In a critical resolution, the European Parliament unequivocally condemned the Czech Prime Minister for his connection with the Agrofert Group. Of the 690 voters, 505 raised their hands in favor of the text, 30 were against and 15 abstained. Among those who abstained were mainly members of the liberal group Renew Europe, which has 98 ...
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is investigating a six million crown subsidy granted to a company owned by Vratislav Mynář, Seznam reports. Czech authorities have been investigating the allocation of support that Mynář’s company received in 2011 for the reconstruction of a boarding house in Osvětimanech in the Uherské Hradiště region. In February, the police accused ...
Today, the government approved the basic parameters of the state budget for next year with a deficit of 390 billion crowns. The Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (ANO) informed about it. According to the Ministry of Finance, the budget priorities are savings on state operations, including dismissal of officials, investments worth 189 billion crowns, increase in ...
Illegally sterilized women are likely to be entitled to compensation. Today, the Chamber of Deputies approved legislation which envisages a one time payment of 300,000 crowns. The draft will now be submitted to the Senate for consideration. The proposal defines a period of almost 46 years from the entry into force of the Public Health Act until ...
The coalition government led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the Communists refusal to participate in the vote, Babis’ government survived a vote of no confidence in the Chamber of Deputies. Some commentators see the Communist deputies’ motivation to remain among the ...
Forbes magazine has named the Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (ANO) the most powerful woman in the Czech Republic. The order has not changed in two other places either, the second is the European Commissioner Věra Jourová and the third is the Prague chief state prosecutor Lenka Bradáčová. The widow of the late majority owner of the ...
According to the Senate Security Committee, Miloš Zeman is not fit to hold the office of President of the Republic. The Senate will decide on this proposal to remove Zeman as head of state next week. According to the constitution, his possible verdict on Zeman’s incompetence to hold the presidency would have to be confirmed by the ...
The case of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s conflict of interest is heading to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which became operational in Luxembourg on 1 June. The institution should take over all the more serious matters with an impact on the EU budget, on which the Public Prosecutor’s Office started working after November 2017. In ...
The meeting of the Chamber of Deputies to vote on no confidence of the government will take place on Thursday from 09:00, deputies of the coalition Spolu (ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09) and Pirates and the STAN movement today handed over the necessary signatures to the chairman of the lower house to convene an extraordinary meeting. This ...
