The supervising public prosecutor Jaroslav Šaroch today returned the case of a 50 million subsidy for the construction of the Stork’s Nest farm to the police to continue the investigation. This was stated by Aleš Cimbala, spokesman for the Prague City Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to him, the reason is new information that appeared after the police […]
The Czech Republic will certainly not negotiate with the Taliban. This was stated by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in an interview with Mladá fronta DNES. According to him, the approach towards a Taliban-led Afghanistan is more a question for the European Council or for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). If the radical Islamist Taliban movement that ruled […]
Michal Koudelka, Acting Director of the Security Information Service (BIS), today categorically rejected the accusations made by President Miloš Zeman in an address before the House counterintelligence committee. After about an hour of meetings, its chairman Pavel Bělobrádek (KDU-ČSL) told the press. Koudelka stated that the BIS had not violated its legal obligations. He also confirmed that […]
In the spring, Pirates and Mayors were the favorites of the election, and Ivan Bartoš was asked if he was ready for the role of prime minister. However, since the start of the campaign in May, the coalition has garnered criticism for the trespasses, and voters began to leave it before the summer. The decline in preferences […]
President Zeman claims that the Czech intel agency BIS wiretapped him and his advisors in an interview with Blesk, Zeman said that he told Prime Minister Andrej Babiš about the surveillance. “Eventually, in the presence of the Chancellor, the Prime Minister told me that he had stopped the wiretaps, but this was not true, because I […]
The budget for the Czech Presidency of the European Union, which will begin in less than a year, in the amount of 1.24 billion crowns will probably not be enough, so the government will discuss its increase by 200 million crowns on Monday. The government wants to add about 30 employees in the civil service […]
The European Commission rejected the request for payment of subsidies for plastics company Fatra from the Trust Fund of Prime Minister Andrej Babis , according to iROZHLAS.cz. With the help of the request, the Czech authorities tried to test whether Brussels would not actually pay the money due to Babiš’s conflict of interest, and to obtain a decision […]
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has filed a motion to suspend his criminal prosecution in the case of a subsidy for the construction of the Stork’s Nest farm. Babiš’ former adviser Jana Mayerová is also accused in the case, and her lawyer also filed a motion to stop the prosecution, according to the iROZHLAS.cz. The police completed […]
The government today commissioned the current head of the Security Information Service (BIS) Michal Koudelka to represent the director of civil counterintelligence from 16 August until the appointment of a new head. After a short extraordinary meeting of the cabinet, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the press. According to him, the selection of the new director of […]