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 10 (CTK) – ANO leader Andrej Babis has been trying to form a bloc in parliament which could push through his plans and on which he could lean, but he is confronted with the very unpredictable human factor of the partners he has chosen, Josef Koukal writes in daily Pravo today. The ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) will try to accelerate his talks on a new government he is conducting and he will inform President Milos Zeman about the effort in late March, Babis told journalists after meeting trade union leader Bohumir Dufek today. Babis said ANO was preparing another meeting ...
Prague, March 9 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis plans to replace Robert Pelikan (both ANO) with the flexible Petr Mlsna as justice minister in his next cabinet, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today, adding that President Milos Zeman wants to prevent alleged Russian hacker’s extradition to the USA in this way. Alleged Russian ...
Bratislava, March 9 (CTK) – The Slovak police have been working hard to solve the recent murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, yet major progress has not been made and more and more versions of the tragedy are being developed, Prosecutor General Jaromir Ciznar told journalists today. “We are doing our utmost,” ...
Bratislava, March 9 (CTK) – Rallies protesting against Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government and demanding an independent investigation into the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee were held in Bratislava and tens of towns across Slovakia today. The demonstration at a square in Bratislava’s centre was the biggest since the protests held ...
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 ...
