During the same week that Prague saw its biggest anti-corruption protest in 30 years, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO published its yearly report card, which singled out the Czech Republic for its low scores. GRECO President Marin Mrčela explained how the country was ranked. “The Czech Republic is in so-called non-compliance procedure,” … Read more
Prague, May 1 (CTK) – The national committee of Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s ANO backed further talks about a government with Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today, ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek has told the Nova commercial television station. The coalition pact may be finished by the end of the week, Faltynek said. Faltynek … Read more
Prague, April 29 (CTK) – The ANO movement has no alternative plan for a coalition pact if the negotiations about its government with the Social Democrats (CSSD) backed by the Communists (KSCM) fail, its representatives said in TV discussion programmes today. “We have no plan B, but we are trying to make the plan … Read more
Prague, April 29 (CTK) – A Central Bohemia office is to decide in May on how to further proceed in the suspected EU subsidy fraud worth 50 million crowns related to the Capi hnizdo project of ANO leader Andrej Babis, the region’s governor Jaroslava Pokorna Jermanova (ANO) told Czech Television (CT) today. Based on … Read more
Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia, April 28 (CTK) – The Czech Social Democrat (CSSD) central executive committee banned cooperation on the national level with the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) of Tomio Okamura movement at its meeting today. The decision on the ban was approved unanimously, the party’s leader Jan Hamacek said. The CSSD … Read more
Lany, Central Bohemia, April 28 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman and his team of aides today discussed the lacking reform of the pension and healthcare systems, flats for young families and other topics at the Lany presidential chateau, one of the aides, former supreme state attorney Marie Benesova, told CTK. Benesova said the … Read more
Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia, April 28 (CTK) – The Social Democrat (CSSD) central executive committee acknowledged that the party will keep negotiating with the ANO movement about the formation of a coalition government supported by the Communists (KSCM), despite criticism from some committee members today. The committee approved that the final decision on a … Read more
Prague, April 27 (CTK) – The ANO movement continues to have the highest voter support in the Czech Republic in April, 29 percent, but it decreased below the 30-percent limit compared to previous months, according to a CVVM poll out today. On the other hand, the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) … Read more
Prague, April 27 (CTK) – The Prague Municipal Court cancelled President Milos Zeman’s decision not to appoint physicist Ivan Ostadal and art historian and National Gallery director Jiri Fajt as professors and returned their case to the president for reappraisal today, court spokeswoman Marketa Puci has told CTK. Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said he … Read more