Articles for category: Opinion

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Economists: Czexit ‘Economic Suicide’ for Czech Economy

Prague, Feb 7 (CTK) – The Czech Republic’s potential departure from the EU would be an economic suicide, according to the opinions of economists, the Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of Industry.   Such step would cause loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and some experts even say that the Czech economy would ...

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Czexit Would Be Disastrous for Czechs

Prague, Feb 6 (CTK) – Czechs would pay dearly for it if they succumbed to the fantasists promoting the country’s departure from the EU, as Czexit would definitely mean not only an economic but also huge civilisation loss for the Czech nation, Petr Honzejk writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today.   No one exactly knows ...

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Zemanist’s Rallied Behind President to Deliver Victory

Prague, (CTK) – President Milos Zeman defended his post against academic Jiri Drahos on Saturday because he managed to activate his supporters and people should get ready for a tough battle for the form of Czech democracy, Erik Tabery writes in weekly Respekt out today.   Drahos may have made a lot of mistakes in ...

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Czech President Milos Zeman

Zeman’s Victory ‘Incomprehensible and Tragic’ – Russian Historian Andrei Zubov

Kiev/Moscow, Jan 29 (CTK) – The result of the Czech presidential runoff, won by President Milos Zeman, is “incomprehensible and tragic,” Russian historian Andrei Zubov writes in a commentary for the Ukrainian server Obozrevatel headlined “This time, no tanks were needed.”   Zubov writes that one-half of Czechs prefer “a tyrannical dictatorship and xenophobia”.   ...

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Zeman vs Drahos: Protest Votes May Decide Winner

Prague, (CTK) – Protest votes will determine the Czech presidential election result, unfortunately, lawyer Jiri Nemec writes in daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) today.   In the first round of two-round elections, people usually vote for a candidate whom they positively want for president or senator, but in the following runoff vote, the situation is ...

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Babis’s Future Remains Uncertain

The following opinion article was originally published on Radio Praha  by Ian Willoughby   The political future of current Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš seems rather up in the air at present. His perceived ally Miloš Zeman may struggle to win re-election in the second round of presidential elections next week and, with Mr. Babiš likely ...

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An Elephant in the Room – PM Babis and the Capi Hnizdo Fraud Case

Prague, (CTK) – The EU Anti-Fraud Office’s (OLAF) report on a suspicious drawing of a EU subsidy by the Czech Capi hnizdo firm is clearly unfavourable for its former owner and current PM Andrej Babis (ANO), but still it need not affect the Czech scene at all, Julie Hrstkova writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. ...

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Czech President Milos Zeman

Fear and Loathing in Prague – Milos Zeman’s Re-election ‘Campaign’

Prague, (CTK) – The candidacy of the the incumbent Czech President Milos Zeman is the candidacy of fear as he is afraid of debates with other candidates and spends the pre-election time hidden in his own mausoleum, Petr Honzejk writes in daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) today.   He comments on the behaviour of Zeman, 73, ...

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Zeman Believes ‘Common Sense Will Prevail’ – Would Result be his Defeat?

Prague, Dec 27 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman, whose five-year term in office expires in March, has divided society and continued campaigning for his re-election in his Christmas messages to citizens, Jaroslav Veis writes in daily Lidove noviny (LN) today.   After becoming president in 2013, Zeman discontinued the 64-year-long tradition of New Year ...