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A Sudeten lawyer wrote that in Ústí nad Labem, the plan of the One Ústí party to abolish the city districts has caused a stir. According to him, the party gained an absolute majority and did not discuss the intention before the elections. The author stated that he understands the reason for this approach and mentioned comments from people who said they would have voted for the party had they known about the plan. He linked the abolition of districts to the debate on merging municipalities. According to him, the Czech Republic has 6,258 municipalities, which is the highest number in Europe per capita. For comparison, he mentioned Belgium with 11.8 million inhabitants and 581 municipalities, Portugal with 10.6 million and 308 municipalities, Sweden with the same population and 290 municipalities, and Greece with 10.4 million inhabitants and 332 municipalities. He noted that the arrangements in Portugal and Greece differ slightly. According to him, Denmark had 99 municipalities with 6 million inhabitants and the Netherlands had 342 municipalities with 19 million. Hungary had about half and Austria a third of the Czech number of municipalities, he wrote. With exaggeration, he added that based on these examples, it might seem that these are countries where people suffer and municipalities do not prosper. He also addressed the number of city districts: out of 26 statutory cities, according to him, only seven have districts. He did not include Liberec in this count, which he marked as a city without internal divisions, except for Vratislavice nad Nisou. According to the author, Opava has eight urban parts formed by municipalities that joined it. It has a total of 7,000 inhabitants, while the rest of the city, approximately 47,600 people, has no urban part. He labeled Opava as the only smaller urban unit with districts other than Ústí nad Labem. He noted that Liberec, Hradec Králové, České Budějovice, and Olomouc do not need districts; he also described them as cities with good living potential, and some of them as wealthier. The author concluded that, according to him, people would fare better if municipalities and city districts were abolished. #obce #ÚstíNadLabem #politika #obce (translated)

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed holding a summit next month with American President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict in Ukraine on terms that would favor Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported. #ratukrajini #vladimirputin #donaldtrump (translated)

Those who looted will have to compensate for the damage caused, and those who tried to overthrow the Republic will bear responsibility. Addressing the nation, Macron stated: "Those who looted will have to compensate for the damage caused, and those who tried to overthrow the Republic will bear responsibility." #francuska #macron #prosvjed (translated)

Russia has attacked the Ukrainian energy sector and the oil and gas industry dozens of times in the week since U.S. President Donald Trump announced a pause in attacks on energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. #Rusija #Ukrajina #Zelenski (translated)

Zdeněk Hřib stated that the Czech Republic lagged behind the average of OECD countries in the proportion of people with higher education and criticized the planned cuts in funding for public higher education institutions. According to him, rectors warned that as a result, schools would enroll approximately 10,000 fewer students each year. Hřib also emphasized the importance of people with tertiary education for the Czech economy and said that the Pirates would not support the proposed state budget. He added that the party has developed its own economic strategy with proposals for further development of the Czech Republic. #vzdělání #ekonomika #ČeskáRepublika (translated)

Jura Háček challenged the claim that Petr Pavel took his eighteenth vacation this year, stating that in his opinion it was four. In January, Pavel was supposed to ride motorcycles to Andalusia, where according to Háček, critics embarrassed themselves with the theory that the room in the photo was created by artificial intelligence. In February, he was supposed to go skiing in the Alps for several days; according to Háček, the criticism arose because a police BMW carried the first lady's skis. Pavel was supposed to spend another vacation in the Czech Republic and partly in Poland, and the last one in October in Morocco, with a trip to Černouček. Háček did not count weekend visits to the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and the Hungarian Grand Prix as vacations, during which, according to him, Pavel also became known as a photographer. He estimated the total duration of the vacation to be about 25 days. In comparison to Zeman, who according to Háček spent vacations 365 days a year, he described it as an alleged "tragedy." #dezinfluencer #PetrPavel #dovolená (translated)

Ukraine expects further support, primarily due to the coming winter, because of the very clearly targeted military operations of Russia aimed at energy infrastructure to inflict as much damage as possible on the normal functioning of life in Ukraine. Ukraine needs international assistance to be able to function in a budgetary sense as a state, and a large majority of EU member states believes it is necessary to find ways to continue helping that country, said Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Friday. #Ukrajina #Zelenski #MeđunarodnaPomoć (translated)