Prague, March 16 (CTK) – Czech Communist (KSCM) leader Vojtech Filip wants to talk to President Milos Zeman about the case of the allegedly arrested China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) board chairman Ye Jianming who is Zeman’s adviser, he told journalists today. Ye Jianming was reportedly arrested in China in February. Neither CEFC nor ...
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 ...
Brno, March 13 (CTK) – Suspected Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin cannot be extradited for prosecution abroad for now as the Czech Constitutional Court (US) has suspended the execution of a Prague court’s decision on the extradition admissibility pending its own decision on Nikulin’s complaint. The US decided on the adjournment in February, and the ...
Prague, March 13 (CTK) – The goal of Andrej Babis, leader of the Czech election-winning ANO, seems to be the provoking of an early general election rather than forming a regular majority government with one or more partners, Petr Honzejk writes in daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. Days, weeks and months have passed without ...
Prague, March 12 (CTK) – The Czech police made no mistake and committed no crime by detaining Kurdish politician Saleh Muslim recently, as the step was consented by a state attorney’s office that had all information about the detained man, General Inspection of Security Corps (GIBS) spokesman Ivo Mitacek said today. The GIBS checked ...
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 12 (CTK) – The Italian Prosecutor’s Office is investigating former UniCredit bank manager Massimiliano Fossati along with real estate businessman Claudio Leo Personnettaz on suspicion of assisting in money laundering in Prague, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. The firms controlled by Personnettaz were buying luxurious buildings in the centre of ...
