The Social Democrats’ party leadership on Monday set a final condition for remaining in the minority government of Andrej Babiš – that his ally President Miloš Zeman appoints their nominee for culture minister. But while urging the prime minister to use his constitutional power to ensure the appointment, the party’s ultimatum did not include a ...
Although information on possible tax evasion has been available to the police for at least a year, this year the case has moved significantly. First, the police began to investigate the case on the basis of a criminal complaint last December. Now, according to the findings, Neovlivní.cz has assessed the suspicion as serious. “Police have commenced ...
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš may have survived a no-confidence vote on 27 June, but his coalition government is torn by internal strife and appears to be nearer the end than at any point in its past 12 months. The tensions within the government are increasing because the Social Democrats (ČSSD) have threatened to ...
Czech leaders failed Thursday to resolve a dispute over a Cabinet minister that could cause the government to fall. Prime Minister Andrej Babis asked President Milos Zeman to replace his culture minister in May at the request of a partner party in his minority coalition government. Babis said after a meeting on Thursday the president ...
President Miloš Zeman is to hold meetings later this week with key players in the country’s ongoing political crisis. His spokesman said that the head of state would welcome Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of ANO to Prague Castle on Thursday at 5 pm. The following day Mr. Zeman will play host to Social Democrats chairman ...
Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, Czechs and Slovaks are once again using mass street protests to shake up the political landscape. Although today’s protesters say they are inspired by the 1989 uprising that brought down communism in what was then still Czechoslovakia, theirs is a different fight: They see themselves as trying to ...
Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček iodf the Social Democratic party said he was ready to resign, following the meeting of top officials at the Lány Chateau on Thursday concerning the replacement of Culture Minister Antonín Staněk. Mr. Petříček told the Czech News Agency he was disappointed by the outcome of the meeting between President Miloš ...
The Czech ruling coalition appeared closer to collapse on Thursday after President Milos Zeman again refused a government request to sack the culture minister, raising the possibility of a snap election. Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ruling ANO party and its junior center-left coalition partner, the Social Democrats, are demanding the dismissal of Culture Minister ...
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has welcomed the outcome of the EU summit and the compromise choice of Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen as the nominee for European Commission president. Following three days of tortuous negotiations in Brussels, in which the Visegrad Four states fiercely opposed the nomination of the EC’s first vice president and ...
