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Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan is attending an informal ministerial summit of the MED5 group, consisting of Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus and Greece, which takes place in the Cypriot town of Paphos on Saturday and focuses on illegal migration.
On Friday, the Czech Interior Minister signed an agreement with his Cypriot counterpart Nico Nouris for Czechia to provide one million euros in financial aid to Cyprus to assist the island with voluntary migrant deportations.
Mr Rakušan also visited Greece, where he held talks with Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis. He thanked Athens for securing EU’s external border and said Czechia was working to ensure that the current migration wave was tackled at EU level.
Several thousand trade union members along with supporters of the Social Democrats and the Communists gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square on Saturday afternoon to demonstrate against rising prices and the decline in living standards in Czechia.
The event was convened by the Czech Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest trade union headquarters in the country, which has around 270,000 members. The head of the unions, Josef Středula, is currently collecting signatures to run for president.
The union members have called on the government to start taking decisions that will prevent people from falling into poverty. They want the state to regulate the cost of essential products and increase the minimum wage to CZK 18,200.
Czech police have detained more than 157 migrants and four smugglers over the past 24 hours, th epolice announced on Twitter on Saturday.
Czechia reinstated controls at at 27 former border crossings with Slovakia on September 28 in response to an increase in illegal migration.,
Since the reintroduction of the border checks, police officers have detected about 1,700 migrants and seized nearly 50 smugglers.
Czechs are marking the fourth annual Sokol Memorial Day, commemorating the anniversary of the order by Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich to arrest over 1,500 members of the Czech gymnastics association.
Those detained were sent to concentration camps and the organisation was banned a few days later. An estimated 5,000 Sokol members were murdered or died in battle during WWII.
A number of commemorative ceremonies and sports events are being held around the country on the occasion of the Sokol Memorial Day. The Sokol flags have also been hoisted over a number of town halls and regional offices.
The Nashville Predators opened the 2022-23 NHL season with a 4-1 win against the San Jose Sharks at Prague’s O2 Arena on Friday in the first of two games of the NGL Global Series.
The Predator’s new additions, Nino Niederreiter and Kiefer Sherwood, scored two of the winning goals, while the Prague-born Sharks forward Tomáš Hertl provided the only offense for his team.
The Global Series is an annual event, which sees NHL regular season games played oustide of North America. It has returned to Europe after a two-year break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The second game of the series takes place on Saturday.
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková defeated American qualifier Alycia Parks 7-6, 6-3 to advance to the semi-finals of the Agel Open WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava on Friday.
Krejčíková, ranked No 23, extended her winning streak to eight. She will next face Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, who secured a 7-6, 6-4 win over Czech wildcard Petra Kvitová in the quarterfinals.
Sunday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
Škoda Auto boasts one of the oldest unbroken histories among car manufacturers still operating in the world today.
European Union leaders wrapped an informal summit at Prague Castle on Friday agreeing on giving more financial and military aid to Ukraine, but making no final decisions on how to tackle soaring energy prices amid a decline of gas supplies from Russia.
Hynek Martinec, a Czech artist originally from Broumov in northeastern Bohemia, won the BP Young Artist award at London’s National Portrait Gallery in 2007 for his hyper-realistic portrait of his partner, Zuzana, beating 1,869 other contenders. He is currently exhibiting a new portrait of his daughter titled What Are You Most Afraid Of? as part of the exhibition ABSURD at the OHSH Projects gallery in central London.
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