Emergency workers and residents combed through wreckage in southern Czech Republic on Friday after a tornado ripped roofs off buildings and sent cars flying through the air, killing at least five people and injuring hundreds. The tornado, which hit towns and villages around Hodonin along the Slovak and Austrian borders on Thursday evening, may have ...
The European Commission has pledged to take action against a Hungarian law bans portraying homosexuality and gender transitioning in content for minors. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and a member of his cabinet, Justice Minister Judit Varg, rejected the criticism. “The Hungarian bill is a shame,” von der Leyen von der Leyen said Wednesday morning ...
YouTube and other internet platforms are not normally responsible for copyright infringement on videos and other files shared by users. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today. However, if social network operators knowingly contribute to the dissemination of protected works, they could also violate the law, the highest body of EU justice ...
The coronavirus variant delta is slowly but surely settling in Europe, and with it concerns about the development of the epidemic situation in the summer months. According to an analysis by the Financial Times (FT), the “Indian” mutation, in addition to Britain, already dominates in Russia and Portugal and is spreading rapidly in Germany and ...
The Czech Republic is firmly integrated into the European Union and the issue of its membership in it should not be part of the political debate, believes Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. However, this does not mean that Czechia should automatically agree to everything proposed by “Eurocrats” in Brussels or “progressive political elites in large countries.” ...
The Czech Republic has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to impose a fine of five million euros (about 127.3 million crowns) on Poland for each day that mining continues in the Turów lignite mine near the Czech border. “The Czech Republic is asking the court to impose a fine of five ...
The European Union and the United States have agreed to end a protracted dispute over subsidizing the production of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. This was stated by the President of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen after the meeting with the American President Joe Biden. After negotiations, the White House confirmed that tariffs ...
The European Commission is demanding approximately 2.1 billion crowns (82.5 million euros) from the Czech Republic for incorrect assessment of customs duties on imports of textiles and footwear from China in 2012 to 2019. The commission is also demanding money from other EU countries because they underestimated the value of imported goods from China. This has led ...
The European Commission will take part in a lawsuit against Poland brought by the Czech Republic before the Court of Justice of the EU over the expansion of mining in the Polish coal mine Turów. The Czech authorities filed a lawsuit against the EU judiciary in February. Last month, the court ordered the mining in the ...
