Prague, Aug 22 (CTK) – The prime minister will always chair the Czech government council coordinating corruption fight in the future, under a draft change in its status that the government approved today. PM and ANO chairman Andrej Babis is chairing the council now. Under the approved draft, the council will have another […]
Prague, May 16 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman has told untrue information about the Novichok nerve agent being produced in the Czech Republic, and threatened the Czech Republic’s security interests by releasing classified data, the Senate foreign, defence and security committee announced today. All intelligence services’ reports conclude that Novichok, which was used […]
Prague, March 28 (CTK) – Slovakia is catching up with the average European Union economic level at a faster rate than the Czech Republic but it still lags behind the country, according to a study conducted on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s split and presented to journalists by CSOB today. The […]
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s decision that the BIS counter-intelligence service should check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, is not useless, Defence Minister Karla Slechtova said today. Slechtova said she hoped […]
Prague, March 19 (CTK) – China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) board chairman Ye Jianming, an adviser of President Milos Zeman, is being investigated in China, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told journalists today. Representatives of Shanghai confirmed this to Czech Presidential Office head Vratislav Mynar. The CEFC representatives said Ye would leave his post. […]
Prague, March 17 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s office head Vratislav Mynar, Zeman’s adviser Martin Nejedly and CEFC Chinese group European division head Jaroslav Tvrdik have returned from China where they were to check the CEFC board chairman’s troubles, Mynar told CTK today. He refused to comment on the trip before informing Zeman about […]
Prague, March 16 (CTK) – Czech Communist (KSCM) leader Vojtech Filip wants to talk to President Milos Zeman about the case of the allegedly arrested China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) board chairman Ye Jianming who is Zeman’s adviser, he told journalists today. Ye Jianming was reportedly arrested in China in February. Neither CEFC nor […]
Prague, March 15 (CTK) – The Czech Presidential Office has sent its head Vratislav Mynar and presidential adviser Martin Nejedly to China to check the information about the alleged detention of CEFC company’s head Ye Jianming, presidential spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK today. According to the server Neovlivni.cz, the delegation also includes Jaroslav Tvrdik, […]
Prague, March 14 (CTK) – The Czech cabinet of Andrej Babis (ANO), which keeps working after its resignation, approved further personnel changes at the government and other state offices today, government spokeswoman Barbora Peterova has said. As of the beginning of April, 14 civil service posts and six other jobs will be cancelled at […]