Prague, Sept 13 (CTK) – Czech lower house head Radek Vondracek (ANO) distanced himself today from the ANO MEPs’ position in the EP when they voted for the EU to launch a procedure against Hungary over a serious threat to EU values on Wednesday. Today’s session of the Czech Chamber of Deputies touched on […]
Prague, Sept 13 (CTK) – The Czech opposition Communists (KSCM) and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) have failed to push through a proposal that the Chamber of Deputies discuss the UN Global Compact for Migration at its current session. KSCM deputy Zdenek Ondracek wanted the debate to show the cabinet’s position on the compact, […]
Prague, Sept 12 (CTK) – The reasons why anti-Russian sanctions were introduced by the EU still persist, Czech senior elected officials, or the president, PM, lower house head and foreign and defence ministers, agreed at a meeting today and called for the Minsk agreements to be met by all sides involved. The officials also […]
Strasbourg, Sept 12 (CTK) – The positions of the 21 Czech MEPs were split in the EP vote today that comfortably passed a recommendation for the EC to start a procedure against Hungary over a serious threat to EU values, the first ever such recommendation the EP has passed against an EU member. The […]
Prague, Sept 11 (CTK) – Czech top elected officials will discuss the anti-Russian sanctions, migration, relations with Israel and the danger of by trade wars, and also coordinate their foreign trips at their meeting on Wednesday, the Presidential Office foreign section head Rudolf Jindrak has told CTK. At the close of the meeting, the […]
Prague, Sept 10 (CTK) – The Prague 1 district court halted the prosecution of eight leaders of the neo-Nazi National Resistance (NO) group three months ago, after an almost ten-year trial, daily Pravo writes today. The men were staging marches paying respects to the members of the SS who died in World War Two, […]
Prague, Sept 6 (CTK) – The Czech Republic is evaluating the information on the investigation into the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve gas Britain is releasing, acting foreign minister Jan Hamacek told journalists today. British Prime Minister Theresa May has stated the poisoning was perpetrated by […]
Prague, Sept 5 (CTK) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been for a long time implementing the same scenario which Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) is going to propose to her as a solution to migration at their meeting in Berlin today, daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes today. Babis plans to tell the […]
Berlin, Sept 5 (CTK) – Migrant redistribution remains the sticking point in Czech-German relations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a press conference after meeting Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis today, but described bilateral relations as excellent. Sharing her opinion, Babis, on a day-long official visit to Berlin, said Europe should clearly define the Schengen […]