Prague, (CTK) – The Czech Chamber of Deputies postponed its vote on confidence in Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government until January 16 at the proposal of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) today. The chairman of the ODS deputy group, Zbynek Stanjura, argued that the one-hour pause in the session was not sufficient for the […]
Prague, (CTK) – The report of the EU Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on an EU subsidy for the Capi hnizdo conference centre that was owned by current Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) should be published, presidential candidate Pavel Fischer told journalists today. Fischer called on President Milos Zeman, who seeks re-election, to intervene in […]
Prague, (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) and ANO deputy group head Jaroslav Faltynek were given a chance to comment on the Capi hnizdo case of a suspected EU subsidy fraud in the lower house mandate and immunity committee next Tuesday, its head Stanislav Grospic told reporters today. The committee interrupted a […]
Prague, Jan 9 (CTK) – The Czechoslovak non-communist ministers who submitted their resignation in 1948 were stupid and reform Communist leader Alexander Dubcek chickened out of horror in 1968 after the Soviet invasion, Czech President Milos Zeman said in his speech at a ceremony at Prague Castle today. It was the then Soviet president […]
Prague, (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s election campaign has so far cost almost 17 million crowns, with most of the promotion having been paid by the small Party of Citizens’ Rights, the Milos Zeman Friends Association and the Euro-Agency group, Zeman has said on his election webpage. The data were also released by other […]
Prague, (CTK) – The ANO movement of Prime Minister Andrej Babis received the highest contributions of 263 million crowns from the state in 2017 out of the Czech parties, according to the data that the Finance Ministry released on its website today. ANO has become the party to win the biggest sum from the […]
Prague, (CTK) – Michal Horacek has the most transparent campaign out of the nine candidates for Czech president, while the funding of the campaign of President Milos Zeman is the least transparent, according to the Transparency International organisation’s assessment released on its website today. Along with businessman and lyricist Horacek and Zeman, who seeks […]
Prague, (CTK) – It is unsuitable that Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) questions the authority of the EU Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), Czech deputy chairman of the European Parliament Pavel Telicka told journalists today. This harms democracy both on the national and European levels, Telicka said. Along with Babis’s other statements about European affairs, […]
Prague, (CTK) – President Milos Zeman would lose to former director of Academy of Science Jiri Drahos if they advanced to the second round of the presidential election as he would obtain 44 percent of the vote, but Drahos 48.5 percent, according to a poll commissioned by Czech Television (CT) and released today. Some […]