Brno, (CTK) – The Czech cyber and information security office (NUKIB) seated in Brno will operate in an emergency mode during the January 12-13 presidential election, with up to 25 experts ready to ward off any cyber attack, which may happen, NUKIB spokesman Radek Holy told CTK today. A hacker attack in the wake […]
Prague, Jan 4 (CTK) – The European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) has refused to release its report on the Capi hnizdo firm’s case of a possible EU subsidy fraud of which PM Andrej Babis is suspected to Czech MEPs, the financial paper Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes today. Only the Czech authorities or the European […]
Prague, (CTK) – Most Czech presidential candidates would welcome the release of the report by the European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) on the Capi hnizdo firm’s case of a possible EU subsidy fraud of which PM Andrej Babis is suspected, they have told CTK. Businessman and lyricist Michal Horacek said he had submitted a […]
Prague, Jan 3 (CTK) – The new Czech minority government will release the final version of its policy statement on Tuesday, January 9, one day before it asks the lower house of parliament for its support, Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) told journalists today. It seems unlikely for Babis’s government to win the confidence […]
Prague, (CTK) – Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerova (for ANO) expects her ministry to propose that the controversial Capi hnizdo (Stork Nest) firm, whose suspected fraudulent drawing of an EU subsidy has been investigated by the police, be deleted from the list of EU-subsidised projects, she said today. “In my opinion, we will propose […]
Prague, Jan 3 (CTK) – Czech presidential candidate Mirek Topolanek believes that President Milos Zeman, if re-elected, would not be able to exercise his post for another five years due to being ill, he said at a press conference today. Topolanek said the Czech Republic needed a strong president with sufficient experience and energy […]
Lany, Central Bohemia, Jan 2 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) considers the draft changes to the government’s order of procedure, proposed by Justice Minister Robert Pelikan (both ANO), practical, he told reporters today, adding that his government wants to conceal nothing and will be transparent. The draft changes have been criticised by […]
Prague, Jan 2 (CTK) – Czech presidential candidate Michal Horacek has filed a criminal complaint about Communist deputy Zdenek Ondracek because he accused him of having collaborated with the Communist secret service StB, Horacek spokesman Jiri Taborsky told journalists today. Ondracek has declined to comment on the affair. Horacek has decided to react […]
Prague, Jan 2 (CTK) – The Prague Municipal State Attorney’s Office has not recommended that the Finance Ministry release the EU anti-fraud office OLAF’s report about its enquiry into the case of a suspected fraudulent EU subsidy drawn by the Czech Capi hnizdo firm, the office’s spokeswoman told CTK today. Confirming the information of […]