The Czech central state budget should end the year with a surplus of several billion crowns, including European Union subsidies, Czech Finance Minister Ivan Pilny said on Sunday. “If we exclude money from European Union funds, my estimate is we should finish with a mild deficit that may be around 10 billion crowns ($456.83 ...
Google is expected to announce the launch of Android Pay at a press conference in Prague on November 14th. Komercni banka is currently beta testing the app and is thought to be among the launch partners. Android Pay will be available to Android mobile users running Android 4.4 and above on mobile devices equiped with ...
Whether gathering dust in your loft or currently spinning on your turntable, it’s a fair bet that at least some of your vinyl records came from a small factory in the Czech Republic. The facility in question is the headquarters of GZ Media, based in the small town of Lodenice, 25km (16 miles) west ...
A far-right party whose leader wants to quit the EU and urged Czechs to walk pigs near mosques and stop eating kebabs, performed surprisingly well in an election, potentially giving it a chance to influence how the next government is formed. The Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party rode a wave of far-right sentiment in ...
Europe’s year of political upheaval isn’t over. In the Czech republic, a charismatic, controversial billionaire dubbed the ‘Czech Berlusconi’ – and more recently the ‘Czech Trump’ – is poised to take power. Hot on the heels of Austria’s hard shift to the right, this weekend’s legislative election in the Czech Republic could be another shock ...
Cynthia Kroet writes in Politico that Andrej Babiš has been formally charged by Czech Police. Excerpt below. Police filed charges against Babiš, a former finance minister, and his deputy Jaroslav Faltýnek for subsidy fraud linked to a farm and conference center nearly a decade ago. Babiš is believed to be behind a plan to acquire ...
On the day the Czech Republic commemorates the May Uprising of the Czech People, Bohuslav Sobotka’s prime minister unleashed a conflict on the Czech political scene that he has not experienced yet. “Bohuslav Sobotka decided that he would make a hard fight against all. Not just to the president, “explains Sputnik, political analyst Štěpán Kotrba, ...
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