The following article written by Nicholas Watson first appeared on Politico.eu PRAGUE — The Czech Republic looks set for a confrontation with the European Commission — and its anti-nuclear neighbors — over its ambitions to expand nuclear power. Prague wants to streamline a project to build a new reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power […]
Prague/Brussels, Feb 23 (CTK) – A new head of the European Commission (EC) should be chosen by EU states’ presidents and PMs from among the 27 members of the next EC, Czech PM Andrej Babis said today, adding that Prague is against the EC head to arise through the system of leading candidates in the […]
Brussels, Feb 20 (CTK correspondent) – The Czech Republic is very likely to increase its annual contribution to the European Union budget after 2020 because of Britain’s departure from the EU, Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerova told journalists today after meeting with her counterparts from EU member states. However, discussion about the long-term EU […]
Bratislava, Feb 19 (CTK) – Slovakia has been failing to attract its experts abroad to return home, despite a special programme of incentives, the Education Ministry says in a report, adding that only 13 positions have been created since the programme’s launch two years ago and the sum earmarked for it has not been spent. […]
Prague, Feb 16 (CTK) – Czexit would mean collapse of many segments and companies and firing of employees, and those talking about leaving the European Union mystify citizens with a possible positive outcome, CMKOS umbrella trade union head Josef Stredula said at a press conference of the Industry and Trade Ministry. People talking about […]
Prague, Feb 2 (CTK) – Both houses of the Polish parliament have passed a bill that turns anybody who would make the Poles responsible for the Holocaust into a criminal, which shows interesting trends, Zbynek Petracek writes in Lidove noviny (LN). First, it shows how politics cements history by law. One can understand that the […]
Prague, Dec 22 (CTK) – The cabinet approved a report of the Finance Ministry and the Czech National Bank (CNB) today according to which it should not set any euro adoption deadlines for the time being, the government press department has said. The material assessing the fulfilment of the Maastricht convergence criteria and a […]
Prague, Dec 16 (CTK) – Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, called on Czechs to reject the European Union and immigration and his speech delivered at a conference of extreme right parties won a repeated stormy applause in Prague today. Wilders said the Czechs have been his favourite nation […]
Prague, Dec 16 (CTK) – Czech speakers at a protest against a conference of European anti-immigrant parties held in Prague today rejected the rightist populists for taking advantage of a resistance wave and not having any reasonable political programme. Representatives of parties from the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), which is the smallest […]