Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) – The Communists (KSCM) will decide on January 9, a day before the confidence vote in the lower house, whether they will tolerate the minority ANO cabinet, KSCM head Vojtech Filip said after a meeting with ANO today. KSCM has reservations about the cabinet’s policy statement draft, although it agrees […]
Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) – The Mayors and Independents (STAN) will not vote confidence in the minority government of Prime Minister Babis’ ANO, as they promised before the October election to the Czech Chamber of Deputies, STAN representatives told journalists today. STAN is against Babis’ heading the government since he was released for prosecution […]
Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) – The Social Democrats (CSSD) again ruled out their support for the Czech minority cabinet of Andrej Babis (ANO) once again, their leader Milan Chovanec said after talks with ANO movement’s representatives today, adding that Babis’s fait accompli style is unacceptable. He said ANO asked the CSSD for support for […]
Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) – The Czech lower house mandate and immunity committee will invite PM and ANO chairman Andrej Babis and ANO deputy head Jaroslav Faltynek to its meeting on January 9 to explain the circumstances of their EU subsidy fraud case, committee head Stanislav Grospic (Communists, KSCM) said today. Besides, the committee […]
Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) – The European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) has ended its investigation into the EU subsidies for the Stork Nest (Capi hnizdo) company, a part of Agrofert Holding formerly owned by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, OLAF spokeswoman Silvana Enculescu today. The results were passed to the relevant bodies in the […]
Prague, Dec 19 (CTK) – There is no reason for Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) and ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek not to be released for criminal prosecution, Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leader Tomio Okamura told journalists today. Okamura said SPD members of the Chamber of Deputies mandate and immunity committee had looked […]
Prague, Dec 19 (CTK) – Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leader Tomio Okamura called on the Chamber of Deputies today to start markedly cutting the budget of the Senate, the upper house of Czech parliament, so that it would eventually get no money at all, but his proposal received no support in the lower house. […]
Prague, Dec 19 (CTK) – The Czech parliament smoothly passed the state budget for next year today, approving the last transfers in the budget thanks to which more money will go to social services and farming and food processing. The 2018 budget’s revenues are 1314.5 billion crowns and the expenditures are 1364.5 billion crowns. […]
Prague, Dec 19 (CTK) – The opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) will not support Andrej Babis’s minority government, because he should have tried to form a majority coalition first, and they also challenge the government policy statement, ODS chairman Petr Fiala told reporters after his meeting with Babis today. The Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) refuse to […]