Prague, May 15 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman will visit China in autumn again, flying to the Shanghai international fair devoted to exports to China which is scheduled for mid-November. The Presidential Office is only preparing the details of the trip. It wants meetings with representatives of China and Shanghai to be included in ...
Prague, May 14 (CTK) – The dispute over the promotion of BIS counter-intelligence chief Michal Koudelka to general is part of the fight for the long-term focus of the Czech foreign policy, Ondrej Kundra writes in the weekly Respekt out today, referring to President Milos Zeman’s refusal to promote Koudelka. The Czech government approved ...
Prague, May 13 (CTK) – Double agent Sergei Skripal, poisoned by the Novichok agent in Britain this March, was secretly in Prague in 2012 and he met representatives of Czech security forces at least once in Britain, the weekly Respekt said on its webpage today. Respekt writes its sources do not think the attack ...
Prague, May 10 (CTK) – The public trust in the Czech president, government and parliament has dropped since February when it was relatively high, according to the CVVM poll conducted in April the results of which were released today. People’s satisfaction with Czech politics in general dropped over the period of time as well: ...
Prague, May 10 (CTK) – The Central Bohemia office in charge of EU subsidies has called on the Imoba firm, the successor of the recipient of a subsidy granted to the Capi hnizdo (Stork Nest) project, over which PM Andrej Babis and others face prosecution, to return the 50-million-crown subsidy voluntarily, it said today. ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – The president should not release secret information, according to experts CTK addressed today in reaction to a TV interview in which President Milos Zeman presented Czech intelligence services’ information on Czech production and tests of the Novichok poison. Former chief-of-staff Jiri Sedivy said the most accurate information about the ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – Only microgrammes of substances like the Novichok nerve agent are synthesised in the Czech Republic because of chemical protection and the microscopic amounts are disposed of immediately after the testing and nothing is stored, the Defence Ministry said today. On Thursday, Czech President Milos Zeman said Novichok was produced ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – The Czech parliament should deal with President Milos Zeman’s interpretation of the information from secret services on the production of the Novichok agent in the Czech Republic, some senators told journalists today. Zeman said on Thursday that he preferred the view of the military intelligence that the Novichok nerve ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) finds it surprising that Czech secret services differ in their statements on the presence of the Novichok nerve agent in the Czech Republic, and he wants them to give him more detailed information, he told reporters today. On Thursday, President Milos Zeman said, ...
