Prague, March 12 (CTK) – The Czech Centre of the International PEN Club has called on President Milos Zeman to apologise for the statements about Czech media that he made in his inauguration address last week and for attacking the freedom of speech in this way. “We ask President Zeman to reconsider his stances ...
Prague, March 11 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) said the Czech Television (CT) does not seem to be endangered and he is not going to attack the public broadcasters in any way, he told journalists after he was interviewed in a CT programme today. “As for myself, I definitely will not attack ...
Prague, March 10 (CTK) – The criticism of the public Czech Television (CT) in the inauguration address that President Milos Zeman delivered on Thursday has been the biggest attack on CT’s independence since 2000 TV crisis, Oscar-winning filmmaker Jan Sverak said during the Czech Lion awarding ceremony tonight. Before the start of the live ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman gave way to his vengefulness in his inauguration speech on Thursday and tainted the solemn event by latent settling of personal accounts, the Vaclav Klaus Institute (IVK), established by Zeman’s presidential predecessor, has written on its website. It was inappropriate of Zeman to make unnecessary ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Milos Zeman did not manage to suppress his nature of a revengeful boor even during his ceremonial inauguration for the second term as Czech president on Thursday, Jan Stetka writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today, branding Zeman’s speech at the event “boring, haughty and embarrassing.” If Zeman had exceptionally ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Milos Zeman has been sworn in for his second and final term as Czech president at a joint meeting of the two houses of parliament in which also cabinet ministers and a part of regional governors participated at Prague Castle today. Zeman, 73, defended his post in the direct ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – These are the main ideas of President Milos Zeman’s speech he delivered at his inauguration for another five-year term today: – In the first part, Zeman largely spoke about the past five years in office. He mentioned the naming of constitutional judges, members of the CNB central bank board ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Dozens of people protested against Milos Zeman before his presidential inauguration at a square near Prague Castle, the presidential seat, today, with the aim to emphasise Zeman’s duty to observe the constitution, the organiser Tomas Peszynski told journalists. The demonstrators carried banners and a giant EU flag. “The ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman’s first important step within his second mandate is his planned visit to the Communist congress, by which he confirms the new character of the domestic scene that he helped create and that boosts his own power, Petr Honzejk writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. Political ...
