Prague, April 26 (CTK) – The aides of President Milos Zeman, including the CNB central bank governor Jiri Rusnok, will meet on Saturday for the first time after his re-election to talk about monetary policy, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK today. CNB spokesman Marek Zeman said Rusnok would report about the latest development ...
Mlade Buky, East Bohemia, April 26 (CTK) – The state-run Export Guarantee and Insurance Company (EGAP) saw its loss grow yr/yr from Kc1.25bn to Kc2.7bn in 2017 because of creating reserves for insurance claims, mainly the problematic project of Yunus Emre power plant of Adularya company in Turkey, EGAP head Jan Prochazka said today. ...
Bratislava, April 25 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has filed a complaint against the publisher of the Slovak paper Novy Cas (NC) over its article from an interview with former StB officer Jan Sarkocy who called Babis a conscious collaborator of the Communist secret service, the paper writes today. Babis demands an ...
Prague, April 24 (CTK) – Only definitively sentenced cabinet members should leave their posts, President Milos Zeman told TV Nova tonight in relation to the Social Democrat (CSSD) demand that ministers resign once they are convicted which the CSSD presented within its talks on a possible government with ANO. ANO leader Andrej Babis, who ...
Prague/Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis congratulated Communist leader Vojtech Filip on his re-election at the party’s congress today. Babis said he believed the forthcoming government-forming talks with the Social Democrats would result in the creation of a government with the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies as ...
Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – What Communists call the “victorious February,” was in fact a “lost February” because it created a power monopoly, President Milos Zeman said about the February 1948 Communist takeover at the Communist congress today. Any monopoly leads to degeneration, Zeman said. He also spoke about the executed ...
Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman has violated an unwritten rule of the postcommunist history by attending the congress of the Communists, asking them to tolerate the planned cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ANO and Social Democrats, his critics said today. Since 1989, no president came to the Communist ...
Prague, April 20 (CTK) – The Czech Communist Party (KSCM) is on its deathbed but still it can harm the political scene and society, Josef Mlejnek writes in Lidove noviny (LN) today in an article highlighting the party’s post-1989 development and current role and prospects. Mlejnek mentions several paradoxes linked to the KSCM, the ...
Prague, April 20 (CTK) – The Social Democrats (CSSD) will demand that a coalition agreement with ANO says any government member will resign if convicted, even if the verdict can be appealed, in view of the criminal prosecution of PM and ANO head Andrej Babis, CSSD deputy head Martin Netolicky said today. He talked ...
