Czech police recommended charging Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and his former adviser Jana Mayerová with fraud after completing an investigation into whether he misused in a case a 50 million EU subsidy for the construction of the Stork’s Nest farm. The case will now be dealt with by the supervising public prosecutor Jaroslav Šaroch, who ...
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Deputy Dominik Feri stepped down from the TOP 09 today. Party spokesman Vladan Vaněk said in a press release. The party called on Feri to suspend his membership before his alleged acts of violence were investigated. A few days ago, Feri resigned at the end of May after several women in the media accused him of sexual ...
The European Commission wants to introduce new ways to protect EU funds from conflicts of interest, Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said during the European Parliament’s debate on the results of the audit on the conflict of interests of the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Wednesday. According to him, a rule combining the drawing of EU ...
After today’s talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučič, President Miloš Zeman apologized for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and asked the Serbian people for forgiveness. According to him, the Czechia was then looking for an ally with whom it would reject the bombing, but without success. He sees the fact that he eventually supported the ...
The Czech government on Monday approved a national recovery plan worth 200 billion Czech crowns (9.53 billion U.S. dollars), which largely focuses on infrastructure and green development, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlicek said. The plan will help the country revive and modernize the economy after the COVID-19 crisis, the government said in a press release. ...
Russia has published a new official list of “unfriendly states” featuring just two countries – Czechia and the US. According to the decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Czech diplomatic mission in Russia can employ a maximum of 19 Russian staff. The EU has already expressed full solidarity with Czechia and slammed Russia ...
A Czech town has launched a scheme whereby residents are being given money to spend in shops and cafes badly hit by COVID-19 lockdowns, in the form of digital vouchers being marketed as a special local currency. Up to 2,000 residents of Kyjov are each being given 400 crowns ($19) worth of “corrents”, a name ...
Five Czech opposition parties plan a no-confidence vote in June against Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government after it lost its supporting majority in parliament, but they face little chance of removing the billionaire leader before October elections. The parties, who will run in two separate coalitions in the general election, are the closest challengers to ...
