Back in August of 2017 the Czech Ministry of Finance gave credit to the countermeasures against illegal gambling and increased taxation of slot machines for driving a 38 percent increase in state revenue from gambling over last year. The gambling operators that are looking at that market data in the Czech Republic have made ...
Rumours about Miloš Zeman’s illnesses are repulsive. But they make it clear that there should be a system in place so voters know the health of presidential candidates. The voters have a right to know the health of presidential candidates. So that they (to put it harshly) know what they are buying. The presidential ...
The former head of Slovakia’s National Memory Institute says he came under pressure over the case of ANO leader Andrej Babiš and the archive evidence suggesting he was an agent for the communist era secret police, StB. Ondrej Krajňák said in an interview with Czech Radio that he came under political pressure over the ...
The disinformation scene in the Czech Republic is relatively developed and intertwined with some of the country’s leading politicians, including president Miloš Zeman. Nevertheless, both the government and the civil society have recognized the threat and efforts have been made to address the problem. It has been two years since the European Values Think Tank ...
The Czech finance minister, Ivan Pilny, on Tuesday attended a meeting of the Eurozone focusing on the fiscal rules governing the Eurozone and on the future of the banking union. The presence of the Czech finance minister was in response to a request from the Czech government for the Czech Republic to be granted observer ...
The Czech Republic’s human rights record came under scrutiny at the United Nations on Monday. Among the recommendations made were for the country to improve the integration of Roma in Czech society, step up the fight against racism, xenophobia and islamophobia and strive for full gender equality. The Czech government was praised for ending the ...
Britain has long been seen as the exception in Europe: we have bad coffee, we don’t smoke much, and we’re bad at foreign languages. When it comes to the European Union, this is even more the case. Our refusal to join the Euro and our close ties to the US have long had us viewed ...
The Czech central bank delivered its second interest-rate hike of 2018, but its message that it won’t be in a hurry to further raise borrowing costs in one of Europe’s best-performing economies drove the koruna to a two-week low. The bank increased the benchmark rate to 0.5 percent from 0.25 percent on Thursday, the second ...
One of the important issues discussed at the two-day EU summit in Brussels was proposed changes in the mechanism of EU decision-making, which would allow some EU members to push ahead with integration faster. For the Czech Republic, which is still outside the Eurozone, this could present a serious problem. There is general consensus in ...
Kristian Moller
William Malcolm
