Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) – The British energy ministry has issued a building permit for a new gas-fired power station in Eggborough to British company Eggborough Power Limited from Energeticky a prumyslovy holding (EPH), a Czech energy and industry group of entrepreneur Daniel Kretinsky, Euro weekly said on its website today. The gas-fired power […]
Prague, Sept 20 (CTK) – About 300 people gathered at a meeting organised by the Christian-feminist group RFK in Prague this afternoon to support the acceptance of 50 Syrian orphans, which is opposed by Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO). The event symbolically took place in front of the Main Railway Station, from where Jewish […]
Prague, Sept 20 (CTK) – Roughly one-half of Czech senators across the political spectrum signed a joint memorandum calling on PM Andrej Babis (ANO) and his cabinet to make possible the acceptance of 50 Syrian orphans recently proposed by the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), Czech Televison (CT) has said. “We are asking you and the […]
Salzburg, Austria, Sept 20 (CTK special correspondents) – Prague backs the plan to hold a summit of the EU and African states as debated by the participants in the EU informal summit in Salzburg last night, Czech PM Andrej Babis said today, but voiced disappointment at the course of the debate on migration. He […]
London/Salzburg, Sept 20 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis and Maltese PM Joseph Muscat have said in an interview with the BBC British broadcaster that they are for a new referendum to be held in Britain on its EU membership. In 2016, the British voted for the country’s departure from the EU. PM Theresa May […]
Prague, Sept 19 (CTK) – The Transparency International (TI) organisation sent today its second motion concerning Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s possible conflict of interest, this time to the European Commission (EC), today, TI has announced in its press release. According to TI, billionaire businessman Babis (ANO chairman) is suspected of still controlling the […]
Prague, Sept 19 (CTK) – Global pacts on refugees and migration are neither legally binding nor enforceable, Czech acting foreign minister Jan Hamacek (Social Democrats, CSSD) told the Chamber of Deputies today. No new duties or obligations arise from them for the Czech Republic, Hamacek, the Social Democrat leader who is also the interior […]
Prague, Sept 18 (CTK) – Opposition TOP 09 will propose that the Chamber of Deputies adopt a resolution calling on the Czech cabinet to accept 50 orphans from refugee camps in Greece, the party’s representatives announced at a press conference today. TOP 09 first deputy chairwoman Marketa Pekarova Adamova said this would be a […]
Bratislava, Sept 18 (CTK) – Apprehensions of corruption undermining the rule of law principles persist in Slovakia, as not much has changed in practice in spite of the government’s replacement in the spring, an EP delegation head Sophia in ‘t Veld said at close of their two-day mission to Slovakia today. Talking to journalists, […]