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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala rounded off the first day of his official US trip on Monday by meeting with Czech expatriates in Washington and awarding the Karel Kramář Medal to Jana Kánská, daughter of Milada Horáková, the democratic politician who was executed in a communist show trial in 1950 on charges of treason. Kánská, who has lived in the USA since 1968 and is Milada Horáková's only daughter, received the medal for supporting democracy and Czech-American relations.
Mr. Fiala said that the Czech expatriate community is made up of different types of people who came to the US for different reasons -- some were political refugees fleeing the communist regime, while new generations have emigrated to follow career opportunities in the US. The prime minister said that Czechia values both types of expatriates and praised the assembled guests for not forgetting their Czech roots despite their efforts to integrate into a new society.
Following the conclusion of the official part of his program, the prime minister went to watch an NHL hockey match between Washington and Boston on Monday evening local time.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala is scheduled to meet with Mike Johnson, the head of the House of Representatives, as well as other members of Congress on Tuesday, the second day of his official visit to the US. He intends to discuss the release of $60 billion in US aid to Ukraine, which has been blocked for several months in Congress by House Republicans, who have a majority in the chamber. He said he wants to convey the Central European experience and point of view to the Republicans at Tuesday's meetings in an effort to convince them of the importance of approving the package.
The prime minister will also be giving a speech at the Hudson Institute about transatlantic relations, the war in Ukraine, and the Czech-American alliance. Before returning to Europe, he will host a gala dinner attended by Czech investors and representatives of US companies.
The minimum gross decent wage for a full-time job in the Czech Republic that would cover the needs of an adult with a child, as well as leisure time and small savings, should be CZK 45,573. In Prague, it should be CZK 47,718 due to higher living costs.
With such a wage, people would be able to cover the costs of food, housing, clothing, transportation, healthcare, education, and free-time activities but also be able to pay for other important expenses, including savings for unexpected circumstances.
According to experts from the platform for a minimum decent wage, who presented the sum on Tuesday, 67 percent of employees in Czechia are beneath that wage level.
A shipment of 20,000 vaccines against whooping cough from Canada will reach doctors within days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said, adding that distributors expect to receive them on Tuesday.
Because of a high incidence of whooping cough, doctors have seen a growing interest in vaccinations in recent weeks, with more than 45,000 people getting inoculated against the disease, compared to 24,000 last year.
There were 1,494 new cases of whooping cough registered in Czechia last week, the biggest weekly increase since the start of this year. The total number of cases so far this year is 7,888, the most in one year since 1959, when the vaccine was introduced.
A record 120 horse-drawn carriages from 16 countries, including the United States and Australia, are registered for the annual Rudolph Cup international driving event, which will get underway Wednesday at the National Stud in Kladruby nad Labem in central Bohemia.
The Kladruby national stud is one of the oldest stud farms in the world and home to the oldest Czech indigenous breed of horses, the Kladruber. The most attractive for the spectators will be Saturday’s marathon, in which the carriages must cover a 12-kilometre course with various obstacles.
Prague Zoo has selected eight Przewalski's horses, four of which will be transported to Kazakhstan in June in an effort to restore a population of the species in the wild, the zoo announced on Tuesday. The horses are now kept at a breeding station outside Prague.
Over the next five years, some 40 Przewalski horses from Czechia will be transported to the Altyn Dala steppe. The operation will be carried out under the auspices of Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
The Przewalski horse is a rare subspecies native to Mongolia, which became extinct in the wild in the 1960s. Prague Zoo has spearheaded international efforts to save the horse, breeding it and returning it to its natural environment.
Wednesday will be partly cloudy with occasional rain showers and day temperatures ranging between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius.
A telescope in the Štefánik Observatory on Prague’s Petřín hill has been returned after underdoing extensive repairs in Germany for two years. The telescope, which was first placed in the observatory in 1930, allows visitors to observe the moon, planets, and even the Sun during the day. Magdalena Hrnkova, a specialist at the Observatory, told me more.
Support for Ukraine in the face of Moscow’s aggression was among the main items on the agenda when the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, was welcomed at the White House by US President Joe Biden on Monday. Indeed Mr. Fiala told his host he remembered Russian tanks on Czech streets – and did not wish to see them again.
Czechia is becoming increasingly attractive for international students, and numbers are growing fast, but the bureaucratic challenges faced by prospective students can be daunting. Here you can find some useful tipes and advice to get you through the visa process.
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