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
Europe Czech Republic According to data published by the Czech Statistical Office, in the first three quarters of this year the Czech population increased by 54.700 to 10,88 million; the reason behind the increase being foreign immigration, mainly from Ukraine
Europe Czech Republic Compulsory separate collection of textile waste will be introduced from 2025, with the associated costs to be paid in part by the producers of the material, in order to increase the amount of textile waste that is reused or recycled
Europe Czech Republic It is no longer taboo to talk about the fact that organised crime is mainly behind human trafficking according to Pavla Novotná, Director of the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy at the Czech Ministry of the Interior