Bratislava is in talks to send its MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine. The Czech Air Force will patrol the Baltic airspace until the end of September, Defense Minister Ernochová said this week, extending the deployment by two months. According to Ms. Ernochová, the decision was taken in response to a formal request from Lithuania and does ...
After the lower house of parliament passed a bill changing the Civil Code to enable same-sex couples to marry in the Czech Republic, President Milo Zeman stated he would veto it. People of the same sex may soon be able to marry in the Czech Republic, according to a bill passed by the lower house ...
“Given the worsening security situation,” Prague says, it must bolster air forces now. The Czech Republic aims to buy 24 F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft to replace their present fleet of 14 Gripen fighter jets, according to the defense ministry, in the latest step by Prague to fast transition to NATO-standard weapons in reaction to ...
Warsaw and Prague inked an agreement on a contentious Polish coal mine near the Czech border. The Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki signed a deal on the Turow lignite mine in Prague, according to the Polish Prime Minister’s office on Twitter. Mateusz Morawiecki stated that Poland had paid the ...
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk detailed his ministry’s priorities for the Czech Republic’s impending EU Presidency. He emphasized the importance of continuing to assist Ukraine, strengthening the EU’s military and security mechanisms, and promoting democratic institutions and the rule of law. The Czech foreign minister stated that his country is prepared to take on the ...
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – The intelligence service (Office for Foreign Relations and Information, UZSI) is dealing with the biggest scandal in the history of Czech secret services as its inspection is checking the suspicion that hundreds of million crowns were lost in it, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Some expenses that ...
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis met U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who is on a private visit in the Czech Republic, at the Government Office and they talked about economic, trade and scientific cooperation today. Ryan with his family is supposed to stay in the Czech Republic ...
Prague, March 25 (CTK) – The story of Bohuslav Sobotka, former Czech prime minister and Social Democrat (CSSD) chairman, can serve both as an inspiration and a warning to his successors in the CSSD, Lukas Jelinek writes in the Saturday issue of daily Pravo. Sobotka, 46, the CSSD chairman in 2011-17, PM in 2014-17 ...
Prague, March 25 (CTK) – Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, probably arrived in Prague this afternoon for a private visit during which he would meet Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) on Monday and visit both houses of parliament on Tuesday. A meeting with President Milos Zeman is not on Ryan’s ...
