Prague, Dec 2 (CTK) – Czech political parties may be wrong when writing off the Communists (KSCM) as a possible ally to help them stop the rise of Andrej Babis and Tomio Okamura, the autocrat leaders of the democracy-unfriendly ANO and SPD movements, Jiri Pehe writes in daily Pravo today. Since the early 1990s, ...
Twenty-eight years ago Czechs took to the streets to demonstrate for basic human rights and freedoms. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since and many Czechs today are asking themselves where those ideals went. Sociologist Jan Hartl, head of the STEM polling agency, has been closely monitoring the change of mood in ...
The following opinion article was originally published on Aktuálně.cz by Martin Fendrych. We like to think we’re a “sovereign country”. But is it true? Sovereign countries can defend themselves against attacks, hybrid war, but we can’t. Take the pre-election lithium mining deal for example. It’s development is being followed by the Prague Security Studies ...
The centrist Czech political parties that like to call themselves “democratic” and the business interests behind them have underestimated Andrej Babiš every step of the way. In panic, they overplayed their hand in the 2017 election campaign, thinking that an anti-Babiš platform would prevail. The result was an overwhelming ANO victory in Oct. 2017, ...
Rumours about Miloš Zeman’s illnesses are repulsive. But they make it clear that there should be a system in place so voters know the health of presidential candidates. The voters have a right to know the health of presidential candidates. So that they (to put it harshly) know what they are buying. The presidential ...
Britain has long been seen as the exception in Europe: we have bad coffee, we don’t smoke much, and we’re bad at foreign languages. When it comes to the European Union, this is even more the case. Our refusal to join the Euro and our close ties to the US have long had us viewed ...
On the day the Czech Republic commemorates the May Uprising of the Czech People, Bohuslav Sobotka’s prime minister unleashed a conflict on the Czech political scene that he has not experienced yet. “Bohuslav Sobotka decided that he would make a hard fight against all. Not just to the president, “explains Sputnik, political analyst Štěpán Kotrba, ...
