Europe Czech Republic A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti will be unveiled today at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, South Bohemia; between 1942 and 1943, some 1.300 Roma passed through the camp and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children
Europe Czech Republic Prague is witnessing a surge in Airbnb prices, which have increased by about 25% due to high demand, prompting the government to plan new regulations
Europe Czech Republic The annual March for Life, organized by the largest pro-life activist group, took place in Prague with an estimated turnout of several hundred people; counter-protesters also gathered and blocked the procession from crossing the Legion Bridge
Europe Czech Republic Prague Municipal District 1 launched an initiative to help area residents address common problems aimed at curbing depopulation and reassuring residents that the heart of the city is actually a comfortable place to live and not just a reserve for tourists
Europe Czech Republic Plans have been unveiled to build a gigafactory for electric car battery production worth €7,9 billion by an undisclosed foreign investor in the Karviná region
Europe Czech Republic An 82-year-old man died of diphtheria in the Czech Republic, the first death from this cause recorded in the country since 1969
Europe Czech Republic The Czech Lower House approved a bill on same-sex marriages that would give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual married couples, with the exception of the adoption of children
Europe Czech Republic For the next three years, scientists from the Czech University of Life Sciences will try to understand whether increasing wolf numbers in the Šumava National Park can have a positive impact on local forests by monitoring local wolf and deer populations
Europe Czech Republic The House approved an amendment to the law regulating gun ownership to make it more restrictive, allowing a weapon to be seized for preventive reasons and requiring businesses selling firearms to report any suspicious purchases to the police
Europe Czech Republic Almost one fifth of the country's employed population is now made up of foreigners, with over 800.000 people contributing to the Czech labour force; of these, almost 409.800 are from EU countries and 285.545 from Ukraine
Europe Czech Republic Czech lawmakers are meeting with Interior Ministry officials and experts to discuss a possible tightening of gun laws in the wake of the tragic shooting at Charles University on 21 December
Europe Czech Republic A proposal to change the definition of rape and introduce a “no means no” principle has been approved by Government; if approved by Parliament, it would no longer be based on the concept of rape as forced sexual intercourse but on non-consensuality
Europe Czech Republic 14 victims and the 24-year-old perpetrator were killed in the mass shooting at Charles University in Prague, the most serious episode in modern times; pictures and videos of students running for safety have travelled the globe