Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on May 28 that he has had talks with U.S. officials about permanently stationing U.S. troops in Poland as a deterrent against Russian aggression. Blaszczak said he had the talks recently in Washington that were prompted by security concerns following Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and […]
Brno, May 26 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) does not consider Czech accession to the euro zone a priority and he is satisfied with the Czech crown, he said today in a discussion meeting on the first day of the Re:publika festival in Brno, which marks the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia. […]
Brussels, May 24 (CTK) – The Visegrad Four countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland) are ready for a debate in the EU linking its funds with the quality of rule of law in its next budget, Slovak EU envoy Peter Javorcik and Hungarian EU affairs state secretary Szabolcs Takacs said today. However, […]
Prague, May 23 (CTK) – The Czech Finance Ministry agrees with the European Commission’s (EC) recommendation regarding public finance sustainability and administrative burden reduction, the ministry said today. In reaction to the EC’s recommendations to the member states, the ministry said it welcomed the fact that the EC had no recommendations for the fiscal […]
Prague, May 21 (CTK) – Russia is incapable of competing with the West in the attractiveness of its political and cultural model, which is why it is waging a hybrid war against the West, Yevhen Perebyinis, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Czech Republic, said at a conference Challenges for Europe in Prague today. He […]
Prague, May 21 (CTK) – European Commissioner Vera Jourova, who represents the Czech Republic in the EC, supports the principle according to which member states would receive money from the EU budget provided that they observe the rule of law, she said at the conference Challenges for Europe in Prague today. The EU draft […]
Bratislava, May 21 (CTK) – Slovak police botched the very first search of the scene of the February murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Daniel Lipsic, the lawyer of the two victims’ families, said today, referring to a part of the police file into which they could look last week. The prosecutor’s […]
Bratislava/Prague, May 16 (CTK) – Slovak detectives were questioning Czech investigative journalist Pavla Holcova, who cooperated with murdered Slovak reporter Jan Kuciak in an article about Italian mafia in Slovakia, on Tuesday and seized her mobile phone, Slovak daily Sme wrote today. The phone also contained data on other sensitive cases that were not […]
Bratislava, May 15 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska will not be defending his post in the election scheduled for next year because he wants to spend more time with his family, he told journalists today. Kiska, 55, and his wife Martina have one daughter and two sons – Veronica, 13, Viktor, 9, and […]