana Moučková has been re-elected head of the Czech Sokol Community and will lead the traditional gymnastics and sports organisation for another three years. It will be her fifth term at the helm.
Ms. Moučková won re-election at the 13th congress of Sokol at the organisation’s Tyrš House Headquarters in Prague.
Sokol was founded in 1862 and played an important role in the development of nationalism at the time of the Czech National Revival.
A new museum has been opened in Lány near Prague dedicated to Alice Masaryk, daughter of first Czechoslovak president T.G. Masaryk, and the Czech Red Cross, which she headed. It is in a building where Alice Masaryk lived and is near the presidential retreat in Lány.
The museum contains some of Alice Masaryk’s original furniture and equipment from an advice centre for mothers with children that operated at her home for over 60 years.
The institution is run by the T.G. Masaryk Museum in nearby Rakovník.
Monday is expected to be overcast in the Czech Republic, with an average temperature of 31 degrees Celsius. The following days should also be cloudy, though slightly cooler.
A popular tourist destination, Labské pískovce is known for its canyons, deep gorges and rocky towns.
The Czech punk band Visací zámek are currently celebrating 40 years together. Remarkably the group, whose name translates as “padlock”, still have the exact same line-up as when they got together 1982.
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