Prague, April 5 (CTK) – A crowd of 300, mostly young people demanded change in the situation in Slovakia, the dismissal of police president Tibor Gaspar and an independent investigation into the murder of young journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee at a rally in Prague today. Speeches were delivered by the Slovaks studying […]
Bratislava, March 29 (CTK) – Controversial real estate magnate Ladislav Basternak, whose business partner was Smer-Social Democracy deputy chairman and former interior Slovak minister Robert Kalinak, has been charged with tax fraud, the General Prosecution announced today. Basternak is suspected for unlawfully demanding value-added tax refunds of nearly two million euros in real estate […]
Budapest/Prague, March 28 (CTK) – There was an agreement that at the next meeting of the Central Defence cooperation (CEDC) the preparation for joint bids for Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects will be completed, Czech Defence Minister Karla Slechtova said after she attended the meeting of membership countries of the CEDC today. A project […]
Prague, March 28 (CTK) – Slovakia is catching up with the average European Union economic level at a faster rate than the Czech Republic but it still lags behind the country, according to a study conducted on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s split and presented to journalists by CSOB today. The […]
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s decision that the BIS counter-intelligence service should check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, is not useless, Defence Minister Karla Slechtova said today. Slechtova said she hoped […]
Pezinok, West Slovakia, March 26 (CTK) – Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were murdered on January 21, four days before their bodies were found, Slovak prosecutor said today, releasing for the first time details of the shooting of the couple, which caused political crisis in the country. According to the […]
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman today ordered the BIS counter-intelligence to check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said in a written statement. The BIs should check industrial plants […]
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – The Czech Republic is expelling three members of the Russian diplomatic staff in reaction to the nerve poison attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain, as a step of solidarity with Britain, PM Andrej Babis (ANO) told journalists today. He said Russia carried it too far when […]
Bratislava, March 25 (CTK) – New Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-Social Democracy) believes that his government will pass a confidence vote in parliament next week, he said in a debate on the public RTVS television today. He also said the previous government of Smer-SD chairman Robert Fico had been reshuffled and dismissed that […]