Prague, March 18 (CTK) – Next year may see a slowdown in wage growth in the Czech Republic, and an ideal option would be if wages grew at a similar rate as the country’s real gross domestic product (GDP), that is at some 4 percent, Czech National Bank (CNB) governor Jiri Rusnok said today. ...
Prague, March 17 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s office head Vratislav Mynar, Zeman’s adviser Martin Nejedly and CEFC Chinese group European division head Jaroslav Tvrdik have returned from China where they were to check the CEFC board chairman’s troubles, Mynar told CTK today. He refused to comment on the trip before informing Zeman about ...
Prague/Brno March 17 (CTK) – The Czech foreign affairs and defence ministers, Martin Stropnicky and Karla Slechtova (both ANO), rejected today the Russian diplomacy statement that the Novichok poison used against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain may come from the Czech Republic. According to several sources, the nerve agent developed ...
Prague, March 15 (CTK) – The Czech Presidential Office has sent its head Vratislav Mynar and presidential adviser Martin Nejedly to China to check the information about the alleged detention of CEFC company’s head Ye Jianming, presidential spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK today. According to the server Neovlivni.cz, the delegation also includes Jaroslav Tvrdik, ...
Prague, March 14 (CTK) – The Czech cabinet of Andrej Babis (ANO), which keeps working after its resignation, approved further personnel changes at the government and other state offices today, government spokeswoman Barbora Peterova has said. As of the beginning of April, 14 civil service posts and six other jobs will be cancelled at ...
Prague, March 14 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) considers the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from Britain a very unpleasant affair, but he refused to comment on it in detail, he said before meeting British Brexit Minister David Davis today. Babis will also receive the new British Ambassador to Prague, Nick ...
Prague, March 13 (CTK) – Chinese investment group CEFC’s Lapasan company, the owner of Pivovary Lobkowicz Group (PLG) brewery, borrowed Kc1bn from Slovak Postova banka belonging to J&T Finance Group in 2017 and used it to refinance a debt it owed to CEFC Group (Europe) Company, an appendix to Lapasan’s 2016 annual report said. ...
Prague, March 11 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) may again offer talks about the government programme and participation in the government to the right-wing opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS), he told public Czech Television (CT) today. “I am considering it. I must consult with my colleagues, I am not the only ...
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 ...
