Bratislava, March 7 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) has filed a petition for appellate review of the Slovak court’s verdict rejecting his legal complaint against being registered as a former communist secret police (StB) agent with the Bratislava Supreme Court, Slovak media reported today. They referred to a statements by the agner ...
Prague, March 6 (CTK) – Communist (KSCM) MP Zdenek Ondracek today resigned from the post of chairman of a parliamentary commission supervising the police inspection authority GIBS, he told the lower house of Czech parliament. He took the step shortly before a vote on his dismissal was to be proposed by the right-wing opposition ...
PRAGUE — The Czech government has canceled a deal that could have given an Australian company the right to mine a huge deposit of lithium, a key component in electric batteries. Trade and Industry Minister Tomas Huner said Thursday he had informed the European Metals Holdings company he considered the deal invalid. Huner ...
Prague, March 3 (CTK) – Czech ANO leader Andrej Babis, who is conducting government-forming negotiations, will ask the Chamber of Deputies to take a vote of confidence in his new cabinet only if it is sure of success, he says in daily Pravo today, adding that his second attempt to win confidence would be no ...
Bratislava/Prague, March 2 (CTK) – Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Bratislava today to pay respect to investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova who were shot dead last week probably by mafia operating in Slovakia. The murder of the two young people rocked the Slovak political scene. A national ...
Prague/Beijing, March 1 (CTK) – The Czech Presidential Office today consulted Chinese Ambassador in Prague, Ma Keqing, on the alleged arrest of China’s CEFC energy group board chairman Ye Jianming, who is President Milos Zeman’s aide, over suspected economic crimes, the Tyden weekly writes on its website. Ma did not confirm the arrest of ...
The violent death of 27-year-old Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak from the daily Aktuality.sk and his partner Martina also has a Czech connection. At a press conference, which was held on Tuesday by Prime Minister Robert Fico at the Office of the Government in Bratislava, Tibor Gašpar, Slovak police president, informed the media. He did not disclose ...
Prague, Feb 28 (CTK) – Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov called Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Tuesday in regard to CEZ energy group selling its Bulgarian assets, Babis told journalists today, denying sending Borisov documents on the issue. Borisov said he had received confidential documents from Babis stating that Russian-Georgian companies based in ...
Prague, Feb 27 (CTK) – The Czech Republic rejects the accusation of support for international terrorism in connection with the release of Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim, the Foreign Ministry said today in reaction to a diplomatic note in which Turkey’s complains about a Czech court’s verdict. The Prague Municipal Court released today Muslim, ...
