Lany, Central Bohemia, Dec 26 (CTK) – The EU redistribution quotas for refugees are against Czech national interests and they should vanish without a trace, President Milos Zeman said in his traditional Christmas message today. In the EU and NATO, the Czech Republic should behave as a resolute and self-confident partner that is ready […]
Lany, Central Bohemia, Dec 26 (CTK) – The Czech Republic needs higher public investments, but the civil service should be streamlined and the redundant civil servants might benefit both the private sector and the budget, President Milos Zeman said in his Christmas message today. Zeman praised the good security situation, low jobless rate and […]
Prague, Dec 25 (CTK) – Five Czech parties will hold their national conferences that may decide on their leaders and further policy in the first six months of 2018. No changes are expected from those to be held by the Pirates and the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), since they were relative successful in the […]
Prague, Dec 24 (CTK) – Praguers as well as tourists were queueing for the traditional Christmas fish soup that Prague Mayor Adriana Krnacova (ANO) with city councillors and unusually also new Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO chairman) served at Old-Town Square in the city centre today. The organisers have prepared 3000 portions that started […]
Prague, Dec 24 (CTK) – The nine Czech presidential candidates are not for a special law to define the position of the First Lady and they are of the view that such a legal regulation is not necessary, they said in a CTK poll released today. Only incumbent President Milos Zeman, who will seek […]
Prague, Dec 24 (CTK) – A Christmas exhibition held in the Czech Senate’s seat in Prague centre presents dozens of nativity scenes of various material, including straw and corn husk, as well as three mechanical ones. Two of them are cone-shaped nativity scenes with several layers turning around their axes and the third one […]
Prague (CTK) – More than 30 churches in Prague will display nativity scenes during Christmas and a midnight mass will be celebrated in some 50 Roman Catholic churches in the Czech capital on Christmas Eve. Other churches plan a Christmas mass earlier on Sunday that will be accompanied with singing carols. Several churches offer […]
Prague, Dec 23 (CTK) – The Czech government ANO movement of PM Andrej Babis is just doing cold-bloodedly what the other, mainstream, parties have enabled it, while its preferences keep rising, Lukas Jelinek writes in daily Pravo today. While ANO won the October general election with almost 30 percent of the vote, now it would […]
Prague, Dec 23 (CTK) – The Czech presidential candidates cannot agree whether the state should pardon penalties for the debts people have toward it, and they have also different views of the rise in the minimum wage and pensions, they said in a CTK poll released today. Only incumbent President Milos Zeman, who will […]