The European Union’s executive on Tuesday agreed new measures to better police democracy across the bloc, tightening scrutiny of nationalist rulers in the east who stand accused of attacking judicial independence and media freedom. The latest proposal from the European Commission to promote the rule of law, prevent violations and respond to any deficiencies ...
Prime Ministers of the central European countries comprising the Visegrad Four are in Prague on Friday to discuss Sunday’s extraordinary European Council on Sunday, in Brussels. Czech PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) said he and his counterparts from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary are particularly concerned as to who the next heads of the European Council, ...
On his way to attend the summit in Sibiu, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš outlined the Czech government’s vision of how the EU needs to reform, beginning with strong criticism of the internal workings of the alliance. “The Czech Republic wants an alliance of strong EU member states. It should be the European Council, represented ...
The Czech Republic is an apt arena for the political battle between Europhiles and Euroskeptics, and last week it became just that. Populist politicians from five countries, led by France’s Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, gathered in Prague for a European election rally in support of their Czech political ally Tomio ...
“The European Union needs to reform. We need a strong Europe, an alliance of strong member states, where the driving force is the Council of Europe, the member states‘ presidents and prime ministers, rather than a politicized European Commission” Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said during celebrations in Warsaw marking 15 years of EU membership. ...
The 15th anniversary of the country’s membership in the EU on May 1st, is a good time to take stock of what the country has gained through membership, what it expects from it in the future and how it can contribute to the alliance, EU Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourová said in an interview for ...
The European Council on Tuesday approved a proposal that will allow EU member states that have a problem with carousel tax fraud to apply a generalized reversal of VAT liability. This is something Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has fought for for four and a half years on the argument that use of reverse charge ...
According to the latest WHO reports, the Czech Republic stands at 12th place in the sad list of EU countries by suicide rate. The data from Eurostat, the EU statistical office, shows that there were 56,229 suicides in Europe in 2015 (1.1% of the total 5.2 million deaths in the EU). In the Czech Republic ...
Bratislava, Sept 18 (CTK) – Apprehensions of corruption undermining the rule of law principles persist in Slovakia, as not much has changed in practice in spite of the government’s replacement in the spring, an EP delegation head Sophia in ‘t Veld said at close of their two-day mission to Slovakia today. Talking to journalists, ...
