Prague, July 9 (CTK) – Along with Czech President Milos Zeman, PM Andrej Babis (ANO), Interior Minister Jan Hamacek (Social Democrats, CSSD), heading diplomacy temporarily, and Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar (for ANO) will attend the NATO summit in Brussels this week, the Foreign Ministry announced today. Zeman will leave for Brussels on Wednesday, July […]
Bratislava, July 6 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska has vetoed an amendment to the courts law, passed by the parliament on June 20, because it strongly reduces the public checking of court decisions, Kiska’s spokesman Martin Liptak told journalists today. Kiska has returned the bill to the parliament. He warned the lawmakers […]
Prague, July 4 (CTK) – Prime minister Andrej Babis (ANO) will meet his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki in Karlovy Vary, west Bohemia, on Friday to discuss business cooperation and current European affairs, and he will then go to Sofia to a summit of 16 East and Central European countries with China. The Sofia summit […]
Prague, July 3 (CTK) – The German compromise deal on transit centres that may be founded near the German border makes it clear that those landing in Italy and Greece have no right to choose to live in Germany, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said today. Under the deal of German Chancellor Merkel and […]
Prague/Berlin/Darney, France, June 30 (CTK) – No talks on a deal on taking back migrants occurred between Prague and Berlin and the Czech government would not join any deal on returning migrants who previously got registered in the other country, Czech PM Andrej Babis said in a statement sent to CTK today. Babis denied […]
Bratislava, June 22 (CTK) – Robert Fico, leader of the strongest coalition government party Smer-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) and a former prime minister, announced today he would draft the law under which NGOs would have to release details about their financing, including money from abroad. In an interview with the online television station Tablet.tv, Fico […]
Budapest, June 21 (CTK) – None of the PMs from the Visegrad Four group (V4; the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) will attend the EU mini-summit on migration on Sunday, since there will be migrant-friendly states and the V4 would disagree with the expected conclusions, Czech PM Andrej Babis said today. At the V4 […]
Olomouc, North Moravia, June 20 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman and PM Andrej Babis (ANO) today sharply criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement that there was neither moral nor political justification for the transfer of Germans from Central and East European countries after World War Two. Merkel’s statement is absolutely unacceptable and only […]
Prague, June 19 (CTK) – The EU’s most serious problem is illegal migration, which has enhanced political extremism and led to disputes between countries, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) said in a speech opening the three-day Prague European Summit conference today. The Czech Republic is ready to help fight illegal migration and protect […]