According to some, the head of state’s visit will open the door to important new opportunities, despite the fact that sanctions remain in place over Russia’s intervention in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Will the trip truly provide new opportunities for Czech firms? That was a question Czech Radio put to […]
Lany, Central Bohemia, Nov 16 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman would assign ANO head Andrej Babis to form a cabinet again if his first try failed because Babis is the mastermind of ANO’s election success and is inseparable from ANO, Zeman told the STAN movement leaders today, STAN chairman Petr Gazdik told reporters. […]
ODS, KDU–ČSL, TOP 09 and STAN Form New Group: Democratic Bloc The Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats, TOP 09 and the Mayors and Independents have formed a group called Democratic Bloc with a view to taking a common position when the first session of the new Chamber of Deputies is held next Monday. […]
Only nine people will stand for the post of Czech president in elections in January after 11 would-be candidates were found to have deficiencies in their applications, Czech Television reported on Wednesday. The eleven have been given eight days to rectify the shortcomings. However, they have effectively been disqualified as the Ministry of the Interior […]
Efforts to win support for a minority government headed by ANO leader Andrej Babiš have cast doubt on the future of a hard-won settlement between the country’s 16 churches and the State. The ANO leader caused a stir this week when he expressed readiness to support the Communist Party’s demand for church restitutions to be […]
President Miloš Zeman has expressed support for the speaker of the lower house Jan Hamáček to be deputy speaker in the new Chamber of Deputies. On Monday, the head of state met with the politician as well and the acting head of the Social Democratic Party Milan Chovanec. The president was reportedly interested in […]
The Christian Democrats have described a proposal by the Pirate party for the opposition to head all of the parliamentary committees as “inadequate”. The Pirates had suggested the move in return for possible support for an ANO-led minority government. The proposal was also criticized by ANO, led by Andrej Babiš. The Christian Democrats said the […]
Like Donald Trump across the Atlantic, a populist billionaire in Europe is discovering that exercising power is no easier than winning elections. Andrej Babis, the Czech tycoon who has drawn comparisons to the U.S. president and to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has failed to form a ruling alliance after his euroskeptic ANO party […]
The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) established in 1999 by the Council of Europe to monitor member states’ compliance with the organization’s anti-corruption standards, is currently holding a two-day conference in Prague. Its aim is to highlight the main trends and the lessons learned from GRECO’s Fourth Evaluation Round of the Czech Republic’s anti-corruption […]